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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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MySQL Download URL

https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.5/mysql-5.5.56-linux-glibc2.5-x86_64.tar.gz

Open the terminal and follow along:

• Uninstall any existing version of MySQL

sudo rm /var/lib/mysql/ -R

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require "active_record"

module Polite
  BAD_WORDS = ["fuck", "asshole", "motherfucker", "cunt", "cock", "dickhead"]
  ESCAPED = BAD_WORDS.collect {|word| Regexp.escape(word)}
  RE = /(#{ESCAPED.join("|")})/i

  def self.extended(base)
    base.extend ClassMethods
  end

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// Sometimes it's necessary to do a bit of clean-up
Array.prototype.forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('.js-comment-delete button'), function(el, i) {
  el.removeAttribute('data-confirm');
  el.click();
});

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• Dynamic Dispatch
• Dynamic Method
• Ghost Methods
• Dynamic Proxies
• Blank Slate
• Kernel Method
• Flattening the Scope (aka Nested Lexical Scopes)
• Context Probe
• Class Eval (not really a 'spell' more just a demonstration of its usage)
• Class Macros

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# check for updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

# install necessary software
sudo apt-get install mysql-server apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-curl git sendmail

# create DB
echo "CREATE DATABASE OpenVBX; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON OpenVBX.* TO ubuntu@localhost IDENTIFIED BY {PASSWORD_HERE}; FLUSH PRIVILEGES" | sudo mysql -p

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require "sinatra/base"
require "sinatra/namespace"
require "multi_json"

require "api/authentication"
require "api/error_handling"
require "api/pagination"

module Api
  class Base < ::Sinatra::Base

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require 'zendesk_api'
require 'oauth2'

client = OAuth2::Client.new('{my client unique identifier}',
  '{my client secret}',
  site: 'https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com',
  token_url: "/oauth/tokens",
  authorize_url: "/oauth/authorizations/new")