A better question is, why were they buying Apple products in the first place? They should run on cheapest, shittiest bottom of the barrel Dell laptops, and that's if they have a justification to get a laptop in the first place. They only need to be able to access the web, run Office/Outlook and a few LOB apps. That's it. You don't need a high-end laptop for that! Not for taxpayer money!
FBI should look into who got the contracts and how decisions to award these contracts were made. Personally, I think this stinks from a mile away, and large bags of money had to change hands to make this happen.
Aside from Iraq (which didn't really have much in the way of weaponry), the US has never won a war in which it was a dominant player. Nuff said. All the bells and whistles, and yet the cave dwelling towelheads in Afghanistan are handing our asses to us. What makes you believe that Russians (or Iranians, with Russian weapons) won't be successful at it, in case a conflict breaks out? Why is the US scared shitless of invading Iran and North Korea, or, for that matter any country which has any decent weapons at all (Syria being a prime example)? Perhaps because those $150M apiece Raptors aren't as invincible as the spec sheet makes us believe? Heck, they've recently been found to suffocate pilots with no one even shooting at them. Take the loss of that F-117 in Yugoslavia as an example. Shot down with primitive weapons made in the 70's. Another one, damaged with the same weapons and unable to fly again. Serbs used a $50 rigged microwave oven which, guess what, looks like a radar to the passive radar detection system. That's what an enemy is capable of without adequate weapons. Now consider the kind of pain in the ass a proper army, fleet and air force can deliver.
Except of course neither Raptor nor JSF can carry JSOW-ER, and it can itself be easily shot down by any SAM produced since early 80's, since it's not stealth. The planes that can carry it can be shredded into confetti by S400 from 400km away. And that's the officially advertised range, real range is likely to be greater than that. In addition, S400 has 360 degree radar detection with a range of 600km. So whoever turns on the radar trying to target it is going to have a really bad day, guaranteed.
Their Stealth technology has been obsolete since before they came out, as long as you can use a heavy-ass ground (or ship) based radar system. Russian S400 "Triumf" deals with stealth just fine, and so does S300 with minor mods. And by "deals" I mean shoots down stealth aircraft from beyond its missile range. That's why we haven't attacked Iran yet. That's not the point of stealth. The point of stealth is that _other planes_ can't see you, and you can take them out from way beyond _their_ radar range.
If my 8 year old develops interest in hardcore porn, I'll be surprised, but I won't prevent him from viewing it. Fact is, seeing people combining their body parts in interesting and novel ways has no damaging effect on anyone's "fragile psyche" unless you stress about it and make it a taboo. I'll just ask him to not discuss this at school, because other kids might be from far less civilized families.
No. They'll just get their ass handed to them by Apple and Google. They sell into an extremely price-conscious segment of the market. Apple sells premium products to people who have the cash (and even then, Microsoft can't compete with them on price because it doesn't benefit from being the largest component purchaser in the world like Apple). Google gives their products away to then in turn sell eyeballs to advertisers. When they buy Motorola, assuming they keep the hardware business, they can still sell their product subsidized with ad revenues.
What can Microsoft subsidize their product with? App sales? But their customers are cheapskates who don't like to pay for anything, there aren't actually any RT apps worth paying for, and there won't be for another year or so (good apps with native experience take time to build). Ads? But their ads business sucks ass. It's a tough spot they've painted themselves into, and their unwillingness to fully embrace the ARM "pure tablet" form factor, and insistence on calling everything "Windows" will hurt them pretty bad.
54% of Russians have a college degree. That's the highest percentage in the world. Why are you surprised that they win competitions that require high IQ?
Rule of thumb: if it pays the same or less, don't do it. That is, if you don't hate what you're currently doing. If they want you to do this, they'll pay more. If they don't, why the fuck are you going there in the fist place?
Does anyone actually use this shit? I didn't use 3D maps before, and I don't plan on starting. I just don't see the value I guess, aside from the novelty factor.
Robotic Car and AI Class tests are NOT multiple choice. You actually write code, or compute answers by hand. And that code gets evaluated by how far it diverges from the ideal.
He alluded to this being their business model, actually, in an interview a while ago. Prospective employers would definitely not mind paying for detailed score statistics and access to the top few hundred students in the class.
