If this is your shopping experience, than perhaps it says more about the quality of your local grocery store than about Amazon's new store. I've never seen anything like that in the Seattle-area QFC I regularly shop at, perhaps aside from the occasional slightly-dented can (the horror!).
No, it's the experience of every supermarket. You probably just don't notice it because if you shop for yourself you automatically and subconsciously choose the best from the selection - oh that shampoo has a cracked top, I'll choose another, oh that apple has a mark I'll pick the other apple. Even the best supermarket doesn't just toss stuff because it's knocked around a bit. They wait for somebody to buy it, or they foist it onto their home delivery customers, or write it off as spoilage. If you let some minimum wage worker choose your basket they won't give a rat's ass what they're dumping in the cart.
People with more money than time? People with physical impairments or temporary injuries that limit mobility? Amazon employees?
Unless Amazon store is psychic you must still browse what items you want to be there when you drive to pick them up. And at that point, how much time have you actually saved? A couple of minutes tops. And in return you've forfeit the ability to choose product, compare etc.
I very much doubt disabled people appreciate having to drive to a store either, hardly a great experience. And Amazon employees would only bother if they're getting a discount of some kind, or an implied threat of another kind.
This could appeal to someone who is so fucking lazy they can't even spend 10 minutes of their time to pick their own groceries. Instead they get some disinterested drone to fulfill their shopping, not giving a damn in the slightest if the bread is stale, fruit is mouldy, meat is fatty, tins dented, cartons leaking, expiration due etc.
And yes it's completely different from standard Amazon shopping. Amazon mostly sells mass produced items, each the same as the next. Groceries are perishable goods and vary substantially from one unit to the next, particular for fresh and frozen produce.
So the proposition is you pay a heap of money for someone to shop for you. This person doesn't give a damn about freshness because they're being Amazon micromanaged. They don't care if the tins are dented, or meat is going brown or contains tubes, or if the milk carton is leaking, or the bread has a few days before its stale since they're not the ones who're going to eat it. After working a whole shift fulfilling lazy assholes, they probably hope you choke on it.
Frankly I wonder who this service is even meant for.
From the sounds of the original link, they manufactured hardware containing spyware.
LeEco started out in China as a streaming media provider — it has been referred to as the "Netflix of China" — and looked to expand into the US by selling affordable hardware that linked consumers to media content from LeEco's partners. Its first batch of products included two smartphones and several TVs, all of which offered flagship-level specs at affordable prices. The idea, it seemed, was that LeEco would make its money back when consumers tuned in to partner programming.
The CV wasn't an exact match but it was close enough that so we interviewed him and gave him a chance. My impressions about his inflexibility and lack of range were formed during the interview.
"Actually it does not. Why would anyone read C++ documentations that are not relevant for his job?"
For all the reasons I said. I didn't need C++ when I was programming C. I still bothered to learn it. I didn't need Java when I was programming C++. I still bothered to learn it. It meant that come the time I switched jobs I was proficient in a skill that meant I could switch.
Curiosity, agility, willingness to adapt, learn, improve should be motivating factors for any kind of high tech job.
I interviewed a guy recently for a C/C++ role and while he had C down for a skill he couldn't tell me the most basic things about multi-threading, GUI programming, or even C++ fundamentals. He had spent the last 15 years working on some kind of terminal based software and simply didn't have a clue. Yeah I get his day job probably didn't require those things but it says much of his temperament and inclination that he couldn't be bothered to learn in his own time either. He didn't get the job.
Learning something new keeps skills relevant and demonstrates a passion for the job, the capacity to learn and the flexibility to adapt. These are all things employers like.
It's very easy to do too even if the day job is something else. Find a technology that looks interesting, think of a non-trivial project that would be a good fit for that technology and write it. Make it open source, stick it on githhub or somewhere public and then link to that from the resume. It gets easier over time too since there is very little new under the sun.
IBM will change the core hours, introduce a mandatory 8am Monday meeting, performance improvement programs, force people to interview for their own jobs.
Anything that makes the place really shitty to work in so they can jack up the attrition rate. So much cheaper than layoffs even if you end up with all the deadwood that can't find work elsewhere.
Yes you could but I was addressing the point in the context of a comment that someone had thousands of MP3s and being "told FLAC is your friend". I also said it wouldn't hurt to encode in FLAC if space was not an issue.
