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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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  ;; Initial scratch buffer greeting
  (defun arun/greet-by-hour ()
    "Greet morning/evening/afternoon based on time of the day"
    (let ((hour (string-to-number (format-time-string "%H"))))
      (cond ((< hour 12) "morning")
            ((< hour 18) "afternoon")
            (t           "evening"))))


  (setq user-full-name "Arun Ravindran")

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heroku config:set SECRET_KEY=(python -c 'import random; import string; print("".join([random.SystemRandom().choice("{}{}{}".format(string.ascii_letters, string.digits, string.punctuation)) for i in range(50)]))')

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"""A simple hello application in Python 3.6"""

പേര്: str = input("What is your name? ")
print(f"Hey {പേര്}!")

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""A simple text-based game of hangman

A re-implementation of Hangman 3-liner in more idiomatic Python 3
Original: http://danverbraganza.com/writings/hangman-in-3-lines-of-python

Requirements:
  A dictionary file at /usr/share/dict/words

Usage:

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
""" raffle - Randomly pick a twitter username n times and show the last picked as winner"""

import random, time

TIMES = 20
entries = """
https://twitter.com/username1
https://twitter.com/username2
https://twitter.com/username3

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# Emacs and Python

## Why?

## Intro

-   Arun Ravindran <arunrocks.com> @arocks
-   Emacs user for 15 years
-   Python user for 13 years
-   Author of "Django Design Patterns and Best Practices"

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alert("hi")

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#!/bin/bash
#
# DESCRIPTION:
#
#   Set the bash prompt according to:
#    * the active virtualenv
#    * the branch/status of the current git repository
#    * the return value of the previous command
#    * the fact you just came from Windows and are used to having newlines in
#      your prompts.

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Serving Django and Twisted using HAproxy

• on the same IP
• on the same Port 80

Why?

coming...

Who?