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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 really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything,

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am gmoore on github.
• I am gsmoore (https://keybase.io/gsmoore) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is AD98 C49E DE19 BAE1 1E93 BE8A 9C5F 35B7 25D4 DCC5

To claim this, I am signing this object:

gmoore

Update: please note that I have since switched to using a set of bash scripts instead of poluting the Git repository with git svn.

Using Git and GitHub with Subversion (SVN) Mirroring for WordPress Plugin Development

Author: Kaspars Dambis
kaspars.net / @konstruktors

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# SSL self signed localhost for rails start to finish, no red warnings. 

# 1) Create your private key (any password will do, we remove it below)

$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.orig.key 2048


# 2) Remove the password

$ openssl rsa -in server.orig.key -out server.key

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-# This will show up on phones and be hidden everywhere else
.visible-xs.hidden-sm.hidden-md.hidden-lg
  =your_tag_menu_code
  
-# This will not show up on phones
.hidden-xs
  =your_desktop_code

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$(document).ready(function() {
  call_your_function(with_an_argument);
});

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I want...

Steamed crabs!

  Obrycki's
    Walk east on Pratt Street for about half a mile
    1727 E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21231
    http://www.yelp.com/biz/obryckis-crab-house-and-seafood-restaurant-baltimore
    http://www.obryckis.com/

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Running org.fracturedatlas.athena.web.resource.container.SaveRecordContainerTest
May 4, 2011 10:55:00 AM com.sun.jersey.test.framework.spi.container.grizzly2.web.GrizzlyWebTestContainerFactory$GrizzlyWebTestContainer <init>
INFO: Creating Grizzly2 Web Container configured at the base URI http://localhost:9998/tix
May 4, 2011 10:55:00 AM org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.NetworkListener start
INFO: Started listener bound to [localhost:9998]
May 4, 2011 10:55:00 AM org.glassfish.grizzly.servlet.ServletContextImpl log
INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext

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public class AthenaWebConfig extends PackagesResourceConfig {

    public AthenaWebConfig() {
        super ("org.fracturedatlas.athena");

        getMediaTypeMappings().put("json", MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE);
    }
}

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Started POST "/exchanges" for 127.0.0.1 at Thu Apr 28 20:25:52 -0400 2011
  Processing by ExchangesController#create as HTML
  Parameters: {"items"=>["32772"], "commit"=>"Exchange these tickets", "order_id"=>"32771", "authenticity_token"=>"msenMBOEhOgjPSTvxDDaoClOtM/1Uvzk6ceck5E3cxM=", "utf8"=>"✓", "tickets"=>["32780"]}
  User Load (0.8ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = 1 LIMIT 1
GET http://localhost:8080/orders/orders/32771.json
--> 200 OK 105 (25.9ms)
GET http://localhost:8080/orders/items/32772.json
--> 200 OK 107 (25.6ms)
GET http://localhost:8080/tix/tickets/32780.json
--> 200 OK 213 (22.5ms)