Daniel Beckham dbeckham

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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	COMPONENT ([\w._\/%-]+)
	COMPID postfix\/%{COMPONENT:component}(?:\[%{NUMBER:pid}\])?
	POSTFIX (?:%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:timestamp}\|%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp8601}) (?:%{SYSLOGFACILITY} )?%{SYSLOGHOST:logsource} %{COMPID}:

	# Milter
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	# Syslog stuff
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	# Milter
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	sleep 1
	end

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	# Apple broke all direct downloads without logging with an Apple ID first.
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	/*
	OCP - Opcache Control Panel (aka Zend Optimizer+ Control Panel for PHP)
	Author: _ck_ (with contributions by GK, stasilok)
	Version: 0.1.7
	Free for any kind of use or modification, I am not responsible for anything, please share your improvements

	* revision history
	0.1.7 2015-09-01 regex fix for PHP7 phpinfo
	0.1.6 2013-04-12 moved meta to footer so graphs can be higher and reduce clutter

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	# BASIC REQUIREMENTS
	# http://graphite.wikidot.com/installation
	# http://geek.michaelgrace.org/2011/09/how-to-install-graphite-on-ubuntu/
	# Last tested & updated 10/13/2011
	####################################

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	sudo apt-get upgrade

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