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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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class OfficeAPIError < StandardError; end;

class OfficeAPITimoutError < StandardError
  def initialize(msg = "Office API timed out")
    super(msg)
  end
end

class OfficeAPI
  attr_accessor :access_token, :messages_filter, :mail_box, :fetch_from

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class ApplicationController < ActionController:Base
  extend ControllerMacros
end

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# Rails production setup via SQLite3 made durable by https://litestream.io/ 
# Copy this to Dockerfile on a fresh rails app. Deploy to fly.io or any other container engine. 
#
#  try locally: docker build . -t rails && docker run -p3000:3000 -it rails
#
#  in production you might want to map /data to somewhere on the host, 
#  but you don't have to!
# 
FROM ruby:3.0.2

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import React from 'react';

import {
  actions,
  makePropGetter,
  ensurePluginOrder,
  functionalUpdate,
  useConsumeHookGetter,
  useGetLatest
} from '../../react-table/utils';

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ruby '2.7.1'

gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
gem 'tzinfo-data', '>= 1.2016.7'  # Don't rely on OSX/Linux timezone data

# Action Text
gem 'actiontext', github: 'basecamp/actiontext', ref: 'okra'
gem 'okra', github: 'basecamp/okra'

# Drivers

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{
  "ipcMode": null,
  "executionRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::<aws-account-number>:role/ecsTaskExecutionRole",
  "containerDefinitions": [
    {
      "dnsSearchDomains": [],
      "logConfiguration": {
        "logDriver": "awslogs",
        "secretOptions": [],
        "options": {

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#######################################################################################################################
# This Gist is some crib notes/tests/practice/whatever for talking to Active Directory via LDAP.  The (surprisingly
# helpful) documentation for Net::LDAP can be found here: http://net-ldap.rubyforge.org/Net/LDAP.html
#######################################################################################################################

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ldap'

#######################################################################################################################
# HELPER/UTILITY METHOD

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module FactoryGirl
  module Doctor
    module FloatDuration
      refine Float do
        def duration
          t = self
          format("%02d:%02d.%03d", t / 60, t % 60, t.modulo(1) * 1000)
        end
      end
    end

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# Copy and paste this to the rails console to test your email settings

class MyMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  def test_email
    @recipients = "vesa@kiskolabs.com"
    @from = "must_be_same_as_smpt_account_login@gmail.com"
    @subject = "Test from the Rails Console"
    @body = "This is a test email"
  end
end