I don't have much recent experience of Vorbis so I don't have any opinion to give. Best to search on terms like MP3 vs Ogg to see what comes up. I expect that all lossy codecs can be encoded at a rate that approaches lossless while still being significantly smaller on disk. I realise audiophiles might claim to hear the difference and maybe sometimes they actually can. That's why blind A/B testing is so useful since it eliminates subjectivity in testing.
An MP3 encoded at 320 kbit/s through a good encoder is virtually indistinguishable from FLAC. I expect in a blind A/B test very few people would be able to tell them apart.
FLAC is certainly lossless and therefore capable of spitting out new encodings or file formats as they arise. I'm not sure it would justify holding an entire collection in that format although it might be a wise to rip new content to FLAC if space is not an issue.
If a company instructs tellers to sell bogus policies, and heaps huge pressure on them to sign up customers - or be sacked - then those ARE their values. Wells Fargo may as well own that shit because no believes for a second that it happened without the full knowledge and direction of those in charge. The bank didn't stray from it's values, it changed the values to suit its bottom line.
Trump is surrounded by lawyers. He can be both stupid and mobbed up. In fact it's probably his stupidity that caused him to be mobbed up in the first place.
There is also a strong suspicion that Trump's real estate properties are a front for money laundering and he was bailed out in 2008 by the Russian mob. It wouldn't be the first time Trump's business empire has been caught associating with the mob or laundering money.
Running for president has drawn a lot of scrutiny and heat onto himself. I wouldn't be surprised if it proves to be his (and his family's) downfall too.
There is more than enough information in the public domain to convince any reasonable person. You can pretend it doesn't exist if you like, such as your handwaving exercise about emphatic statements by intelligence officials. More fool you. You're clearly not a reasonable person.
No, Clapper said it outright. Comey said it outright. Short of obtaining clearance to drawn conclusions based on the same evidence they saw I must surmise that the Russians did it. As would any reasonable person.
Assange isn't honorable or credible. He got his buddies to stump up his bail while on extradition charges and rape and then high tailed it to the Ecuadorian embassy.
Wikileaks might have started with naive but good intentions but now it's a Russian front. And Assange is their stooge.
One other oddity is that Assange was recently paid a visit by Nigel Farage, ex-leader of UKIP and Donald Trump lickspittle. Farage "couldn't remember" why he was in the embassy for an hour or who he saw. It's hard to think of many reasons that don't raise far more questions than they answer.
If you want to talk of years, think of the tens of thousands of man years wasted by people figuring out which way their USB cable was supposed to plug in. That alone makes USB-C a major improvement, one long overdue. You could buy a USB-A adapter to use an existing charger assuming the cable is joined to the charger and not replaceable. Not ideal but still possible.
Biggest issue with USB-C is the botched roll out, certification issues and fears that the standard allows devices to use DRM to gimp / disable support for "unauthorized" peripherals.
The only reason Comey was fired was because he is investigating the ties between Trump, his cronies and the Russians. And these ties must be pretty strong because it had gotten to the grand jury, subpoena and indictment stage. The half assed pretext for the firing fools nobody.
If firing Comey was meant to make the issue go away I think Trump is in for a shock. It's thrown fuel on the fire. There'll come a tipping point where most of his support base in congress is going to melt away and then it'll be curtains for this traitorous asshole.
It does something to fix it. It might not be some idealist's idea of a good system but it's still better than what preceded it.
If people weren't so collectively stupid / selfish they might even see it as a stepping stone to something better again. Unfortunately people are too stupid / selfish and don't see the bigger picture.
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If this is your shopping experience, than perhaps it says more about the quality of your local grocery store than about Amazon's new store. I've never seen anything like that in the Seattle-area QFC I regularly shop at, perhaps aside from the occasional slightly-dented can (the horror!).
No, it's the experience of every supermarket. You probably just don't notice it because if you shop for yourself you automatically and subconsciously choose the best from the selection - oh that shampoo has a cracked top, I'll choose another, oh that apple has a mark I'll pick the other apple. Even the best supermarket doesn't just toss stuff because it's knocked around a bit. They wait for somebody to buy it, or they foist it onto their home delivery customers, or write it off as spoilage. If you let some minimum wage worker choose your basket they won't give a rat's ass what they're dumping in the cart.
People with more money than time? People with physical impairments or temporary injuries that limit mobility? Amazon employees?
Unless Amazon store is psychic you must still browse what items you want to be there when you drive to pick them up. And at that point, how much time have you actually saved? A couple of minutes tops. And in return you've forfeit the ability to choose product, compare etc.
I very much doubt disabled people appreciate having to drive to a store either, hardly a great experience. And Amazon employees would only bother if they're getting a discount of some kind, or an implied threat of another kind.
