The paragraph summary is all the article says. It is all rumors at this point with three cities identified "Crystal City in Virginia, Dallas, and New York City"
start-article
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -2.01% plans to split its second headquarters evenly between two locations rather than picking one city for HQ2, according to a person familiar with the matter, a surprise decision that will spread the impact of a massive new office across two communities.
The driving force behind the decision to build two equal offices in addition to the company’s headquarters in Seattle is recruiting enough tech talent, according to the person familiar with the company’s plans. The move will also ease potential issues with housing, transit and other areas where adding tens of thousands of workers could cause problems.
Under the new plan, Amazon would split the workforce with 25,000 employees in each city, the person said.
Amazon is in advanced talks with multiple cities but hasn’t made a final decision on which two locations it will pick, according to people familiar with the matter. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday reported that Amazon was in late-stage discussions with Crystal City in Virginia, Dallas and New York City.
A decision and announcement could come as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter./end-article
So, I've worked with all flavours of these managers listed, yet none of them are the most frustrating manager I've worked for.
The most frustrating manager was the guy who read all the books, always knew what to say, tried to be your friend, but never actually let you do the things you wanted to get done. He'd never say no, but make you resubmit your requests 10 times with various tweaks almost like he wanted you to give up.
Then in staff meeting's he'd complain that no one was being innovative except his favourites who can do no wrong.
He'd give you just enough information to do the thing he asked, then give you a bit more information with an enhancement request. If I had that information up front I could have done it all at once instead of two cycles taking twice as long.
He was also vindictive, if you didn't tow his view of the company line, you were basically shit listed and he would do everything he could to transfer or fire you.
I did not enjoy that work, and I left the company because of it.
If the app cost $9.99 to download then I'd have already purchased it. Just like DS and Wii games before it.
My beef is I have a family account setup, so my family could share a $10 purchased game, but I need to buy the $10 in app purchase on every member of the families account. In app are great for the speed ups, they suck for actual functionality.
We have a few "test automation" people floating around, their managers want QA people embedded on their development teams and they only want to do it was to have programming skills as a job requirement. As a bonus it is a developer position/salary.
In my work, I'm viewing DevOps as automating the interactions between the Dev and Ops teams. For years the two sides would blame each other for everything and work to prove whatever happened was the other guys fault because they didn't want "root cause" to be assigned to them. With the few projects we have the deployment and configuration tasks completely automated, if an application isn't working then the developers have to own up. If a deployment fails the prerequisites then the ops guys can't hide the fact they didn't complete their tasks on time (regardless of what they tell the PM).
Functional Silos, no one does them better than an old Enterprise IT shop.
If you want to build up those two years of experience, and don't mind working on short deadlines and for maybe less money than you want, start bidding on small projects on sites like oDesk.com and Guru.com.
Then with a list of clients and references built up over time you will either have a much easier time getting internships once you are a junior/senior OR you might just want to keep doing your own thing.
IBM has several large customers already using it, they even pitched it to the company I work for. The things they have it doing around predictive analytics are really impressive.
My first recommendation is to calculate your cost of downtime due to a failed hardware or software component you control. In some manufacturing environments even an extra hour (if your out of the office and need to drive in) could pay a $25k salary for a year.
Next is to focus on getting a dedicated resource for intake of calls/emails and to handle most of the running around. The first 2 years someone is out of school they are most willing to work for really cheap. Introduce yourself to some teachers at the local community college or trade schools and even see about getting some students during their on the job training to show the improved response time to incoming requests without actually costing the company money.
Once management gets better service, losing it might just make them more willing to pay to get it back.
If you have a little money,ok more than a little, to come up the results from a third party call Gartner (or another big firm) and ask to participate in a study. They will find other companies your size in and out of your industry to compare you against. They use a common and repeatable criteria that you can use in the future again.
We had one done in the IT department I work in, and while we came in above average in one or two areas it gave us a place to start from in proving we don't just throw money away.
We also directly bill other groups in the company for our services, so they understand where their money goes and how much extra some of there stupid requests cost.
If your employer is anything like mine, spending more money to make me more productive isn't even close to a priority.
We have justified a second monitor about 50 different ways and the answer is always no. In fact they have let us spend enough time justifying the second monitor to have paid for a nice 24" LCD from Dell.
