Mark Bainter mbainter

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

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am mbainter on github.
I am mbainter (https://keybase.io/mbainter) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is 023D 145A B40D 2F8A 8808 E418 6B9F 6F94 BA29 B937

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	blueprint:
	name: Low battery level detection & notification for all battery sensors
	description: Regularly test all sensors with 'battery' device-class for crossing a certain battery level threshold and if so execute an action.
	domain: automation
	source_url: https://gist.github.com/mbainter/e621073433e277f7bcb1448d94c75b36#file-low_battery_alert-yaml


	# Blueprint Inputs
	input:
	threshold:

	name 'base'

	default_source 'supermarket'

	cookbook 'my-audit', '=1.0'

	run_list 'my-audit'

	#!/bin/bash

	# must run as root
	if [ $UID != 0 ]; then
	echo "You must be root."
	exit 0
	fi

	# soft link vmware's init.d scripts to void's runit directory
	ln -s /etc/init.d/vmware* /etc/runit/

	local range = 32

	local function proxyFor(name, required)
	local address = component and component.list(name)()
	if not address and required then
	error("missing component '" .. name .. "'")
	end
	return address and component.proxy(address) or nil
	end

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	platforms:
	- name: ubuntu-14.04
	driver:
	image_search:
	owner-id: 099720109477
	state: available
	architecture: x86_64
	virtualization-type: hvm
	root-device-type: ebs
	name: "ubuntu/images/hvm/ubuntu-trusty-14.04-amd64-server-"

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	# This is a trick, to output the bash commands we need to run in shell, and just execute this script inside an eval within our shell, so it imports what we need
	# Possibly tie this in with https://gist.github.com/mbainter/b38a4cb411c0b5c1bae6 for MFA support
	# Will need to durably store MFA access tokens, possibly in some other env vars
	# Could also store all different keys/info in different vars, to reuse as needed (lots of env vars though, file may be better)

	import os
	import sys
	import getpass

	function aws_config
	if not fgrep -q "[$argv]" ~/.aws/credentials
	echo "Please specify a valid profile."
	else
	set -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY
	set -e AWS_SECRET_KEY
	set -g -x ATLAS_TOKEN (awk "/\[$argv\]/,/^\$/ { if (\$1 == \"atlas_token\") { print \$3 }}" ~/.aws/credentials)
	set account (awk "/\[$argv\]/,/^\$/ { if (\$1 == \"account_id\") { print \$3 }}" ~/.aws/credentials)
	set username (awk "/\[$argv\]/,/^\$/ { if (\$1 == \"username\") { print \$3 }}" ~/.aws/credentials)
	set mfarn "arn:aws:iam::$account:mfa/$username"