And yes it's completely different from standard Amazon shopping. Amazon mostly sells mass produced items, each the same as the next. Groceries are perishable goods and vary substantially from one unit to the next, particular for fresh and frozen produce.
Frankly I wonder who this service is even meant for.
LeEco started out in China as a streaming media provider — it has been referred to as the "Netflix of China" — and looked to expand into the US by selling affordable hardware that linked consumers to media content from LeEco's partners. Its first batch of products included two smartphones and several TVs, all of which offered flagship-level specs at affordable prices. The idea, it seemed, was that LeEco would make its money back when consumers tuned in to partner programming.
... the people trying to hype up a new "currency" so they offload their mined coins on a bunch of gullible saps.
The CV wasn't an exact match but it was close enough that so we interviewed him and gave him a chance. My impressions about his inflexibility and lack of range were formed during the interview.
Curiosity, agility, willingness to adapt, learn, improve should be motivating factors for any kind of high tech job.
Learning something new keeps skills relevant and demonstrates a passion for the job, the capacity to learn and the flexibility to adapt. These are all things employers like.
It's very easy to do too even if the day job is something else. Find a technology that looks interesting, think of a non-trivial project that would be a good fit for that technology and write it. Make it open source, stick it on githhub or somewhere public and then link to that from the resume. It gets easier over time too since there is very little new under the sun.
Anything that makes the place really shitty to work in so they can jack up the attrition rate. So much cheaper than layoffs even if you end up with all the deadwood that can't find work elsewhere.
Yes you could but I was addressing the point in the context of a comment that someone had thousands of MP3s and being "told FLAC is your friend". I also said it wouldn't hurt to encode in FLAC if space was not an issue.
I don't have much recent experience of Vorbis so I don't have any opinion to give. Best to search on terms like MP3 vs Ogg to see what comes up. I expect that all lossy codecs can be encoded at a rate that approaches lossless while still being significantly smaller on disk. I realise audiophiles might claim to hear the difference and maybe sometimes they actually can. That's why blind A/B testing is so useful since it eliminates subjectivity in testing.
FLAC is certainly lossless and therefore capable of spitting out new encodings or file formats as they arise. I'm not sure it would justify holding an entire collection in that format although it might be a wise to rip new content to FLAC if space is not an issue.
If a company instructs tellers to sell bogus policies, and heaps huge pressure on them to sign up customers - or be sacked - then those ARE their values. Wells Fargo may as well own that shit because no believes for a second that it happened without the full knowledge and direction of those in charge. The bank didn't stray from it's values, it changed the values to suit its bottom line.
Trump is surrounded by lawyers. He can be both stupid and mobbed up. In fact it's probably his stupidity that caused him to be mobbed up in the first place.
In the next malware it might be "delete everything" switch.
Running for president has drawn a lot of scrutiny and heat onto himself. I wouldn't be surprised if it proves to be his (and his family's) downfall too.
There is more than enough information in the public domain to convince any reasonable person. You can pretend it doesn't exist if you like, such as your handwaving exercise about emphatic statements by intelligence officials. More fool you. You're clearly not a reasonable person.
It's not digging, just a statement of a what any reasonable, thinking person would conclude on the basis of what's known to the public.
No, Clapper said it outright. Comey said it outright. Short of obtaining clearance to drawn conclusions based on the same evidence they saw I must surmise that the Russians did it. As would any reasonable person.
Timely and deliberate leaks of stolen emails unreservedly count as interference. I'm sure they are not the only way the Russians interfered either.
Snowden is such a patriot that he's skulking in Russia after giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.
Wikileaks might have started with naive but good intentions but now it's a Russian front. And Assange is their stooge.
One other oddity is that Assange was recently paid a visit by Nigel Farage, ex-leader of UKIP and Donald Trump lickspittle. Farage "couldn't remember" why he was in the embassy for an hour or who he saw. It's hard to think of many reasons that don't raise far more questions than they answer.
Biggest issue with USB-C is the botched roll out, certification issues and fears that the standard allows devices to use DRM to gimp / disable support for "unauthorized" peripherals.
If firing Comey was meant to make the issue go away I think Trump is in for a shock. It's thrown fuel on the fire. There'll come a tipping point where most of his support base in congress is going to melt away and then it'll be curtains for this traitorous asshole.
If people weren't so collectively stupid / selfish they might even see it as a stepping stone to something better again. Unfortunately people are too stupid / selfish and don't see the bigger picture.