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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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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am smurfpandey on github.
• I am smurfpandey (https://keybase.io/smurfpandey) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASCbfGueVeyocfyhiVnXddRvg8WSz3c5cGnZeZ3ctB5HQAo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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    var deferred = Q.defer();

    var fnDirFail = function (err) {
        //Root path missing
        deferred.reject();
    };

    var fnGotDir = function (dirEntry) {
        //Create the first directory

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var fnCreateDirectoryInFileSystem = function (rootPath, newFolderName) {
    var deferred = Q.defer();

    var fnDirFail = function (err) {
        //Root path missing
        deferred.reject();
    };

    var fnGotDir = function (dirEntry) {
        //Create the first directory

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public static void postNewComment(Context context,final UserAccount userAccount,final String comment,final int blogId,final int postId){
    mPostCommentResponse.requestStarted();
    RequestQueue queue = Volley.newRequestQueue(context);
    StringRequest sr = new StringRequest(Request.Method.POST,"http://api.someservice.com/post/comment", new Response.Listener<String>() {
        @Override
        public void onResponse(String response) {
            mPostCommentResponse.requestCompleted();
        }
    }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
        @Override

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var apn = require('apn');

var token = "<token here>";

var service = new apn.connection({
    maxConnections: 1
});

service.on("completed",         function()    { console.log("Completed!")});
service.on("connected",         function()    { console.log("Connected"); });

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>         
        <handlers>
            <add name="iisnode" path="index.js" verb="*" modules="iisnode" />
        </handlers>
        <iisnode node_env="production" />
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="LogFile" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">

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/*! ******************************
  Handlebars helpers
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// debug helper
// usage: {{debug}} or {{debug someValue}}
// from: @commondream (http://thinkvitamin.com/code/handlebars-js-part-3-tips-and-tricks/)
Handlebars.registerHelper("debug", function(optionalValue) {
  console.log("Current Context");
  console.log("====================");

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/*! ******************************
  Handlebars helpers
  *******************************/

// debug helper
// usage: {{debug}} or {{debug someValue}}
// from: @commondream (http://thinkvitamin.com/code/handlebars-js-part-3-tips-and-tricks/)
Handlebars.registerHelper("debug", function(optionalValue) {
  console.log("Current Context");
  console.log("====================");

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In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)