cudmore

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7

"""
Author: Robert H Cudmore
Date: 20170807
email: cudmore@jhu.edu

Purpose:

	- For each file in a folder, make a copy with a scrambled name.

SavinaRoja

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Scrambler is a small commandline script made to randomize file names. It stores
a log of all the file renaming events which it later uses to unscramble the
names. This script may not guard against intentional dishonesty, but it does
protect one from unconscious bias.

All of the matching options may be used simultaneously, but only files which
satisfy each restriction will be scrambled (the intersection of each match set).

chitchcock

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