If I had a company I'd hire 55+ people that have good references. They tend to have stable lives and are regular and predictable in their work. At 55 they aren't suddenly going to have children and completely change their focus and work output like someone who is 30.
If I have a lot of work to get done, and work that never really ends. Then I'd take the dependable farm horse rather than the young racing thoroughbred. If I have 6 months for my start up to make or break. Then hiring energetic college kids makes some sense, if only initially.
Though I'm pretty old school compared to the trends in tech companies. I think it is beneficial to hire both junior and experienced people. The junior people learn from the senior people. The senior people get exposure to exchange fresh ideas. And strengths of both can be used while weakness are covered in a complimentary way.
PS - sort of related thought... What's insane are the big companies that want to pretend they are just like the startups. Trust me, being a startup sucks sometimes. It's a big disadvantage not having the financial resources to get the stuff you need, or the time to do it right the first time. Having a focus to do exactly one thing in a short amount of time is what a startup is good at. That doesn't scale correctly to a place like Facebook or Google.
I don't think sarin will do much to plants. And you might need a lot of it to sterilize deep ocean life as it tends to degrade when in the environment. Certainly problematic to most(all?) land animals. But you'd have to be familiar enough with terrestrial genetics, proteins and enzymes to devise a potent neurotoxin like sarin. For the amount of detail on biology you would probably need, it might be just as easy to create a retrovirus. The advantage of a virus is that the payload of your space craft can be minuscule compared to the amount of material you might need if you used a toxin. Small payload means a small craft, and you benefit from a better energy efficiency for a propulsion system.
A small craft might be able to sustain an acceleration over a long period, perhaps a year (~31558149 seconds). If you could do a large acceleration like 9.8 m/s^2 (1 G) that's going to take you to the speed of light in a year (not really, but that's how the newton equations work out). Something more like 0.1 m/s^2 (1% G) will take you to a relatively sedate 1% c. Which is still amazingly fast and beyond our current propulsion technology. Sending a probe from Gliese 832 c, about 16 ly away, is going to take 160 years at 1% c. But if the goal is to annihilate a civilization as soon as you detect them but before they spread too far, that might be enough. As to why this would happen in my totally hypothetical situation, perhaps the aliens are crazy religious and want to correct anything that differs from their world view.
For mobile you want a codec that is hardware supported. That takes time. Desktops can run software decode and be OK. Criteria for hardware support boils down to what you can get OEMs to pay for. You put the bare minimum to keep pace with your competitors (so h.264 and now h.265) or you include codecs that you have to charge a license fee to enable (h.265 has been like this so far). Some things like VP8 and VP9 have made it in as well, mostly due to requirements for some Google devices and the subsequent competition between chip vendors to be in those devices.
You don't find too many chip vendors putting stuff in just because it's an open standard. There has to be a real market that translate into a sale for us to spend silicon on a feature.
SF is about dressing in layers. At night it's cold and windy, in the morning it is cool and foggy, and in the afternoon it can be mild and pleasant. I prefer the weather in San Jose-Santa Clara, and the massively lower crime rate. (well, I suppose the white collar crime rate is high in Silicon Valley)
P.S. SFO isn't even in SF. It's like 3 cities away.
It's more costly not to have an airport to serve the peninsula. (OAK serves the east bay, and SJC serves the south bay). It is possible to have OAK and SJC take over more of SFO's traffic, but SFO is a very large airport compared to either of the others.
Try riding a bicycle in 2 feet of water. Sure you're dry when you're at the top of some hill, but unless you only stay on a single hill all your life you're doing to have to go lower, sometimes down to sea level.
If SF's government were ran by competent Dutch people instead of morons this situation would not be nearly as concerning.
There is nothing inhernetly superior with the metric system over the US customary system. It's just numbers and names and you can standardize and be equally accurate with either. And while there are anachronism to this system, much of the obscure parts are considered obsolete and not normally used by people (including scientists and engineers who do still use the US system in industry). NOTE: UK / Imperial system is a related but not identical system.
What was a tremendous problem was when Europe had a different system in each country and sometimes different systems in different parts of the same country, and those systems are often using the same names to mean slightly different standards of measurements. Total freaking nightmare, and thank the gods (or Frenchmen) for its wide adoption.
