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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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Here'e an example of how to register a nick on Freenode IRC. It's a little tricky, but if you follow some simple steps, you'll get through it okay. All you need to do is connect to the Freenode IRC network and have a little talk with NickServ.

The first and most confusing questions can be combined:

1. How do I know if my nick is already registered to someone else?
2. How do I talk to NickServ?

Start by connecting your client to irc.freenode.net and joining any chat.

Next, type this command in the chat window:

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//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11832914/round-to-at-most-2-decimal-places-only-if-necessary
//For those of you that don't get it this technique is called scaling. Basically what the answer does here is bring two figures across the decimal point turning the figure into a whole number to avoid all the crazy floating point issues, round that and then translate it back into what it was before by dividing by 100 and you have your answer to 2dp.

Math.round((num + 0.00001) * 100) / 100