Java is the safe choice of managers who don't understand technology. It must be good because all the salesmen from IBM and Oracle keep telling them so.
It sounds to me that you have to separate goals: 1) work as a free lance developer 2) work on an open source project.
Either one of those is pretty easy to accomplish on its own (assuming you're a good enough developer to get hired to do the work someone else wants, or a good enough programmer to write a popular open source project).
But combining the two will be very difficult (not impossible, but very difficult). Being paid for support means you must develop and market a product to someone who is willing to write checks. That alone is a huge challenge. Doing it on your own when your customers will have the source code makes it even more difficult.
The premise of this book seems to be that "Big Tech" does have a common goal:
These firms have a program: to make the world less private, less individual, less creative, less human... Big Tech has imposed its will on the resident population
And if you think you can start a new search engine, social media site, or shopping site to compete with Google, Facebook, or Amazon - good luck.
That term is new on me, but maybe I'm not keeping up with things like that. Whenever some refers to a subject as Big XXXX (Big Oil, Big Pharma, etc.) you should be very skeptical of everything they say.
It's no small irony that the first link in the summary brings you to Amazon's page for the book. Although I suppose we should expect that in a slashvertisement for a book.
Most sales cannot be directly connected to a click any more than viewing a commercial on TV can.
Of course not, that's not how it works. Marketing operates at the macro level
1) look at your sales this month,
2) run an ad campaign,
3) compare the cost of the advertising to the increase in sales.
You have a very good idea how effective the campaign was. Whether any given click generated a sale is irrelevant.
If Mrs. Mauldin majored in music, graduated, found that was a dumb idea and worked her way up through the ranks over 20 years before landing the Chief Security role at Equifax, I have no problem with that.
From her LinkedIn profile it appears she went from unemployed music student to Chief Security Officer in roughly ten years. Pretty impressive career.
The usual methodology for training is you start with a big sample of data and you randomly divide the data into records into two subsets; the first you use to train the model and the second you use to test the results of the training.
Understood. But the population from which they drew the sample set was already filtered by humans for certain characteristics. So (as I said) what they found was a pattern in their carefully selected sample. No different than training a computer to distinguish between a square and a circle by showing it pictures of both.
"Pit bulls dangerous" allowed? How about ads targeting "Crooked Hillary"? Or even worse, what if I want to market a product to members of the gay community? Can I use the word "Queer"?
On one level, this study showed that you can correlate a conclusion (gay/not gay) with some pattern in the data. The problem is that it has only recognized a pattern in that particular data set.
The article mentions the factors were probably grooming and how the person posed for the picture. Okay, that might be somewhat useful if you are trying to guess sexual preference from a picture on a dating site. But not necessarily, because they threw out sample pictures that didn't provide the clues they were looking for, and (I suspect) selected test pictures that did have the clues.
The actual study seems to be pay walled so I didn't read it. But I wondered the same thing when reading the summary. It doesn't say anything about risk adjustment; for example, what proportion of the people on antidepressants have other significant health issues like cancer or Alzheimer's?
“To me, it is offensive for people who are not Hispanic to use the name ‘bodega,’ to make a quick buck,'”Garcia says. “It’s disrespecting all the mom-and-pop bodega owners that started these businesses in the ’60s and ’70s.”
In fact, Garcia would consider making it harder for McDonald to set up the pantry boxes within his community.
The obvious solution is to change the name from "bodega" to "McDonald's". Oh wait.
Are consumers today really so ignorant they just purchase without research and then expect someone to bail them out if they're not satisfied?
No, this lawsuit is about lawyers trying to make a killing on a class action suit. The consumers will be lucky to get a coupon good for $2 off their next Apple purchase.
Gosh, why didn't they think of that. Oh wait, they did:
FTFA
In the meantime, we are considering AMD’s CPUs and GPUs, as we are working on new products, including a boiler for domestic hot water and swimming pool heating solutions.
No, it's about metrics. You can't reliably measure how much value most engineers or teachers add to an organization. But good salesmen are like star athletes.
High volume/low price tech can get away with advertising rather than a sales staff.
But semi-custom products that sell for hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of millions of dollars (e.g. Epic Electronic Medical Record) are always sold one-off to very cautious buyers.
More stuff that's labelled as "organic"? Probably, although the grocery stores around me have a pretty good selection. But the real point is that shopping at Whole Foods is like buying designer label clothes.
People shopped at Whole Foods because they wanted extra hoidy-toidy $3.49 organic apples. If Amazon is selling plain apples that any common person can afford there's no reason to shop there anymore.
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Java is the safe choice of managers who don't understand technology. It must be good because all the salesmen from IBM and Oracle keep telling them so.
It sounds to me that you have to separate goals: 1) work as a free lance developer 2) work on an open source project.
Either one of those is pretty easy to accomplish on its own (assuming you're a good enough developer to get hired to do the work someone else wants, or a good enough programmer to write a popular open source project).
