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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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aiohttp==3.3.2
# SSL issue with heroku
certifi==2018.4.16
# MacOS notifications
pync==2.0.3

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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

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# Kill app listening on port given by $1
killport() {
    kill $(lsof -t -i:$1)
}
alias killport=killport

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inotifywait -m -r pts -e create -e moved_to |
    while read path action file; do
        echo "The file '$file' appeared in directory '$path' via '$action'"
        # do something with the file
        lftp 192.168.0.3 -e "mirror -R -v -P 3 --loop --continue --Remove-source-files pts/ shared/sync_h$
    done

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<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
  <!-- Name as com.yourcompany.servicename.conf place under /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ -->
<busconfig>
 
  <!-- Only user root can own the foo helper -->
  <policy user="root">
    <allow own="*"/>
  </policy>

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something something

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#
# Retrieved from http://ninghang.blogspot.com.tr/2012/11/list-of-mat-type-in-opencv.html .
#

A Mapping of Type to Numbers in OpenCV

       | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4
CV_8U  | 0  |  8 | 16 | 24
CV_8S  | 1  | 9  | 17 | 25

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# Send & recv file:
  nc -l -p 1234 > out.file
  nc -w 3 [destination] 1234 < out.file

# rsync:
  rsync -acvuzrt --remove-source-files  <local_dir> <remote_uname>:<remote_pwd>@<remote_ip>:<remote_dir>

# find large files
  sudo find / -name '*' -size +100M 
 

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RCol='\e[0m'    # Text Reset

# Regular           Bold                Underline           High Intensity      BoldHigh Intens     Background          High Intensity Backgrounds
Bla='\e[0;30m';     BBla='\e[1;30m';    UBla='\e[4;30m';    IBla='\e[0;90m';    BIBla='\e[1;90m';   On_Bla='\e[40m';    On_IBla='\e[0;100m';
Red='\e[0;31m';     BRed='\e[1;31m';    URed='\e[4;31m';    IRed='\e[0;91m';    BIRed='\e[1;91m';   On_Red='\e[41m';    On_IRed='\e[0;101m';
Gre='\e[0;32m';     BGre='\e[1;32m';    UGre='\e[4;32m';    IGre='\e[0;92m';    BIGre='\e[1;92m';   On_Gre='\e[42m';    On_IGre='\e[0;102m';
Yel='\e[0;33m';     BYel='\e[1;33m';    UYel='\e[4;33m';    IYel='\e[0;93m';    BIYel='\e[1;93m';   On_Yel='\e[43m';    On_IYel='\e[0;103m';
Blu='\e[0;34m';     BBlu='\e[1;34m';    UBlu='\e[4;34m';    IBlu='\e[0;94m';    BIBlu='\e[1;94m';   On_Blu='\e[44m';    On_IBlu='\e[0;104m';
Pur='\e[0;35m';     BPur='\e[1;35m';    UPur='\e[4;35m';    IPur='\e[0;95m';    BIPur='\e[1;95m';   On_Pur='\e[45m';    On_IPur='\e[0;105m';
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