That said, we could do much better than the metric system. Celcius is a particularly unfortunate unit.
I think my car insurance covers only $25k of property damage. And the minimum coverage for property damage in my state(CA) is $5k. So you might be in some serious financial trouble if you are at fault for causing a wildfire with your car.
Drones may be difficult to cover. There is home owner insurance that can cover some things related to your personal property. And there is stuff like AMA (American Moderlers Association) which includes an insurance with the membership. But as far as I know they've never paid out an insurance claim in the many decades they've been around.
In unrelated news, on 2017-11-20 I was first told I have a grey hair in my beard, at age of 39 years 7 months.
Baby's first gray hair.
Millennials think youth ends at age 40. But Gen X and Boomers draw the the line at age 35 or less. So be thankful and feel young thanks to millennials.
Fucking emojis and other crap is reducing software to the reward system for a 3 year old.
That's precisely what emoji have become, a short term gratification. Especially animated emoji. I suspect it stimulates the same parts of the brain that video slot machines are designed to trigger.
ideal would be 30 days retention on site. and less than 1 day retention on Slack's servers outside of our company.
It made Slack to be useless for discussing any sensitive issues about future projects or customers. Which is perhaps 50% of the day to day work at my company.
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If I had a company I'd hire 55+ people that have good references. They tend to have stable lives and are regular and predictable in their work. At 55 they aren't suddenly going to have children and completely change their focus and work output like someone who is 30.
If I have a lot of work to get done, and work that never really ends. Then I'd take the dependable farm horse rather than the young racing thoroughbred.
If I have 6 months for my start up to make or break. Then hiring energetic college kids makes some sense, if only initially.
Though I'm pretty old school compared to the trends in tech companies. I think it is beneficial to hire both junior and experienced people. The junior people learn from the senior people. The senior people get exposure to exchange fresh ideas. And strengths of both can be used while weakness are covered in a complimentary way.
PS - sort of related thought... What's insane are the big companies that want to pretend they are just like the startups. Trust me, being a startup sucks sometimes. It's a big disadvantage not having the financial resources to get the stuff you need, or the time to do it right the first time. Having a focus to do exactly one thing in a short amount of time is what a startup is good at. That doesn't scale correctly to a place like Facebook or Google.
Paying everyone 20k doubles your expenses and hurts the company revenue projections you've given to shareholders.
It's a good way for a C-level to get fired. The desire for the boss to cover their own ass explains a lot of standard practice in the corporate world.
Do you offer gift certificates? I have a few "special" people on my Christmas list this year.
As if self-destruction and suicide was ever much of a deterrent for our federal government.
A full page advertisements that knows where you live, where you shop, what you eat for breakfast, and your political affiliations.
George Orwell never predicted we'd voluntarily give up privacy and individual freedom for discounts on our favorite brands.
I don't think sarin will do much to plants. And you might need a lot of it to sterilize deep ocean life as it tends to degrade when in the environment. Certainly problematic to most(all?) land animals. But you'd have to be familiar enough with terrestrial genetics, proteins and enzymes to devise a potent neurotoxin like sarin.
For the amount of detail on biology you would probably need, it might be just as easy to create a retrovirus. The advantage of a virus is that the payload of your space craft can be minuscule compared to the amount of material you might need if you used a toxin. Small payload means a small craft, and you benefit from a better energy efficiency for a propulsion system.
A small craft might be able to sustain an acceleration over a long period, perhaps a year (~31558149 seconds). If you could do a large acceleration like 9.8 m/s^2 (1 G) that's going to take you to the speed of light in a year (not really, but that's how the newton equations work out). Something more like 0.1 m/s^2 (1% G) will take you to a relatively sedate 1% c. Which is still amazingly fast and beyond our current propulsion technology. Sending a probe from Gliese 832 c, about 16 ly away, is going to take 160 years at 1% c. But if the goal is to annihilate a civilization as soon as you detect them but before they spread too far, that might be enough. As to why this would happen in my totally hypothetical situation, perhaps the aliens are crazy religious and want to correct anything that differs from their world view.
