On average, it still takes me five times longer to type up a page of mathematics than to simply write it down with a pen. If there is so much as a single image, this extends to fifteen to twenty times longer -- literally.
May I recommend the Notability iPad app and a good capacitive stylus?
Or the PC equivalent.... MS OneNote and a touchscreen laptop or Wacom cintiq/Pen tablet to plugin to the laptop.
If the management operate like that, then they're obviously idiots, because the folks putting in the 16-hour days are the bugs, as well as the bug generators.
Would you feel better if I said that startup dev teams may often do something like a 12 hour coding sprint starting at 3pm, followed by 13 hours of sleep and 1 hour meal/meeting, followed by 12 more hours of coding starting at 5pm,... for 3 days in a row, followed by a half day ?
Because google top ranks those pages a lot, and it's made it a very inefficient way to find information.
I agree; personally I think Google should have a database of paywalled domains and hide those pages by default Offering a link to 'show paywalled' sites., but otherwise hiding those results (unless they pay to be listed in the little text ads / sponsored search result panel above the normal results).
Have you ever had an underwater mortgage, a family member with health problems, or a huge pile of school debt? It is amazing how quickly free will can disappear
WAIT. You say you have an underwater mortgage, a family member with health problems, a huge pile of debt, AND you're saying it's the JOB that would make a slave out of you?
*NEWS FLASH* The job does not make you the slave; it's that other stuff that has deprived you of financial freedom. You choose to take the job.
There are other possible ways of resolving those problems -- such as filing for bankruptcy, requesting loan forgiveness, fleeing the country.
There are lots of people who don't have those problems but still take on tough jobs, whether for the thrill, excitement, engagement, or potential rewards.
The battle to make users remember arbitrary characters isn't just foolish, it's insecure.
Which is not what this is about. The article is about varying the password expiration by whatever password grading system you have chosen
Without advocating a specific grading system.
But there are some pretty decent grading systems that use a graph-based approach to calculate an approximation of time to crack, based on application of different cracking techniques to different substrings within the password.
For example: for 3 common words strung together.
You count the number of words in all the dictionaries that each word shows up in,
and you figure time to crack for that substring as n/2; for each word, where n is the size of the smallest of the cracking reference dictionaries containing that word, and multiply those times together for the words strung together.
For common variants such as leet substitution, applying a misspelling, appending a digit, prepending a symbol,
changing a case....
Of course, then, the approximate effect on crack time of all these things can be calculated.
Appending a digit multiplies it by 10.0. Prepending a symbol multiplies it by 6.0.
Alternating the case of some letters multiplies the strength of that word by 2.0
Performing leet-speek substitution multiplies the strength of that word by 1.05
Applying a misspelling, single letter substitution, or transposition to a word multiplies time to crack that word by 26.0, etc.
That's called cloaking, and search engines severely penalize cloakers as they become aware of them.
I see 'cloaking' like things all the time; where the real page comes up with a paywall if you try to access, and it is essentially never really penalized when done by the legitimate websites, so you're observation doesn't quite match reality.
Also it's technically not cloaking if the page content when viewed by a user (without alterations by 3rd party software such as bug blockers or Greasemonkey scripts) matches what the search engine sees.
However, the problem with these types of tools is they frequently break some type of (needed) functionality on the site.
I imagine if any plugin gets/really/ popular, the tracking bugs will get modified so they work again,
OR publishers/advertisers may start modifying their content to include tests to ensure the health of the
tracking bug, before allowing the visitor to view content.
Maybe you just get half a sheet of text, or the first 1.3 windowfuls, then the site will pick up on the tracking
bug being broken, and stop rendering content -- while displaying an error about the need to disable such
and such plugin to use the site, or waiting until "countermeasure against tracker bug blocking" succeeds.
No. A slave is someone who is legally forced to work against their will, in a job they are not allowed to quit.
Someone working for a startup under an arrangement requiring super-human time commitment had the free will
to choose to do this, and, it is within their legal authority to back out, too.
They've all been pretty reasonable when it comes to work-life balance. Maybe I'm just lucky?
Some startups are, some startups are not.
Employers don't disfavor work-life balance, BUT startups need and expect real commitment from their employees.
I'm not saying you're likely to get fired, for having a life --- but in the long run, your younger teammates are going to look like harder workers to management more deserving of promotions and bonuses.
