Yep, the nearest pair of Best Buy/FutureShop to me here in Winnipeg actually shared a parking lot. Never understood why both were kept open, unless it was a regulatory requirement of the merger. Knowing that they were owned by the same parent company, I shopped more at Best Buy than FutureShop because Best Buy sales reps were not on commission while FutureShop sales reps were (and, as a result, tended to be very pushy).
most important thing the CTO of a tech company finds to consider, I think the tech company has a problem.
I want well-written, well-tested code. I really don't care about the DNA of the person (people) who wrote said code.
Now that I think about it, most of the code I've encountered in my life has been modified by multiple people before I ever got to it. How do I tell the gender of the person who wrote the function, particularly if the function has been modified by several people? And how can I even check their gender if all that is associated with an update is a userid? Perhaps the "T" in CTO stands for "Twaddle"?
"Phone calls" are remnants of the old century. Stop using cellphone services and use wi-fi only.
Um, that might work if you never leave the city. Some of us like to actually leave the city and go places where there might possibly be a cellphone signal, but there definitely ain't no wi-fi. Actually, my last real vacation was sufficiently out there that there wasn't hardly any radio, much less cellphone or internet. Surprised how little I missed it all.
Pick one cellular provider. Give them one month to tell the cops to get bent. If they don't do so, every customer (well, all the customers we can get to do so) switches to another provider.
Or, if that's too drastic, a warning shot: no cell-phone week. We all leave our cell phones at home, turned off, with the threat to cancel service if Stingrays don't become extinct.
Give them, maybe, one day to respond to your complaint. If they do not respond to your satisfaction, close your account and go elsewhere. It's your money. If they won't take good care of it, someone else will.
I don't really trust my own government. What on Earth should I trust yours?
Growing up, I generally thought of the USA as the good guys. Nowadays, not so much. I'm not sure there are any good guys.
You can potentially print things like toothbrushes, etc, but you cannot print food. Nor can you print gasoline or diesel fuel or...
I doubt this will significantly reduce shipping (it could potentially increase it - if printing stuff is cheap enough, the amount of raw material for printers might exceed the the shipping requirements of the finished goods it replaces).
Further, if the shareholders want to turf him, then they reasonably need to turf everyone involved in hiring him as those folks knew, or should have known, about his support of the proposition.
No, his presence negatively affects some people's perceptions of the business but it probably has a positive affect on others. No idea how it balances out.
... I've learned a few things.
1. Technology is continually changing.
2. It is up to me to be continually learning; no one else can, or will, do it for me.
3. The underlying principles and concepts remain the same, so someone with a good grasp of them will be useful IF THEY WANT TO BE USEFUL.
4. The best employers try to help employees keep up to date (but DO NOT RELY ON YOUR EMPLOYER FOR THIS).
Even if the self-driving cars are well coded, what about hackers? Imagine a virus that causes, say, a million vehicles to go berserk some Monday morning during rush hour. Or even just causes a million vehicles to brick themselves.
Yes, people can also go berserk, but you likely won't get a million of them doing so at the same time.
Have we learned nothing from M5 or iRobot or Terminator? Methinks 'tis about time for a Butlerian jihad.
... best to keep it simple. Get there prepared with all the info they will need. Answer questions directly and simply. Don't volunteer additional info. I've traveled extensively. I've also had interviews with security services in the process of landing jobs. Those rules have always helped. Never had any problems.
... I was going to make a funny comment about how Pizza Hut had already done that (well, it feels like it lasts for years in my gullet), but then I saw the bit about the pizzas actually being edible and we all know that Pizza Hut has not done that yet.
Dude, in North America, spending $500 on a goof-off device is called fiscal restraint. How many people do you know who've spent more than $1000 on a widescreen TV in the last 3 years? Or bought an ATV? Or a snowmobile? Or a home theatre system? Or...
We spend a lot of money on toys. If the iPad turns out to be a toy, so what? If some people manage to use it for actual work, great.
I don't know that they will be punished at exam time. Many professors grade exams on the curve, meaning that they pass X percent of the class. If many students do poorly on the exam, clearly the exam was too hard.
When my father was in med school, ca 1950, attendance was taken and affected your right to take the exam, so this is not a new concept.
All that said, it won't work. For example, I walk into class and the sensors detect my card, so I'm logged as being in attendance. Woo hoo. Now I put my card in a metal wallet that prevents the sensors from reading the card and walk out the door. The sensors do not detect me leaving. Or, equally silly, I oversleep and I'm in a rush to get to class and leave my card on my dresser. So I'm in class, verified by many classmates and possibly the professor, but I'm logged as absent.
The vast majority of texts that authors give us are incredibly poor. Our editors have an extremely hard job of cleaning these up and rewriting them so that they are generally understandable and professional and are correctly targeted for our audience. To our established authors, we also offer them an advance on their work.
I'll second this. I once read a book published by the author on a vanity press. Although the content itself was good (and the writing was not too bad), the formatting looked like it had been done by a 10-year-old. Much of the text was either bold or underlined or italicized (and note that those 'or's are NOT exclusive ors), to the point that it was almost unreadable. Had it been formatted by an adult, I might well have purchased several copies to give to friends. As it was, I did not manage to read the entire book - the formatting was just too awful. Editing is NOT the same thing as writing. A good editing job is worth money.
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Stupidity. It's not merely legal - it's a requirement.
