Yes, rather than actually doing some "management", and figuring out how to best fit this person within the company, let's just terminate him.
Who cares if they were (from the article): - Respected by their co-workers - Producing twice the revenue of some of the other founders - First to volunteer to work on holidays. - First to get new training and share it with others one-on-one - etc. As well, article seems to define a "jerk" as: "anyone who doesn't agree with management"), just fire them. I'm certain their co-workers find firing these people very inspiring. At least their inspired to shut up & not criticize any bad ideas management may have.
Who's the clown that wrote this anyways? All I can find about him is he got a bit lucky with a single startup (STI Knowledege), sold it for around $12mil, and now is going to be the host of the reality show "The Next Tycoon". Not exactly stellar credentials.
Why is this story tagged science? I RTFA, and I didn't see any science there. I see an opinion piece from an anthropologist, without a shred of actual science attached to it. No studies, no control group, no data, nothing.
With their games, music, videos, social media and texting, smartphones 'superstimulate,' a desire humans have to play when things get dull,
Really? And where are the psychological studies to back this up? Neurological data? I thought not. Typical ivory tower "publish or perish" piece crapped out by the soft "sciences".
That's great data....other than the fact it's completely wrong.
Almost all the LED's on Philips website are rated for 20,000 hours. That brings the purchase cost down to 0.115c/hr for the LED, and the total running cost down to.25c/hr, a difference of.44c/hr.
So after 6000 hours, the bulb has more than paid for itself. After it's lifetime, it's paid for itself 3 times over.
You do realize that for most of the US, the nearest public transportation is several days walk?
1) Bullshit. See here From the report: "70% of people live in neighborhoods with public transportation"
2) You do realize that lacking access to public transportation is not nearly the same thing as house arrest? She can still: - Bike - Use private transportation - Bum rides off friends
The very fact that this question is being asked just reeks of stupidity. You just DON'T go straight from stone age to 21st century, especially without electricity. Buy some manual typewriters. C'mon man....
FFS, this has got to be the worst case of people not even bothering to read the summary. From the summary: "I am aiming to build a device that cost below USD 50."
Where do you find a manual typewriter that costs less than $50?
the only way for a company to distinguish itself is to innovate faster than the competition can copy
And more importantly, if an "innovation" can be copied by a competitor in nearly no time, then it's probably not an innovation at all (e.g. rounded corners)
The preemie issue is not due to "we have higher standards and report it differently". It's because the US has higher incidents of premature babies. And you know the reason for this....poor social care & health care!
The NYT had an article about this a couple of years back...you can read it here
From the article:
Dr. Fleischman said the smallest, earliest and most fragile babies were often born to poor and minority women who lacked health care and social support. The highest rates of infant mortality occur in non-Hispanic black, American Indian, Alaska Native and Puerto Rican women.
Except for a few key points: - The reform party never won an election. They were never even the official opposition
- The Canadian constitution designates natural resources under provincially jurisdiction, not Federal.
- The NEP was actually enacted between the years of 1980 and 1985. Canada never say "twenty-five cent a gallon gasoline", despite this fine program.
- The "oil sands" were a benefit, but did not substantially increase Canadian oil production. Oil production in Canada has been rising at a fairly steady rate for the past 50 years
- Even before the reform party was even a gleam in Harper's eye, Trudeau's party didn't hold a single seat west of Manitoba. i.e. half the country didn't really like this "fine of a PM as this country has ever known"
- It was in fact, Trudeau's party (actually another future PM of canada, Jean Chretien), who shut down the National Energy Program
With oil and gas being traded on the free market, the whole NEP idea was ridiculous. It was a blatant attempt by the Liberal party to buy votes.
But other than those key points, you got everything else pretty much wrong as well.....
Google could trounce Microsoft across all the markets they service, if Google were so inclined
But they won't, cause they're just a bunch of swell guys! Google doesn't really want to make money. They just want to make the internet a happier, more convenient place for us all.
I for one welcome our new ad-serving, privacy-invading, Chinese-censoring, tax-dodging overlords!
they see Google as having let the open source horse out of the barn
Really?
