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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

@milmazz
milmazz / imposter-handbook-links.md
Last active March 26, 2024 13:16
Useful links found in The Imposter's Handbook by Rob Conery
@DianaEromosele
DianaEromosele / Change "origin" of your GIT repository
Created August 7, 2016 00:31
Change "origin" of your GIT repository
$ git remote rm origin
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:aplikacjainfo/proj1.git
$ git config master.remote origin
$ git config master.merge refs/heads/master
@vasanthk
vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active March 26, 2024 07:53
System Design Cheatsheet

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

  1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system
  • User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
    • Who is going to use it?
    • How are they going to use it?
@stonehippo
stonehippo / remote_rpi.md
Last active December 21, 2017 01:16
Getting a Raspberry Pi set up for x11vnc and Bonjour (mDNS) access

Getting my Raspberry Pi set up

Getting on the network

Before the rest of this gist is useful, you've got to get your Raspberry Pi on the network. I followed the information from the Adafruint Learning System Raspberry Pi tutorials, which can be found at http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-3-network-setup.

Couple of additional network setup notes

The two files that are most important are

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brandonb927 / osx-for-hackers.sh
Last active March 27, 2024 06:33
OSX for Hackers: Yosemite/El Capitan Edition. This script tries not to be *too* opinionated and any major changes to your system require a prompt. You've been warned.
#!/bin/sh
###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###
# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx