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tsycho / ios_app_link_redirector.html
Created July 24, 2013 19:54
Load G+ app or redirect to App store link if that fails
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tsycho / .gitconfig
Created January 3, 2016 16:48
My .gitconfig
[alias]
co = checkout
ci = commit
st = status
br = branch
hist = log --pretty=format:\"%h %ad | %s%d [%an]\" --graph --date=short
type = cat-file -t
dump = cat-file -p
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tsycho / .bash_profile
Last active January 3, 2016 17:10
My .bash_profile
source ~/.git-completion.bash
export PS1='\u:\W\$ '
export CLICOLOR=1 #ls with colors
# export EDITOR='vim -f'
# export EDITOR='subl -w'
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/setups/homebrew/bin

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