It depends on your definition of "someone else's". It uses your AWS credentials to kill an instance, so in the worst case, the PHB of group A in company Z could kill instances of group B in company Z; company Y would still be safe.
It's been said before, but it may need to be a rebuttal to every instance of this silliness on this thread: These eBooks are not DRMed, or auth'ed, etc. What you get is the ability to download the eBook in one of several versions, including PDF, with which you can do whatever the hell you want, without checking in with their server ever again.
One way you could look at this that at least feels consistent to me is that jury nullification should work in only one direction. If we still feel comfortable with the idea that "better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man go to jail," then criminally we should only use jury nullification to err on the side of a lesser punishment and, if we want to use the concept of jury nullification for civil trials (and, certainly, the RIAA and MPAA lawsuits incline me to do so), we should also only use jury nullification to lower but not increase damages.
If we were to use that logic, in this case it'd mean that we'd be erring on the side of letting Samsung off, because "'rounded corners' is a stupid patent."
I have some issues with the study; for one thing, it's worth noting they don't tell us how they actually did the study. For another, I have no idea how they came to the conclusion that $128K is A) high; and B) at the top of the scale for software engineers when their own data contradicts this.
Here, allow me to present Netflix, which happens to also be in the Bay Area, and Glassdoor's software engineer salaries for Netflix:
Hard to tell what "consensus" is, but I've got a pretty long commute -- it's about 45 miles in each direction. Counting for inefficiencies and the fact that MPGs lie, if I could buy a reasonably-priced 200 mile EV, I'd jump on it. That said, my family would probably keep at least one gas vehicle. Right now, we have 3 gas vehicle -- going to 2 EVs, 1 gas would be delightful.
Replacing Prius batteries is either a $1000 job if you want to do it yourself and get it from eBay or about $2300 for the new battery pack (plus some dealer work -- figure on a total of about $3000).
At netflix, each app owner (either person or group) figures out what release process and frequency make sense for them. Some apps get pushed extremely rarely -- probably for actively developed systems, the least frequent I see around here is every other week. Other apps get pushed more quickly. Lots of people who push weekly; lots of people who push ad-hoc, whenever there's a change they want to get into production. Our Engineering Tools people are also finally starting to support continuous deployment, so it'll only get faster.
If you think you can hit AND damage that small a target with a.22 rifle from a few hundred yards you're either wrong, or the world's only.22 hand-loader, because that's not something you can do with any.22 rifle or ammo I've ever seen.
".22 LR is effective to 150 yards (140 m), though practical range tends to be less" from the Wikipedia article on.22LR.
At the risk of saying something positive about Comcast..
About six months ago, soon after the first year of us being in our house and having Comcast passed, I noticed I was paying sort of a lot for Comcast service (internet and cable). I called them and said "listen, I feel like I'm paying a lot of money for Comcast service."
The next five minutes was spent with the representative asking me about my usage patterns and coming up with innovative ways to drop my bill by about 40%. No haggling, no "I'm going to leave the service," and no huge wait. Just a straight forward "help me save money on your service."
The slashdot audience is sometimes incredibly cynical. "Oh, sure, cure Malaria, but I'll bet you all those people will just die of something else!"
Yes, true. If there's one thing we can probably all agree on is that in the long run, no one will be saved. Everyone will die. That's what happens to people.
The answer is either to give up and do nothing about it, or start doing something about it, knowing that even solving a part of the problem (Malaria) isn't solving the whole problem. Do you want to move the ball forward or sit back and snipe at those who do?
Personally -- speaking as someone who saw his father almost die of Malaria in the early 80's after returning from a trip to Kenya -- I can't see this as anything but a good thing.
One of my coworkers can use only one hand. He has no special equipment, uses a regular keyboard and mouse, etc. The guy's wicked-effective, and his work output appears to be -- at minimum -- at reasonable volume. Frankly, he's one of the most productive engineers I know. And that's with both Java and Perl, which is a pain in the ass given its special characters.
Consider using this as an opportunity to focus on design and thinking before you bang your keyboard. You may be surprised by the results.
Not necessarily two years, but in my case, I got a Mac; a year later I replaced the HD with an SSD; a year later, I replaced the 256GB SSD with a 512GB SSD. that's where we are right now, about two years after I got my Mac. Chances are that sometime in the next year I'll replace my Mac (this is a 15" MBP).
I'm pretty sure that, two years ago, 512GB SSDs either did not exist or were HORRIFICALLY expensive -- far more than the $399 or so this new drive cost me.
