In countries where the loser pays the legal fees, the person with more money is never taken to court because suing will bankrupt the little guy if he loses. I'm not going to sue for my $500 loss if I have a 10% chance of losing and he'll spend 30k defending himself. Loser pays means that poor and middle class can't seek justice at all.
The exact same comment was made for TV, the car, the locomotive, and the music of Beethoven. I wouldn't be surprised if it was made for math and the written language as well. We somehow all survived.
Your chosen company? No, people will still own their own cars. Nobody wants to give up the MUCH higher convenience level of that. As such you'll still have all the same problems.
Yes, you are a privlidged fuck. You were lucky- your life and your career allowed you to do that. Not everyone can. Sometimes the money you can make by moving to where jobs are is enough to make the difference between your family eating or not.
Or sometimes you love someone but the better life for you is elsewhere. If they love you too they understand that and urge you to go. Congratulations for your luck at life that it wasn't the case for you, but understand that you are the exception, not the rule.
What planet do you come from? I've never even heard of an unpaid internship in programming. Hell the interns make better money than juniors in some companies- they work fewer hours and generally have housing paid for in addition to almost as much cash.
Here's one. It basically says that opinions set in the late teens/early 20s, and that voter generations tend to vote together. Feelings for the president when you turned 18 matter more than age. People disliked nixon, so people in that generation vote democratic. People liked FDR, so they do as well. People liked Eisenhower, so that group votes R.
You have far more faith in GPS than you should- its not unusual for it to be off by 10s of meters in a cell phone unit. Not that it really helps all that much- great I know he's one of the dozens of parked cars on this block. Its still going to take me a minute or two to find him. I was ok with the 5 minutes, but its not unusual to take more than 2 to find the car. Even if I know he's there I'll spend 30-60 seconds trying to find it myself, then call him, then spend 30 seconds listening to his description of where he is, then try to find him again. I'd say that half of my ubers I don't find within 2 minutes. Especially if I'm doing something totally insane, like waiting in the lobby of a building due to rain.
Yeah, this is a horrible policy and enough to make me use Lyft or call a taxi instead.
Actually studies find that most people don't make significant changes in their politics from their youthful opinions. They may move on singular issues, but they don't go from liberal to conservative. What you do see is the definition of liberal and conservative changing to reflect the changed policies- someone who was a social liberal 30 years ago could now be called conservative even if he didn't change his opinion on a single issue, because the liberals have won most of the long term social issues.
I'll definitely agree on #1 and 2. On #3- that's the goal. It doesn't matter how much a republican can run up the vote in Alabama, he has to be able to attract support in purple or blue states. This is not just to try and win them during the general, but to draw supporters in to vote for downticket races they can win. If you don't give population based delegation you end up becoming a regional party only. In fact the republicans already do favor the very republican states- states get extra delegates for republican governors, senators, house representation, and state legislatures being republican.
As for #4- Iowa has a lot to improve on, but the coin flips weren't the problem. They were a fair tie breaker. The problem is the caucus system rather than a pure vote system.
#6 is a terrible idea. Do you know how much money it would cost to campaign nationwide for a single day's vote? Basically you'd eliminate the possibility of an unknown candidate to build a campaign. Now a better system might be to have 5 or so election days equally spread rotating so different states go first each election, rather than making Iowa and New Hampshire so important.
Have you ever actually used an uber? Try doing it on a crowded street or by a hotel. It can take more than 2 minutes to find the damn car, its not like they're easily marked taxis. I've had ubers go more than 5 minutes late because they decided to park in the lot across the street, how the fuck was I supposed to know that?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. For example in a chat app you can generally type a special command to send money or buy things. If you're really interested, WeChat by Tencent is one of the most popular, see how it does things.
I don't disagree with you, but that's not how the asian market has developed. And there's definite desire by big US corps to move in that direction- look at how facebook now has a payment option. We'll see how it goes.
Actually in Asia its very common to have a single super app rather than a dozen. One app will be your messaging, shopping, mobile pay, taxi hailer, etc. THey go in for all-in-one over there. So far the US and EU haven't followed suit.
That price is likely too high, but yes they could. They don't want to though- they want to leverage their monopoly in the Android app store category to monopoly on mapping and other apps (although their maps app is actually more than good enough to stand on its own, their email apps suck).
You actually could write your own app store- the difficulty is getting devs to use it.
Probably. I did early webservices at Amazon in 2005. At the time they had amazing tools for the industry. These days the generally available ones put those tools to shame. The problem is that someone has to solve the problems a first time, then a second time, then a third time to see what the shape of a generic solution might be. And since these are competitive advantages (and since they're usually customized to a particular company) they don't get open sourced very fast. So expect progress, but its the type where things will get better over a long period of time.
Also recognize that scale problems differ by magnitude- the problems facebook has are far different from the problems linkedin has. The correct answer on one scale is not necessarily the correct one on the next- in fact it may become the bottleneck.
