It's amazing to me how afraid we get of Zombies, Aliens, Artificial Intelligence Singularity, a mysterious virus pandemic and yet, there is one thing that has caused the most death and suffering in the history of the human race, can you guess what it is?
Humans. We should be very afraid of ourselves. Crack open a history book and prepare to be horrified. Once upon a time, about 250 years ago, it was considered a noble way to die to dress up in fancy uniforms, powdered wigs with muskets in hand and line up across from each other and just massacre each other to pieces. You were considered a gentleman to die this way. Wives and children knew that once their husband/father was sent off to war this way, they would never see him again.
Up until recently, most civilizations have glorified war and essentially glorified death. That to me is something quite horrifying about our civilization. The fact that very few ever question this behavior is even more horrifying.
Tesla needs the Model 3 to succeed (the auto industry depends on volume), which is why they're betting the whole company on it.
This is the key part.
1) What Tesla needs to succeed, the economic market doesn't care about. Tesla either succeeds or it doesn't. Companies come and go. The strong survive, the weak fade into obscurity
2) Tesla is indeed making a bet, as all companies do. Some more calculated than others. Some make good bets, some make bad bets. See #1
I hope Tesla succeeds because I like their mission but as for whether they will or not is dependent on a lot of factors that have nothing to do with whether Tesla's mission is a noble one or not. Such is the world we live in. Study economic game theory. I don't particularly care for the complete and utter apathy of it all but we're all thrust into this game against our will because all of our livelihoods depend on it. Some people are trying to do these micro-house homesteads in Arizona to live off the grid. Maybe something will pan out with that so we can all live "off the grid". Until then, we're stuck playing this forsaken game.
Agreed. However, that does not mean that there is not a considerable risk attached to this approach too. One serious failure and it could all come crashing down.
That's precisely what happened when the dotcom bubble burst. A very low percentage of startups are successful. Information regarding that:
There's risk to everything, including doing nothing.
That's actually one of the excuses for Gambler's Fallacy. There is also risk in drinking alcohol, having unprotected sex, smoking cigarettes, etc. That doesn't mean you should do it.
I do my due diligence! It's called Magic 8-ball. I use it for all my investment decisions and it's never steered me wrong! My family has used the same one for many generations. All praise Magic 8-ball!
Apple is trying to avoid a knee-jerk reaction from investors who don't understand what this actually means
I think you're thinking of a different company called Unicorn Technology, Inc. where upper management actually understands how to run a technology business and doesn't emotionally react to stuff that sounds like it might be bad without actually understanding what it actually means...
Except if you spend too much money and don't get enough results, bankruptcy for you. It doesn't matter how good your idea is or if it's going to change the world for the better. In most of the world, it only matters whether it can achieve ROI and there are constraints in the form of how much VC a firm is willing to put into your company before they don't think you're going to do anything else other than throw them under a bus.
But they are genetically identical to their parent, barring mutation. The process might not be called cloning but the end result is the same, no?
If this site is supposedly still News for Nerds and the topic is Biology, we should be talking in formal Biology terms. And honestly, asexual reproduction isn't terribly advanced. You learn about it in elementary school. Surely slashdot can handle subject matter of that educational level right?
This isn't really news. We've known about the marbled crayfish for several decades. First of all, their life span is only 3 years and it's likely that they are some other life form's food source. If there were going to be an overpopulation issue of some kind which TFA doesn't mention, this problem would have already occurred and biologists would already be aware. Spin spin spin. The article is interesting in terms of introducing one to this very interesting crustacean but the FUD I could do without.
I never got training in those days. I was too busy working myself to death pulling 100 hour weeks. Nothing has changed in SV at all.
That's unfortunate. I've certainly pulled my fair share of 80 hour weeks but I did work with a couple of very successful companies that never worked more than 40 hours a week, provided ongoing training and we even had team outings (that part was hard to adjust to). It was only a small portion of my career but it did happen occasionally. TBH, it's folks like you that are willing let yourself be used like a door mat that set the status quo for the entire industry. Hopefully you earned a pension or had some equity share in the company to make it worth your while to waste that much of your life in a white collar sweat shop.
