As a 17 years old that has been posting here and in other forums and blogs for years now and who don't smoke much pot or use torrents much anymore, I always have posted here non-anonymously using my real name partly because many of the problems with HR looking at personal lives deserves to be fixed properly. In fact, I have been writing on Reddit that "HR needs to get in the habit of directly responding to postings employees make in public instead of firing (whether positive or negative)" exactly to fix one of the problems. And the merge of personal and professional life isn't always a bad thing.
While we're doing that for the Supreme Court, maybe we should also do it for other random jobs. It's idiotic to check every Facebook a job candidate has ever made to see if they've failed to toe the line at all times.
Then, HR, comes along, and sifts through these same social networks looking for activities that are not in line with Company Policy, and start terminations of users doing things within these same networks on their own time.
Yea, I remember Whole Foods doing this and I even remember a Slashdot article about Social Sentry. I commented on that article that in most such cases, it is better for HR to do a direct response instead. It would be cool for HR to publicly directly respond to complaints by employees on Twitter, for example, and even address some of them.
And while the use of Netscape 4 on the web is so rare nowadays that it is unlikely that the.PFR files needed to do font embedding with it are going to be supplied nowadays, IE8 and older is still a common enough browser that the EOT files are supplied along the.ttf and WOFF files.
Interestingly, if the interests of their shareholders conflict with the interests of the US, they are legally supposed to go with the shareholder's interest.
Also, both Java and Flash have JITs, and these are not easy to port to 64-bit because all of the differences between 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86_64 assembly/object code has to be accounted for.
Economies of scale are largely a lie beyond a nominal size
Agreed, but this don't mean that fixed limits of size of corporations are a good idea. Agreed with you on monopolies, though. If they turned to be harmful in someway, they can and should be broken up.
But do they care? No -- they bill it back to the business side, while they collect bonuses year to year about how great a job they did that ONE year. It's not about ROI, it's about one year results that you can pin a medal to.
There is something wrong with that short-term mentality too, but that is a different but related matter.
And the problem is that Microsoft seems bent on new browser releases every 2 years.
From Win2000 at least up to now, IE releases had been closely tied to Windows releases and usually was released soon before that Windows release, I think
This reminds me of an article I read on the Business Insider about how Zuckerberg tried to delay development and later try to hack HarvardConnection/ConnectU. One lesson is that the actual password of even failed password attempts can be sensitive.
On the matter of Apple floppies, remember the 400k/800k GCR floppy? The continued prominence of Mac Pluses was the biggest reason why they stuck for so long.
MS completely rewrote the Windows installer in Vista, which is now based on Windows PE and WIM, and along the way they added support for loading drivers from non-floppies.
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As a 17 years old that has been posting here and in other forums and blogs for years now and who don't smoke much pot or use torrents much anymore, I always have posted here non-anonymously using my real name partly because many of the problems with HR looking at personal lives deserves to be fixed properly. In fact, I have been writing on Reddit that "HR needs to get in the habit of directly responding to postings employees make in public instead of firing (whether positive or negative)" exactly to fix one of the problems. And the merge of personal and professional life isn't always a bad thing.
While we're doing that for the Supreme Court, maybe we should also do it for other random jobs. It's idiotic to check every Facebook a job candidate has ever made to see if they've failed to toe the line at all times.
Yea, I posted in this Reddit thread that "What's even worse, BTW, is being not hired over posts criticising a previous employer. That needs to be fixed too.": http://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/c4ds1/hr_needs_to_get_in_the_habit_of_directly/c0q3sos
Yep, it is not the legacy PR age that is based on a broadcasting a message perfectly anymore.
It would be more interesting if rms@gnu.org was added to the CC list.
I know, I read all about it. The best solution of course would be to fix the government, but it is not that easy. It will be worth it though.
Then, HR, comes along, and sifts through these same social networks looking for activities that are not in line with Company Policy, and start terminations of users doing things within these same networks on their own time.
Yea, I remember Whole Foods doing this and I even remember a Slashdot article about Social Sentry. I commented on that article that in most such cases, it is better for HR to do a direct response instead. It would be cool for HR to publicly directly respond to complaints by employees on Twitter, for example, and even address some of them.
Well, does the PATRIOT Act really have requirements to retain any user data?
Disclaimer: This management method looks like it would be a bitch to scale.
Why?
Reminds me of these links I wrote: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1599322&cid=31666902 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1599322&cid=31667190 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1599322&cid=31667550 http://www.reddit.com/r/Employment/comments/blja3/hr_needs_to_get_in_the_habit_of_directly/ http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/bl2jn/i_work_at_google_hence_posting_as_ac_was_posting/
And while the use of Netscape 4 on the web is so rare nowadays that it is unlikely that the .PFR files needed to do font embedding with it are going to be supplied nowadays, IE8 and older is still a common enough browser that the EOT files are supplied along the .ttf and WOFF files.
Actually, I have read that EOT was supported from IE 4.
Interestingly, if the interests of their shareholders conflict with the interests of the US, they are legally supposed to go with the shareholder's interest.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1632198&cid=31994338
Also, both Java and Flash have JITs, and these are not easy to port to 64-bit because all of the differences between 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86_64 assembly/object code has to be accounted for.
Economies of scale are largely a lie beyond a nominal size
Agreed, but this don't mean that fixed limits of size of corporations are a good idea. Agreed with you on monopolies, though. If they turned to be harmful in someway, they can and should be broken up.
Yea, I know: http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/how-to-fix-executive-pay/2009/07/scrap-stock-based-compensation.html
Looks like an arm's race. Anyone have any solutions to suggest to Facebook?
They are known to not only make decisions like this but their stockholders often require it with threat of litigation.
Really? Any evidence of this actually happening?
Reminds me of these links (but that is another mess altogether): http://www.reddit.com/r/Employment/comments/blja3/hr_needs_to_get_in_the_habit_of_directly/ http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/bl2jn/i_work_at_google_hence_posting_as_ac_was_posting/
But do they care? No -- they bill it back to the business side, while they collect bonuses year to year about how great a job they did that ONE year. It's not about ROI, it's about one year results that you can pin a medal to.
There is something wrong with that short-term mentality too, but that is a different but related matter.
And the problem is that Microsoft seems bent on new browser releases every 2 years.
From Win2000 at least up to now, IE releases had been closely tied to Windows releases and usually was released soon before that Windows release, I think
That means he is all about impressing the board and increasing stock value.
And there is something wrong with that, but that is getting off-topic.
This reminds me of an article I read on the Business Insider about how Zuckerberg tried to delay development and later try to hack HarvardConnection/ConnectU. One lesson is that the actual password of even failed password attempts can be sensitive.
On the matter of Apple floppies, remember the 400k/800k GCR floppy? The continued prominence of Mac Pluses was the biggest reason why they stuck for so long.
Actually, XP was not new by 2003. But Server 2003 was. And it took until 2004 before AHCI was created, too late for both.
MS completely rewrote the Windows installer in Vista, which is now based on Windows PE and WIM, and along the way they added support for loading drivers from non-floppies.