Its not even the way it was done. Its more about demonstrating that management has no clue as to how reddit "delivers" its product, and not even giving thought about how to manage the transition. "We're the ones who hire and fire. You're just minions. You're only supposed to approve of what we do, or else storm out the door."
No, the biggest problem is attempting to monetize a fairly long-established platform that is highly dependent on volunteers, who do not appreciate being disrespected despite their commitment, coupled with participants that do not like changes in things that they have grown accustomed to.
No, its not even that. The biggest problem is that neither Ellen Pao (current CEO), nor co-founder Alex Ohanian actually understand how their product works! They do not understand the operation of their own business.
These mods do the grunt work (for free). They eat their own reddit dogfood. Not only did management remove the only person (from the mods POV) that actually grasped how to PROPERLY do the operation, management didn't even understand that there had to be a replacement plan already in place. You can only understand this if you've ever worked in a department where a radical change has been made, and you knew that the change absolutely could not work. Most of the time, you don't have points in the company, so you just start polishing your resume and start making popcorn for the disaster flick that is about to commence. But these people aren't paid; they do it for their love of the finished product. What management did was take their many hours of unpaid work, kill the beautiful thing they created, and watch the killers plant a zombie parasite into it, and expect to see their dead masterpiece masquerading as the real thing. The mods then reacted in the only manner which they could.
That's what made n0thing's (Ohanian) attempt at damage control so damaging. It wasn't that Ohanian was inappropriately flippant. It was that the answers he gave to pointed questions demonstrated that he didn't have a clue what management did wrong.
My source of disgust is directed towards the tech media punditry. Because what they're demonstrating is that they don't have a clue what reddit management did wrong. They're just either covering up management's (Pao's) fuckup in the name of professional "sisterhood", or just care about how another startup is going to have lost investor money.
Alas, there's no real indication that Greece will ever be able to fix their little problem. If every penny they owed were forgiven tomorrow, they'd be back in trouble in twenty years....
How could they? No one would lend exorbitant amounts of money that a country with bad credit could pay back. Unless, the lender is an investment bank, and knew it could con the stupid ECB to transfer all that debt, thus reaping the profit. You people aren't grasping that bankers caused the problem as those spendthrift Greek did.
Getting their pension system in line and giving their tax collection system real bite is NOT going to result in a 30% increase in GDP. Leaving the eurozone and moving to a national drachma currency could result in way worse than a 30% revaluation of available money, but it also means Greece won't spending the next two centuries trying to pay off its debt in Euros! Which means their children will probably have some hope of a civilized future in twenty to thirty years. Which is why the Greeks should leave the Eurozone.
Greece basically has stolen a large amount of wealth, and has given the rest of the EU the middle finger.
You mean the Greek politician and investor class stole the Euros.
Were this a criminal enterprise that stole even 1/1000 of what was loaned, NATO would be involved right now.
Hardly likely, considering that Greece is a NATO member.
There is a good chance that Greece has just plunged the world into a deep, global recession, and we (as in the rest of the world) all will be paying for their Sybarite style ways come Monday.
From an economy that equals 2% of the GDP of the Eurozone??? Hardly. Its just the weasel dumbasses holding the bag full of Greek bonds. Who are now crying "The Eurozone is falling! The Eurozone is falling!", when two days ago, they were demanding 100% of the debt to be paid back.
The banksters knew Greece lied & manipulated their financial reports. They asked their gov'ts, "So, can treat them like Eurozone members in fiscal matters?", and the politicians said "yes". And the banksters thought "Great! I'll run up a quarterly profit here, and if Greece can't pay up, the central bank (German taxpayers) will bail me out."
The Greeks didn't vote against austerity. They voted against economic slavery. And they did it because agreeing to the EU banker conditions would not have allowed them to feed their people and grow their economy. Either the EU blinks, or the Greeks will Grexit. You fanboys of thieves wearing suits don't get it.
How on earth was this voted "insightful"??? This attitude is the essence of the problem with bankers in the EU. Its economically impossible for Greece to pay off that debt. Even if Greece got its act together, it could never generate enough productivity to pay off the debt & interest. If the EU isn't willing to bend over, and renegotiate a credible path to solvency, then Greece will default, leave the EU, and whomever is holding Greek bonds will be fucked 100%, rather than 50%. Then the question is whether the EU will survive to economic turmoil.
1) The Congress fucked up the wording in a sentence in the law they cobbled together. When Congress fucks up, the Supreme Court determines how to reasonably interpret what the law is required to do. That's not judicial overreach. This is how the real world works.