Lest you forget, Kim Dotcom's case should remind you that the US has jurisdiction wherever it wants.
Kim Dotcom = German, Light's Hope = Russian. Good luck convincing Vladimir Putin to agree to extradite the folks running Light's Hope. They couldn't shut down Sci-Hub or have Alexandra Elbakyan extradited either. The United States doesn't run the world and it can't force other countries to bend to its will. It may be able to negotiate that with Germany but not with the Russians. The United States does not dictate world policy.
Yes and the proper response to that is hiring interns, recent college graduates and/or h1b visas because people will real experience solving hard problems are just too expensive... nevermind the cost of doing business...
Blizzard Issues DMCA Notice to a Fan-Run 'WoW' Leg
No. They issued the DMCA notice to GITHUB. Terrible summary.
Blizzard has asked GitHub to pull the site's code offline.
Blizzard asked Github to take down ONE file. Github complied because they are located in the United States. Light's Hope on the other hand is run outside of the United States so there is absolutely no jurisdiction for Blizzard to take it down and they can't really stop the code from being disseminated. Blizzard is just quite frankly wasting their time and money.
Companies need to start training people. You see training in every field except IT
Judging by your id, you're not young. You should know just as well as I do, we used to get training especially around the time of the Internet Explosion followed by the DotCom bust because all these startups were hiring warm bodies leading up to y2k. There used to be this thing called *Research* & Development, you know R&D? They dropped the R and kept the D and along with that went the training. The reason for that is because GAP changed and CFO's didn't like seeing the non-capitalizable work on their balance sheet because it looks like a cost sink despite the fact that what really happens if you let smart people do their real work, they create patentable inventions that can make the company GINORMOUS amounts of cash. But you know just as well as I do, this has been broken for some time and any appeal to reason falls on deaf ears.
Look up "Corporate Death Penalty". I think you're misunderstanding the whole discussion.
I don't misunderstand. If we were talking about that, someone should have clearly communicated that. The problem with this discussion in that context would be incompetent communication skills.
It may not be the solution, but it's and appropriate intermediate step.
Well if you apply the death penalty here you should also apply it to people who don't pay their taxes or default on their loans then too. Are you sure you want to apply the same standard across the system?
the right candidate can feel a bit like trying to capture a unicorn
That is 100% correct and that's because companies and more specifically HR doesn't deal with reality. Unicorn basically means looking for a person with a combination of skills, abilities and experience that either doesn't exist or is extremely RARE (<.01% of the population) This idea that every tech company could put out a job requisition for an infinite amount of time and eventually snag a unicorn is not even remotely based in reality. Companies need to put the crack pipe down and start dealing in reality and adjusting their expectations accordingly just like we all do. No one gets special treatment.
I asked you what this is in reference to and you failed to respond.
Which part would ban WHOIS?
I didn't claim anything of this nature and I don't see where anyone or anything did. Why would i continue to talk with someone who is making shit up? There is no way to have a conversation with someone who is doing that. If you want to continue, tell me what this statement YOU made is in reference to, otherwise, have a nice day because I don't talk with irrational people that just make things up.
Execution? Really? If you wanna see the collapse of the economy (and the start of the next civil war/end of the U.S.), then by all means...
Bring it on. I'll be sitting on my homestead and it would be unwise for anyone to come onto my property to start trouble. That's why you need the ability to protect and take care of your own self. Society is full of assholes and the system is broke.
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It's amazing to me how afraid we get of Zombies, Aliens, Artificial Intelligence Singularity, a mysterious virus pandemic and yet, there is one thing that has caused the most death and suffering in the history of the human race, can you guess what it is?
Humans. We should be very afraid of ourselves. Crack open a history book and prepare to be horrified. Once upon a time, about 250 years ago, it was considered a noble way to die to dress up in fancy uniforms, powdered wigs with muskets in hand and line up across from each other and just massacre each other to pieces. You were considered a gentleman to die this way. Wives and children knew that once their husband/father was sent off to war this way, they would never see him again.