How's that Open Source version of GMail working for you? How about google docs? Oh, wait...that thing they are REALLY known for...that's open source, right? Yeah...the google search appliance...all open source there...
oh wait...other than Android, a browser, and a bunch of crappy add-ons, NOTHING THEY DO IS OPEN SOURCE.
Yes, I have. Now, care to explain what about that whole Metro business looks like it's tailored to "corporate market"?
I'll explain it.
Tablets.
It's the last realm of corporate computing that Microsoft has yet to envelop. At least for the oil & gas market, the first company to make a decent tablet that can run standard corporate apps & be rugged enough for the field is going to make a killing. And it's hitting the point where it's feasible. Tablet's are getting powerful enough that they can run a full fledged OS, with enough graphics power / memory / processor to run decent field software.
I could also see this being big in construction, health care, education. Any field where there's a lot of paper being used right now, and people are typically mobile.
Then I hate to say it, but your architecture sucked.
At the very most (assuming whoever wrote the thick client was a complete idiot and coded it to ONLY worked against.NET), you should have only needed to write an adapter layer in C# to adapt whatever interface the thick client worked against to whatever interface your java system worked with.
If you had to rewrite the entire stack, something was either very wrong with your system, or very wrong with your ability to explain choices and costs to your manager.
Please stay firmly convinced...it will make it easier for me to recognize you as a complete idiot if I ever have to interview you.
More and more I'm finding the best way to recognize talent is to find people who understand how to apply the right technologies to a solution rather than the mindless ".NET is da best!" or "Windoze sucks!" I keep hearing from the typical zealots.
Isn't competition what drives innovation? Where's the innovation if everyone just does what everyone else is doing?
Not if the "innovation" involves coming up with a non-obvious way to perform a task due to the fact that some company has patented the obvious way of performing that task.
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I'm sorry, I don't understand....could you provide a car analogy?
oh wait, nevermind....
Microsoft should change IE 10 so that when the server-header indicates Apache, IE sets the User-Agent to Firefox.
Sometimes...just sometimes, I wish there was a +1,000,000 mod.
This is one of those times.
Yes, rather than actually doing some "management", and figuring out how to best fit this person within the company, let's just terminate him.
Who cares if they were (from the article):
- Respected by their co-workers
- Producing twice the revenue of some of the other founders
- First to volunteer to work on holidays.
- First to get new training and share it with others one-on-one
- etc.
As well, article seems to define a "jerk" as: "anyone who doesn't agree with management"), just fire them. I'm certain their co-workers find firing these people very inspiring. At least their inspired to shut up & not criticize any bad ideas management may have.
Who's the clown that wrote this anyways? All I can find about him is he got a bit lucky with a single startup (STI Knowledege), sold it for around $12mil, and now is going to be the host of the reality show "The Next Tycoon". Not exactly stellar credentials.
Why is this story tagged science? I RTFA, and I didn't see any science there. I see an opinion piece from an anthropologist, without a shred of actual science attached to it. No studies, no control group, no data, nothing.
Really? And where are the psychological studies to back this up? Neurological data? I thought not. Typical ivory tower "publish or perish" piece crapped out by the soft "sciences".
What's wrong with the suggestion? Step 41. clearly says: "Jet Ski across the Pacific Ocean"
That's great data....other than the fact it's completely wrong.
Almost all the LED's on Philips website are rated for 20,000 hours. That brings the purchase cost down to 0.115c/hr for the LED, and the total running cost down to .25c/hr, a difference of .44c/hr.
So after 6000 hours, the bulb has more than paid for itself. After it's lifetime, it's paid for itself 3 times over.
Wikipedia has pretty much the same data here
Posting to undo moderation.....
1) Bullshit. See here
From the report:
"70% of people live in neighborhoods with public transportation"
2) You do realize that lacking access to public transportation is not nearly the same thing as house arrest?
She can still:
- Bike
- Use private transportation
- Bum rides off friends
Yeah. Castrating someone is very similar to instructing them to delete a facebook account.
