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## 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md

      
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                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

  
## socket.io.example.js
	//We will call this file server.js

var app = require('express').createServer(),
	io = require('socket.io').listen(app),
	url = require('url'),
	pth = require('path'),
	UUID = require('node-uuid');


/* Start of express/web server code. note this is just thrown here quick so you can grasp how it works. This obviously isn't good code or anything. */

## ServerClass.js
var Server = Class.extend({

	init : function(  ) {

		this.connections = [];
		this.games = [];

	},

	addConnection : function( connection ) {

## ServerSession.js
var Session = Class.extend({

		init : function( socket ) {

			this.socket = socket;
			this.serverid = UUID();

			this.initListeners();
		},

## Server.js
io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {

		//create a new player, which registers its events
	var connection = new Session( socket );
		//add to the list of connections (for finding a game)
	server.addConnection( connection );

		//This will send a message to all clients saying that they connected,
		//And hand them their serverid for future interactions.
	socket.emit('onConnect', { serverid : connection.serverid });

## Ball.js
var Ball = Class.extend({

		init : function( attachTo, isServer ) {

				//Only create meshes on the client side
			if( !isServer ) {

					//Create meshes
				this.setupBall( );

## multi-player-html5-games-02-socket.io-client.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>

		<title> Real time multi-player games with HTML5</title>

		<style type="text/css">

			html , body {

## multi-player-html5-games-01-socket.io-server.js
		//Create and listen for clients on the existing web server
		//we created above. app is the express server.
	var io = require('socket.io').listen( app );

		//We also introduce a UUID library, for unique identifiers.
		//Not required, but I find useful.
	var UUID = require('node-uuid');

/* Socket.io Configuration */

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                Coding Horror posts that every programmer should read, at least twice.
              
          
    About programms


Death to the Dialog Box
Defending Perpetual Intermediacy
Are your exceptions silent?
Teaching Users to Read
You'll Never Have Enough Cheese
Gold Plating
Happy Talk Must Die
The Broken Window Theory


## ExampleFilter.java
package pipe_foundations.example;

import pipe_foundations.Pipe;
import pipe_foundations.SimpleFilter;

public class ExampleFilter extends SimpleFilter<Integer, String> {
    public ExampleFilter(Pipe<Integer> input, Pipe<String> output) {
        super(input, output);
    }
	//We will call this file server.js

	var app = require('express').createServer(),
	io = require('socket.io').listen(app),
	url = require('url'),
	pth = require('path'),
	UUID = require('node-uuid');


	/* Start of express/web server code. note this is just thrown here quick so you can grasp how it works. This obviously isn't good code or anything. */
	var Server = Class.extend({

	init : function( ) {

	this.connections = [];
	this.games = [];

	},

	addConnection : function( connection ) {
	var Session = Class.extend({

	init : function( socket ) {

	this.socket = socket;
	this.serverid = UUID();

	this.initListeners();
	},
	io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {

	//create a new player, which registers its events
	var connection = new Session( socket );
	//add to the list of connections (for finding a game)
	server.addConnection( connection );

	//This will send a message to all clients saying that they connected,
	//And hand them their serverid for future interactions.
	socket.emit('onConnect', { serverid : connection.serverid });
	var Ball = Class.extend({

	init : function( attachTo, isServer ) {

	//Only create meshes on the client side
	if( !isServer ) {

	//Create meshes
	this.setupBall( );
	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>

	<title> Real time multi-player games with HTML5</title>

	<style type="text/css">

	html , body {
	//Create and listen for clients on the existing web server
	//we created above. app is the express server.
	var io = require('socket.io').listen( app );

	//We also introduce a UUID library, for unique identifiers.
	//Not required, but I find useful.
	var UUID = require('node-uuid');

	/* Socket.io Configuration */
	package pipe_foundations.example;

	import pipe_foundations.Pipe;
	import pipe_foundations.SimpleFilter;

	public class ExampleFilter extends SimpleFilter<Integer, String> {
	public ExampleFilter(Pipe<Integer> input, Pipe<String> output) {
	super(input, output);
	}