Yep, the nearest pair of Best Buy/FutureShop to me here in Winnipeg actually shared a parking lot. Never understood why both were kept open, unless it was a regulatory requirement of the merger. Knowing that they were owned by the same parent company, I shopped more at Best Buy than FutureShop because Best Buy sales reps were not on commission while FutureShop sales reps were (and, as a result, tended to be very pushy).
most important thing the CTO of a tech company finds to consider, I think the tech company has a problem. I want well-written, well-tested code. I really don't care about the DNA of the person (people) who wrote said code. Now that I think about it, most of the code I've encountered in my life has been modified by multiple people before I ever got to it. How do I tell the gender of the person who wrote the function, particularly if the function has been modified by several people? And how can I even check their gender if all that is associated with an update is a userid? Perhaps the "T" in CTO stands for "Twaddle"?
And, for good measure, travel with a laptop running BSD without a GUI.
"Phone calls" are remnants of the old century. Stop using cellphone services and use wi-fi only.
Um, that might work if you never leave the city. Some of us like to actually leave the city and go places where there might possibly be a cellphone signal, but there definitely ain't no wi-fi. Actually, my last real vacation was sufficiently out there that there wasn't hardly any radio, much less cellphone or internet. Surprised how little I missed it all.
Pick one cellular provider. Give them one month to tell the cops to get bent. If they don't do so, every customer (well, all the customers we can get to do so) switches to another provider. Or, if that's too drastic, a warning shot: no cell-phone week. We all leave our cell phones at home, turned off, with the threat to cancel service if Stingrays don't become extinct.
Give them, maybe, one day to respond to your complaint. If they do not respond to your satisfaction, close your account and go elsewhere. It's your money. If they won't take good care of it, someone else will.
Hell does exist. It's modern name is Los Angeles.
I really do not understand why a company would post their proprietary code to Github.
I don't really trust my own government. What on Earth should I trust yours? Growing up, I generally thought of the USA as the good guys. Nowadays, not so much. I'm not sure there are any good guys.
You can potentially print things like toothbrushes, etc, but you cannot print food. Nor can you print gasoline or diesel fuel or ...
I doubt this will significantly reduce shipping (it could potentially increase it - if printing stuff is cheap enough, the amount of raw material for printers might exceed the the shipping requirements of the finished goods it replaces).
Further, if the shareholders want to turf him, then they reasonably need to turf everyone involved in hiring him as those folks knew, or should have known, about his support of the proposition.
No, his presence negatively affects some people's perceptions of the business but it probably has a positive affect on others. No idea how it balances out.
... I've learned a few things. 1. Technology is continually changing. 2. It is up to me to be continually learning; no one else can, or will, do it for me. 3. The underlying principles and concepts remain the same, so someone with a good grasp of them will be useful IF THEY WANT TO BE USEFUL. 4. The best employers try to help employees keep up to date (but DO NOT RELY ON YOUR EMPLOYER FOR THIS).
Vaseline.
Well, if you look at their name, it's obvious that they don't have A CLU.
Even if the self-driving cars are well coded, what about hackers? Imagine a virus that causes, say, a million vehicles to go berserk some Monday morning during rush hour. Or even just causes a million vehicles to brick themselves. Yes, people can also go berserk, but you likely won't get a million of them doing so at the same time. Have we learned nothing from M5 or iRobot or Terminator? Methinks 'tis about time for a Butlerian jihad.
... best to keep it simple. Get there prepared with all the info they will need. Answer questions directly and simply. Don't volunteer additional info. I've traveled extensively. I've also had interviews with security services in the process of landing jobs. Those rules have always helped. Never had any problems.
Actually, per my latest IQ test, I'm a moron, not an idiot.
... I was going to make a funny comment about how Pizza Hut had already done that (well, it feels like it lasts for years in my gullet), but then I saw the bit about the pizzas actually being edible and we all know that Pizza Hut has not done that yet.
Oh, wait. I'm a slash-dotter. I have lots of computers. So I'll Steam on one computer and get cheats on another. Sorry Valve.
Dude, in North America, spending $500 on a goof-off device is called fiscal restraint. How many people do you know who've spent more than $1000 on a widescreen TV in the last 3 years? Or bought an ATV? Or a snowmobile? Or a home theatre system? Or ...
We spend a lot of money on toys. If the iPad turns out to be a toy, so what? If some people manage to use it for actual work, great.
A key ring with house keys and bike key. Another key ring with house keys and car keys.
I don't know that they will be punished at exam time. Many professors grade exams on the curve, meaning that they pass X percent of the class. If many students do poorly on the exam, clearly the exam was too hard.
When my father was in med school, ca 1950, attendance was taken and affected your right to take the exam, so this is not a new concept.
All that said, it won't work. For example, I walk into class and the sensors detect my card, so I'm logged as being in attendance. Woo hoo. Now I put my card in a metal wallet that prevents the sensors from reading the card and walk out the door. The sensors do not detect me leaving. Or, equally silly, I oversleep and I'm in a rush to get to class and leave my card on my dresser. So I'm in class, verified by many classmates and possibly the professor, but I'm logged as absent.
The vast majority of texts that authors give us are incredibly poor. Our editors have an extremely hard job of cleaning these up and rewriting them so that they are generally understandable and professional and are correctly targeted for our audience. To our established authors, we also offer them an advance on their work.
I'll second this. I once read a book published by the author on a vanity press. Although the content itself was good (and the writing was not too bad), the formatting looked like it had been done by a 10-year-old. Much of the text was either bold or underlined or italicized (and note that those 'or's are NOT exclusive ors), to the point that it was almost unreadable. Had it been formatted by an adult, I might well have purchased several copies to give to friends. As it was, I did not manage to read the entire book - the formatting was just too awful. Editing is NOT the same thing as writing. A good editing job is worth money.