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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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itsmuriuki / Ians_gans_02_2018.md
Created April 14, 2019 02:07 — forked from z-a-f/Ians_gans_02_2018.md
Ian's GAN list 02/2018
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itsmuriuki / east&southernafricamosquitoes.ipynb
Last active July 17, 2019 09:36
East and South African Mosquito classifier: This notebook has images of mosquitoes of three species which are prevalent in the areas mentioned and could be carriers of the parasite Plasmodium in their salivary glands which is the causative agent of malaria.
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itsmuriuki / Installing PyMongo for Python3 via pip3
Created September 16, 2017 14:23
Installing PyMongo for Python3 via pip3
#checking python version
python3 --version # should return 'Python 3.4.0'
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install pymongo #installing pymongo
def sort_playlist(arr):
arr = arr[:]
for num_pass in range(len(arr)-1,0,-1):
for i in range(num_pass):
if arr[i][1] > arr[i+1][1]:
arr[i], arr[i+1] = arr[i+1],arr[i]
return arr
def select_songs(playlist,time):
sorted_playlist = sort_playlist
arra = [1,2,3]
def roots_of_eqn(coeffs)
a = coeffs[0]
b = coeffs[1]
c = coeffs[2]
d = (b * b) - (4 * a * c)
if d <= 0
def wierd_sort (arr): #defining the length of the array
wierd =[] #Empty arry to store sorted arr
myarr = arr[:] #makes a copy of the array
myarr = sorted(myarr) #sorts array
i = 0
while i < len(myarr): #goes through the lenngth of the array
if len(myarr) > 1:
wierd.append(myarr[0]) #appends the first digit into the new arr
wierd.append(myarr[-1]) #appends the last digit into the new arr
myarr.remove(myarr[0]) #removes the first digit from a copy of the initial array
def max_min(arr):
mini=arr[0]
maxi=arr[0]
for x in arr:
if maxi<x:
maxi=x
if mini>x:
mini=x
max_and_min=[maxi,mini]
def square_root (n)
guess = n / 2.0
while (((guess *guess) - n).abs > 0.000000001)
guess = refine(guess, n)
end
return guess
end
def refine (guess, n)