Up until recently, most civilizations have glorified war and essentially glorified death. That to me is something quite horrifying about our civilization. The fact that very few ever question this behavior is even more horrifying.
Tesla needs the Model 3 to succeed (the auto industry depends on volume), which is why they're betting the whole company on it.
This is the key part.
1) What Tesla needs to succeed, the economic market doesn't care about. Tesla either succeeds or it doesn't. Companies come and go. The strong survive, the weak fade into obscurity
2) Tesla is indeed making a bet, as all companies do. Some more calculated than others. Some make good bets, some make bad bets. See #1
I hope Tesla succeeds because I like their mission but as for whether they will or not is dependent on a lot of factors that have nothing to do with whether Tesla's mission is a noble one or not. Such is the world we live in. Study economic game theory. I don't particularly care for the complete and utter apathy of it all but we're all thrust into this game against our will because all of our livelihoods depend on it. Some people are trying to do these micro-house homesteads in Arizona to live off the grid. Maybe something will pan out with that so we can all live "off the grid". Until then, we're stuck playing this forsaken game.
Agreed. However, that does not mean that there is not a considerable risk attached to this approach too. One serious failure and it could all come crashing down.
That's precisely what happened when the dotcom bubble burst. A very low percentage of startups are successful. Information regarding that:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/a...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/n...
https://www.quora.com/What-per...
There's risk to everything, including doing nothing.
That's actually one of the excuses for Gambler's Fallacy. There is also risk in drinking alcohol, having unprotected sex, smoking cigarettes, etc. That doesn't mean you should do it.
>Tech speculators are superstitious and foolish.
What ever happened to 'due diligence'?
I do my due diligence! It's called Magic 8-ball. I use it for all my investment decisions and it's never steered me wrong! My family has used the same one for many generations. All praise Magic 8-ball!
Apple is trying to avoid a knee-jerk reaction from investors who don't understand what this actually means
I think you're thinking of a different company called Unicorn Technology, Inc. where upper management actually understands how to run a technology business and doesn't emotionally react to stuff that sounds like it might be bad without actually understanding what it actually means...
If its Russian I assume that means its covered with moles and a bad hair cut.
Not likely that you could see that unless you inspected it with a microscope. I can think of much better uses for microscopes though...
You gotta do things in order to get things done.
You gotta spend money to make money.
Except if you spend too much money and don't get enough results, bankruptcy for you. It doesn't matter how good your idea is or if it's going to change the world for the better. In most of the world, it only matters whether it can achieve ROI and there are constraints in the form of how much VC a firm is willing to put into your company before they don't think you're going to do anything else other than throw them under a bus.
You're not a developer probably so you don't understand the difference. Try reading this. Not sure you will get it though but good luck.
Only works on Microsoft browsers. I don't see a problem here.
But they are genetically identical to their parent, barring mutation. The process might not be called cloning but the end result is the same, no?
If this site is supposedly still News for Nerds and the topic is Biology, we should be talking in formal Biology terms. And honestly, asexual reproduction isn't terribly advanced. You learn about it in elementary school. Surely slashdot can handle subject matter of that educational level right?
Wait. They're all clones, right ?
They aren't clones really. They reproduce by asexual reproduction like many other forms of life already do.
This isn't really news. We've known about the marbled crayfish for several decades. First of all, their life span is only 3 years and it's likely that they are some other life form's food source. If there were going to be an overpopulation issue of some kind which TFA doesn't mention, this problem would have already occurred and biologists would already be aware. Spin spin spin. The article is interesting in terms of introducing one to this very interesting crustacean but the FUD I could do without.
I never got training in those days. I was too busy working myself to death pulling 100 hour weeks. Nothing has changed in SV at all.
