You don't *need* to give notice at all. I mean, you usually should, so as not to be a dick, but you are in no way legally compelled to give any notice of departure if you don't want to.
So, approximate it. You can come up with very, very good solutions to TSP in polynomial time - if this wasn't the case, routing mutli-billion transistor chips would be impossible.
A good engineer solves problems and ships products, a bad engineer claims that its impossible.
Where on earth did you get that idea? HP and IBM both have considerable facilities in Silicon Valley even though IBM has reduced somewhat and HP spun off Agilent.
My understanding of this situation is that Apple and Microsoft both hold a lot of multitouch IP and went around filing suit against all of the Android phone manufacturers. Microsoft believes that their IP is superior to that of Apple's and offered a low-cost licensing program that included indemnity against any lawsuits by Apple - that is, in HTC's case against Apple, in exchange for the licensing agreement, Microsoft is picking up the tab for the legal bills and will cover any settlement costs incurred by HTC.
For HTC, this is a no-brainer - its cheap legal insurance. For Microsoft, this is a low-risk, high-reward strategy, especially if other manufacturers take the same deal: MSFT gets cash on the barrelhead plus, if they win the Apple vs HTC/other manufacturer suits, they are in a much better position to go after Apple directly for violating their multitouch IP.
If you need to work more than 40 hours a week, you are neither high producing nor highly efficient. Just sayin'
Virtually every developer I have ever worked with that put in gobs of hours did so because they suck at it and were bottlenecking other people all the time.
Here's the real kicker: When someone falls off the end of their UI benefits (the so-called "99-ers"), they are no longer counted in the statistics of "unemployed".
That is not even remotely true. Why do people believe this lie?
Out of those things, I have never had iPhone upgrade blow away personal data and the iPhone4 has a removable battery (plus you can buy battery extenders that attach via the dock interface, which is fine if you really need more battery life)
The QWERTY keyboard is a ridiculous item - a good touchscreen keyboard is way better than tiny-chiclet-key physical keyboards after a month or two of practice.
I'll give you tethering, but that's a US carrier limitation, not an iPhone limitation per-se.
The other stuff is just a list of things that 99% of phone buyers don't care about. You can run a company catering to that 1% but not a company the size of Nokia.
On the plus side, they could get rid of the overhead from AMD's sales and marketing team because no other system integrator would ever buy an AMD or ATI product again.
This maybe would increase AMD's CPU share - all of Dell plus motherboards for homebrew systems is probably slightly bigger than AMD's current share of the CPU market - but the ATI part of AMD (you know, the profitable part) would lose almost every system design win they have since Apple, Lenovo, HP et. al. wouldn't exactly be keen on putting money directly in a competitor's pocket.
Its similar in the US, but the carriers are usually willing to upsell you after a year into the contract if you are willing to re-sign with them for another 24 months.
Having traveled extensively in Europe, I actually found people dress up much more there than in the US, at least in technical fields. Most engineers I would encounter at various customer sites in Europe would be wearing button down shirts, slacks, and nice shoes. In contrast, back in the US, I usually wear a hoodie, shorts and checkerboard Vans and many other engineers here dress similarly casually.
C (and increasingly C++) is the lingua franca of systems programming - you cannot live without it in the embedded or kernel-level world. Its entrenched, it works, and it functions quite nicely as a portable assembly language. Using anything else is as silly as speaking in esperanto.
Plus, American companies are shackled to the fact that they have to make a profit quarter per quarter, or shareholders can sue the company in the ground.
When has that ever happened? Real citations, from places other than your ass, please.
Ummm, dude - lay off the crack... Intel runs 66% (!!!) gross margins, 34% operating margins, and is by far the largest semiconductor company on earth, they aren't going anywhere.
Ummm - yeah, Budweiser sucks. Its also a foreign company (owned in Belgian InBev) as is Miller (owned by South African SAB).
The top three American breweries are currently Sam Adams, Yuengling and Sierra Nevada (and I think New Belgium is fourth). Absolutely nothing to be ashamed of there - all quite fine brews.
And at the very high end, it really isn't even close - many of the best beers in the world are made in the US. This list is mostly US brews, with a smattering of Belgian and German breweries in the mix. Or, as noted beer expert, Michael Jackson (The Beer Hunter, not the circus freak) put it: "The US has the world's best selection of beers and that's the truth."
HFT provides liquidity to the market and tightens the bid/ask spreads considerably allowing trades to happen very efficiently. In the era before HFT, market makers would screw you out of 1/8th of a dollar on every trade. Now the spread is a penny if it exists at all.
The value of stock is entirely unconnected to the value of a company
It is certainly not "entirely unconnected" - at some point, if the stock were to become cheap enough, somebody would purchase a controlling share to claim the company's products and income stream for themselves.
Also, under your hold for one month scheme, what happens to people who buy just before horrible news gets announced? They get screwed while people who bought one month + 1 day ago can sell?
The same goes for Apple, except I've got it straight through the grapevine. My friend's interview was precisely 0% about technical things and 100% about whether he was interesting to hang around.
What? I interviewed at Apple (input device group) and that was one of the hardest, longest, most technical interviews I have ever been through.
What was your friend interviewing for? I could definitely see, say, SWQA caring more about attitude than anything else.
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What was more galling, not only was I paying more living in CA
For piddly stuff (prepared food? really?), yeah, maybe. How much does a 1000 sq. ft. apartment go for in Tokyo, though?
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You don't *need* to give notice at all. I mean, you usually should, so as not to be a dick, but you are in no way legally compelled to give any notice of departure if you don't want to.
