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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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Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet

Architecture

Create a new application

Install the Rails gem if you haven't done so before

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SELECT
  nsp.nspname
  , rel.relname
  , con.*
FROM
  pg_catalog.pg_constraint con
  INNER JOIN pg_catalog.pg_class rel ON rel.oid = con.conrelid
  INNER JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace nsp ON nsp.oid = connamespace
WHERE
  nsp.nspname = '<schema name>'

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export PS1="\[\033[32m\]\u@\h\[\033[m\]:\[\033[34;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ "
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad

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#!/usr/local/bin/perl
 
#
# Build Historical Pass/Fail results on all unit tests
#
 
# Configurables
my $iType = "Geronimo"; # WLS or JBoss or Geronimo
my $iDirInput;
my $iDirOutput;

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Associations & Online Communities

Canada

• Calgary Software Quality Discussion Group, SQDG - www.sqdg.ca
• Calgary Perspectives on Software Testing, POST - www.postworkshop.ca
• Vancouver Software Quality Assurance User Group, VANQ - www.vanq.org
• Toronto Association of Systems & Software Quality (TASSQ) - www.tassq.org
• Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association (KWSQA) - www.kwsqa.org

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am jclarkin on github.
• I am jclarkin (https://keybase.io/jclarkin) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is AA84 64E9 0E5E AE40 A683 1B47 8A10 2363 BCE6 D4B0

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;

import ScreenRecorderRule;


/**