I think you just need to add a modern stack to your resume and put out an example project on github, you'll be ready to find work. The stacks that people are hiring for right now:
Python -- tornado -- mysql / nosql (mongo or redis experience)
Ruby -- Rails -- mysql / nosql
Haskell/Erlang/Functional Insanity -- I have no idea how these people deal with data
Javascript/ Nodejs -- mongo probably
IOS Development
A solid web application based on bootstrap.js in any of the first four frameworks will get you an interview. A sample application for IOS should as well, at probably any one of your local agencies / design firms / app shops.
If I were in your shoes, I'd skip the big enterprise languages, like Java / C# -- if you like Perl, you're going to hate working in those languages, and much of the work in those languages sucks, to be honest.
My money-shot idea: learn kdb+ and q and go pull in $250k a year working for a hedge fund / investment bank. Also, it's fun and brain-bending.
Bitcoin is fundamentally backed by public key cryptography and computational power. That proof-of-computation done is real and valuable, for instance, you can currently 'safely' transact thousands of dollars in a single bitcoin block without worrying about forks or cheating. Two years ago, you could only transact 10 or 20 dollars without worrying about forks or cheating. The difference is that it is FAR more expensive to cheat the bitcoin network now, coming on to non-feasible.
This is a real increase in value, and it's because of the computational resources thrown into the system.
Energy use per cm^3 has risen dramatically over the last 20 years. By your stated measures it should be dropping. Datacenters no longer have space budgets, they have power budgets, waste heat is one THE big problems with computers and datacenters right now.
As an example, we run our production servers on EC2 East; they have load balancers failing them between zones. The Database and webservers are fine, and have been fine today.
The dev servers do not have load balancers running on them, and they have been choking in a miserable hell all morning.
Microsoft is dominated by high-end market-consuming business strategists at the top. Bill could do both; Ozzie stepped down because he couldn't replace Bill in that role. There's just no way that there's an internal tech person with the force of will to push the business guys around and all he or she needed was Ballmer's okay to make more impact.
Much less five of these folks. I just don't see it -- in my opinion, Microsoft needs to acknowledge it's becoming IBM, and move on gracefully to another stage in its corporate development.
What nobody has mentioned so far is the intense physical pressure you experience at a Tufte presentation. It's like you're being pushed in on all sides, pressed incredibly strongly... by his ego.
There is no US auditorium large enough for you and Tufte's ego.
The ego is self-referential, and almost certainly will compare Tufte's books to Galileo's at some point, and also smarmy, self-confident and smug.
All that said, I loved going -- GO! You'll learn a lot. But then, I'm fascinated by huge egos, so whenever I got bored hearing a rant, I could switch over and admire the size and quality of the ego.
The issue here is not just that Amazon might want its own app store, a reasonable desire. The issue is that the current Android market really sucks. Google does not have good expertise in the curation methods that an appstore needs; right now, you have two options browsing the appstore: you can look at top, all-time sales. Games that have been out for two years top these charts, not surprisingly.
Or, you can look at the raw feed of 'newest'. In games, that would be 64 underwear puzzle games, three things in Japanese, and a tech demo of rotating lines, controlled by some sensor or other.
Google's traditional approach to this sort of problem is search, but search does not work well here, and there's significant market opportunity. Hence, Amazon.
Unlike many people posting here, I've traveled enough to understand what you want to do, and why it is likely to work, and I applaud you!
That said, England is full of these devices, and I would suggest you buy one rather than roll your own. My quick searches didn't turn anything up, but I know they exist, as there are websites devoted to pictures of people burning them down in England. : ).
For slashdotters with complaints about this:
A fine can be sent automatically. Social circumstances in much of the Middle East make automated fining likely to gain far higher compliance than police or traffic lights could. Of course senior government officials won't pay their tickets, duh. That doesn't change how likely it is to help the man/woman on the street.
Be aware, current security best practices suggest that you physically destroy whatever computer you use while you're in China. It is highly likely to be subverted while there. Seriously. Think about buying a cheap netbook while you're there, or get a used one here that you're going to sell before you leave.
Before you publish, absolutely file a provisional patent. It's cheap to do, and if you have created something valuable, as soon as you publish it, it will become public domain in Europe and the UK.
