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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

	def add_datepart(df, fldname, drop=True, time=False):
	"Helper function that adds columns relevant to a date."
	fld = df[fldname]
	fld_dtype = fld.dtype
	if isinstance(fld_dtype, pd.core.dtypes.dtypes.DatetimeTZDtype):
	fld_dtype = np.datetime64

	if not np.issubdtype(fld_dtype, np.datetime64):
	df[fldname] = fld = pd.to_datetime(fld, infer_datetime_format=True)
	targ_pre = re.sub('[Dd]ate$', '', fldname)

	# Adi Pradhan
	# Ross MBA 2017
	# Winter 17
	# https://developer.nytimes.com/

	import json
	import requests
	import time
	import urllib
	import boto

	# Adi Pradhan
	# Winter 2017
	# http://open-platform.theguardian.com/ API integration code

	import json
	from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
	import json
	import requests
	import time
	import urllib

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	let g:rubycomplete_buffer_loading = 1
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	PS1='\[\033[02;32m\]\u@\H:\[\033[02;34m\]\w\$\[\033[00m\] '
	# from http://vvv.tobiassjosten.net/git/add-current-git-branch-to-your-bash-prompt/

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	c_user=`tput setaf 2; tput bold`
	c_path=`tput setaf 4; tput bold`
	c_git_clean=`tput setaf 2`
	c_git_dirty=`tput setaf 1`

	From http://kl2217.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/repeaters-hubs-bridges-switches-and-routers/

	Repeater and Hub are layer 1 devices. Repeater address the issue of attenuation. Attenuation is the loss of signal over distance. Repeater rebuilt the electrical signal that comes in and send it out to other side. Hub is a multi-port repeater. Electrical signal came into any one hub port will be repeated on all other ports.The layer 1 devices are dumb, they have no decision making abilities. Hubs do not read any of the data passing through them, and they are not aware of the source or destination of the frame. All the devices attached to a hub are belong to one collision domain, which means if two hosts try to send data at the same time, a collision will occur. All the devices attached to a hub are also belong to one braoadcast domain, that is, broadcast frame sent by one host will be received by all other hosts in the network.


	Bridge and Switch are layer 2 devices. They can make decisions about to which port the fram

	(1) INSTALL THE NECESSARY PACKAGES

	#install the necessary packages as root

	yum -y install binutils compat-libstdc++-33 elfutils-libelf elfutils-libelf-devel glibc glibc-common glibc-devel gcc gcc-c++ libaio libaio-devel libgcc libstdc++ libstdc++-devel make sysstat unixODBC unixODBC-devel bc flex


	(2) EDIT KERNEL PARAMETERS

	#change the system parameters as needed