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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

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#requires -version 2
<#
.SYNOPSIS
  <Overview of script>

.DESCRIPTION
  <Brief description of script>

.PARAMETER <Parameter_Name>
    <Brief description of parameter input required. Repeat this attribute if required>

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# Your account access key - must have read access to your S3 Bucket
$accessKey = "YOUR-ACCESS-KEY"
# Your account secret access key
$secretKey = "YOUR-SECRET-KEY"
# The region associated with your bucket e.g. eu-west-1, us-east-1 etc. (see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-regions-availability-zones.html#concepts-regions)
$region = "eu-west-1"
# The name of your S3 Bucket
$bucket = "my-test-bucket"
# The folder in your bucket to copy, including trailing slash. Leave blank to copy the entire bucket
$keyPrefix = "my-folder/"

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<#
.SYNOPSIS
	The synopsis goes here. This can be one line, or many.
	This version of the template has inbuilt functions to capture credentials and store it securely for reuse
	Avoids the need to have plaintext passwords in the script

.DESCRIPTION
	The description is usually a longer, more detailed explanation of what the script or function does. 
	Take as many lines as you need.

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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Import PowerCLI Module
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Connect to vCenter Server
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
$Server = Read-Host 'Specify the vCenter Server or ESXi Host to connect to (IP or FQDN)?'
Connect-VMwareServer -VMServer $Server

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Function Send-Email{
  <#
  .SYNOPSIS
    Used to send data as an email to a list of addresses

  .DESCRIPTION
    This function is used to send an email to a list of addresses. The body can be provided in HTML or plain-text
  
  .PARAMETER EmailFrom
    Mandatory. The email addresses of who you want to send the email from. Example: "admin@9to5IT.com"

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# Install linux update, followed by GCC and Make
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum install -y gcc make

# Install Nginx and PHP-FPM
sudo yum install -y nginx php-fpm

# Install PHP extensions
sudo yum install -y php-devel php-mysql php-pdo \
      php-pear php-mbstring php-cli php-odbc \

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##Windows users:

• Download wamp: http://www.wampserver.com/en/
• Download and extract cmder mini: https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/releases/download/v1.1.4.1/cmder_mini.zip
• Update windows environment variable path to point to your php install folder (inside wamp installation dir) (here is how you can do this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17727436/how-to-properly-set-php-environment-variable-to-run-commands-in-git-bash)

cmder will be refered as console

##Mac Os, Ubuntu and windows users continue here:

• Create a database locally named homestead utf8_general_ci

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Other people's projects:

• https://github.com/laracasts/URL-Shortener URL Shortener by Jeffrey Way
• https://github.com/basco-johnkevin/laravelsnippets Source code of http://laravelsnippets.com website
• https://github.com/jesseterry/FusionInvoice FusionInvoice is built for freelancers and small businesses who need a simple, yet powerful self-hosted web based invoicing system.
• https://github.com/ezynda3/burnmsg is a self-destructing encrypted message app. A demo is also running on https://burnmsg.com
• https://github.com/martindilling/auto-generating-gallery the demo is at http://gallerydemo.martindilling.com/

My projects (tutorials are on my blog at http://maxoffsky.com):

• https://github.com/CodepadME/laravel-tricks - Source of Laravel-tricks.com

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Other people's projects:

• https://github.com/laracasts/URL-Shortener URL Shortener by Jeffrey Way
• https://github.com/basco-johnkevin/laravelsnippets Source code of http://laravelsnippets.com website
• https://github.com/jesseterry/FusionInvoice FusionInvoice is built for freelancers and small businesses who need a simple, yet powerful self-hosted web based invoicing system.
• https://github.com/ezynda3/burnmsg is a self-destructing encrypted message app. A demo is also running on https://burnmsg.com
• https://github.com/martindilling/auto-generating-gallery the demo is at http://gallerydemo.martindilling.com/

My projects (tutorials are on my blog at http://maxoffsky.com):

• https://github.com/CodepadME/laravel-tricks - Source of Laravel-tricks.com