I'm really enjoying living in the Future, I have to say. When I was young, I never imagined a trial over the right to have a computer play a game for you... Just wouldn't have made sense to my eight year old videogame-loving brain.
The EFF details some ways that suggest to me that Apple will never be able to be in compliance with the GPL under their current terms and conditions. For example: GPLv2, Section 6:
Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions.
From EFF's dissection of Apple's Agreement:
Section 7.2 makes it clear that any applications developed using Apple's SDK may only be publicly distributed through the App Store, and that Apple can reject an app for any reason, even if it meets all the formal requirements disclosed by Apple. So if you use the SDK and your app is rejected by Apple, you're prohibited from distributing it through competing app stores like Cydia or Rock Your Phone.
I am not a lawyer, but I would say that together these mean that Apple is in violation of the GPL if it distributes GPL code through its app store; it either needs to waive those terms in 7.2 (hah!) or outright ban GPL'ed code in the app store.
Larry knows exactly how to make money; he is probably the world's best businessman at holding you upside-down and shaking you vigorously until your pockets empty.
I would be stunned if Oracle ever comes out with a credible OpenSolaris strategy -- it's not Oracle's way, nor is it in their best interests to have a vibrant opensolaris community. Unlike Linux, the best parts of Solaris have never come from outside Sun. Dtrace, ZFS, integrated hardware, all this stuff is where Sun's real value lay.
The end game for OpenSolaris began when Sun moved ahead with the merger. From then until the official end is just drama, positioning, etc.
Thank you for your commentary. I laughed out loud. That was nice. Then I thought (probably Taco), and checked -- there you were. A part of slashdot will die forever when Darl ends his campaign.
In other news, WW3 started slowly with Google and Dell pulling out of China. Infowars continued to increase when China's root nameserver began to propagate its information out to the developing world, areas that had been increasingly reliant on Chinese funding since the post-cold-War US' international power began to wane..
FreeCiv is buggier, less pretty and focused around Civ1/Civ2 rulesets.
It's also hackable, and super cool, and I like it.
But, you aren't going to enjoy it if your first Civ is Civ4 -- Civ4 has a huge number of 'improvements' (to me, they are improvements) over Civ1/2. Add in the graphics quality, and if you've got it running well, I'd say you should just enjoy yourself. Of course on debian, you could probably sudo apt-get install freeciv, so it wouldn't be too particularly hard to check it out for yourself. : )
I think it unlikely that Google would use on-device ads to help phone costs: their traditional strategy has been to use ads to monetize core offerings, not ancillary ones. Ancillary offerings bring you back to the core offerings, where ads are effectively placed.
There's so much speculation right now on the market, but I think that it's clear that Google could do something really interesting without the use of on-device monetization right now, e.g. the $199 unlocked super-phone that's being discussed in the more rumor-mill-ish blogs right now. If they could be cash-neutral doing that, and simultaneously disintermediate wireless carriers (a side-goal they've had for some time now), AND double Android's market share in the US, the mobile device group will be getting large bonuses, mark my words.
A totally new business model which likely reduces the amount of uptake from consumers: not so likely right now; Google has lots of cash and wants lots of market share. It's not a time to futz around with stuff like this: consumers would generally LOVE an iphone-a-like which costs $30 a month for unlimited calling and only costs $199. If Google can get that out the door, they'll have done plenty already in the last eighteen months.
I haven't read the contract, but I can tell you exactly what happened:
Arrington has good idea, promises to market it, and work on it, plus provide a (modicum) of resources. Engineering Company gets involved. Capitalists get involved and put money in. Guaranteed: Arrington's dollars are all soft-dollars, time, energy, shared office space, PR, marketing, etc.
In the end: it works. Woohoo!
Now, Money guys look at the project, and they think: "OMG, this looks like it will ship and sell. We're all going to make some money, that's good. Let's review the Cap table to see what we'll be making. Hey, WTF? This Arrington guy negotiated like 35-45% of this project for himself, and all he's done is write a few articles about it, and pestered Fusion's engineers.. We could have paid like $20k to some PR firm to do that, how did he end up with 40% of this project?"
They call the engineering guys and say: "Do we need Arrington?"
Engineering guys say "Um, to build this project and ship it, we definitely do not need Arrington. Why?"
Capitalists say: "Because he's worthless, and it would be WRONG to give him the stake he got in the project."