Tons. I was replying to the "why do you need thousands of people to run a website" part. Fuck, intel has factories- that alone is hundreds to low thousands per factory. Of course intel has 10x the number of people linkedin has, because they need 10x.
1)Scale. Scale is hard. Its not a solved problem. It takes a lot of people to make things run at scale.
2)You only see the tip of the iceberg. The algorithms for advertising, selecting what stories get shown, etc are 10x the size of code you see on the website.
3)Non-engineering. Want to monetize that website? You need salesmen, marketers, and the support staff to provide software, HR services, etc for all of them.
4)Speed. While you can't speed up small projects by adding more people, you can work on two projects at once by adding more. That's what they're trying to do. A team of one could write everything, given a few centuries. If you want it all delivered in a year, that takes people.
Not quite true. I bought a mid-line PC in 2012. I replaced it 2 weeks ago with a high end laptop. The PC had an i3, 8 GB ram, and 1 TB raid magnetic disks. The new one has an i7, 64GB ram, and a 1TB SSD. It is screaming fast. Loading games and apps takes under 10% of the time it did on the 4 year old PC.
Now the 4 year old was still usable. But it was by no means a good experience. Anyone who uses the PC for work will make up the cost of a desktop in productivity in a few months easily. Now if you just use it to surf the web and write an email a few times a week, yeah the old one is good enough.
SF is much more expensive. I've lived both places in the last 5 years. In Seattle I owned a condo just north of downtown- a 2 bedroom 1100 sq foot one that rented for 1900 a month. In SF a 1 bedroom goes for 3500-4000. a 2 bedroom would be beyond 4k.
FB doesn't. As long as we weren't saying "As an FB employee, blah" they didn't care what we posted, and we were encouraged to use their software heavily (they believe in dogfooding). Now if you tried to make it sound like you were speaking as Facebook, that was a problem. And if you were an executive you probably had some more scrutiny. But as an engineer, you were allowed to use your profile as normal. (Normal caveats apply- if you posted a racist rant that got national newspaper coverage you'd probably be fired for image reasons, but that's true anywhere).
Having worked at Facebook- there's H1Bs there, but pay isn't a problem at FB. In fact they were one of the few large companies not caught up in the wage fixing lawsuits. They had no problem paying me a ridiculous amount of money in equity. The company has issues, but pay isn't one of them.
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In countries where the loser pays the legal fees, the person with more money is never taken to court because suing will bankrupt the little guy if he loses. I'm not going to sue for my $500 loss if I have a 10% chance of losing and he'll spend 30k defending himself. Loser pays means that poor and middle class can't seek justice at all.
Then you've never worked on anything non trivial. Most likely because you aren't good enough to be trusted with it.
The exact same comment was made for TV, the car, the locomotive, and the music of Beethoven. I wouldn't be surprised if it was made for math and the written language as well. We somehow all survived.
Your chosen company? No, people will still own their own cars. Nobody wants to give up the MUCH higher convenience level of that. As such you'll still have all the same problems.
Yes, you are a privlidged fuck. You were lucky- your life and your career allowed you to do that. Not everyone can. Sometimes the money you can make by moving to where jobs are is enough to make the difference between your family eating or not.
Or sometimes you love someone but the better life for you is elsewhere. If they love you too they understand that and urge you to go. Congratulations for your luck at life that it wasn't the case for you, but understand that you are the exception, not the rule.
What planet do you come from? I've never even heard of an unpaid internship in programming. Hell the interns make better money than juniors in some companies- they work fewer hours and generally have housing paid for in addition to almost as much cash.
Here's one. It basically says that opinions set in the late teens/early 20s, and that voter generations tend to vote together. Feelings for the president when you turned 18 matter more than age. People disliked nixon, so people in that generation vote democratic. People liked FDR, so they do as well. People liked Eisenhower, so that group votes R.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
Nope, I addressed it. The number of times I've found my Uber in under 2 minutes can be counted on one hand- and I've used it dozens of times.
You have far more faith in GPS than you should- its not unusual for it to be off by 10s of meters in a cell phone unit. Not that it really helps all that much- great I know he's one of the dozens of parked cars on this block. Its still going to take me a minute or two to find him. I was ok with the 5 minutes, but its not unusual to take more than 2 to find the car. Even if I know he's there I'll spend 30-60 seconds trying to find it myself, then call him, then spend 30 seconds listening to his description of where he is, then try to find him again. I'd say that half of my ubers I don't find within 2 minutes. Especially if I'm doing something totally insane, like waiting in the lobby of a building due to rain.
Yeah, this is a horrible policy and enough to make me use Lyft or call a taxi instead.
Actually studies find that most people don't make significant changes in their politics from their youthful opinions. They may move on singular issues, but they don't go from liberal to conservative. What you do see is the definition of liberal and conservative changing to reflect the changed policies- someone who was a social liberal 30 years ago could now be called conservative even if he didn't change his opinion on a single issue, because the liberals have won most of the long term social issues.
