I'm surprised that the firm has not been named - while I would think that any company that had this happen to them would want to keep this confidential, I would think that somebody would talk about it separately. I suspect that the "company" is some podunk startup in which the CTO is the CEO, CFO, head of development and probably the HR head and they've just hired a developer without thinking about access restrictions (or verifying that backups are actually happening).
Some more information would help clarify these questions and maybe better explain how such a situation could happen.
Worked at a bar through University. Never a problem swapping shifts - just don't be a dick and be willing to help other people out when they want to swap.
A few points why bringing up a start up at Red Lobster works over basically any other kind of job: 1. You can pick your hours and change them on a moment's notice. 2. It's not brain heavy work. You can keep the start up as your primary focus. 3. You don't have to worry about your employer accusing you of using their resources (and IP) to start a business.
It actually makes a lot of sense to get a job working at Starbucks/Red Lobster/serving food anywhere when doing a start up to ensure that the rent isn't something you're worried about and you can put that extra focus on the startup.
Let's say you want to transfer an image on a coin - you could pass it by the flat side into a circular opening, which means that the amount of area needed to transfer the coin is Pi*r^2 where "r" is the radius of the coin.
BUT, if you were to rotate it in space 90 degrees, and this is where the genius lies as it doesn't matter what part of the disk you rotate, then you can slip the coin into a thin rectangle which has much less area than the circular opening. In this case, the area required is 2r*thickness.
To give you an idea of how amazing this is, look at what happens if the thickness of the coin is 1/10th the radius of the coin - the amount of area required is 314.159 times *less* if you were to use the rectangular opening (which we call a "slot"). The less the thickness of the coin, then the better the improvement in area (which is the amount of space needed to transfer the coin).
Sloot's genius was figuring out, in software, how to represent video data as a circular disk, rotate it 90 degrees and transfer it using very little bandwidth to a receiver which could reverse the process.
Interesting to see the comments back about different vehicles and it's interesting to see the wide range of tastes in vehicles. I can respect that electric vehicles need to be "slippery" as well as visually different but for the most part they seem to miss their mark in terms of coming up with something that can be simply driven around town.
For what's available right now, I really don't find any appealing, maybe the b-class when it becomes available will change my mind.
I feel like I'm the only person in the world that doesn't get a stiffy when looking at a Tesla. The Model S reminds me too much of a Jag with a dashboard that is overwhelmed with the 17" display and the Model 3 is just plain ugly.
Just like the Bolt and the Leaf. The i3 is about the best of a bad lot.
How about putting the front line designers on the vehicles and get the concepts evaluated by real people (not tree huggers that want drivers to be tortured even if they're burning electrons and not dinosaur sludge)?
I don't need to scream out at the world I have an electric car, I want something that looks nice, drives well and I can smile smugly to myself when I pass the pumps.
The first seasons are excellent, but toward the end, Penn Jillette's biases comes out pretty strongly and they put out their own loads of bullshit on quite a few topics.
Most recently, Cold Case JFK (https://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Cold-Case-JFK/dp/B00F1BFM7O/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1496870659&sr=1-1&keywords=nova+dvd+kennedy) great investigation and ignore the low ratings of the conspiracy nuts.
Where did Mr. Ballmer get the idea that he is so smart that people should listen to him?
I'm thinking that this whole train of thought came about that just like a pro basketball coach a CEO can throw a chair so the two endeavours must be completely interrelated and you can transfer ideas & concepts between the two and they make complete sense.
Over the years, I've heard of *many* ideas like this: - Business is like hunting, if you don't return with skins, you've failed - Business is like prostitution, you get fucked or you're the fucker - Business is like a parent, you coddle, worry, teach and it takes years to find out if you were successful
I don't think Mr. Ballmer has ever appreciated how lucky he was to be at the right place at the right time - otherwise he'd just be some obnoxious nobody that people try to ignore.
As it is, he's just a rich obnoxious nobody that people try to ignore.
For the most part I agree with you regarding markets, but I should point out that for years Amazon didn't make any money, Mr. Bezos put out a ton of promises and... Look at where they are now. Maybe they're the exception that proves the rule.
Tesla might not be making any money right now, but I would think it's a pretty safe bet to invest in long term.
When I was at RIM, the iPhone 4 came out with one of the benefits for buyers was the extensive library of apps that were available for download. The iPhone SDK was free or a very nominal cost. To develop an app for the Blackberry at the time required an expensive SDK as well as a costly testing process to make sure the app met their standards.