Engineers say: "... um, ?"
Capitalists say: "We're going to execute a clawback, drill Arrington down to 8-10%, and then you and we will get to split the remainder. This isn't being bad, this is being right and moral. He just got too much of the pie up front."
Engineers say: ".. will you talk to him about it?"
Capitalists say: "You're the CEO, you talk to him."
Engineers ".. Okay. "
Guess what, it happens ALL THE TIME. There are a number of possible solutions to a situation like this, but usually you need to plan upfront for it, and be ready. I don't think he was ready, which is too bad.
The fine letter linked to in the above points out the real problems inherent in calculating this out: actually simulating NEURONS, rather than so-called "neural networks" is really hard, and requires a lot of computing power, plus development of techniques that are still cutting edge research. There is no chip array that can do all the (currently not completely specified) simulating of a cat brain at 1 kW.
Sci-Fi, the act of writing out speculations on our future, or an alternate one, isn't dead. The Spec-Fiction portion of it isn't dead, at least. The extrapolating current life into the future portion is having trouble, though. Vernor Vinge explains this nicely in his Singularity essays. He claims that sci fi writers have been dealing with the difficulties of making quality predictions for at least a decade, maybe two decades now.
In short, rate of change is speeding up, ergo change is going to be geometric, maybe exponential, ergo there will be some period of time, reasonably short, after which we (as current humans living on earth) will not understand very much about the world.
Vinge (and Ray Kurzweil) call this the Singularity. It's a nice, compelling idea if you're a math guy or gal (and I am a math guy).
Corollary to all this: Either you can write near-term extrapolative fiction or you can write post-singularity fiction, but there's no mid-range future. The mid-range future will happen in like an afternoon one day, and nobody will notice it due to what happens shortly after. This lack of mid-range predictability is what's bugging some people. But, functionally, I don't understand why. Scientists don't need Arthur C. Clarke to dream impossible dreams right now -- IBM neuroscientists are physically simulating a cat brain ALREADY for goodness sake! They don't need to think 'out of the box' about what the future could hold. The world has moved on, and into a space where finance guys will PAY people to IMPLEMENT their crazy sci-fi ideas.
We call the finance guys venture capitalists. They are helping build hotels in space, yadda,yadda,yadda. The future is already here at some level, and the mid-range future is being obsessively considered by inventors, scientists, entrepreneurs and VCs,
The stross quote backs this idea, change is already happening rapidly, and speeding up in a way that surprises a hard-SF writer.
This is why I like the tack Vinge has recently taken: think about INTERFACE to a new world. Think about ethics right around the time of the singularity. These are good places for sci-fi authors, traditionally a pretty thoughtful bunch.
this was a very unscientific study, with a very small sample size, and really shouldn't be front page on slashdot.
I thought to myself "You haven't been here long, have you?" Then I checked your UID, and well, it is higher than mine. But still, pretty damn low. So, I'd like to thank you for bringing back that old-timey belief that the editors of slashdot care about selecting only scientifically accurate content for the front page. Excepting JonKatz of course.
Also, I totally agree -- bad summary, bad study, but probably correct conclusions -- some people can't hear music for shit.
I office in the middle of a headhunter firm right now, and I just finished having lunch with one a couple days ago where she talked to me about their business. Here is the summary:
1) They just match your name and experience against a request from a client -- it's all keyword search all the time. 2) Skip the cover letter, it wastes their time -- just a 'I'm looking for work in these areas' will do fine, thank you 3) E-mailing the Resume is the way to go, there are well established processes to get your e-mail in the system 4) Send out resumes to as many recruiters as you can stomach -- companies frequently just use one recruiter, so you need to make sure that you fulfill the breadth side of the equation by getting onto as many databases as possible. 5) Recruiters hate hard questions and anomalies and prefer no hassle. This is probably why your resume is getting edited, even though it's an unethical thing to do.
Okay, so all that said, I would recommend you:
a) Make something useful sounding that you can say you've been doing in your non-work time, like an open source project, or a website catering to charities who want to learn about technology, or whatever. You can then gloss your layoff time at the end, saying "when I am not working, I volunteer with... or build this cool ". This is the ethical version of lying on your resume
b) Complain to the recruiter's boss, but don't expect to get anywhere.
c) Think like a swinger man -- the more the merrier! Get out there and find 30 tech recruiters. They certainly aren't more committed to you than that.
