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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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### Keybase proof

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  * I am mattcantstop on github.
  * I am mattcantstop (https://keybase.io/mattcantstop) on keybase.
  * I have a public key ASAqeVr61ruTc_uRcoemK8PG90gKsmL1Fc9DEfSgDv1o8go

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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let blacklists = ["*://youtube.com/*", "*://mail.google.com/*"]

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fruits = ["apple","rice","pizza","orange"]

fruits.each do |food_item|
  if food_item == "apple" or food_item == "orange"
    puts "I like to eat fruit"
  else
    puts "I like to eat #{food_item}"
  end
end

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git_branch () {
    if git rev-parse --git-dir >/dev/null 2>&1
        then echo -e "" [$(git branch 2>/dev/null| sed -n '/^\*/s/^\* //p')]
    else
        echo ""
    fi
}
function git_color {
    local STATUS=`git status 2>&1`
    if [[ "$STATUS" == *'Not a git repository'* ]]

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module Duration

  def self.calculate(duration)
    times = {years: 31536000, months: 2678400, days: 86400, hours: 3600, minutes: 60, seconds: 1}
    response = ''
    duration = duration
    times.each do |time, value|
      numerator = duration / value if duration >= value
      duration = duration % value if numerator
      response << "#{numerator} #{time} " if numerator

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# GENERAL ALIASES
alias ls='ls -Glah'
alias chrome='open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app'
alias mail='open -a Mail.app'
alias todo='open -a Reminders.app'

# BUNDLE
alias b='bundle'
alias s='bundle exec rails s'

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