Quite the strawman you've set up there.
FFS, this has got to be the worst case of people not even bothering to read the summary. From the summary:
"I am aiming to build a device that cost below USD 50."
Where do you find a manual typewriter that costs less than $50?
And more importantly, if an "innovation" can be copied by a competitor in nearly no time, then it's probably not an innovation at all (e.g. rounded corners)
Geez, get your priorities straight. A Carrington event is only a statistical probability.
How are you going to protect your source code against the eventual heat death of the universe?!?
That's a virtual certainty! *
* (for some cosmological models)
Way to stick your head in the sand there.
The preemie issue is not due to "we have higher standards and report it differently". It's because the US has higher incidents of premature babies. And you know the reason for this....poor social care & health care!
The NYT had an article about this a couple of years back...you can read it here
From the article:
Yep, that's about it
Except for a few key points:
- The reform party never won an election. They were never even the official opposition
- The Canadian constitution designates natural resources under provincially jurisdiction, not Federal.
- The NEP was actually enacted between the years of 1980 and 1985. Canada never say "twenty-five cent a gallon gasoline", despite this fine program.
- The "oil sands" were a benefit, but did not substantially increase Canadian oil production. Oil production in Canada has been rising at a fairly steady rate for the past 50 years
- Even before the reform party was even a gleam in Harper's eye, Trudeau's party didn't hold a single seat west of Manitoba. i.e. half the country didn't really like this "fine of a PM as this country has ever known"
- It was in fact, Trudeau's party (actually another future PM of canada, Jean Chretien), who shut down the National Energy Program
With oil and gas being traded on the free market, the whole NEP idea was ridiculous. It was a blatant attempt by the Liberal party to buy votes.
But other than those key points, you got everything else pretty much wrong as well.....
But they won't, cause they're just a bunch of swell guys! Google doesn't really want to make money. They just want to make the internet a happier, more convenient place for us all.
I for one welcome our new ad-serving, privacy-invading, Chinese-censoring, tax-dodging overlords!
Really?
How's that Open Source version of GMail working for you? How about google docs? Oh, wait...that thing they are REALLY known for...that's open source, right? Yeah...the google search appliance...all open source there...
oh wait...other than Android, a browser, and a bunch of crappy add-ons, NOTHING THEY DO IS OPEN SOURCE.
I'll explain it.
Tablets.
It's the last realm of corporate computing that Microsoft has yet to envelop. At least for the oil & gas market, the first company to make a decent tablet that can run standard corporate apps & be rugged enough for the field is going to make a killing. And it's hitting the point where it's feasible. Tablet's are getting powerful enough that they can run a full fledged OS, with enough graphics power / memory / processor to run decent field software.
I could also see this being big in construction, health care, education. Any field where there's a lot of paper being used right now, and people are typically mobile.
That word doesn't mean what you think it means....
Then I hate to say it, but your architecture sucked.
At the very most (assuming whoever wrote the thick client was a complete idiot and coded it to ONLY worked against .NET), you should have only needed to write an adapter layer in C# to adapt whatever interface the thick client worked against to whatever interface your java system worked with.
If you had to rewrite the entire stack, something was either very wrong with your system, or very wrong with your ability to explain choices and costs to your manager.
Well I'm buying one right now!!!
Good thing Apple sued, otherwise I might have never known about this.
Think I'll pick up a Barbara Streisand doll too while I'm at it....
What the heck?
The office live 365 agreement says nothing about not using competitors software.
I think you need a new tinfoil hat...
Please stay firmly convinced...it will make it easier for me to recognize you as a complete idiot if I ever have to interview you.
More and more I'm finding the best way to recognize talent is to find people who understand how to apply the right technologies to a solution rather than the mindless ".NET is da best!" or "Windoze sucks!" I keep hearing from the typical zealots.
Not if the "innovation" involves coming up with a non-obvious way to perform a task due to the fact that some company has patented the obvious way of performing that task.
Sorry, but anyone who things that software is just as mechanical as an automobile engine has never rebuilt an engine.
Spoken as someone with a math degree who earns a living coding....