That's because I'm old and full of obscure references.
ex: Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys
We won't even remember it. It'll be like Pets.com and Webvan.
Maybe include the human genome in case the aliens want to build any bioweapons.
It's like an ebook with color full page advertisements.
For mobile you want a codec that is hardware supported. That takes time. Desktops can run software decode and be OK.
Criteria for hardware support boils down to what you can get OEMs to pay for. You put the bare minimum to keep pace with your competitors (so h.264 and now h.265) or you include codecs that you have to charge a license fee to enable (h.265 has been like this so far). Some things like VP8 and VP9 have made it in as well, mostly due to requirements for some Google devices and the subsequent competition between chip vendors to be in those devices.
You don't find too many chip vendors putting stuff in just because it's an open standard. There has to be a real market that translate into a sale for us to spend silicon on a feature.
I'm convinced that everybody does insider trading.
violent crime rate per 1,000 people:
San Jose : 3.21
San Francisco : 7.95
So yea, you can fuck right off.
(ref: https://oag.ca.gov/crime/cjsc/... )
Well if you make $150k/yr you can afford to live in a mere 45 minute commute.
SF is about dressing in layers. At night it's cold and windy, in the morning it is cool and foggy, and in the afternoon it can be mild and pleasant.
I prefer the weather in San Jose-Santa Clara, and the massively lower crime rate. (well, I suppose the white collar crime rate is high in Silicon Valley)
P.S. SFO isn't even in SF. It's like 3 cities away.
Money, good wine, and nice weather is for CRAZY people.
No, it's not hard. It's just costly.
It's more costly not to have an airport to serve the peninsula. (OAK serves the east bay, and SJC serves the south bay). It is possible to have OAK and SJC take over more of SFO's traffic, but SFO is a very large airport compared to either of the others.
There won't be much impact.
Try riding a bicycle in 2 feet of water. Sure you're dry when you're at the top of some hill, but unless you only stay on a single hill all your life you're doing to have to go lower, sometimes down to sea level.
If SF's government were ran by competent Dutch people instead of morons this situation would not be nearly as concerning.
What do you mean, there are people here older than me?!?
I'll always be your superior by 2 years. Well unless I die .. .
Perhaps even ones wiser than me.
I wouldn't know about that. ;-)
If only it were true, it might have been the first truth in advertising from GM.
There is nothing inhernetly superior with the metric system over the US customary system. It's just numbers and names and you can standardize and be equally accurate with either. And while there are anachronism to this system, much of the obscure parts are considered obsolete and not normally used by people (including scientists and engineers who do still use the US system in industry). NOTE: UK / Imperial system is a related but not identical system.
What was a tremendous problem was when Europe had a different system in each country and sometimes different systems in different parts of the same country, and those systems are often using the same names to mean slightly different standards of measurements. Total freaking nightmare, and thank the gods (or Frenchmen) for its wide adoption.
That said, we could do much better than the metric system. Celcius is a particularly unfortunate unit.
I think my car insurance covers only $25k of property damage. And the minimum coverage for property damage in my state(CA) is $5k. So you might be in some serious financial trouble if you are at fault for causing a wildfire with your car.
Drones may be difficult to cover. There is home owner insurance that can cover some things related to your personal property. And there is stuff like AMA (American Moderlers Association) which includes an insurance with the membership. But as far as I know they've never paid out an insurance claim in the many decades they've been around.
In unrelated news, on 2017-11-20 I was first told I have a grey hair in my beard, at age of 39 years 7 months.
Baby's first gray hair.
Millennials think youth ends at age 40. But Gen X and Boomers draw the the line at age 35 or less. So be thankful and feel young thanks to millennials.
Fucking emojis and other crap is reducing software to the reward system for a 3 year old.
That's precisely what emoji have become, a short term gratification. Especially animated emoji. I suspect it stimulates the same parts of the brain that video slot machines are designed to trigger.
ideal would be 30 days retention on site. and less than 1 day retention on Slack's servers outside of our company.
It made Slack to be useless for discussing any sensitive issues about future projects or customers. Which is perhaps 50% of the day to day work at my company.