Slashdot Mirror
I think you just need to add a modern stack to your resume and put out an example project on github, you'll be ready to find work. The stacks that people are hiring for right now:
A solid web application based on bootstrap.js in any of the first four frameworks will get you an interview. A sample application for IOS should as well, at probably any one of your local agencies / design firms / app shops.
If I were in your shoes, I'd skip the big enterprise languages, like Java / C# -- if you like Perl, you're going to hate working in those languages, and much of the work in those languages sucks, to be honest.
My money-shot idea: learn kdb+ and q and go pull in $250k a year working for a hedge fund / investment bank. Also, it's fun and brain-bending.
Bitcoin is fundamentally backed by public key cryptography and computational power. That proof-of-computation done is real and valuable, for instance, you can currently 'safely' transact thousands of dollars in a single bitcoin block without worrying about forks or cheating. Two years ago, you could only transact 10 or 20 dollars without worrying about forks or cheating. The difference is that it is FAR more expensive to cheat the bitcoin network now, coming on to non-feasible.
This is a real increase in value, and it's because of the computational resources thrown into the system.
Nope.
Energy use per cm^3 has risen dramatically over the last 20 years. By your stated measures it should be dropping. Datacenters no longer have space budgets, they have power budgets, waste heat is one THE big problems with computers and datacenters right now.
As an example, we run our production servers on EC2 East; they have load balancers failing them between zones. The Database and webservers are fine, and have been fine today.
The dev servers do not have load balancers running on them, and they have been choking in a miserable hell all morning.
Coming from someone who might be criminally liable for HIPAA compliance issues based on your server, this was pretty damn polite.
I'd suggest you give it to them, and ask if they have any securing suggestions for you.
Microsoft is dominated by high-end market-consuming business strategists at the top. Bill could do both; Ozzie stepped down because he couldn't replace Bill in that role. There's just no way that there's an internal tech person with the force of will to push the business guys around and all he or she needed was Ballmer's okay to make more impact.
Much less five of these folks. I just don't see it -- in my opinion, Microsoft needs to acknowledge it's becoming IBM, and move on gracefully to another stage in its corporate development.
What nobody has mentioned so far is the intense physical pressure you experience at a Tufte presentation. It's like you're being pushed in on all sides, pressed incredibly strongly... by his ego.
There is no US auditorium large enough for you and Tufte's ego.
The ego is self-referential, and almost certainly will compare Tufte's books to Galileo's at some point, and also smarmy, self-confident and smug.
All that said, I loved going -- GO! You'll learn a lot. But then, I'm fascinated by huge egos, so whenever I got bored hearing a rant, I could switch over and admire the size and quality of the ego.
The issue here is not just that Amazon might want its own app store, a reasonable desire. The issue is that the current Android market really sucks. Google does not have good expertise in the curation methods that an appstore needs; right now, you have two options browsing the appstore: you can look at top, all-time sales. Games that have been out for two years top these charts, not surprisingly.
Or, you can look at the raw feed of 'newest'. In games, that would be 64 underwear puzzle games, three things in Japanese, and a tech demo of rotating lines, controlled by some sensor or other.
Google's traditional approach to this sort of problem is search, but search does not work well here, and there's significant market opportunity. Hence, Amazon.
Unlike many people posting here, I've traveled enough to understand what you want to do, and why it is likely to work, and I applaud you!
That said, England is full of these devices, and I would suggest you buy one rather than roll your own. My quick searches didn't turn anything up, but I know they exist, as there are websites devoted to pictures of people burning them down in England. : ).
For slashdotters with complaints about this:
A fine can be sent automatically. Social circumstances in much of the Middle East make automated fining likely to gain far higher compliance than police or traffic lights could. Of course senior government officials won't pay their tickets, duh. That doesn't change how likely it is to help the man/woman on the street.
Be aware, current security best practices suggest that you physically destroy whatever computer you use while you're in China. It is highly likely to be subverted while there. Seriously. Think about buying a cheap netbook while you're there, or get a used one here that you're going to sell before you leave.
Before you publish, absolutely file a provisional patent. It's cheap to do, and if you have created something valuable, as soon as you publish it, it will become public domain in Europe and the UK.