So, approximate it. You can come up with very, very good solutions to TSP in polynomial time - if this wasn't the case, routing mutli-billion transistor chips would be impossible.
A good engineer solves problems and ships products, a bad engineer claims that its impossible.
Where on earth did you get that idea? HP and IBM both have considerable facilities in Silicon Valley even though IBM has reduced somewhat and HP spun off Agilent.
My understanding of this situation is that Apple and Microsoft both hold a lot of multitouch IP and went around filing suit against all of the Android phone manufacturers. Microsoft believes that their IP is superior to that of Apple's and offered a low-cost licensing program that included indemnity against any lawsuits by Apple - that is, in HTC's case against Apple, in exchange for the licensing agreement, Microsoft is picking up the tab for the legal bills and will cover any settlement costs incurred by HTC.
For HTC, this is a no-brainer - its cheap legal insurance. For Microsoft, this is a low-risk, high-reward strategy, especially if other manufacturers take the same deal: MSFT gets cash on the barrelhead plus, if they win the Apple vs HTC/other manufacturer suits, they are in a much better position to go after Apple directly for violating their multitouch IP.
If you need to work more than 40 hours a week, you are neither high producing nor highly efficient. Just sayin'
Virtually every developer I have ever worked with that put in gobs of hours did so because they suck at it and were bottlenecking other people all the time.
Here's the real kicker: When someone falls off the end of their UI benefits (the so-called "99-ers"), they are no longer counted in the statistics of "unemployed".
That is not even remotely true. Why do people believe this lie?
Educate your dumb ass here.
Since when should people not get to choose their own career path?
Out of those things, I have never had iPhone upgrade blow away personal data and the iPhone4 has a removable battery (plus you can buy battery extenders that attach via the dock interface, which is fine if you really need more battery life)
The QWERTY keyboard is a ridiculous item - a good touchscreen keyboard is way better than tiny-chiclet-key physical keyboards after a month or two of practice.
I'll give you tethering, but that's a US carrier limitation, not an iPhone limitation per-se.
The other stuff is just a list of things that 99% of phone buyers don't care about. You can run a company catering to that 1% but not a company the size of Nokia.
Dude, Coca-Cola is worth $145B
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=KO&ql=1
So you value Google's future earnings at 0?
On the plus side, they could get rid of the overhead from AMD's sales and marketing team because no other system integrator would ever buy an AMD or ATI product again.
This maybe would increase AMD's CPU share - all of Dell plus motherboards for homebrew systems is probably slightly bigger than AMD's current share of the CPU market - but the ATI part of AMD (you know, the profitable part) would lose almost every system design win they have since Apple, Lenovo, HP et. al. wouldn't exactly be keen on putting money directly in a competitor's pocket.
Its similar in the US, but the carriers are usually willing to upsell you after a year into the contract if you are willing to re-sign with them for another 24 months.
Having traveled extensively in Europe, I actually found people dress up much more there than in the US, at least in technical fields. Most engineers I would encounter at various customer sites in Europe would be wearing button down shirts, slacks, and nice shoes. In contrast, back in the US, I usually wear a hoodie, shorts and checkerboard Vans and many other engineers here dress similarly casually.
So other countries put absurd tariffs on Corvettes and that's somehow Chevy's fault?
C (and increasingly C++) is the lingua franca of systems programming - you cannot live without it in the embedded or kernel-level world. Its entrenched, it works, and it functions quite nicely as a portable assembly language. Using anything else is as silly as speaking in esperanto.
Plus, American companies are shackled to the fact that they have to make a profit quarter per quarter, or shareholders can sue the company in the ground.
When has that ever happened? Real citations, from places other than your ass, please.
Ummm, dude - lay off the crack... Intel runs 66% (!!!) gross margins, 34% operating margins, and is by far the largest semiconductor company on earth, they aren't going anywhere.
Ummm - yeah, Budweiser sucks. Its also a foreign company (owned in Belgian InBev) as is Miller (owned by South African SAB).
The top three American breweries are currently Sam Adams, Yuengling and Sierra Nevada (and I think New Belgium is fourth). Absolutely nothing to be ashamed of there - all quite fine brews.
And at the very high end, it really isn't even close - many of the best beers in the world are made in the US. This list is mostly US brews, with a smattering of Belgian and German breweries in the mix. Or, as noted beer expert, Michael Jackson (The Beer Hunter, not the circus freak) put it: "The US has the world's best selection of beers and that's the truth."
HFT provides liquidity to the market and tightens the bid/ask spreads considerably allowing trades to happen very efficiently. In the era before HFT, market makers would screw you out of 1/8th of a dollar on every trade. Now the spread is a penny if it exists at all.
So, the Romans didn't do any accumulation of capital (land & slaves & mines & metal works etc.)? Seriously??
The value of stock is entirely unconnected to the value of a company
It is certainly not "entirely unconnected" - at some point, if the stock were to become cheap enough, somebody would purchase a controlling share to claim the company's products and income stream for themselves.
Also, under your hold for one month scheme, what happens to people who buy just before horrible news gets announced? They get screwed while people who bought one month + 1 day ago can sell?
Every y years, someone will invent and publish a way to treat phase velocity as if it were group velocity.
Isn't this what a time-domain equalizer does? (if imperfectly due to finite delay in any useful implementation)
The same goes for Apple, except I've got it straight through the grapevine. My friend's interview was precisely 0% about technical things and 100% about whether he was interesting to hang around.
What? I interviewed at Apple (input device group) and that was one of the hardest, longest, most technical interviews I have ever been through.
What was your friend interviewing for? I could definitely see, say, SWQA caring more about attitude than anything else.