Their long term survival is at stake. Their whole business model is based on showing people ads, and being the default provider of social networking services to 1 billion people. As more and more people go mobile (to the iPhone where Twitter is the default, or Android, where G+ is the default), both the ads and the user base might start disappearing.
Here's another prediction (and you've read it here first): within 2 years FB will own Bing. The only high margin way to show ads on the web is on a search engine. Microsoft doesn't know how to do it and doesn't have a strong brand in advertising. FB does. Pay MSFT $10B to take Bing off their hands, and boom, you have a state of the art search engine which you could wire into everything FB related and expose to 1/6th the planet's population on whom you have unparalleled demographic and behavioral targeting data for ads.
A bad developer has NEGATIVE value to the team. Other folks have to spend a lot of their time correcting his/her fuckups. He won't be happy in this job either, because performance ratings (and therefore promotions) are given, well, based on performance, and not on whether or not one has a dick, and if your performance sucks (and you can bet peer reviews will reflect if it does), you will eventually get fired.
I've done ~60 interviews so far, that is, the kind where _I_ interview people. The number of female candidates? Two. The number of times I gave a "hire" to female candidates — one. The number of offers extended to female candidates I interviewed — zero (other interviewers disagreed with my "hire"). Truth is, finding great engineers is incredibly hard, and women just apply far less often. That having been said, giving them special treatment in the interviews is unfair, to both them and men. Either you can design and code, or you can't. That doesn't in any way depend on the shape of one's genitals.
>> Visa applications are avaialble at your local embassy
US visa and naturalization process is completely fucked in the head. We let in millions of illegal immigrants from Mexico, but god forbid a qualified, highly educated foreigner moves here from Eastern Europe, China or India. Oh no, that would be too much strain on IRS counting all those taxes he/she'd be paying.
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A better question is, why were they buying Apple products in the first place? They should run on cheapest, shittiest bottom of the barrel Dell laptops, and that's if they have a justification to get a laptop in the first place. They only need to be able to access the web, run Office/Outlook and a few LOB apps. That's it. You don't need a high-end laptop for that! Not for taxpayer money!
The first Christian tablets were unveiled over two thousand years ago.
FBI should look into who got the contracts and how decisions to award these contracts were made. Personally, I think this stinks from a mile away, and large bags of money had to change hands to make this happen.
Aside from Iraq (which didn't really have much in the way of weaponry), the US has never won a war in which it was a dominant player. Nuff said. All the bells and whistles, and yet the cave dwelling towelheads in Afghanistan are handing our asses to us. What makes you believe that Russians (or Iranians, with Russian weapons) won't be successful at it, in case a conflict breaks out? Why is the US scared shitless of invading Iran and North Korea, or, for that matter any country which has any decent weapons at all (Syria being a prime example)? Perhaps because those $150M apiece Raptors aren't as invincible as the spec sheet makes us believe? Heck, they've recently been found to suffocate pilots with no one even shooting at them. Take the loss of that F-117 in Yugoslavia as an example. Shot down with primitive weapons made in the 70's. Another one, damaged with the same weapons and unable to fly again. Serbs used a $50 rigged microwave oven which, guess what, looks like a radar to the passive radar detection system. That's what an enemy is capable of without adequate weapons. Now consider the kind of pain in the ass a proper army, fleet and air force can deliver.
Except of course neither Raptor nor JSF can carry JSOW-ER, and it can itself be easily shot down by any SAM produced since early 80's, since it's not stealth. The planes that can carry it can be shredded into confetti by S400 from 400km away. And that's the officially advertised range, real range is likely to be greater than that. In addition, S400 has 360 degree radar detection with a range of 600km. So whoever turns on the radar trying to target it is going to have a really bad day, guaranteed.
Their Stealth technology has been obsolete since before they came out, as long as you can use a heavy-ass ground (or ship) based radar system. Russian S400 "Triumf" deals with stealth just fine, and so does S300 with minor mods. And by "deals" I mean shoots down stealth aircraft from beyond its missile range. That's why we haven't attacked Iran yet. That's not the point of stealth. The point of stealth is that _other planes_ can't see you, and you can take them out from way beyond _their_ radar range.
He will just issue them all work permits, as long as they entered the country when they were in their late teens.
3 on-site interviews means a FAIL of epic proportions. If you do passably it's no less than 5.