I'm really enjoying living in the Future, I have to say. When I was young, I never imagined a trial over the right to have a computer play a game for you... Just wouldn't have made sense to my eight year old videogame-loving brain.
The EFF details some ways that suggest to me that Apple will never be able to be in compliance with the GPL under their current terms and conditions. For example: GPLv2, Section 6:
From EFF's dissection of Apple's Agreement:
I am not a lawyer, but I would say that together these mean that Apple is in violation of the GPL if it distributes GPL code through its app store; it either needs to waive those terms in 7.2 (hah!) or outright ban GPL'ed code in the app store.
Larry knows exactly how to make money; he is probably the world's best businessman at holding you upside-down and shaking you vigorously until your pockets empty.
I would be stunned if Oracle ever comes out with a credible OpenSolaris strategy -- it's not Oracle's way, nor is it in their best interests to have a vibrant opensolaris community. Unlike Linux, the best parts of Solaris have never come from outside Sun. Dtrace, ZFS, integrated hardware, all this stuff is where Sun's real value lay.
The end game for OpenSolaris began when Sun moved ahead with the merger. From then until the official end is just drama, positioning, etc.
Dear Taco,
Thank you for your commentary. I laughed out loud. That was nice. Then I thought (probably Taco), and checked -- there you were. A part of slashdot will die forever when Darl ends his campaign.
In other news, WW3 started slowly with Google and Dell pulling out of China. Infowars continued to increase when China's root nameserver began to propagate its information out to the developing world, areas that had been increasingly reliant on Chinese funding since the post-cold-War US' international power began to wane..
I laughed outloud, you are so right..
Actually, it's a rental, which is one reason I don't want to go fishing around in the walls.
FreeCiv is buggier, less pretty and focused around Civ1/Civ2 rulesets.
It's also hackable, and super cool, and I like it.
But, you aren't going to enjoy it if your first Civ is Civ4 -- Civ4 has a huge number of 'improvements' (to me, they are improvements) over Civ1/2. Add in the graphics quality, and if you've got it running well, I'd say you should just enjoy yourself. Of course on debian, you could probably sudo apt-get install freeciv, so it wouldn't be too particularly hard to check it out for yourself. : )
I think it unlikely that Google would use on-device ads to help phone costs: their traditional strategy has been to use ads to monetize core offerings, not ancillary ones. Ancillary offerings bring you back to the core offerings, where ads are effectively placed.
There's so much speculation right now on the market, but I think that it's clear that Google could do something really interesting without the use of on-device monetization right now, e.g. the $199 unlocked super-phone that's being discussed in the more rumor-mill-ish blogs right now. If they could be cash-neutral doing that, and simultaneously disintermediate wireless carriers (a side-goal they've had for some time now), AND double Android's market share in the US, the mobile device group will be getting large bonuses, mark my words.
A totally new business model which likely reduces the amount of uptake from consumers: not so likely right now; Google has lots of cash and wants lots of market share. It's not a time to futz around with stuff like this: consumers would generally LOVE an iphone-a-like which costs $30 a month for unlimited calling and only costs $199. If Google can get that out the door, they'll have done plenty already in the last eighteen months.
I haven't read the contract, but I can tell you exactly what happened:
Arrington has good idea, promises to market it, and work on it, plus provide a (modicum) of resources. Engineering Company gets involved. Capitalists get involved and put money in. Guaranteed: Arrington's dollars are all soft-dollars, time, energy, shared office space, PR, marketing, etc.
In the end: it works. Woohoo!
Now, Money guys look at the project, and they think: "OMG, this looks like it will ship and sell. We're all going to make some money, that's good. Let's review the Cap table to see what we'll be making. Hey, WTF? This Arrington guy negotiated like 35-45% of this project for himself, and all he's done is write a few articles about it, and pestered Fusion's engineers.. We could have paid like $20k to some PR firm to do that, how did he end up with 40% of this project?"
They call the engineering guys and say: "Do we need Arrington?"
Engineering guys say "Um, to build this project and ship it, we definitely do not need Arrington. Why?"
Capitalists say: "Because he's worthless, and it would be WRONG to give him the stake he got in the project."
Engineers say: "... um, ?"
Capitalists say: "We're going to execute a clawback, drill Arrington down to 8-10%, and then you and we will get to split the remainder. This isn't being bad, this is being right and moral. He just got too much of the pie up front."
