I know you kids have seen them in your parent's closet. Little plastic round things? Netflix ships them out to the 23 customers still on the DVD plan.
And yeah, what really sucks is they are starting to squeeze the DVD service also. No more Saturday processing. Fewer buys of obscure stuff. Even ignoring popular stuff (Want Heartland on DVD? Only one of Canada's most popular shows ever. Region 1 DVD's released. Not on Netflix).
Yup. We were doing this at PointCast way back in 1996. The answer to the question, "What is a vector?" Shows an astonishing amount of ignorance on the part of the PR person paid to talk to the reporter.
Apparently Anonymous Coward doesn't realize that in this day and age the packets that flow over the internet flow over really expensive boxes running a huge amount of software on top of a linux kernel.
Actually, I recently completed an interview process with Amazon. It consisted of
1) Completion of two programming problems on hackerrank in a three hour time period.
2) A phone screen where they asked 5 questions.
3) An in person interview in a hotel room (it was a regional recruiting event).
I've been in the industry a very long time and it was hands down, the best
technical interview process I've ever experienced. The in person interviews
were conducted in a hotel room that had the bed removed and a whiteboard
and table inserted. Each session was 50 minutes and I had my own private
bathroom and a 10 minute break between sessions.
The interviewers were all very well trained specifically to interview and were
courteous and professional.
I was subsequently offered a position. I turned it down because they apparently
have a lowball policy on pay. The hiring manager admitted to having a corporate wide
salary cap and no bonus program, which was significantly below my current salary+bonus.
e.g. They interview like they want top talent, but they aren't willing to pay
for top talent. Yes, H1B's are a mechanism for suppressing pay.
They're most definitely both of those things. I had the misfortune of living through the construction of the Mehoopany Wind Farm. Think 24/7 heavy truck traffic, seemingly random road closures to move turbines/blades that were never communicated to the locals (it's awesome being half an hour late for work because they changed their schedule with no notice), huge amounts of deforestation (nine thousand acres worth),. Look at the footprint for a single turbine and multiply it more than one hundred times, all for this one wind farm.
9,000 acres of real estate for a lousy 141 megawatts of electrical production
You expect us to believe that the evil wind turbine company clear cut 9000 acres so that they could put up 88 wind turbines?
unlikely();
Given the footprint of each turbine is only about a 1/4 acre, that's really only about 25 acres of land. Add in a couple hundred acres for access roads and you still are way below the 900 acres required for the nuclear power plant. I'm not at all anti-nuclear, but I am anti-distortion of facts. There may be a case against wind farms, but at least be honest about the claims you make.
Right. It's really a dumb idea. They are simply storing the
data in the kernel and feeding it back to a userspace process
when that userspace process does a read on the device node.
A more accurate description from the band would be "Our
album is now fully storable as a linux kernel module".
If they really wanted to impress
modprobe mystupidalbum
would simply start playing the album interacting with
sound drivers/hardware directly in the kernel. But that
would take real work, be hard to make portable, etc...
Unknown Lamer is a young lad. If you go back far enough your age determines
whether you think of Blockbuster as a vicious predator that drove all the
mom and pop video stores (along with their extensive libraries) out of business,
as a fond memory, or a dinosaur predestined for extinction.
I sing no songs of lament for Blockbuster and their hideous storefronts
that blighted retail locations across the country. Good riddance.
Indeed you can. The engineering is entirely different, and more importantly,
the public has witnessed multiple freeway collapses in earthquakes in the
last 30 years, but not one single 50+ story building has fallen over.
You have to convince the guy who decides where to place the business, the executive guy that can afford to live in Santa Monica, to move to Lancaster. Good luck with that.
^^ This. I live in LA. Traffic in and around West LA/Santa Monica is horrendous
because the people who _own_ companies want to live in and work in Santa Monica.
Everyone they employ, and Santa Monica is a huge net daily importer of jobs, must commute
into the city because the vast majority can't afford to live there.
If you want less traffic, you put people close to jobs. This means that Santa Monica
builds far more high density housing, or the executives move their companies
out to Santa Clarita. Neither of those things is going to happen, so we are
stuck with precisely what Elon is complaining about.
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And we can barely find anybody to hire anymore, without overpaying the market like crazy. ... There's just nobody TO hire.
You mean there's nobody to hire at the wage you want to pay? Shocking!
I know you kids have seen them in your parent's closet. Little plastic round things? Netflix ships them out to the 23 customers still on the DVD plan. And yeah, what really sucks is they are starting to squeeze the DVD service also. No more Saturday processing. Fewer buys of obscure stuff. Even ignoring popular stuff (Want Heartland on DVD? Only one of Canada's most popular shows ever. Region 1 DVD's released. Not on Netflix).
Yup. We were doing this at PointCast way back in 1996. The answer to the question, "What is a vector?" Shows an astonishing amount of ignorance on the part of the PR person paid to talk to the reporter.
I never have mod points when I actually want them.
Apparently Anonymous Coward doesn't realize that in this day and age the packets that flow over the internet flow over really expensive boxes running a huge amount of software on top of a linux kernel.
Join Habitat for Humanity and build a house for someone
This is /. Find a FIRST robotics team to mentor.
Actually, I recently completed an interview process with Amazon. It consisted of 1) Completion of two programming problems on hackerrank in a three hour time period. 2) A phone screen where they asked 5 questions. 3) An in person interview in a hotel room (it was a regional recruiting event). I've been in the industry a very long time and it was hands down, the best technical interview process I've ever experienced. The in person interviews were conducted in a hotel room that had the bed removed and a whiteboard and table inserted. Each session was 50 minutes and I had my own private bathroom and a 10 minute break between sessions. The interviewers were all very well trained specifically to interview and were courteous and professional. I was subsequently offered a position. I turned it down because they apparently have a lowball policy on pay. The hiring manager admitted to having a corporate wide salary cap and no bonus program, which was significantly below my current salary+bonus. e.g. They interview like they want top talent, but they aren't willing to pay for top talent. Yes, H1B's are a mechanism for suppressing pay.
I never have mod points when I actually want them. +1.
They call it an "eye sore" and "disruptive."
They're most definitely both of those things. I had the misfortune of living through the construction of the Mehoopany Wind Farm. Think 24/7 heavy truck traffic, seemingly random road closures to move turbines/blades that were never communicated to the locals (it's awesome being half an hour late for work because they changed their schedule with no notice), huge amounts of deforestation (nine thousand acres worth),. Look at the footprint for a single turbine and multiply it more than one hundred times, all for this one wind farm.
9,000 acres of real estate for a lousy 141 megawatts of electrical production
You expect us to believe that the evil wind turbine company clear cut 9000 acres so that they could put up 88 wind turbines? unlikely(); Given the footprint of each turbine is only about a 1/4 acre, that's really only about 25 acres of land. Add in a couple hundred acres for access roads and you still are way below the 900 acres required for the nuclear power plant. I'm not at all anti-nuclear, but I am anti-distortion of facts. There may be a case against wind farms, but at least be honest about the claims you make.
There are no good technology conferences, my friend.
Never been to Defcon, have you?
Right. It's really a dumb idea. They are simply storing the data in the kernel and feeding it back to a userspace process when that userspace process does a read on the device node. A more accurate description from the band would be "Our album is now fully storable as a linux kernel module". If they really wanted to impress modprobe mystupidalbum would simply start playing the album interacting with sound drivers/hardware directly in the kernel. But that would take real work, be hard to make portable, etc...
I wish I had mod points.
Unknown Lamer is a young lad. If you go back far enough your age determines whether you think of Blockbuster as a vicious predator that drove all the mom and pop video stores (along with their extensive libraries) out of business, as a fond memory, or a dinosaur predestined for extinction. I sing no songs of lament for Blockbuster and their hideous storefronts that blighted retail locations across the country. Good riddance.
Indeed you can. The engineering is entirely different, and more importantly, the public has witnessed multiple freeway collapses in earthquakes in the last 30 years, but not one single 50+ story building has fallen over.
You have to convince the guy who decides where to place the business, the executive guy that can afford to live in Santa Monica, to move to Lancaster. Good luck with that.
Because this is southern california and it's politically impossible to build a double decked freeway in an earthquake zone.
^^ This. I live in LA. Traffic in and around West LA/Santa Monica is horrendous because the people who _own_ companies want to live in and work in Santa Monica. Everyone they employ, and Santa Monica is a huge net daily importer of jobs, must commute into the city because the vast majority can't afford to live there. If you want less traffic, you put people close to jobs. This means that Santa Monica builds far more high density housing, or the executives move their companies out to Santa Clarita. Neither of those things is going to happen, so we are stuck with precisely what Elon is complaining about.