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## 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md

      
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                Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
              
          
    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

  
## gist:1877457
# ** ERROR 1 **
# FATAL:  lock file "postmaster.pid" already exists
# HINT:  Is another postmaster (PID 4646) running in data directory "/usr/local/var/postgres"?
#
# ** ERROR 2 **
# Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
#
# To fix one of this errors:

cat /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid # pid is the number on first line

## ios-8-web-app.html
<!doctype html>

<!-- http://taylor.fausak.me/2015/01/27/ios-8-web-apps/ -->

<html>
  <head>
    <title>iOS 8 web app</title>

    <!-- CONFIGURATION -->

## hack.sh
#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

## tinyurl_test.rb
require 'net/http'

# These links were taken from my twitter timeline. No endorsement implied.
tiny_urls = {
  'bitly' => ['http://bit.ly/3S9c5K', 'http://developer.nytimes.com/'],
  'j.mp' => ['http://j.mp/JsML0u', 'http://www.npr.org/2012/04/26/151303230/an-african-trader-and-the-perils-of-business-in-china'],
  'tinyurl' => ['http://tinyurl.com/6rq9vob', 'http://politicsoftheplate.com/?p=1283'],
  'owly' => ['http://ow.ly/axesj', 'http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/opera-12-beta-released-new-security-features-including-do-not-track-support-042612'],
  'ht.ly' => ['http://ht.ly/1j7LiX', 'http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-LifeTopStories/~3/8vFV-fFfhAc/1'],
  'is.gd' => ['http://is.gd/gk0FoM', 'http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/joe-schmoe-drones/'],

## django custom signal
#signals.py

from django.dispatch import Signal
user_login = Signal(providing_args=["request", "user"])


#views.py

from foo import signals

## StripeTutorialPage.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>Stripe Getting Started Form</title>

  <!-- The required Stripe lib -->
  <script type="text/javascript" src="https://js.stripe.com/v2/"></script>

  <!-- jQuery is used only for this example; it isn't required to use Stripe -->

## gist:8285680
ENGLISH_PREPOSITIONS = (
    'aboard',
    'about',
    'above',
    'across',
    'after',
    'against',
    'along',
    'amid',
    'among',

## scraping_links.md

      
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    Forest Gregg
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http://datamade.us
```

Almost every website you go to is a view of some data that has been organized into tables. Web pages are fancy view of spreadsheets

* [Tiers Fusion Table](https://www.google.com/fusiontables/data?docid=11PNEL-A6MFtYLLGvgtHqK7K1Pm4viKiK9IHY0tYf#rows:id=1)


## faa-333-pdf-gathering.md

      
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                Using wget + grep to explore inconveniently organized federal data (FAA Section 333 Exemptions)
              
          
    if !database: wget + grep

The Federal Aviation Administration is posting PDFs of the Section 333 exemptions that it grants, i.e. the exemptions for operators who want to fly drones commercially before the FAA finishes its rulemaking. A journalist wanted to look for exemptions granted to operators in a given U.S. state. But the FAA doesn't appear to have an easy-to-read data file to use and doesn't otherwise list exemptions by location of operator.
However, since their exemptions page is just one giant HTML table for listing the PDFs, we can just use wget to fetch all the PDFs, run pdftotext on each file, and then [grep](https://medium.com/@rualthanzauva/grep-was-a-private-command-of-m
	# ERROR 1
	# FATAL: lock file "postmaster.pid" already exists
	# HINT: Is another postmaster (PID 4646) running in data directory "/usr/local/var/postgres"?
	#
	# ERROR 2
	# Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
	#
	# To fix one of this errors:

	cat /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid # pid is the number on first line
	<!doctype html>

	<!-- http://taylor.fausak.me/2015/01/27/ios-8-web-apps/ -->

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>iOS 8 web app</title>

	<!-- CONFIGURATION -->
	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	##
	# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
	#
	# install it:
	# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh \| sh
	#
	require 'net/http'

	# These links were taken from my twitter timeline. No endorsement implied.
	tiny_urls = {
	'bitly' => ['http://bit.ly/3S9c5K', 'http://developer.nytimes.com/'],
	'j.mp' => ['http://j.mp/JsML0u', 'http://www.npr.org/2012/04/26/151303230/an-african-trader-and-the-perils-of-business-in-china'],
	'tinyurl' => ['http://tinyurl.com/6rq9vob', 'http://politicsoftheplate.com/?p=1283'],
	'owly' => ['http://ow.ly/axesj', 'http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/opera-12-beta-released-new-security-features-including-do-not-track-support-042612'],
	'ht.ly' => ['http://ht.ly/1j7LiX', 'http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-LifeTopStories/~3/8vFV-fFfhAc/1'],
	'is.gd' => ['http://is.gd/gk0FoM', 'http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/joe-schmoe-drones/'],
	#signals.py

	from django.dispatch import Signal
	user_login = Signal(providing_args=["request", "user"])


	#views.py

	from foo import signals
	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<title>Stripe Getting Started Form</title>

	<!-- The required Stripe lib -->
	<script type="text/javascript" src="https://js.stripe.com/v2/"></script>

	<!-- jQuery is used only for this example; it isn't required to use Stripe -->
	ENGLISH_PREPOSITIONS = (
	'aboard',
	'about',
	'above',
	'across',
	'after',
	'against',
	'along',
	'amid',
	'among',