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

Dhertz

Using Apple’s Aerial Screensavers on Ubuntu After coming across the [Aerial] (https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial) screensavers for Mac, and installing them, I decided that I had had enough of the graphics-demos of my Ubuntu Precise system. I hope to provide a simple guide on how to add them to your setup as well.

First, you need to install xscreensaver (for example with aptitude, but your distro should have it):

sudo aptitude install xscreensaver

StefanFabian

### This script wraps all executables in the anaconda bin folder so that they can be used without adding Anaconda
### to the path which would break some functionality of ROS (Robot Operating System)
###
### The commands e.g. jupyter notebook will cause the script to add anaconda to the path, start jupyter notebook
### and after jupyter notebook terminated remove anaconda from the path again
###
### Notable commands:
### * release-the-snake       Adds conda to the path and removes all aliases defined by this script
###                           Conda will stay in the PATH until the end of the session (terminal is closed) or
###                           until "cage-the-snake" is called