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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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# Modify the stale time accordingly. Currently, this is set to 2 days.
# You can also modify the search query to include only development/QA environments like:
# chef_last_run:[* TO #{Time.now.to_i - (86400 *2)}] AND (chef_environment:dev OR chef_environment:test)

require 'time'

if Chef::ApiClient.load(node.name).admin
  Chef::Log.info("This is an administrative node. Stale node cleanup will take place")
  search(:node, "ohai_time:[* TO #{Time.now.to_i - (86400 *2)}]").each do |n|
    next if n.name.eql?(node.name) # Skip ourselves!

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# Enter this code alone in your ~/.chef/knife.rb
# The directory structure is expected to be like
# $HOME/Code
# $HOME/Code/ChefSetup1
# $HOME/Code/ChefSetup2
# Each of the project directories should contain their respective knife config like
#
# $HOME/Code/ChefSetup1/.chef/knife.local.rb
# $HOME/Code/ChefSetup2/.chef/knife.local.rb
# 

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# Enable noatime on local ext3/4 & xfs filesystems

fstab = File.open('/etc/fstab',"r")
newlines = Array.new
needremount = Array.new
ihaveswap = false
fstab.each do |line|
  # Tokenize each fstab line with a space separator
  tokens = line.split
  if tokens[2] == "swap"