RIM at the time (and I talked about this with very senior executives) made it clear that the way Apple was doing would destroy Apple as professionals wouldn't want something which had unvetted and, to their eye, silly apps.
As people have pointed out, the various Space Shuttles were reused quite a few times and the X-37 has flown multiple times. They both require significant refurbishment before they could be flown again - the Space Shuttle required basically a reskinning of the thermal protection tiles and for the X-37 it sounds like the tiles are good, but it requires significant refurbishment inside the spacecraft after it's long stays in orbit. It would be interesting to see how much work is required on the Dragon (and SpaceX hasn't really explained what needs to be done to refly a Falcon booster).
The problem is, if SpaceX has very efficient systems for turning around Dragons and Falcon boosters then they may want to keep it secret to minimize competition. On the other hand, if they have a very poor process, they want to keep it secret to give the appearance that they know what they are doing.
The short answer is "yes" but as to whether or not it is usable depends on the drivers Qualcomm makes available and somehow I think they'll give Windows drivers priority...
As I noted in my post below, there's a shit ton of work to do provide the apps and ecosystem of the basic Win 10 (S?) x64 platform.
Along with the comments by the ACs, I don't believe that Microsoft will put in the investment to make the product competitive in terms of apps and available software.
Other than asking if this hardware will run Linux (I know the basic answer is "yes", but I would like to see the network driver release plan for Linux) I have to wonder about Microsoft pushing a Snapdragon solution in terms of apps.
I would expect that Office 365 (and probably not basic Office) will run under the resulting version of Win 10 (S?) but what about 3rd party applications which includes games? I guess web apps that run decently on Edge will not be affected, but what about the rest of the Windows x86 (and 64bit) catalog?
Would Microsoft subsidize development houses to get their apps on this platform?
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I'm surprised that the firm has not been named - while I would think that any company that had this happen to them would want to keep this confidential, I would think that somebody would talk about it separately. I suspect that the "company" is some podunk startup in which the CTO is the CEO, CFO, head of development and probably the HR head and they've just hired a developer without thinking about access restrictions (or verifying that backups are actually happening).
Some more information would help clarify these questions and maybe better explain how such a situation could happen.
Worked at a bar through University. Never a problem swapping shifts - just don't be a dick and be willing to help other people out when they want to swap.
Anywhere else... not so much.
A few points why bringing up a start up at Red Lobster works over basically any other kind of job:
1. You can pick your hours and change them on a moment's notice.
2. It's not brain heavy work. You can keep the start up as your primary focus.
3. You don't have to worry about your employer accusing you of using their resources (and IP) to start a business.
It actually makes a lot of sense to get a job working at Starbucks/Red Lobster/serving food anywhere when doing a start up to ensure that the rent isn't something you're worried about and you can put that extra focus on the startup.
Let's say you want to transfer an image on a coin - you could pass it by the flat side into a circular opening, which means that the amount of area needed to transfer the coin is Pi*r^2 where "r" is the radius of the coin.
BUT, if you were to rotate it in space 90 degrees, and this is where the genius lies as it doesn't matter what part of the disk you rotate, then you can slip the coin into a thin rectangle which has much less area than the circular opening. In this case, the area required is 2r*thickness.
To give you an idea of how amazing this is, look at what happens if the thickness of the coin is 1/10th the radius of the coin - the amount of area required is 314.159 times *less* if you were to use the rectangular opening (which we call a "slot"). The less the thickness of the coin, then the better the improvement in area (which is the amount of space needed to transfer the coin).
Sloot's genius was figuring out, in software, how to represent video data as a circular disk, rotate it 90 degrees and transfer it using very little bandwidth to a receiver which could reverse the process.
That really says a *lot* about the quality of today's movies.
In terms of styling: Jag XKE
Power, coolness: '69 Mustang Mach 1
Practicality: Audi Q5
Thank you for the comments back.
Interesting to see the comments back about different vehicles and it's interesting to see the wide range of tastes in vehicles. I can respect that electric vehicles need to be "slippery" as well as visually different but for the most part they seem to miss their mark in terms of coming up with something that can be simply driven around town.
For what's available right now, I really don't find any appealing, maybe the b-class when it becomes available will change my mind.
I feel like I'm the only person in the world that doesn't get a stiffy when looking at a Tesla. The Model S reminds me too much of a Jag with a dashboard that is overwhelmed with the 17" display and the Model 3 is just plain ugly.
Just like the Bolt and the Leaf. The i3 is about the best of a bad lot.
How about putting the front line designers on the vehicles and get the concepts evaluated by real people (not tree huggers that want drivers to be tortured even if they're burning electrons and not dinosaur sludge)?