I'll definitely agree on #1 and 2. On #3- that's the goal. It doesn't matter how much a republican can run up the vote in Alabama, he has to be able to attract support in purple or blue states. This is not just to try and win them during the general, but to draw supporters in to vote for downticket races they can win. If you don't give population based delegation you end up becoming a regional party only. In fact the republicans already do favor the very republican states- states get extra delegates for republican governors, senators, house representation, and state legislatures being republican.
As for #4- Iowa has a lot to improve on, but the coin flips weren't the problem. They were a fair tie breaker. The problem is the caucus system rather than a pure vote system.
#6 is a terrible idea. Do you know how much money it would cost to campaign nationwide for a single day's vote? Basically you'd eliminate the possibility of an unknown candidate to build a campaign. Now a better system might be to have 5 or so election days equally spread rotating so different states go first each election, rather than making Iowa and New Hampshire so important.
Have you ever actually used an uber? Try doing it on a crowded street or by a hotel. It can take more than 2 minutes to find the damn car, its not like they're easily marked taxis. I've had ubers go more than 5 minutes late because they decided to park in the lot across the street, how the fuck was I supposed to know that?
I remember when live photos were called video.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. For example in a chat app you can generally type a special command to send money or buy things. If you're really interested, WeChat by Tencent is one of the most popular, see how it does things.
I don't disagree with you, but that's not how the asian market has developed. And there's definite desire by big US corps to move in that direction- look at how facebook now has a payment option. We'll see how it goes.
Actually in Asia its very common to have a single super app rather than a dozen. One app will be your messaging, shopping, mobile pay, taxi hailer, etc. THey go in for all-in-one over there. So far the US and EU haven't followed suit.
That price is likely too high, but yes they could. They don't want to though- they want to leverage their monopoly in the Android app store category to monopoly on mapping and other apps (although their maps app is actually more than good enough to stand on its own, their email apps suck).
You actually could write your own app store- the difficulty is getting devs to use it.
Probably. I did early webservices at Amazon in 2005. At the time they had amazing tools for the industry. These days the generally available ones put those tools to shame. The problem is that someone has to solve the problems a first time, then a second time, then a third time to see what the shape of a generic solution might be. And since these are competitive advantages (and since they're usually customized to a particular company) they don't get open sourced very fast. So expect progress, but its the type where things will get better over a long period of time.
Also recognize that scale problems differ by magnitude- the problems facebook has are far different from the problems linkedin has. The correct answer on one scale is not necessarily the correct one on the next- in fact it may become the bottleneck.
Tons. I was replying to the "why do you need thousands of people to run a website" part. Fuck, intel has factories- that alone is hundreds to low thousands per factory. Of course intel has 10x the number of people linkedin has, because they need 10x.
Four reasons
1)Scale. Scale is hard. Its not a solved problem. It takes a lot of people to make things run at scale.
2)You only see the tip of the iceberg. The algorithms for advertising, selecting what stories get shown, etc are 10x the size of code you see on the website.
3)Non-engineering. Want to monetize that website? You need salesmen, marketers, and the support staff to provide software, HR services, etc for all of them.
4)Speed. While you can't speed up small projects by adding more people, you can work on two projects at once by adding more. That's what they're trying to do. A team of one could write everything, given a few centuries. If you want it all delivered in a year, that takes people.
4 out of all but 1. None of his businesses have been a great success, most of them have failed. The only one that's worked really well is his TV show.
Not quite true. I bought a mid-line PC in 2012. I replaced it 2 weeks ago with a high end laptop. The PC had an i3, 8 GB ram, and 1 TB raid magnetic disks. The new one has an i7, 64GB ram, and a 1TB SSD. It is screaming fast. Loading games and apps takes under 10% of the time it did on the 4 year old PC.
Now the 4 year old was still usable. But it was by no means a good experience. Anyone who uses the PC for work will make up the cost of a desktop in productivity in a few months easily. Now if you just use it to surf the web and write an email a few times a week, yeah the old one is good enough.
SF is much more expensive. I've lived both places in the last 5 years. In Seattle I owned a condo just north of downtown- a 2 bedroom 1100 sq foot one that rented for 1900 a month. In SF a 1 bedroom goes for 3500-4000. a 2 bedroom would be beyond 4k.
FB doesn't. As long as we weren't saying "As an FB employee, blah" they didn't care what we posted, and we were encouraged to use their software heavily (they believe in dogfooding). Now if you tried to make it sound like you were speaking as Facebook, that was a problem. And if you were an executive you probably had some more scrutiny. But as an engineer, you were allowed to use your profile as normal. (Normal caveats apply- if you posted a racist rant that got national newspaper coverage you'd probably be fired for image reasons, but that's true anywhere).
Source: used to work there.
Having worked at Facebook- there's H1Bs there, but pay isn't a problem at FB. In fact they were one of the few large companies not caught up in the wage fixing lawsuits. They had no problem paying me a ridiculous amount of money in equity. The company has issues, but pay isn't one of them.