If you happen to be in a startup team and observe strict 9-5 while never or hardly ever missing dinner at 6pm with your family, where your co-workers ARE putting in 16-hour days occasionally, chances are pretty good, that
(1) Your work-life time balance is actually tilted away from work (as far as employer is concerned), and/or
(2) You are giving up major potential opportunities, and maybe the whole point -- excitement and financial reward
for taking the risk to work for a startup -- possibly, your employer eventually won't look very well on you,
after seeing that your co-workers are more dedicated and you have drifted to the bottom 30% in terms of their
estimate of productivity and number of hours put in.
This could result in you being among the first to go, the moment the project is done or the startup needs to let go of any developers.
Being approached by someone "fully armed with jackets" is not reason to claim self-defence
Someone seen setting foot on your property with jackets and gun in hand, is plenty of reason to shoot immediately,
before they get their shot in, as the intention is obvious.
The only reason for anyone to carry a gun up to my front door is to threaten my life.
Now if they are seen carrying clear markings showing that they are police, and their weapons are holstered, and those markings are believable, then it's not self-defense, because it is routine for the police to be dressed in that manner.
But if I don't believe they are actually police, and they act in a manner that shows they intend to threaten my life,
then shooting them will be self-defense.
Same as if you are at my door, with a jacket on and weapons brandished.
Maybe you should just do your work instead of trying to co-exist with younger people raising hell. If these activities you mentioned are part of the company requirements then the company isn't focused on success
Right.... a successful startup is your team is sitting at computers long hours coding.
What's more likely going to be a problem for the author is not the outside-of-work activities but this:
I need to be home with my family for dinner most nights and weekends and so on.
This is kind of incompatible with doing all the extra work that coders are often expected to put in, when working in a startup.
It's not unusual for software developers to be expected to work 16 hour days or odd hours in the weeks before release.
Receiving appropriate compensation and equity and being successful in the company may be contingent on spending long hours at work, which can be incompatible with "dinner with family" at normal dinnertime, anyways.
Under the current public duty doctrine (duty to all, duty to no-one);
failure to act is not an actionable offense
Courts typically find that no duty has been established and deny recovery for “injuries caused by the failure of police personnel to respond to requests for assistance, the failure to investigate properly, or the failure to investigate at all, where the police had not induced reliance on a promise, express or implied, that they would provide protection.”16For example, a plaintiff was unable to establish a duty on behalf of police when police failed to respond to a plea for assistance forty-five minutes before a homicide.17
The insurance company loses the cost of an iPhone, and bumps up your premium in response.
What we need is mandatory coverage "of additional risk cost" for future insurance, to be considered part of the loss,
by the state.
So that as long as the insurance was in force at the time of theft, the insurance company has to
also pay for any increase in the premiums required to maintain ongoing insurance attributable to
increased loss risk estimation due to the theft.
(Insurance against insurance rate jacking)
If the ad agencies don't believe that to be the will of the users, they are deluding themselves. Nobody likes to be stalked.
The ad agencies are unwilling to accept the will of the users until explicitly stated.
It's not merely about not tracking users who merely PREFER not to be tracked.
It's about not tracking users who SO STRONGLY reject tracking, that the user is willing to explicitly
go through extra work to OPT OUT or state their preference.
Anything that has been relaxed to a default state: advertisers will not be willing to honor.
They are paying for all this, by the way --- without advertisers, much of the internet would implode.
Microsoft conducted and published research that showed that more than 80% of users wanted this on. So having it as a default is honoring the wish of an overwhelming majority of users.
It DOESNT matter what 80% of users wanted.
This was not a negotiation.
Advertisers were not and are NOT willing to accept no tracking as a default.
They will use ANY and all means at their disposal to circumvent any implementation of "no tracking as a default"
essentially blaming them after she behaved rudely to her family and friends
No. Her family and friends behaved rudely and violated her trust in failing to respect her
decision that the information is not to be posted on social networks.
they don't want your purchase data to get mixed up
How about we start a new fun website then.... Discount card exchange
The idea is, you signup with the site, and every few weeks, you swap your discount cards with complete strangers.
You get 50 people to stick their discount cards in a big lotto ball style shuffling contraption.
And you each pull one out, so nobody is likely to wind up with the same card they put in.