Now the part that really bothers me, some people have laptops, and they are given a monitor "so they don't have to look at that little screen all day." Everyone uses the monitor as a second display, but the director just doesn't see that, oh and the best part is that apparently I don't need a laptop either.
And this isn't the first company I've been to that thinks like this. Repeat after me "you're lucky to work at such a wonderful company"
While I understand why you want to inquire about how much they love IT; personally I would never base my hiring for a position on the size of a candiates home network or what other projects they code for on the side.
My reasons are this:
- For some people IT is just a job, just like working at Mcdonalds with a better paycheck and a different skill set.
- Anybody can build a home network now, for under $1500 I can buy two new computers and a switch.
If you really want performance out of X windows on Linux, but a commercial X server. I may cost you a few $$, but its well worth it.
There are things hardware vendors will share with closed source shops that they just don't want to make free to the world for their competitors to see.
I'm almost OCD when writing sites to be at least HTML 4.0 transitional, and if I have a few minutes to kill I go for HTML 4.0 strict or XHTML 1.1 strict.
Yes I'm retarded, but I just don't feel like I have fully completed a public facing page until it is compliant.
I'd say if your big enough to have investors, consult them for advice. Or if you want to make a decision MBA = CEO/CFO/COO, so he can deal with the parts he knows best Techie = CTO and Chairman of the board (ala Bill Gates), all the power and it will minimize the day to day operational and finance issues from your world.
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The paragraph summary is all the article says. It is all rumors at this point with three cities identified "Crystal City in Virginia, Dallas, and New York City"
start-article
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -2.01% plans to split its second headquarters evenly between two locations rather than picking one city for HQ2, according to a person familiar with the matter, a surprise decision that will spread the impact of a massive new office across two communities.
The driving force behind the decision to build two equal offices in addition to the company’s headquarters in Seattle is recruiting enough tech talent, according to the person familiar with the company’s plans. The move will also ease potential issues with housing, transit and other areas where adding tens of thousands of workers could cause problems.
Under the new plan, Amazon would split the workforce with 25,000 employees in each city, the person said.
Amazon is in advanced talks with multiple cities but hasn’t made a final decision on which two locations it will pick, according to people familiar with the matter. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday reported that Amazon was in late-stage discussions with Crystal City in Virginia, Dallas and New York City.
A decision and announcement could come as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter. /end-article
So, I've worked with all flavours of these managers listed, yet none of them are the most frustrating manager I've worked for.
The most frustrating manager was the guy who read all the books, always knew what to say, tried to be your friend, but never actually let you do the things you wanted to get done. He'd never say no, but make you resubmit your requests 10 times with various tweaks almost like he wanted you to give up.
Then in staff meeting's he'd complain that no one was being innovative except his favourites who can do no wrong.
He'd give you just enough information to do the thing he asked, then give you a bit more information with an enhancement request. If I had that information up front I could have done it all at once instead of two cycles taking twice as long.
He was also vindictive, if you didn't tow his view of the company line, you were basically shit listed and he would do everything he could to transfer or fire you.
I did not enjoy that work, and I left the company because of it.
If the app cost $9.99 to download then I'd have already purchased it. Just like DS and Wii games before it.
My beef is I have a family account setup, so my family could share a $10 purchased game, but I need to buy the $10 in app purchase on every member of the families account. In app are great for the speed ups, they suck for actual functionality.
We have a few "test automation" people floating around, their managers want QA people embedded on their development teams and they only want to do it was to have programming skills as a job requirement. As a bonus it is a developer position/salary.
In my work, I'm viewing DevOps as automating the interactions between the Dev and Ops teams. For years the two sides would blame each other for everything and work to prove whatever happened was the other guys fault because they didn't want "root cause" to be assigned to them. With the few projects we have the deployment and configuration tasks completely automated, if an application isn't working then the developers have to own up. If a deployment fails the prerequisites then the ops guys can't hide the fact they didn't complete their tasks on time (regardless of what they tell the PM).
Functional Silos, no one does them better than an old Enterprise IT shop.
I put off signing up for a user id for a couple weeks when they first launched, it is my biggest regret.
lol
I'm going to hazard a guess that law enforcement was involved, otherwise I doubt any ISP would just hand over data.