2) The Supreme Court can't do crap once the Republican House proposes revisions to "correct" the intent of the adjudicated provision, and the Republican Senate votes to pass it on to the POTUS for signing. The Congress still has the power to correct its fuckup.
Learn how the Constitution of the US and the real world works!
Its doing neither. Congress fucked up when it wrote the PPACA, so now the Judiciary branch made the decision that America lives in the real world, and its not in its interest to screw over a significant population because Congress wrote a provision ambiguously. There is a different standard in civil contract law, but even it does not always side with a plaintiff's interpretation of how an agreement is to be implemented.
If the wording in the PPACA is unacceptably flawed, there is nothing to stop the Congress from amending the law to reflect its intended wording. It should be a cakewalk, considering the Republican party controls both houses. Guess what? Your congressman/senator is choosing to accept the SCOTUS ruling.
People don't seem to get that Google is not the solution for every ailment in the computer industry. Because Google is a conglomeration of startups, offering services for free, without a single clue about customer satisfaction. Google has no follow through. Its like Apple, with its inability to provide reliable services outside of the box it sells. Google will never buy postgres, then try to stick it to Oracle. Oracle needs to be a "threat" to Google's market plan before Google will react, and Oracle will never succeed in a manner where it can pose such threat to Google. If a competitor came out with a marginally better search engine, Google would be dead as a profitable company. They'd have to count on their self-driving car or "internet of things" to bail them out.
Learn that the industry moves on. People & popular languages die; just learn to move on. No point in getting sucked into the theology of the previous era.
Kudos for sticking with Linux, but you should be bright enough to figure out that this the "price" you pay for using Linux. The price of "anarchy" is that the community chooses its leaders; there is no "vetting" or removal procedure. Basically, things have to get XFree86 bad before something gets done about it. Your whining about the "proletarian coders' paradise" falls on deaf ears, much like the Soviet Union. Hell, there aren't even Linux (not RMS) evangelists that will bother to raise the battle flag anymore.
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This is why he can't get jobs requiring managerial or supervisory acumen.
Its not even the way it was done. Its more about demonstrating that management has no clue as to how reddit "delivers" its product, and not even giving thought about how to manage the transition. "We're the ones who hire and fire. You're just minions. You're only supposed to approve of what we do, or else storm out the door."
No, the biggest problem is attempting to monetize a fairly long-established platform that is highly dependent on volunteers, who do not appreciate being disrespected despite their commitment, coupled with participants that do not like changes in things that they have grown accustomed to.
No, its not even that. The biggest problem is that neither Ellen Pao (current CEO), nor co-founder Alex Ohanian actually understand how their product works! They do not understand the operation of their own business.
These mods do the grunt work (for free). They eat their own reddit dogfood. Not only did management remove the only person (from the mods POV) that actually grasped how to PROPERLY do the operation, management didn't even understand that there had to be a replacement plan already in place. You can only understand this if you've ever worked in a department where a radical change has been made, and you knew that the change absolutely could not work. Most of the time, you don't have points in the company, so you just start polishing your resume and start making popcorn for the disaster flick that is about to commence. But these people aren't paid; they do it for their love of the finished product. What management did was take their many hours of unpaid work, kill the beautiful thing they created, and watch the killers plant a zombie parasite into it, and expect to see their dead masterpiece masquerading as the real thing. The mods then reacted in the only manner which they could.
That's what made n0thing's (Ohanian) attempt at damage control so damaging. It wasn't that Ohanian was inappropriately flippant. It was that the answers he gave to pointed questions demonstrated that he didn't have a clue what management did wrong.
My source of disgust is directed towards the tech media punditry. Because what they're demonstrating is that they don't have a clue what reddit management did wrong. They're just either covering up management's (Pao's) fuckup in the name of professional "sisterhood", or just care about how another startup is going to have lost investor money.
Alas, there's no real indication that Greece will ever be able to fix their little problem. If every penny they owed were forgiven tomorrow, they'd be back in trouble in twenty years....
How could they? No one would lend exorbitant amounts of money that a country with bad credit could pay back. Unless, the lender is an investment bank, and knew it could con the stupid ECB to transfer all that debt, thus reaping the profit. You people aren't grasping that bankers caused the problem as those spendthrift Greek did.
They are communists
No, actually they are a variation of European Socialists! There already was a Greek Communist party. Syriza was an exodus from that organization.
Getting their pension system in line and giving their tax collection system real bite is NOT going to result in a 30% increase in GDP. Leaving the eurozone and moving to a national drachma currency could result in way worse than a 30% revaluation of available money, but it also means Greece won't spending the next two centuries trying to pay off its debt in Euros! Which means their children will probably have some hope of a civilized future in twenty to thirty years. Which is why the Greeks should leave the Eurozone.