Then in fact... the stores are guaranteed to get the purchase histories mixed up.
It sounds like a perfectly reasonable requirement to me. Having a Ph.D. doesn't qualify you to be a plumber or auto mechanic, so what makes you think it qualifies you to be a teacher?
It's more like you're an Electrical engineering graduate, and a potential employer need some diagrams to be made of potential electrical circuits, BUT they (rejecting your qualifications), insist that only someone with an art/sketching degree is qualified to to put together electric circuit diagrams for their projects.
Because you have deep knowledge of science or engineering or mathematics or the subject matter, and teaching is a basic skill: just like speaking in public is a basic skill, and an expert in the subject is the most able to provide in depth guidance and genuine learning about the subject.
The education major who has rudimentary knowledge of math themselves --- trying to teach high school Calculus, perhaps, will not be able to answer student questions or encourage/facilitate/promote any learning that goes outside the teacher's very narrow box, of the teacher's own study of the subject matter.
If someone is going to teach Biology, I would take the guy who has a P.H.D. in biology, and the proper enthusiasm and skills, over the guy who doesn't have a clue about the subject, but just took courses to learn how to teach.
You don't need a 4 year degree in Public Speaking, to be allowed to speak at a conference.
You don't need a 4 year degree in Education, to know how to teach, and you will probably do a better
job, since you actually know extremely well, the field that the subject matter you will be teaching is in.
I prefer QUALIFIED experts in the field they will teach about, FILTERED to include only people who are subjectively good at teaching.
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On average, it still takes me five times longer to type up a page of mathematics than to simply write it down with a pen. If there is so much as a single image, this extends to fifteen to twenty times longer -- literally.
May I recommend the Notability iPad app and a good capacitive stylus?
Or the PC equivalent.... MS OneNote and a touchscreen laptop or Wacom cintiq/Pen tablet to plugin to the laptop.
What if a university did mandatory recording of every lecture and posted them online?
Can't post them online without permission from the presentor, due to their copyright.
Some professors have even gone so far as to force students to turn in all their notes at the end of the semester, for destruction, and file lawsuits against professional notetakers.
ather then trying to write legible notes so I could read then later.
It's a pointless nitpick though. You know what the author meant to write.
If the management operate like that, then they're obviously idiots, because the folks putting in the 16-hour days are the bugs, as well as the bug generators.
Would you feel better if I said that startup dev teams may often do something like a 12 hour coding sprint starting at 3pm, followed by 13 hours of sleep and 1 hour meal/meeting, followed by 12 more hours of coding starting at 5pm, ... for 3 days in a row, followed by a half day ?
Because google top ranks those pages a lot, and it's made it a very inefficient way to find information.
I agree; personally I think Google should have a database of paywalled domains and hide those pages by default Offering a link to 'show paywalled' sites., but otherwise hiding those results (unless they pay to be listed in the little text ads / sponsored search result panel above the normal results).
Have you ever had an underwater mortgage, a family member with health problems, or a huge pile of school debt? It is amazing how quickly free will can disappear
WAIT. You say you have an underwater mortgage, a family member with health problems, a huge pile of debt, AND you're saying it's the JOB that would make a slave out of you?
*NEWS FLASH* The job does not make you the slave; it's that other stuff that has deprived you of financial freedom. You choose to take the job.
There are other possible ways of resolving those problems -- such as filing for bankruptcy, requesting loan forgiveness, fleeing the country.
There are lots of people who don't have those problems but still take on tough jobs, whether for the thrill, excitement, engagement, or potential rewards.
The battle to make users remember arbitrary characters isn't just foolish, it's insecure.
Which is not what this is about. The article is about varying the password expiration by whatever password grading system you have chosen
Without advocating a specific grading system.
But there are some pretty decent grading systems that use a graph-based approach to calculate an approximation of time to crack, based on application of different cracking techniques to different substrings within the password.
For example: for 3 common words strung together. You count the number of words in all the dictionaries that each word shows up in, and you figure time to crack for that substring as n/2; for each word, where n is the size of the smallest of the cracking reference dictionaries containing that word, and multiply those times together for the words strung together.
For common variants such as leet substitution, applying a misspelling, appending a digit, prepending a symbol, changing a case....
Of course, then, the approximate effect on crack time of all these things can be calculated.