That's unfortunate. I've certainly pulled my fair share of 80 hour weeks but I did work with a couple of very successful companies that never worked more than 40 hours a week, provided ongoing training and we even had team outings (that part was hard to adjust to). It was only a small portion of my career but it did happen occasionally. TBH, it's folks like you that are willing let yourself be used like a door mat that set the status quo for the entire industry. Hopefully you earned a pension or had some equity share in the company to make it worth your while to waste that much of your life in a white collar sweat shop.
Lest you forget, Kim Dotcom's case should remind you that the US has jurisdiction wherever it wants.
Kim Dotcom = German, Light's Hope = Russian. Good luck convincing Vladimir Putin to agree to extradite the folks running Light's Hope. They couldn't shut down Sci-Hub or have Alexandra Elbakyan extradited either. The United States doesn't run the world and it can't force other countries to bend to its will. It may be able to negotiate that with Germany but not with the Russians. The United States does not dictate world policy.
No Microsoft O/S is good for everyone - more and more people are choosing to use Linux.
Same claim I've seen made for years on slashdot and sadly the facts don't agree with you: http://www.zdnet.com/article/n...
Programming is haaaaaaaaaard!
Yes and the proper response to that is hiring interns, recent college graduates and/or h1b visas because people will real experience solving hard problems are just too expensive... nevermind the cost of doing business...
Developers, developers, developers, developers...
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Developers, developers, developers, developers...
Developers, developers, developers, developers...
Developers, developers, developers, developers...
Developers, developers, developers, developers...
Blizzard Issues DMCA Notice to a Fan-Run 'WoW' Leg
No. They issued the DMCA notice to GITHUB. Terrible summary.
Blizzard has asked GitHub to pull the site's code offline.
Blizzard asked Github to take down ONE file. Github complied because they are located in the United States. Light's Hope on the other hand is run outside of the United States so there is absolutely no jurisdiction for Blizzard to take it down and they can't really stop the code from being disseminated. Blizzard is just quite frankly wasting their time and money.
Companies need to start training people. You see training in every field except IT
Judging by your id, you're not young. You should know just as well as I do, we used to get training especially around the time of the Internet Explosion followed by the DotCom bust because all these startups were hiring warm bodies leading up to y2k. There used to be this thing called *Research* & Development, you know R&D? They dropped the R and kept the D and along with that went the training. The reason for that is because GAP changed and CFO's didn't like seeing the non-capitalizable work on their balance sheet because it looks like a cost sink despite the fact that what really happens if you let smart people do their real work, they create patentable inventions that can make the company GINORMOUS amounts of cash. But you know just as well as I do, this has been broken for some time and any appeal to reason falls on deaf ears.
Look up "Corporate Death Penalty". I think you're misunderstanding the whole discussion.
I don't misunderstand. If we were talking about that, someone should have clearly communicated that. The problem with this discussion in that context would be incompetent communication skills.
It may not be the solution, but it's and appropriate intermediate step.
Well if you apply the death penalty here you should also apply it to people who don't pay their taxes or default on their loans then too. Are you sure you want to apply the same standard across the system?
the right candidate can feel a bit like trying to capture a unicorn
That is 100% correct and that's because companies and more specifically HR doesn't deal with reality. Unicorn basically means looking for a person with a combination of skills, abilities and experience that either doesn't exist or is extremely RARE (< .01% of the population) This idea that every tech company could put out a job requisition for an infinite amount of time and eventually snag a unicorn is not even remotely based in reality. Companies need to put the crack pipe down and start dealing in reality and adjusting their expectations accordingly just like we all do. No one gets special treatment.
Which part would ban WHOIS?
I didn't claim anything of this nature and I don't see where anyone or anything did. Why would i continue to talk with someone who is making shit up? There is no way to have a conversation with someone who is doing that. If you want to continue, tell me what this statement YOU made is in reference to, otherwise, have a nice day because I don't talk with irrational people that just make things up.
Execution? Really? If you wanna see the collapse of the economy (and the start of the next civil war/end of the U.S.), then by all means...
Bring it on. I'll be sitting on my homestead and it would be unwise for anyone to come onto my property to start trouble. That's why you need the ability to protect and take care of your own self. Society is full of assholes and the system is broke.