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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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• Found room on 3rd floor with ghost kids. Played with dollhouse, they didn't like that. I let them play with my bird as a distraction while we searched for Walter, the baby
• Solissa ran downstairs to the nanny room looking for Walter, ran into the nanny as a spector. Fought and won due to epic magic missle shot my Solissa (13!).

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Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "centos/7"
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 9200, host: 9200
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 5601, host: 5601

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
    v.memory = 4096
    v.cpus = 2
  end

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# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

# All Vagrant configuration is done below. The "2" in Vagrant.configure
# configures the configuration version (we support older styles for
# backwards compatibility). Please don't change it unless you know what
# you're doing.
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  # The most common configuration options are documented and commented below.
  # For a complete reference, please see the online documentation at

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# only increments on a "Release" build
if [ "${CONFIGURATION}" = "Release" ]; then
#!/bin/bash
buildNumber=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleVersion" "$INFOPLIST_FILE")
buildNumber=$(($buildNumber + 1))
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :CFBundleVersion $buildNumber" "$INFOPLIST_FILE"

# optional: requires adding BuildDate (Date or String) to info.plist
buildDate=$(date)
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :BuildDate $buildDate" "$INFOPLIST_FILE"