Appending a digit multiplies it by 10.0. Prepending a symbol multiplies it by 6.0. Alternating the case of some letters multiplies the strength of that word by 2.0
Performing leet-speek substitution multiplies the strength of that word by 1.05
Applying a misspelling, single letter substitution, or transposition to a word multiplies time to crack that word by 26.0, etc.
That's called cloaking, and search engines severely penalize cloakers as they become aware of them.
I see 'cloaking' like things all the time; where the real page comes up with a paywall if you try to access, and it is essentially never really penalized when done by the legitimate websites, so you're observation doesn't quite match reality.
Also it's technically not cloaking if the page content when viewed by a user (without alterations by 3rd party software such as bug blockers or Greasemonkey scripts) matches what the search engine sees.
then it will deliver only the abstract to search engines. They tend to retrieve pages with no JavaScript, no Referer, and no cookies.
The IP address ranges that search engines crawl from are well known, and they can easily backdoor their countermeasures for search engines alone.
Also, if I recall correctly; Google actually runs javascript.
I'm sure any countermeasure will be designed so the major search engines can index their content
However, the problem with these types of tools is they frequently break some type of (needed) functionality on the site.
I imagine if any plugin gets /really/ popular, the tracking bugs will get modified so they work again,
OR publishers/advertisers may start modifying their content to include tests to ensure the health of the
tracking bug, before allowing the visitor to view content.
Maybe you just get half a sheet of text, or the first 1.3 windowfuls, then the site will pick up on the tracking bug being broken, and stop rendering content -- while displaying an error about the need to disable such and such plugin to use the site, or waiting until "countermeasure against tracker bug blocking" succeeds.
Your master has taught you well, slave.
No. A slave is someone who is legally forced to work against their will, in a job they are not allowed to quit.
Someone working for a startup under an arrangement requiring super-human time commitment had the free will to choose to do this, and, it is within their legal authority to back out, too.
300 employees is not a startup IMO. new or small company sure, but not a startup.
Yeah... for sure 300 employees is not a startup, unless this is like a "startup big box retailer", or something.
They've all been pretty reasonable when it comes to work-life balance. Maybe I'm just lucky?
Some startups are, some startups are not.
Employers don't disfavor work-life balance, BUT startups need and expect real commitment from their employees. I'm not saying you're likely to get fired, for having a life --- but in the long run, your younger teammates are going to look like harder workers to management more deserving of promotions and bonuses.
If you happen to be in a startup team and observe strict 9-5 while never or hardly ever missing dinner at 6pm with your family, where your co-workers ARE putting in 16-hour days occasionally, chances are pretty good, that (1) Your work-life time balance is actually tilted away from work (as far as employer is concerned), and/or (2) You are giving up major potential opportunities, and maybe the whole point -- excitement and financial reward for taking the risk to work for a startup -- possibly, your employer eventually won't look very well on you, after seeing that your co-workers are more dedicated and you have drifted to the bottom 30% in terms of their estimate of productivity and number of hours put in.
This could result in you being among the first to go, the moment the project is done or the startup needs to let go of any developers.
Being approached by someone "fully armed with jackets" is not reason to claim self-defence
Someone seen setting foot on your property with jackets and gun in hand, is plenty of reason to shoot immediately, before they get their shot in, as the intention is obvious.
The only reason for anyone to carry a gun up to my front door is to threaten my life.
Now if they are seen carrying clear markings showing that they are police, and their weapons are holstered, and those markings are believable, then it's not self-defense, because it is routine for the police to be dressed in that manner.
But if I don't believe they are actually police, and they act in a manner that shows they intend to threaten my life, then shooting them will be self-defense.
Same as if you are at my door, with a jacket on and weapons brandished.
Maybe you should just do your work instead of trying to co-exist with younger people raising hell. If these activities you mentioned are part of the company requirements then the company isn't focused on success
Right.... a successful startup is your team is sitting at computers long hours coding. What's more likely going to be a problem for the author is not the outside-of-work activities but this:
I need to be home with my family for dinner most nights and weekends and so on.
This is kind of incompatible with doing all the extra work that coders are often expected to put in, when working in a startup.
It's not unusual for software developers to be expected to work 16 hour days or odd hours in the weeks before release.