But combining the two will be very difficult (not impossible, but very difficult). Being paid for support means you must develop and market a product to someone who is willing to write checks. That alone is a huge challenge. Doing it on your own when your customers will have the source code makes it even more difficult.
These firms have a program: to make the world less private, less individual, less creative, less human... Big Tech has imposed its will on the resident population
And if you think you can start a new search engine, social media site, or shopping site to compete with Google, Facebook, or Amazon - good luck.
That term is new on me, but maybe I'm not keeping up with things like that. Whenever some refers to a subject as Big XXXX (Big Oil, Big Pharma, etc.) you should be very skeptical of everything they say.
It's no small irony that the first link in the summary brings you to Amazon's page for the book. Although I suppose we should expect that in a slashvertisement for a book.
Most sales cannot be directly connected to a click any more than viewing a commercial on TV can.
Of course not, that's not how it works. Marketing operates at the macro level
1) look at your sales this month,
2) run an ad campaign,
3) compare the cost of the advertising to the increase in sales.
You have a very good idea how effective the campaign was. Whether any given click generated a sale is irrelevant.
You sound like a vegan sheep owner.
If Mrs. Mauldin majored in music, graduated, found that was a dumb idea and worked her way up through the ranks over 20 years before landing the Chief Security role at Equifax, I have no problem with that.
From her LinkedIn profile it appears she went from unemployed music student to Chief Security Officer in roughly ten years. Pretty impressive career.
The usual methodology for training is you start with a big sample of data and you randomly divide the data into records into two subsets; the first you use to train the model and the second you use to test the results of the training.
Understood. But the population from which they drew the sample set was already filtered by humans for certain characteristics. So (as I said) what they found was a pattern in their carefully selected sample. No different than training a computer to distinguish between a square and a circle by showing it pictures of both.
"Pit bulls dangerous" allowed? How about ads targeting "Crooked Hillary"? Or even worse, what if I want to market a product to members of the gay community? Can I use the word "Queer"?
On one level, this study showed that you can correlate a conclusion (gay/not gay) with some pattern in the data. The problem is that it has only recognized a pattern in that particular data set.
The article mentions the factors were probably grooming and how the person posed for the picture. Okay, that might be somewhat useful if you are trying to guess sexual preference from a picture on a dating site. But not necessarily, because they threw out sample pictures that didn't provide the clues they were looking for, and (I suspect) selected test pictures that did have the clues.
The actual study seems to be pay walled so I didn't read it. But I wondered the same thing when reading the summary. It doesn't say anything about risk adjustment; for example, what proportion of the people on antidepressants have other significant health issues like cancer or Alzheimer's?
The study was done by a bunch of psychology students.
Yes, but when researching you need to look at real science rather than scare tactics from someone with an agenda.
“To me, it is offensive for people who are not Hispanic to use the name ‘bodega,’ to make a quick buck,'”Garcia says. “It’s disrespecting all the mom-and-pop bodega owners that started these businesses in the ’60s and ’70s.”
In fact, Garcia would consider making it harder for McDonald to set up the pantry boxes within his community.
The obvious solution is to change the name from "bodega" to "McDonald's". Oh wait.
Studies have shown that people (especially men) are more likely to listen to a female voice. Even fighter jet pilots get directions from women.
Are consumers today really so ignorant they just purchase without research and then expect someone to bail them out if they're not satisfied?
No, this lawsuit is about lawyers trying to make a killing on a class action suit. The consumers will be lucky to get a coupon good for $2 off their next Apple purchase.
Gosh, why didn't they think of that. Oh wait, they did:
FTFA
In the meantime, we are considering AMD’s CPUs and GPUs, as we are working on new products, including a boiler for domestic hot water and swimming pool heating solutions.
Isn't it really just about motivation?
No, it's about metrics. You can't reliably measure how much value most engineers or teachers add to an organization. But good salesmen are like star athletes.
High volume/low price tech can get away with advertising rather than a sales staff.
But semi-custom products that sell for hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of millions of dollars (e.g. Epic Electronic Medical Record) are always sold one-off to very cautious buyers.
More stuff that's labelled as "organic"? Probably, although the grocery stores around me have a pretty good selection. But the real point is that shopping at Whole Foods is like buying designer label clothes.
It's worse than that.
People shopped at Whole Foods because they wanted extra hoidy-toidy $3.49 organic apples. If Amazon is selling plain apples that any common person can afford there's no reason to shop there anymore.
Like, say, a representative of a party sitting there
Party reps are the people who have been caught most often committing vote fraud. You've heard their motto: "Vote early and vote often."
The United Nations...is backing the creation of a single global...
No chance of the UN getting a program like this off the ground. And if they did they'd need several billion dollars to fund it.
"Porn" is the answer to all three of your points
I haven't seen it on Facebook, so it must have been filtered.