If my 8 year old develops interest in hardcore porn, I'll be surprised, but I won't prevent him from viewing it. Fact is, seeing people combining their body parts in interesting and novel ways has no damaging effect on anyone's "fragile psyche" unless you stress about it and make it a taboo. I'll just ask him to not discuss this at school, because other kids might be from far less civilized families.
No. They'll just get their ass handed to them by Apple and Google. They sell into an extremely price-conscious segment of the market. Apple sells premium products to people who have the cash (and even then, Microsoft can't compete with them on price because it doesn't benefit from being the largest component purchaser in the world like Apple). Google gives their products away to then in turn sell eyeballs to advertisers. When they buy Motorola, assuming they keep the hardware business, they can still sell their product subsidized with ad revenues.
What can Microsoft subsidize their product with? App sales? But their customers are cheapskates who don't like to pay for anything, there aren't actually any RT apps worth paying for, and there won't be for another year or so (good apps with native experience take time to build). Ads? But their ads business sucks ass. It's a tough spot they've painted themselves into, and their unwillingness to fully embrace the ARM "pure tablet" form factor, and insistence on calling everything "Windows" will hurt them pretty bad.
>> I regularly laugh at ones who attempt to do such things with webpages
That's why native apps are not webpages. Webpages suck ass.
You forgot to mention that you're only willing to pay $200 or less for all of that. :-)
But it can't happen. You can't declare bankruptcy on those loans. Underwater/above water, doesn't matter. You pay them until they're fully paid off.
Someone needs to fund research into gene therapy which would help folks detect sarcasm better.
The fix for that is changing employers, not jobs within the same employer.
54% of Russians have a college degree. That's the highest percentage in the world. Why are you surprised that they win competitions that require high IQ?
Rule of thumb: if it pays the same or less, don't do it. That is, if you don't hate what you're currently doing. If they want you to do this, they'll pay more. If they don't, why the fuck are you going there in the fist place?
Does anyone actually use this shit? I didn't use 3D maps before, and I don't plan on starting. I just don't see the value I guess, aside from the novelty factor.
Robotic Car and AI Class tests are NOT multiple choice. You actually write code, or compute answers by hand. And that code gets evaluated by how far it diverges from the ideal.
He alluded to this being their business model, actually, in an interview a while ago. Prospective employers would definitely not mind paying for detailed score statistics and access to the top few hundred students in the class.
Their long term survival is at stake. Their whole business model is based on showing people ads, and being the default provider of social networking services to 1 billion people. As more and more people go mobile (to the iPhone where Twitter is the default, or Android, where G+ is the default), both the ads and the user base might start disappearing.
Here's another prediction (and you've read it here first): within 2 years FB will own Bing. The only high margin way to show ads on the web is on a search engine. Microsoft doesn't know how to do it and doesn't have a strong brand in advertising. FB does. Pay MSFT $10B to take Bing off their hands, and boom, you have a state of the art search engine which you could wire into everything FB related and expose to 1/6th the planet's population on whom you have unparalleled demographic and behavioral targeting data for ads.
A bad developer has NEGATIVE value to the team. Other folks have to spend a lot of their time correcting his/her fuckups. He won't be happy in this job either, because performance ratings (and therefore promotions) are given, well, based on performance, and not on whether or not one has a dick, and if your performance sucks (and you can bet peer reviews will reflect if it does), you will eventually get fired.
I've done ~60 interviews so far, that is, the kind where _I_ interview people. The number of female candidates? Two. The number of times I gave a "hire" to female candidates — one. The number of offers extended to female candidates I interviewed — zero (other interviewers disagreed with my "hire"). Truth is, finding great engineers is incredibly hard, and women just apply far less often. That having been said, giving them special treatment in the interviews is unfair, to both them and men. Either you can design and code, or you can't. That doesn't in any way depend on the shape of one's genitals.
>> Visa applications are avaialble at your local embassy
US visa and naturalization process is completely fucked in the head. We let in millions of illegal immigrants from Mexico, but god forbid a qualified, highly educated foreigner moves here from Eastern Europe, China or India. Oh no, that would be too much strain on IRS counting all those taxes he/she'd be paying.
That way should there be a divorce, he can claim that he made all that money before the marriage, and not while married, so it remains his.
Zuck is not dumb, that's for sure, but his new wife must be all pissed on the inside.