1) Are we making money? Is it happening easily? Is it likely it will continue for a while? If "no" to any of the questions, goto #2. Otherwise end. 2) Innovate.
>>>>...requires input from an incredibly wide range of disciplines, including astrophysics, geology, exoplanet science, planetary science, chemistry and various subfields of biology...(actual astrobiologist) likes to tell other researchers that "everyone is an astrobiologist..." >> 'Everyone Is an Astrobiologist'
As usual, a shit headline for a SlashDot article. It's remarkable the editors figure out how to turn their computers on each morn^b^b^b^bafternoon.
>> "Start as contract, and if we like you, we might hire you in a year or so."...If you can't actually hire me, I don't want to work for you.
^^^ This IS the right attitude. I do listen to the occasional recruiter, but only if it's a velvet-rope, interviews-are-formality path into a high-paying directly-employed-by-corporate-with-benefits position.
Contracted managers are also a strange message for corporations to send THEIR employees. "We're not really sure if YOUR DEPARTMENT manager is worth keeping long term, but please don't job-shop or anything!"
>> Part time gig, shitty pay, no benefits, wah wah
Git gud, people. And pick a profession that's hot and slighty undefinable (e.g., "big data architect"). Once you are, companies will throw pay, vacation and benefits (like work from home) at you like panties at a rock show.
This has everything to do with Snap not wanting to be "the next Twitter", where their idiot employees spout off on camera about their magic privacy-violating powers.
>> Why would you care about what strangers think of you? Some strangers judged me negatively because I...wore a Harry Potter Entering The TARDIS t-shirt
I'm pretty sure you wore that shirt to annoy strangers. And there's a good chance that anyone who reacted to the shirt would stand a better chance of becoming your friends than complete strangers, right? So...I think you really wore the shirt as a social filter to help you decide who around you might be worth talking to. (I do it myself with stupid programming shirts.)
Part of the reason delivery works today is that shops rely on people desperate enough to try to make tip money as drivers during slow hours, essentially burning up gas, smokes and their own car shuttling food around town. If shops had to buy and maintain a couple of high-tech, breakdown-prone cars instead of letting a couple of near-deadbeats hang around the back door I can see their profit margins taking a dive.
>> The company hopes to learn more—both about how customers interact with the cars and about how it should set up the interior of delivery-centric vehicles
To keep the delivery experience consistent, you need half a pack of smokes and another 2-3 packs on the front seat, a couple of burn marks in the unholstery, a sticky slime of rapid-turn-spilled soda down the passenger door, a couple of snot rags in the door handle, and a thin film of overweight-smoker's-man-cough mixed with mold-in-the-intake-filter debris and bacteria distributed evenly over all the food transported to the customers.
The trickiest part might be how the car would dispense some of the illegal substances delivery drivers currently offer to their customers today.
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't say it was smart. But that's how it works.
1) Are we making money? Is it happening easily? Is it likely it will continue for a while? If "no" to any of the questions, goto #2. Otherwise end.
2) Innovate.
There's nothing "open" about a spying agency, and to be effective spies they need to be dishonest (at least in the field).
I just hope "respect for (US) law" is really still a thing over there. Things don't look so good over at other agencies...
>> In recent months, YouTube has given a handful of musicians a couple hundred thousand dollars
Is that "$100Ks to each musician" or "minimum wage salaries to a couple dozen people"?
>> I'm surprised the US ranked so high
Space travel. The Internet. iPhones. Commercial space travel. Quantum mechanics. Nuclear bombs. Tang. Google.
It's harder to name something innovative that DIDN'T start here than the reverse. Again, how could the methodology be so flawed as to bury the US?
...putting South Korea at the top an "innovative" list shows that the methodology is crap.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/01/22/2311225/tesla-owner-attempts-autopilot-defense-during-dui-stop
>>>> ...requires input from an incredibly wide range of disciplines, including astrophysics, geology, exoplanet science, planetary science, chemistry and various subfields of biology...(actual astrobiologist) likes to tell other researchers that "everyone is an astrobiologist..."
>> 'Everyone Is an Astrobiologist'
As usual, a shit headline for a SlashDot article. It's remarkable the editors figure out how to turn their computers on each morn^b^b^b^bafternoon.
>> "Start as contract, and if we like you, we might hire you in a year or so."...If you can't actually hire me, I don't want to work for you.
^^^ This IS the right attitude. I do listen to the occasional recruiter, but only if it's a velvet-rope, interviews-are-formality path into a high-paying directly-employed-by-corporate-with-benefits position.
Contracted managers are also a strange message for corporations to send THEIR employees. "We're not really sure if YOUR DEPARTMENT manager is worth keeping long term, but please don't job-shop or anything!"
>> Part time gig, shitty pay, no benefits, wah wah
Git gud, people. And pick a profession that's hot and slighty undefinable (e.g., "big data architect"). Once you are, companies will throw pay, vacation and benefits (like work from home) at you like panties at a rock show.
Because programmers are bad at math?
Or, why is a technique programmers have used since computers were born news again?
Also, gets s-tons of free "do no evil" PR.
>> CNBC
Although, I'm not sure CNBC exposure is worth anything. It's been a while since I met a geek with cable...
Um...why the downvote? Is there anything untrue about my statement? (e.g., were the Twitter employees NOT idiots for bragging in a bar?)
This has everything to do with Snap not wanting to be "the next Twitter", where their idiot employees spout off on camera about their magic privacy-violating powers.
e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgyPpsX2B0g&t=3s
Three of the "20" locations ARE Washington DC: Northern Virginia,, Washington D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland. My money's there.
Someone tell them that it's 2018 please.
>> longtime lawyer Brad Smith ...discussion has largely been taking place within the tech sector...broadening the dialogue.
No thanks. Keep the lawyers as far away as possible and things will turn out just fine.
>> imperceptible thump
Well, which was it?
>> Why would you care about what strangers think of you? Some strangers judged me negatively because I...wore a Harry Potter Entering The TARDIS t-shirt
I'm pretty sure you wore that shirt to annoy strangers. And there's a good chance that anyone who reacted to the shirt would stand a better chance of becoming your friends than complete strangers, right? So...I think you really wore the shirt as a social filter to help you decide who around you might be worth talking to. (I do it myself with stupid programming shirts.)
The CEO could give two shits if he's pushing the costs off on franchise owners. It's the local owners whose margins would be shaved.
Take a look at this then get back to us:
https://biz.dominos.com/web/public/franchise
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=franchise
Part of the reason delivery works today is that shops rely on people desperate enough to try to make tip money as drivers during slow hours, essentially burning up gas, smokes and their own car shuttling food around town. If shops had to buy and maintain a couple of high-tech, breakdown-prone cars instead of letting a couple of near-deadbeats hang around the back door I can see their profit margins taking a dive.
>> 80% of the population -- were wiped out in an epidemic...salmonella enterica bacterium...spread via infected food or water...
So...the Aztecs were killed by Montezuma's revenge?
>> contraceptive mobile phone app...has come under fire after reportedly sparking a string of unwanted pregnancies.
Really, that's not where the phone goes, ladies.
>> LeakedSource.com website
I thought the URL was "github.com"
>> The company hopes to learn more—both about how customers interact with the cars and about how it should set up the interior of delivery-centric vehicles
To keep the delivery experience consistent, you need half a pack of smokes and another 2-3 packs on the front seat, a couple of burn marks in the unholstery, a sticky slime of rapid-turn-spilled soda down the passenger door, a couple of snot rags in the door handle, and a thin film of overweight-smoker's-man-cough mixed with mold-in-the-intake-filter debris and bacteria distributed evenly over all the food transported to the customers.
The trickiest part might be how the car would dispense some of the illegal substances delivery drivers currently offer to their customers today.