Engineers say: ".. will you talk to him about it?"
Capitalists say: "You're the CEO, you talk to him."
Engineers " .. Okay. "
Guess what, it happens ALL THE TIME. There are a number of possible solutions to a situation like this, but usually you need to plan upfront for it, and be ready. I don't think he was ready, which is too bad.
The fine letter linked to in the above points out the real problems inherent in calculating this out: actually simulating NEURONS, rather than so-called "neural networks" is really hard, and requires a lot of computing power, plus development of techniques that are still cutting edge research. There is no chip array that can do all the (currently not completely specified) simulating of a cat brain at 1 kW.
Sci-Fi, the act of writing out speculations on our future, or an alternate one, isn't dead. The Spec-Fiction portion of it isn't dead, at least. The extrapolating current life into the future portion is having trouble, though. Vernor Vinge explains this nicely in his Singularity essays. He claims that sci fi writers have been dealing with the difficulties of making quality predictions for at least a decade, maybe two decades now.
In short, rate of change is speeding up, ergo change is going to be geometric, maybe exponential, ergo there will be some period of time, reasonably short, after which we (as current humans living on earth) will not understand very much about the world.
Vinge (and Ray Kurzweil) call this the Singularity. It's a nice, compelling idea if you're a math guy or gal (and I am a math guy).
Corollary to all this: Either you can write near-term extrapolative fiction or you can write post-singularity fiction, but there's no mid-range future. The mid-range future will happen in like an afternoon one day, and nobody will notice it due to what happens shortly after. This lack of mid-range predictability is what's bugging some people. But, functionally, I don't understand why. Scientists don't need Arthur C. Clarke to dream impossible dreams right now -- IBM neuroscientists are physically simulating a cat brain ALREADY for goodness sake! They don't need to think 'out of the box' about what the future could hold. The world has moved on, and into a space where finance guys will PAY people to IMPLEMENT their crazy sci-fi ideas.
We call the finance guys venture capitalists. They are helping build hotels in space, yadda,yadda,yadda. The future is already here at some level, and the mid-range future is being obsessively considered by inventors, scientists, entrepreneurs and VCs,
The stross quote backs this idea, change is already happening rapidly, and speeding up in a way that surprises a hard-SF writer.
This is why I like the tack Vinge has recently taken: think about INTERFACE to a new world. Think about ethics right around the time of the singularity. These are good places for sci-fi authors, traditionally a pretty thoughtful bunch.
this was a very unscientific study, with a very small sample size, and really shouldn't be front page on slashdot.
I thought to myself "You haven't been here long, have you?" Then I checked your UID, and well, it is higher than mine. But still, pretty damn low. So, I'd like to thank you for bringing back that old-timey belief that the editors of slashdot care about selecting only scientifically accurate content for the front page. Excepting JonKatz of course.
Also, I totally agree -- bad summary, bad study, but probably correct conclusions -- some people can't hear music for shit.
I office in the middle of a headhunter firm right now, and I just finished having lunch with one a couple days ago where she talked to me about their business. Here is the summary:
1) They just match your name and experience against a request from a client -- it's all keyword search all the time.
2) Skip the cover letter, it wastes their time -- just a 'I'm looking for work in these areas' will do fine, thank you
3) E-mailing the Resume is the way to go, there are well established processes to get your e-mail in the system
4) Send out resumes to as many recruiters as you can stomach -- companies frequently just use one recruiter, so you need to make sure that you fulfill the breadth side of the equation by getting onto as many databases as possible.
5) Recruiters hate hard questions and anomalies and prefer no hassle. This is probably why your resume is getting edited, even though it's an unethical thing to do.
Okay, so all that said, I would recommend you:
a) Make something useful sounding that you can say you've been doing in your non-work time, like an open source project, or a website catering to charities who want to learn about technology, or whatever. You can then gloss your layoff time at the end, saying "when I am not working, I volunteer with ... or build this cool ". This is the ethical version of lying on your resume
b) Complain to the recruiter's boss, but don't expect to get anywhere.
c) Think like a swinger man -- the more the merrier! Get out there and find 30 tech recruiters. They certainly aren't more committed to you than that.
This story can be summarized: JWZ Wins. Big Time.
I'm impressed, I didn't expect he'd get this kind of leverage.