If we got to put a rating on other "first world" infrastructure we use to live our lives, they'd all have shitty marks too. And yet, we still buy them. (Well, except for cable - no one pays for that hot mess anymore.)
This worked against you. Experience means higher salary expectations, and coders whose brains still remember the NP and P bullshit from college are likelier to be cheaper. HR loves youth-leaning questions like these because they effectively screen out protected classes (old people in this case) with something that would look legit in discovery ("um...like...ANYONE in software should like totally know what NP and P sets are, your honor").
>> is that the right number (of steps) for any of you?...It's just a number that's now built into the apps
It's worse that being built into a crappy little "health app" - it can actually cost you hundreds of dollars a month.
I was recently at a company where you got a discount on your health care plan if you walked 3,500 steps a day. With that in mind, I downloaded the related health-care app so I could reverse-engineer the web services and feed them the appropriate numbers each day to avoid paying more.
>> more Apple employees from more teams will be present, simply because they won't have to devote an entire day to being there
You'll have MORE employees, buzzing through so they can tell their managers they were there, but probably LESS engagement, because, you know, they gotta get back to the office and fill out those TPS reports so they can leave at a decent hour.
>> Facebook's social aspects could make it easier for potential employers to trawl your profile for details of your personal life
Umm...they already do. That's one of the reasons I quit Facebook years ago. And that was before one of my buddies who works in "gov PR" showed me how he uses Facebook to pinpoint exactly who is whining about what issue - regardless of the "friend" or "privacy" settings they have set up.
>> thing can be parked on an old cast-off *nix serve
Unless email's just for fun at your business, you'd probably want a little more reliability than that.
>> small AWS instance
By the time you consider that, you're probably >$20/month for <=5 users.
Trust me - the people setting cloud pricing know about alternative solutions, and $250/year for reliable small-business email is essentially market price right now.
>> there also were beneficiaries -- namely consumers and employers
Er...have you have had to deal with H1B code? Most of the "security vulnerabilities" and other showstopping bugs I've seen over the last ten years could be traced to a "consultant" working as an indentured servant for one of the interchangeable Indian body shops.
Picard: "Who the fuck reads to the end of an email?"
That would be like clicking on TFA on a Slashdot submission. If the gist of the request isn't in the first sentence or so I usually just delete the thing.
If you work at a place with a decent IT shop, they'll happily put company email on your phone as long as you run their remote watch-and-wipe app. It's just not worth it to me - instead I publish my personal cell phone number everywhere along with a note "text me if it's serious" and check work emails when I get the next business day.
Political parties love candidates who can "self fund" especially in hopeless races. The political questions are probably coming from D-leaning pols who'd like to see some rich CEO run for office. (See Rahm's speech on recruiting candidates this week for an example.)
Time to take time out from bashing Slashdot and its paid staff (yes, these editors actually get paid, I hear) to remind ourselves of some of its goodness. In this case, it's that fact that Slashdot thankfully still doesn't include images with summaries - that makes the content much easier to scan.
I just got my check from the Wells Fargo settlement. It was $0.27, for the trouble of having to chase down a credit card opened in my name and a checking account opened with no money and a bunch of $6/mo "maintenance fees" I had to fight.
>> point of venture capital is to provide for the expansion and development of an idea
I thought it was to separate fools from their money.
Once you get the big round of funding, you bank the cash, delay the product, and then shut the doors (with the right note of regret) once you've got your next gig/startup lined up.
Nah - this crew sounds like it wears poor-fitting hemp clothing instead. It's THEIR parents who wear the suits (and own the basements from which they tweet).
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If we got to put a rating on other "first world" infrastructure we use to live our lives, they'd all have shitty marks too. And yet, we still buy them. (Well, except for cable - no one pays for that hot mess anymore.)
>> background of 10+ years
This worked against you. Experience means higher salary expectations, and coders whose brains still remember the NP and P bullshit from college are likelier to be cheaper. HR loves youth-leaning questions like these because they effectively screen out protected classes (old people in this case) with something that would look legit in discovery ("um...like...ANYONE in software should like totally know what NP and P sets are, your honor").
>> Ed Ho
Yes, if this guy went through high school, I could imagine he knows what it means to be a target of abusers.
>> "planet" would be a physical term, while "moon" would be an orbital term
OK, but do you call something that orbits a star (like a, er, planet).
>> is that the right number (of steps) for any of you?...It's just a number that's now built into the apps
It's worse that being built into a crappy little "health app" - it can actually cost you hundreds of dollars a month.
I was recently at a company where you got a discount on your health care plan if you walked 3,500 steps a day. With that in mind, I downloaded the related health-care app so I could reverse-engineer the web services and feed them the appropriate numbers each day to avoid paying more.
What you're looking for is "Cost Per Impression" (CPI):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_impression
It's been around at least as long as newspapers.
>> demote websites that have repeatedly been served with copyright infringement notices
So...you're saying that we'll stop seeing YouTube results in Google searches?
>> YouTube is planning to do away with the non-skippable 30-second ads
And, in the next room: "Today, we are introducing 25 and 45-second unskippable ads!"
If anything, this is the continuing use case for multiple browser tabs, each with their own volume/mute button.
>> more Apple employees from more teams will be present, simply because they won't have to devote an entire day to being there
You'll have MORE employees, buzzing through so they can tell their managers they were there, but probably LESS engagement, because, you know, they gotta get back to the office and fill out those TPS reports so they can leave at a decent hour.
>> Facebook's social aspects could make it easier for potential employers to trawl your profile for details of your personal life
Umm...they already do. That's one of the reasons I quit Facebook years ago. And that was before one of my buddies who works in "gov PR" showed me how he uses Facebook to pinpoint exactly who is whining about what issue - regardless of the "friend" or "privacy" settings they have set up.
The original earth was 8-bit. Superearth is the 16-bit version.
Why not a "digital land mine treaty" while we're at it?
>> thing can be parked on an old cast-off *nix serve
Unless email's just for fun at your business, you'd probably want a little more reliability than that.
>> small AWS instance
By the time you consider that, you're probably >$20/month for <=5 users.
Trust me - the people setting cloud pricing know about alternative solutions, and $250/year for reliable small-business email is essentially market price right now.
>> there also were beneficiaries -- namely consumers and employers
Er...have you have had to deal with H1B code? Most of the "security vulnerabilities" and other showstopping bugs I've seen over the last ten years could be traced to a "consultant" working as an indentured servant for one of the interchangeable Indian body shops.
Picard: "Who the fuck reads to the end of an email?"
That would be like clicking on TFA on a Slashdot submission. If the gist of the request isn't in the first sentence or so I usually just delete the thing.
If you work at a place with a decent IT shop, they'll happily put company email on your phone as long as you run their remote watch-and-wipe app. It's just not worth it to me - instead I publish my personal cell phone number everywhere along with a note "text me if it's serious" and check work emails when I get the next business day.
Political parties love candidates who can "self fund" especially in hopeless races. The political questions are probably coming from D-leaning pols who'd like to see some rich CEO run for office. (See Rahm's speech on recruiting candidates this week for an example.)
>> Overeager Investors Seeking X Buy Y Instead
"Overeager" is the nicest euphemism for "complete dumbass" I've ever heard. I can't wait to use this in the office.
>> corporate HR usually has a mysteriously low (if not the lowest) termination rate, despite being overloaded with redundant workers
Firing workers is a lot of work for HR. There's payouts, COBRA, threats of lawsuits, job placement workshops, etc. It's actually a busy time for them.
Time to take time out from bashing Slashdot and its paid staff (yes, these editors actually get paid, I hear) to remind ourselves of some of its goodness. In this case, it's that fact that Slashdot thankfully still doesn't include images with summaries - that makes the content much easier to scan.
that you have so many to choose from.
The COO was right: you don't need TENTS to sleep indoors. Instead he should have just bought some sleeping bags and a couple of pillows.
>> everybody else gets $10
I just got my check from the Wells Fargo settlement. It was $0.27, for the trouble of having to chase down a credit card opened in my name and a checking account opened with no money and a bunch of $6/mo "maintenance fees" I had to fight.
$10...isn't that bad, considering.
>> point of venture capital is to provide for the expansion and development of an idea
I thought it was to separate fools from their money.
Once you get the big round of funding, you bank the cash, delay the product, and then shut the doors (with the right note of regret) once you've got your next gig/startup lined up.
>> sociopathic panel of faceless suits
Nah - this crew sounds like it wears poor-fitting hemp clothing instead. It's THEIR parents who wear the suits (and own the basements from which they tweet).