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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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begin
  require 'bundler/inline'
rescue LoadError => e
  $stderr.puts 'Bundler version 1.10 or later is required. Please update your Bundler'
  raise e
end

gemfile(true) do
  source 'https://rubygems.org'
  gem 'activerecord', '5.0.0.1'

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# encoding: utf-8

require "timeout"

# Capture the standard output and the standard error of a command.
# Almost same as Open3.capture3 method except for timeout handling and return value.
# See Open3.capture3.
#
#   result = capture3_with_timeout([env,] cmd... [, opts])
#

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Option 1: Command-line download extension as zip and extract

extension_id=jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin   # change this ID
curl -L -o "$extension_id.zip" "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&os=mac&arch=x86-64&nacl_arch=x86-64&prod=chromecrx&prodchannel=stable&prodversion=44.0.2403.130&x=id%3D$extension_id%26uc" 
unzip -d "$extension_id-source" "$extension_id.zip"

Thx to crxviewer for the magic download URL.

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Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

Purchase the cert

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DigitalOcean Ubuntu 14.04 x64 + Rails 4 + Nginx + Unicorn + PostgreSQL + Capistrano 3

Create a Droplet

SSH into Root

$ ssh root@123.123.123.123

Change Root Password

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user  nginx;
worker_processes  5;

error_log  /var/log/nginx.error.log;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
  worker_connections  1024;
}

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* {
    font-size: 12pt;
    font-family: monospace;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: black;
    cursor: default;
}

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#!/bin/bash

#
# This script installs and configures couchdb on a fresh Amazon Linux AMI instance.
#
# Must be run with root privileges
# Tested with Amazon Linux AMI release 2011.02.1.1 (ami-8c1fece5)
#

export BUILD_DIR="$PWD"

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require "spec_helper"

describe ExampleController do
  context "GET #index" do
    let(:resources) { FactoryGirl.create_list(:resource) }

    before do
      get :index
    end