Receiving appropriate compensation and equity and being successful in the company may be contingent on spending long hours at work, which can be incompatible with "dinner with family" at normal dinnertime, anyways.
Under the current public duty doctrine (duty to all, duty to no-one); failure to act is not an actionable offense
I have have guns, and Backup and a radio and my "Jacket" is rated higher than most PD's are.
You're not the recipient of that particular statement.
In case you went to recover an iphone dressed up with a jacket, and guns blazing...
The police would be interested in that alright, and as unfair as it would seem... you would be their target.
The perp could also use their own gun and possibly claim self-defense, after seeing a citizen approaching their property fully armed with jackets.
If you're lucky, they might even pull up your dental records to conclusively ID your remains.
Wishful thinking i'm afraid.
The remains will never be found in the tomb beneath the perp's basement.
The insurance company loses the cost of an iPhone, and bumps up your premium in response.
What we need is mandatory coverage "of additional risk cost" for future insurance, to be considered part of the loss, by the state.
So that as long as the insurance was in force at the time of theft, the insurance company has to also pay for any increase in the premiums required to maintain ongoing insurance attributable to increased loss risk estimation due to the theft. (Insurance against insurance rate jacking)
They don't seem to have any issues with setting speed traps and handing out seatbelt tickets.
Because there is more manpower hired to do road patrol than to do theft recovery.
Also, giving out tickets generates more revenue for the locality, and allocation of officer manpower is all about the $$$.
If the ad agencies don't believe that to be the will of the users, they are deluding themselves. Nobody likes to be stalked.
The ad agencies are unwilling to accept the will of the users until explicitly stated.
It's not merely about not tracking users who merely PREFER not to be tracked.
It's about not tracking users who SO STRONGLY reject tracking, that the user is willing to explicitly go through extra work to OPT OUT or state their preference.
Anything that has been relaxed to a default state: advertisers will not be willing to honor.
They are paying for all this, by the way --- without advertisers, much of the internet would implode.
Microsoft conducted and published research that showed that more than 80% of users wanted this on. So having it as a default is honoring the wish of an overwhelming majority of users.
It DOESNT matter what 80% of users wanted.
This was not a negotiation.
Advertisers were not and are NOT willing to accept no tracking as a default.
They will use ANY and all means at their disposal to circumvent any implementation of "no tracking as a default"
essentially blaming them after she behaved rudely to her family and friends
No. Her family and friends behaved rudely and violated her trust in failing to respect her decision that the information is not to be posted on social networks.
they don't want your purchase data to get mixed up
How about we start a new fun website then.... Discount card exchange
The idea is, you signup with the site, and every few weeks, you swap your discount cards with complete strangers.
You get 50 people to stick their discount cards in a big lotto ball style shuffling contraption. And you each pull one out, so nobody is likely to wind up with the same card they put in.
Then in fact... the stores are guaranteed to get the purchase histories mixed up.
It sounds like a perfectly reasonable requirement to me. Having a Ph.D. doesn't qualify you to be a plumber or auto mechanic, so what makes you think it qualifies you to be a teacher?
It's more like you're an Electrical engineering graduate, and a potential employer need some diagrams to be made of potential electrical circuits, BUT they (rejecting your qualifications), insist that only someone with an art/sketching degree is qualified to to put together electric circuit diagrams for their projects.
Because you have deep knowledge of science or engineering or mathematics or the subject matter, and teaching is a basic skill: just like speaking in public is a basic skill, and an expert in the subject is the most able to provide in depth guidance and genuine learning about the subject.
The education major who has rudimentary knowledge of math themselves --- trying to teach high school Calculus, perhaps, will not be able to answer student questions or encourage/facilitate/promote any learning that goes outside the teacher's very narrow box, of the teacher's own study of the subject matter.
If someone is going to teach Biology, I would take the guy who has a P.H.D. in biology, and the proper enthusiasm and skills, over the guy who doesn't have a clue about the subject, but just took courses to learn how to teach.
You don't need a 4 year degree in Public Speaking, to be allowed to speak at a conference.
You don't need a 4 year degree in Education, to know how to teach, and you will probably do a better job, since you actually know extremely well, the field that the subject matter you will be teaching is in.
I prefer QUALIFIED experts in the field they will teach about, FILTERED to include only people who are subjectively good at teaching.