I don't need to scream out at the world I have an electric car, I want something that looks nice, drives well and I can smile smugly to myself when I pass the pumps.
I RFTA and thought that this was a nice program allowing people to pay it forwards and then I read the comments.
Wow. Not much love or sympathy in this group.
Very funny, very profane and will get you thinking about what are your personal taboos.
Great seeing all the different comedians.
The first seasons are excellent, but toward the end, Penn Jillette's biases comes out pretty strongly and they put out their own loads of bullshit on quite a few topics.
They have some amazing shows.
Most recently, Cold Case JFK (https://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Cold-Case-JFK/dp/B00F1BFM7O/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1496870659&sr=1-1&keywords=nova+dvd+kennedy) great investigation and ignore the low ratings of the conspiracy nuts.
Before I ended up working for a psychopath.
Done that and I would have to agree with you. You get a completely different perspective on Chrome when you are doing an app.
The danger, however, is losing the perspective that Joe Sixpack gets of Chrome and there are a few pretty big issues that need to be addressed.
Where did Mr. Ballmer get the idea that he is so smart that people should listen to him?
I'm thinking that this whole train of thought came about that just like a pro basketball coach a CEO can throw a chair so the two endeavours must be completely interrelated and you can transfer ideas & concepts between the two and they make complete sense.
Over the years, I've heard of *many* ideas like this:
- Business is like hunting, if you don't return with skins, you've failed
- Business is like prostitution, you get fucked or you're the fucker
- Business is like a parent, you coddle, worry, teach and it takes years to find out if you were successful
I don't think Mr. Ballmer has ever appreciated how lucky he was to be at the right place at the right time - otherwise he'd just be some obnoxious nobody that people try to ignore.
As it is, he's just a rich obnoxious nobody that people try to ignore.
Looking at the initial comments, I would think you might want to weigh in on some points/questions coming up here.
And nobody knows what happened to them....
For the most part I agree with you regarding markets, but I should point out that for years Amazon didn't make any money, Mr. Bezos put out a ton of promises and ... Look at where they are now. Maybe they're the exception that proves the rule.
Tesla might not be making any money right now, but I would think it's a pretty safe bet to invest in long term.
When I was at RIM, the iPhone 4 came out with one of the benefits for buyers was the extensive library of apps that were available for download. The iPhone SDK was free or a very nominal cost. To develop an app for the Blackberry at the time required an expensive SDK as well as a costly testing process to make sure the app met their standards.
RIM at the time (and I talked about this with very senior executives) made it clear that the way Apple was doing would destroy Apple as professionals wouldn't want something which had unvetted and, to their eye, silly apps.
Thank you - I knew about the aluminum steering grid issue, I didn't know they had a goal for such a quick turnaround.
As people have pointed out, the various Space Shuttles were reused quite a few times and the X-37 has flown multiple times. They both require significant refurbishment before they could be flown again - the Space Shuttle required basically a reskinning of the thermal protection tiles and for the X-37 it sounds like the tiles are good, but it requires significant refurbishment inside the spacecraft after it's long stays in orbit. It would be interesting to see how much work is required on the Dragon (and SpaceX hasn't really explained what needs to be done to refly a Falcon booster).
The problem is, if SpaceX has very efficient systems for turning around Dragons and Falcon boosters then they may want to keep it secret to minimize competition. On the other hand, if they have a very poor process, they want to keep it secret to give the appearance that they know what they are doing.
I thought "Golden Keys" were designed into the Win 10 OS as backdoors
And roundly denounced as a serious security flaw: http://www.pcworld.com/article...
The short answer is "yes" but as to whether or not it is usable depends on the drivers Qualcomm makes available and somehow I think they'll give Windows drivers priority...
for this product is probably zero.
As I noted in my post below, there's a shit ton of work to do provide the apps and ecosystem of the basic Win 10 (S?) x64 platform.
Along with the comments by the ACs, I don't believe that Microsoft will put in the investment to make the product competitive in terms of apps and available software.
Other than asking if this hardware will run Linux (I know the basic answer is "yes", but I would like to see the network driver release plan for Linux) I have to wonder about Microsoft pushing a Snapdragon solution in terms of apps.
I would expect that Office 365 (and probably not basic Office) will run under the resulting version of Win 10 (S?) but what about 3rd party applications which includes games? I guess web apps that run decently on Edge will not be affected, but what about the rest of the Windows x86 (and 64bit) catalog?
Would Microsoft subsidize development houses to get their apps on this platform?