I'm just paranoid enough to assume most large US corporate funded security research teams are in daily, if not weekly, contact with authorities.
If you want to build up those two years of experience, and don't mind working on short deadlines and for maybe less money than you want, start bidding on small projects on sites like oDesk.com and Guru.com.
Then with a list of clients and references built up over time you will either have a much easier time getting internships once you are a junior/senior OR you might just want to keep doing your own thing.
IBM has several large customers already using it, they even pitched it to the company I work for. The things they have it doing around predictive analytics are really impressive.
My first recommendation is to calculate your cost of downtime due to a failed hardware or software component you control. In some manufacturing environments even an extra hour (if your out of the office and need to drive in) could pay a $25k salary for a year.
Next is to focus on getting a dedicated resource for intake of calls/emails and to handle most of the running around. The first 2 years someone is out of school they are most willing to work for really cheap. Introduce yourself to some teachers at the local community college or trade schools and even see about getting some students during their on the job training to show the improved response time to incoming requests without actually costing the company money.
Once management gets better service, losing it might just make them more willing to pay to get it back.
Would you be from la belle province?
If they don't want to spend money on Microsoft Office, offer them a free alternative that will do pretty much everything they want anyway.
If you have a little money,ok more than a little, to come up the results from a third party call Gartner (or another big firm) and ask to participate in a study. They will find other companies your size in and out of your industry to compare you against. They use a common and repeatable criteria that you can use in the future again.
We had one done in the IT department I work in, and while we came in above average in one or two areas it gave us a place to start from in proving we don't just throw money away.
We also directly bill other groups in the company for our services, so they understand where their money goes and how much extra some of there stupid requests cost.
no at least there is hope for the best looking employee at a Wal-mart
Vista is akin to being the highest quality steak at Ponderosa
I mean it is obscene in the eyes of SCO.
If your employer is anything like mine, spending more money to make me more productive isn't even close to a priority.
We have justified a second monitor about 50 different ways and the answer is always no. In fact they have let us spend enough time justifying the second monitor to have paid for a nice 24" LCD from Dell.
Now the part that really bothers me, some people have laptops, and they are given a monitor "so they don't have to look at that little screen all day." Everyone uses the monitor as a second display, but the director just doesn't see that, oh and the best part is that apparently I don't need a laptop either.
And this isn't the first company I've been to that thinks like this. Repeat after me "you're lucky to work at such a wonderful company"
hah
I'd recommend reading a site like http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ since it has forums dedicated to this kind of question.
Or you could just google for "vps hosting" or "dedicated hosting" and start working through the plethora of results
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_time_tr acking_software
We use a product from http://www.dovico.com/ and it works well but it doesn't do scheduling.
Well if you want a legal opinion, talk to a lawyer (IMHO, its a would open you up to civil suits from over protective parents)
If you are worried about local opinion of your business of helping kids break their school rules, then its a dumb idea
If you just want to have an "in" so you can pick up high school students, then go for it
While I understand why you want to inquire about how much they love IT; personally I would never base my hiring for a position on the size of a candiates home network or what other projects they code for on the side.
My reasons are this:
- For some people IT is just a job, just like working at Mcdonalds with a better paycheck and a different skill set.
- Anybody can build a home network now, for under $1500 I can buy two new computers and a switch.
I'm waiting for next year where the unappreciated chips finally get there days.
387 and 487 chips were the bomb.
If you really want performance out of X windows on Linux, but a commercial X server. I may cost you a few $$, but its well worth it.
There are things hardware vendors will share with closed source shops that they just don't want to make free to the world for their competitors to see.
Xi make a nice X server: http://www.xig.com/
I'm almost OCD when writing sites to be at least HTML 4.0 transitional, and if I have a few minutes to kill I go for HTML 4.0 strict or XHTML 1.1 strict.
Yes I'm retarded, but I just don't feel like I have fully completed a public facing page until it is compliant.
I like sudo, but if you have people that insist on root access use kerberos for your authentication.
Specifically use ksu which allows you give people a root shell without needing the root password.
I'd say if your big enough to have investors, consult them for advice.
Or if you want to make a decision
MBA = CEO/CFO/COO, so he can deal with the parts he knows best
Techie = CTO and Chairman of the board (ala Bill Gates), all the power and it will minimize the day to day operational and finance issues from your world.