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#! python3
import sys, gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk, Pango
import re, openai, nltk, webbrowser
# Add support for sentiment analysis and keyword narrowing:
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
from nltk.sentiment import SentimentIntensityAnalyzer

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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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SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer is NOT a security protocol. It is an interface or an abstraction providing pluggable authentication mechanisms to connection-oriented protocols. For example, the SASL interface in a system supporting the LDAP protocol may support Kerberos-based authentication though traditionally LDAP does not support Kerberos-based authentication or security. Another example is that SASL built into an IMAP server may allow Oauth2-based authentication or any new authentication mechanism to be plugged in, though traditionally an IMAP server may only be supporting password-based authentication.

From now on, mechanisms refer to authentication mechanisms like Kerberos-based authentication, OAuth2-based authentication or even plain text authentication and protocols refer to connection-oriented protocols like LDAP, IMAP, SMTP, etc.

The mechanisms are grouped and named. For example, Kerberos-based authentication falls under a mechanism name called GSSAPI.

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