Greece basically has stolen a large amount of wealth, and has given the rest of the EU the middle finger.
You mean the Greek politician and investor class stole the Euros.
Were this a criminal enterprise that stole even 1/1000 of what was loaned, NATO would be involved right now.
Hardly likely, considering that Greece is a NATO member.
There is a good chance that Greece has just plunged the world into a deep, global recession, and we (as in the rest of the world) all will be paying for their Sybarite style ways come Monday.
From an economy that equals 2% of the GDP of the Eurozone??? Hardly. Its just the weasel dumbasses holding the bag full of Greek bonds. Who are now crying "The Eurozone is falling! The Eurozone is falling!", when two days ago, they were demanding 100% of the debt to be paid back.
Only the southerners; sore losers.
The banksters knew Greece lied & manipulated their financial reports. They asked their gov'ts, "So, can treat them like Eurozone members in fiscal matters?", and the politicians said "yes". And the banksters thought "Great! I'll run up a quarterly profit here, and if Greece can't pay up, the central bank (German taxpayers) will bail me out."
Now there is someone who gets it.
The Greeks didn't vote against austerity. They voted against economic slavery. And they did it because agreeing to the EU banker conditions would not have allowed them to feed their people and grow their economy. Either the EU blinks, or the Greeks will Grexit. You fanboys of thieves wearing suits don't get it.
How on earth was this voted "insightful"??? This attitude is the essence of the problem with bankers in the EU. Its economically impossible for Greece to pay off that debt. Even if Greece got its act together, it could never generate enough productivity to pay off the debt & interest. If the EU isn't willing to bend over, and renegotiate a credible path to solvency, then Greece will default, leave the EU, and whomever is holding Greek bonds will be fucked 100%, rather than 50%. Then the question is whether the EU will survive to economic turmoil.
The two points you miss again stupid is:
1) The Congress fucked up the wording in a sentence in the law they cobbled together. When Congress fucks up, the Supreme Court determines how to reasonably interpret what the law is required to do. That's not judicial overreach. This is how the real world works.
2) The Supreme Court can't do crap once the Republican House proposes revisions to "correct" the intent of the adjudicated provision, and the Republican Senate votes to pass it on to the POTUS for signing. The Congress still has the power to correct its fuckup.
Learn how the Constitution of the US and the real world works!
No one cares about the opinion of an anonymous coward.
Now THERE is a ruling that could use a corrective law or amendment.
Its doing neither. Congress fucked up when it wrote the PPACA, so now the Judiciary branch made the decision that America lives in the real world, and its not in its interest to screw over a significant population because Congress wrote a provision ambiguously. There is a different standard in civil contract law, but even it does not always side with a plaintiff's interpretation of how an agreement is to be implemented.
If the wording in the PPACA is unacceptably flawed, there is nothing to stop the Congress from amending the law to reflect its intended wording. It should be a cakewalk, considering the Republican party controls both houses. Guess what? Your congressman/senator is choosing to accept the SCOTUS ruling.
Blame minecraft, they require you to use that java shit.
People don't seem to get that Google is not the solution for every ailment in the computer industry. Because Google is a conglomeration of startups, offering services for free, without a single clue about customer satisfaction. Google has no follow through. Its like Apple, with its inability to provide reliable services outside of the box it sells. Google will never buy postgres, then try to stick it to Oracle. Oracle needs to be a "threat" to Google's market plan before Google will react, and Oracle will never succeed in a manner where it can pose such threat to Google. If a competitor came out with a marginally better search engine, Google would be dead as a profitable company. They'd have to count on their self-driving car or "internet of things" to bail them out.
Lord knows, no one bothers to read Slashdot...
Yahoo. Oracle is the dinosaur that's going to need a decade to die, like IBM.
It worked for Mark Hurd.
You could have done this five years ago. When users realized that java was a defunct trend on the consumer PC.
Learn that the industry moves on. People & popular languages die; just learn to move on. No point in getting sucked into the theology of the previous era.
Fuck Java. I'll use C++, thanks.
It's fun watching the Triceratops duke it out with the T. Rex. That is, if either of you were relevant...
Kudos for sticking with Linux, but you should be bright enough to figure out that this the "price" you pay for using Linux. The price of "anarchy" is that the community chooses its leaders; there is no "vetting" or removal procedure. Basically, things have to get XFree86 bad before something gets done about it. Your whining about the "proletarian coders' paradise" falls on deaf ears, much like the Soviet Union. Hell, there aren't even Linux (not RMS) evangelists that will bother to raise the battle flag anymore.