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chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

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

@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active May 3, 2024 13:00
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@JoshuaEstes
JoshuaEstes / 000-Cheat-Sheets.md
Last active May 1, 2024 04:03
Developer Cheat Sheets for bash, git, gpg, irssi, mutt, tmux, and vim. See my dotfiles repository for extra info.
@oliveratgithub
oliveratgithub / emojis.json
Last active April 26, 2024 22:35
Emoji-list with emojis, names, shortcodes, unicode and html entities [massive list]
{
"emojis": [
{"emoji": "👩‍👩‍👧‍👧", "name": "family: woman, woman, girl, girl", "shortname": ":woman_woman_girl_girl:", "unicode": "1F469 200D 1F469 200D 1F467 200D 1F467", "html": "👩‍👩‍👧‍👧", "category": "People & Body (family)", "order": ""},
{"emoji": "👩‍👩‍👧‍👦", "name": "family: woman, woman, girl, boy", "shortname": ":woman_woman_girl_boy:", "unicode": "1F469 200D 1F469 200D 1F467 200D 1F466", "html": "👩‍👩‍👧‍👦", "category": "People & Body (family)", "order": ""},
{"emoji": "👩‍👩‍👦‍👦", "name": "family: woman, woman, boy, boy", "shortname": ":woman_woman_boy_boy:", "unicode": "1F469 200D 1F469 200D 1F466 200D 1F466", "html": "👩‍👩‍👦‍👦", "category": "People & Body (family)", "order": ""},
{"emoji": "👨‍👩‍👧‍👧", "name": "family: man, woman, girl, girl", "shortname": ":man_woman_girl_girl:", "unicode": "1F468 200D 1F469 200D 1F467 200D 1F467", "html": "👨‍👩&z
@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active April 25, 2024 02:01
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

@milesbxf
milesbxf / monzo-alertmanager-config.yaml
Last active April 22, 2024 11:24
Monzo's Alertmanager Slack templates
###################################################
##
## Alertmanager YAML configuration for routing.
##
## Will route alerts with a code_owner label to the slack-code-owners receiver
## configured above, but will continue processing them to send to both a
## central Slack channel (slack-monitoring) and PagerDuty receivers
## (pd-warning and pd-critical)
##
@ziadoz
ziadoz / awesome-php.md
Last active April 17, 2024 21:06
Awesome PHP — A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.
@stevenringo
stevenringo / reinvent-2017-youtube.md
Created December 3, 2017 23:01
Links to YouTube recordings of AWS re:Invent 2017 sessions

| Title | Description

#!/bin/bash
#
# The MIT License (MIT)
#
# Copyright (c) 2014 Mathias Leppich <mleppich@muhqu.de>
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell