"Our performance-review process was developed to allow employees at all levels of the company to receive meaningful, regular and actionable feedback from others," Clark said. "We believe this process allows our team to develop and do their best work. Our performance-review process also allows for high performers to engage in increasingly larger opportunities at our company, as well as for low performers to be transitioned out."
Mayer still has a job, therefore something here isn't true.
It's unethical because he wants to give them only the parts of the Internet that he wants them to have -- which includes Facebook, of course. It's a conflict of interest; his so-called 'charity' is tainted by his own special interests.
And given past Facebook conduct, it would be surprising if any right-of-center web sites made it to the list of allowed sites.
You may not have watched the video but it's clearly bipedal. Bears can walk for short distances on their hind legs, but those legs are really short. This thing has legs that are like a human's - half the length of the body.
It looks to me like a guy in some sort of suit, like a snow suit. He probably has no idea that he's Sasquatch.
I would much rather die healthy, sane and in the middle of doing something I love at age 90 than I want to be a drooling vegetable that needs help to do even the most basic chores like wipe myself after a visit to the toilet but living to the age of 130.
My father had a massive heart attack at age 50. He didn't feel well that day and decided to lay down instead of eating supper. He never woke up. He died laying in his standard sleeping position, leading us to believe that he never even woke up at all.
I consider him lucky, frankly.
His mother had a stroke at age 73 and spent her last 2 months unable to think straight, have a conversation, get out of bed, feed herself, etc.
Nope, this represent a major seismic shift in corporate ideology, a humanity saving shift. That shift is the change from a war industrial complex to a space industrial complex.
Yep. I'm sure that ISIS will give up the whole "kill everybody who isn't our kind of Muslim" thing any day now so that they can join the space industrial complex.
No, he's popular because he's willing to say "the middle class is getting screwed". Democrats can't say that because 1) it would hurt their pandering to the poor and 2) it would reveal that Obama's presidency has been an economic disaster (which they should admit but blame Republicans for, but that would dig into their hilarious bullshit that Clinton was responsible for the economic high times of the 90s).
The problem is that it's not that high due to loopholes created by the rich for themselves. That's why Buffett's effective tax rate is lower than that of his secretary. That's ultimately the problem - the middle class is getting screwed royally. That's why Trump is so popular.
Because it wasn't "wrong for Citizens United to spend money to make a political film". It was "wrong for Citizens United to spend money to make a political film that was against Democrats". See how that works?
It's like the facebook guy giving $20M to defeat Trump. Is Lessig having a cow over that?
Let me explain it to you slowly. The MSM wanted Trump to be the Republican nominee because he was easily beatable by the Democrats, unlike Ted Cruz. So they gave Trump loads of positive press, right until he got the nomination. At that point, he turned into Satan.
They've been portraying him negatively now to try to hurt him and help their candidate, Hillary Clinton.
Note that Gary Johnson has been in the news - headlines, even - because he apparently doesn't have other "world leaders" that he fawns over. Real big deal. Meanwhile, Hillary's poor choices in Libya are huge news right now in the UK and not even mentioned in the news here. Johnson is apparently pulling more Dems off Hillary than he's pulling Republicans off Trump, so they have to make stupid shit up about him so he'll be less appetizing to the potentially Hillary voters.
If you understand that the press overwhelmingly wants to elect Clinton, the stories that make headlines suddenly make sense.
You got a temporary offer. They will jack the prices back up to the previous level after some period of months.
Yeah, two years. I forgot to mention that. Typically, though, when Comcast gives a "temporary" deal like that in two years time that'll be standard pricing for that service level. That's the way it's always been. I just hope that I can ditch the cable box in two years.
It's obvious that tv isn't a big deal now since the local channels are coming in at 720p. They might be doing hbo/showtime at 1080p, no idea. But netflix and a-prime are better to look at.
I went 100% data something like 10 years ago. Then Comcast called me up and said "hey, we'll throw in basic cable for $5/month more", so I said "fine" and took it. We didn't watch much - the kids watched Disney Channel when they were much younger but that was about it.
Then I moved and went back to a data-only plan, which went from $50/month to $70/month for some reason, I think because it got faster.
Anyway, fast forward two years and last month Comcast called me up and said "hey, for another penny each month we'll throw in basic cable plus a premium channel *and* take you up to 300Mb/sec". I said "Sounds good, I don't need the cable". Long story short, they literally wouldn't upgrade my cable speed until I'd connected the stupid cable box to my tv and turned it on.
The only good to come of it (besides the ass-kicking speed) is that when it started crapping they sent a tech out who finally figured out what I'd been telling them for two years - there's a problem in the wiring between my house and their office.
Anyway, the point is that they would not increase my speed without forcing me to get cable. At least I'll be able to get netflix on the comcast box thing soon, although I also need amazon prime and youtube to get even close to replacing a roku.
In an RDBMS context, NULL and blank are two very different unrelated concepts. If you don't know the difference you'll make yourself look stupid.
NULL in an RDBMS context and a "null pointer" in C have nothing to do with each other beyond the word "null". As you get into different languages these terms may be used in various ways that are unrelated, fully related, or only tangentially related to an RDBMS context or whatever.
I say get rid of nulls. They cause all kinds of problems and bloat up code. The few times you do "need" them can be handled other ways.
For example, check to make sure the data structure has values (elements) before running an "average" operation on it. If you don't check and there are no elements in it, then it should throw an error rather than produce a null.
Perhaps nulls are used in RDBMS because it's not easy to use conditionals or error handlers in queries to deal with an empty structure or no rows. Maybe have the Average function return two values (columns): one with the result value, and another column with a the count of elements averaged. If the count is zero, then the result value is invalid (not informative), but would be set to zero for consistency.
A potential problem with getting rid of nulls is that languages may have to support them for backward compatibility with existing stuff that produces nulls.
The more you type, the bigger the hole.
In RDBMS terms, "NULL" means "we don't know the value". It's not "empty", 0, false, or anything like that. It is "unknown".
Take this dataset:
0 2 NULL NULL 4
The average of those is 2 ( (0 + 2 + 4) / 3 ). The count is 3. The sum is 6. The max is 4 and the min is 0. The RDBMS doesn't count null values for those operations because nulls are not known.
Likewise, NULL != NULL and NULL = NULL both give no value because it's unknown.
NULL is not "empty". It is not "undefined". It is not "blank". This is the source of your confusion. NULLs are absolutely necessary in an RDBMS context - at least for people who know what they're doing.
In terms of C programming, "null" usually means a pointer that has a literal value of 0. Unix-based operating systems always set the first page of mapped memory to be inaccessible as an easy way to catch references to 0 pointers. That makes a null pointer an easy way to say "there's no value here yet". But it's really not the same as a NULL value in an RDBMS context.
The last I'd heard, news fact-checking organizations were reporting that he told the truth 15% of the time. Why would I ever care what the opinion of someone like was?
And I've found the "fact-checking organizations" tell the truth about 10% of the time. These are the people who claim Hillary told the truth about her email server.
The people of the United States are still smarter than that.
Oracle nets $200 million after a small reimbursement
Oracle potentially gives away software that creates a lifetime dependency on their products going forward
Oracle hasn't actually given away any software yet
Win/Win
for Oracle
Exactly. I love the $60M in "software" - that cost Oracle $0 in the short term and in the long term sets up a dependency that'll be the gift that keeps on giving.
Oregon got *screwed*, and apparently the folks in charge don't understand it.
If you can't find something stupid said by anybody in that list in 3 seconds of Google, I can't help you.
You're too stupid to help anyone. It's the job of the person making the assertion to back it up. Don't think so? Then I causally assert that Trailer Trash likes to have sex with pigs in the mud, and leave you to disprove that assertion.
This is contract enforcement, one of the bedrock functions of government in a modern society. It's amazing how people like you create this straw man libertarianism since you don't understand what we actually believe.
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"Our performance-review process was developed to allow employees at all levels of the company to receive meaningful, regular and actionable feedback from others," Clark said. "We believe this process allows our team to develop and do their best work. Our performance-review process also allows for high performers to engage in increasingly larger opportunities at our company, as well as for low performers to be transitioned out."
Mayer still has a job, therefore something here isn't true.
It's unethical because he wants to give them only the parts of the Internet that he wants them to have -- which includes Facebook, of course. It's a conflict of interest; his so-called 'charity' is tainted by his own special interests.
And given past Facebook conduct, it would be surprising if any right-of-center web sites made it to the list of allowed sites.
You may not have watched the video but it's clearly bipedal. Bears can walk for short distances on their hind legs, but those legs are really short. This thing has legs that are like a human's - half the length of the body.
It looks to me like a guy in some sort of suit, like a snow suit. He probably has no idea that he's Sasquatch.
Michael
I would much rather die healthy, sane and in the middle of doing something I love at age 90 than I want to be a drooling vegetable that needs help to do even the most basic chores like wipe myself after a visit to the toilet but living to the age of 130.
My father had a massive heart attack at age 50. He didn't feel well that day and decided to lay down instead of eating supper. He never woke up. He died laying in his standard sleeping position, leading us to believe that he never even woke up at all.
I consider him lucky, frankly.
His mother had a stroke at age 73 and spent her last 2 months unable to think straight, have a conversation, get out of bed, feed herself, etc.
I'd much rather just have the quick heart attack.
So, we have 11 Republicans "for" SpaceX and 10 "against". Hmm.
What are you getting at?
Meanwhile, 24 members of congress wrote a counter-letter :)
Led by a Republican, by the way.
The fact is that we are again seeing the free market beating government cronies.
Nope, this represent a major seismic shift in corporate ideology, a humanity saving shift. That shift is the change from a war industrial complex to a space industrial complex.
Yep. I'm sure that ISIS will give up the whole "kill everybody who isn't our kind of Muslim" thing any day now so that they can join the space industrial complex.
No, he's popular because he's willing to say "the middle class is getting screwed". Democrats can't say that because 1) it would hurt their pandering to the poor and 2) it would reveal that Obama's presidency has been an economic disaster (which they should admit but blame Republicans for, but that would dig into their hilarious bullshit that Clinton was responsible for the economic high times of the 90s).
Pure fantasy, but I hope it lets you sleep better after Trump fails at everything and shatters the Republican party.
I guess you mistakenly think I'm pro-Trump?
The problem is that it's not that high due to loopholes created by the rich for themselves. That's why Buffett's effective tax rate is lower than that of his secretary. That's ultimately the problem - the middle class is getting screwed royally. That's why Trump is so popular.
Because it wasn't "wrong for Citizens United to spend money to make a political film". It was "wrong for Citizens United to spend money to make a political film that was against Democrats". See how that works?
It's like the facebook guy giving $20M to defeat Trump. Is Lessig having a cow over that?
Let me explain it to you slowly. The MSM wanted Trump to be the Republican nominee because he was easily beatable by the Democrats, unlike Ted Cruz. So they gave Trump loads of positive press, right until he got the nomination. At that point, he turned into Satan.
They've been portraying him negatively now to try to hurt him and help their candidate, Hillary Clinton.
Note that Gary Johnson has been in the news - headlines, even - because he apparently doesn't have other "world leaders" that he fawns over. Real big deal. Meanwhile, Hillary's poor choices in Libya are huge news right now in the UK and not even mentioned in the news here. Johnson is apparently pulling more Dems off Hillary than he's pulling Republicans off Trump, so they have to make stupid shit up about him so he'll be less appetizing to the potentially Hillary voters.
If you understand that the press overwhelmingly wants to elect Clinton, the stories that make headlines suddenly make sense.
You got a temporary offer. They will jack the prices back up to the previous level after some period of months.
Yeah, two years. I forgot to mention that. Typically, though, when Comcast gives a "temporary" deal like that in two years time that'll be standard pricing for that service level. That's the way it's always been. I just hope that I can ditch the cable box in two years.
It's obvious that tv isn't a big deal now since the local channels are coming in at 720p. They might be doing hbo/showtime at 1080p, no idea. But netflix and a-prime are better to look at.
I went 100% data something like 10 years ago. Then Comcast called me up and said "hey, we'll throw in basic cable for $5/month more", so I said "fine" and took it. We didn't watch much - the kids watched Disney Channel when they were much younger but that was about it.
Then I moved and went back to a data-only plan, which went from $50/month to $70/month for some reason, I think because it got faster.
Anyway, fast forward two years and last month Comcast called me up and said "hey, for another penny each month we'll throw in basic cable plus a premium channel *and* take you up to 300Mb/sec". I said "Sounds good, I don't need the cable". Long story short, they literally wouldn't upgrade my cable speed until I'd connected the stupid cable box to my tv and turned it on.
The only good to come of it (besides the ass-kicking speed) is that when it started crapping they sent a tech out who finally figured out what I'd been telling them for two years - there's a problem in the wiring between my house and their office.
Anyway, the point is that they would not increase my speed without forcing me to get cable. At least I'll be able to get netflix on the comcast box thing soon, although I also need amazon prime and youtube to get even close to replacing a roku.
In an RDBMS context, NULL and blank are two very different unrelated concepts. If you don't know the difference you'll make yourself look stupid.
NULL in an RDBMS context and a "null pointer" in C have nothing to do with each other beyond the word "null". As you get into different languages these terms may be used in various ways that are unrelated, fully related, or only tangentially related to an RDBMS context or whatever.
But, is there some angle where we could blame Republicans for it?
It's funny, I clicked through thinking nobody could be stupid enough to defend the laws written by auto dealers to prop up auto dealers' businesses.
And then dknj showed up.
I say get rid of nulls. They cause all kinds of problems and bloat up code. The few times you do "need" them can be handled other ways.
For example, check to make sure the data structure has values (elements) before running an "average" operation on it. If you don't check and there are no elements in it, then it should throw an error rather than produce a null.
Perhaps nulls are used in RDBMS because it's not easy to use conditionals or error handlers in queries to deal with an empty structure or no rows. Maybe have the Average function return two values (columns): one with the result value, and another column with a the count of elements averaged. If the count is zero, then the result value is invalid (not informative), but would be set to zero for consistency.
A potential problem with getting rid of nulls is that languages may have to support them for backward compatibility with existing stuff that produces nulls.
The more you type, the bigger the hole.
In RDBMS terms, "NULL" means "we don't know the value". It's not "empty", 0, false, or anything like that. It is "unknown".
Take this dataset:
0
2
NULL
NULL
4
The average of those is 2 ( (0 + 2 + 4) / 3 ). The count is 3. The sum is 6. The max is 4 and the min is 0. The RDBMS doesn't count null values for those operations because nulls are not known.
Likewise, NULL != NULL and NULL = NULL both give no value because it's unknown.
NULL is not "empty". It is not "undefined". It is not "blank". This is the source of your confusion. NULLs are absolutely necessary in an RDBMS context - at least for people who know what they're doing.
In terms of C programming, "null" usually means a pointer that has a literal value of 0. Unix-based operating systems always set the first page of mapped memory to be inaccessible as an easy way to catch references to 0 pointers. That makes a null pointer an easy way to say "there's no value here yet". But it's really not the same as a NULL value in an RDBMS context.
The last I'd heard, news fact-checking organizations were reporting that he told the truth 15% of the time. Why would I ever care what the opinion of someone like was?
And I've found the "fact-checking organizations" tell the truth about 10% of the time. These are the people who claim Hillary told the truth about her email server.
The people of the United States are still smarter than that.
So are you, Bruce.
Oracle avoids a $6 Billion lawsuit
Oracle nets $200 million after a small reimbursement
Oracle potentially gives away software that creates a lifetime dependency on their products going forward
Oracle hasn't actually given away any software yet
Win/Win
for Oracle
Exactly. I love the $60M in "software" - that cost Oracle $0 in the short term and in the long term sets up a dependency that'll be the gift that keeps on giving.
Oregon got *screwed*, and apparently the folks in charge don't understand it.
23 comments on Emacs and 4 on Vim?
"Holmes raised $700 million "on the condition that she would not divulge to investors how her technology actually worked,"
Can you imagine how many perpetual motion machine creators would love to get some VC using this same "condition"?
You're too stupid to help anyone. It's the job of the person making the assertion to back it up. Don't think so? Then I causally assert that Trailer Trash likes to have sex with pigs in the mud, and leave you to disprove that assertion.
Crap, I *knew* not to send that video to my ex :(
This is contract enforcement, one of the bedrock functions of government in a modern society. It's amazing how people like you create this straw man libertarianism since you don't understand what we actually believe.
Just... barely works. Sometimes you have to breathe on the screen a little to get it to recognize your finger.
Disappointing, given how expensive it was.
This is why I miss Steve Jobs.
The obvious problem is that your finger is defective, and Jobs wouldn't have been afraid to tell you that.