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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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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Audits your reserved instances vs your running instances, and reports back.
# If you want to run this from an AWS instance, its IAM Role must be granted at least the following:
#
#{
# "Statement": [
# {
# "Action": [
# "ec2:DescribeInstances",

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#user  nobody;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  logs/error.log;
#error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
#error_log  logs/error.log  info;

#pid        logs/nginx.pid;

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# bash completion for rake
#
# some code from on Jonathan Palardy's http://technotales.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/rake-completion-cache/
# and http://pastie.org/217324 found http://ragonrails.com/post/38905212/rake-bash-completion-ftw
# 
# For details and discussion
# http://turadg.aleahmad.net/2011/02/bash-completion-for-rake-tasks/
#
# INSTALL
#

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Complete rake tasks script for bash
# Save it somewhere and then add
# complete -C path/to/script -o default rake
# to your ~/.bashrc
# Xavier Shay (http://rhnh.net), combining work from
#   Francis Hwang ( http://fhwang.net/ ) - http://fhwang.net/rb/rake-complete.rb
#   Nicholas Seckar <nseckar@gmail.com>  - http://www.webtypes.com/2006/03/31/rake-completion-script-that-handles-namespaces
#   Saimon Moore <saimon@webtypes.com>

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#301 Redirects for .htaccess

#Redirect a single page:
Redirect 301 /pagename.php http://www.domain.com/pagename.html

#Redirect an entire site:
Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/

#Redirect an entire site to a sub folder
Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/subfolder/

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wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz
tar zxf libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.0.18-stable
sudo ./configure
sudo ./make
DIR="/home/ec2-user/downloads/libevent-2.0.18-stable"

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-1.9.tar.gz
tar zxf tmux-1.9.tar.gz
cd tmux-1.9

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Aside from removing Ruby on Rails specific code this is taken verbatim from
# mislav's git-deploy (http://github.com/mislav/git-deploy) and it's awesome
#  - Ryan Florence (http://ryanflorence.com)
#
# Install this hook to a remote repository with a working tree, when you push
# to it, this hook will reset the head so the files are updated

if ENV['GIT_DIR'] == '.'

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Based on this: http://blennd.com/post/the-pains-of-installing-tmux-on-a-shared-server/ Script forked from https://gist.github.com/shime/5706655/

Prerequisities

• gcc
• wget

Installs

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