We're a tech company. I'm talking about every single person in the company, including the engineers responsible for releasing and maintaining critical services.
Sure, you can't have 75% of your employees taking the same time off. But if you've hired adults then you find that they can actually be pretty responsible about this sort of thing.
Yeah, it does. I work for a ~1000 person company without any vacation tracking (you don't accrue vacation days, you don't spend vacation days, you take whatever vacation you want). It works just fine.
And just to prerebut: Yes, people take vacations. All the time.
I've been through Ben Gurion a few times (I'm Israli-born and still have an Israeli passport). They may certainly assume that, but -- given that I was traveling at the time with a portable DVD player, additional battery, two power adapters, a cellphone, and an iPod, I can assure you it is in no way banned.
You know that the RPi is also manufactured in a third world country, likely in what looks like the other "slave farms" which manufacture electronics, right? They abandoned plans to produce it in the UK.
It's worth noting that while the USPTO just GRANTED the patent, it was filed back in 2006. I was all set to join the pile-on -- Outlook 2011 on the Mac has this feature -- but I can't recall Outlook, at least, having this feature back in 2006.
When you have to fly oxygen, food, and water to feed humans, you have to make the trip happen much faster -- and therefore burn way moe fuel -- than when you can take your time because the only thing you're consuming is electricity (and you can recover some of it via solar).
The right english word you're looking for, by the way, is "dressing." As in, "killing and dressing an animal."
(I know, I know, "dressing" to mean "take the fur off and throw the stomach out" makes absolutely no sense. As a fellow "I didn't learn English as my first language" person, I sympathize)
US is not another availability zone -- it's a different region. There are multiple AZs per region and -- if Amazon is doing their job -- a lightning strike should not take down more than one AZ in a region.
When I was underemployed a few years ago, I made a game of trying to get as many DVDs from Netflix as possible. I figured out at some point that the maximum possible number of DVDs you can get in an average 30-day month is 10*X, where X is the number of DVDs you can have out at a time. So the best-case scenario for a 3-at-a-time plan is 30 DVDs a month.
(I mentioned this when I had my second interview here. The person I was talking with confirmed, and noted we had 8-at-a-time subscribers who were going through close to 80 DVDs a month).
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"The death toll in Germany and Austria due to Allied strategic bombing was estimated at 500,000 by the West German government." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II
It depends on your definition of "someone else's". It uses your AWS credentials to kill an instance, so in the worst case, the PHB of group A in company Z could kill instances of group B in company Z; company Y would still be safe.
Hystrix does not include Chaos Monkey, but Chaos Monkey was opensourced some time ago.
(I work at Netflix)
It's been said before, but it may need to be a rebuttal to every instance of this silliness on this thread: These eBooks are not DRMed, or auth'ed, etc. What you get is the ability to download the eBook in one of several versions, including PDF, with which you can do whatever the hell you want, without checking in with their server ever again.
One way you could look at this that at least feels consistent to me is that jury nullification should work in only one direction. If we still feel comfortable with the idea that "better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man go to jail," then criminally we should only use jury nullification to err on the side of a lesser punishment and, if we want to use the concept of jury nullification for civil trials (and, certainly, the RIAA and MPAA lawsuits incline me to do so), we should also only use jury nullification to lower but not increase damages.
If we were to use that logic, in this case it'd mean that we'd be erring on the side of letting Samsung off, because "'rounded corners' is a stupid patent."
I have some issues with the study; for one thing, it's worth noting they don't tell us how they actually did the study. For another, I have no idea how they came to the conclusion that $128K is A) high; and B) at the top of the scale for software engineers when their own data contradicts this.
Here, allow me to present Netflix, which happens to also be in the Bay Area, and Glassdoor's software engineer salaries for Netflix:
http://www.glassdoor.com/GD/Salary/Netflix-Salaries-E11891.htm?filter.jobTitleFTS=software+engineer
Senior Software Engineers average $177K; Software Engineers average $161K.
Hard to tell what "consensus" is, but I've got a pretty long commute -- it's about 45 miles in each direction. Counting for inefficiencies and the fact that MPGs lie, if I could buy a reasonably-priced 200 mile EV, I'd jump on it. That said, my family would probably keep at least one gas vehicle. Right now, we have 3 gas vehicle -- going to 2 EVs, 1 gas would be delightful.
Replacing Prius batteries is either a $1000 job if you want to do it yourself and get it from eBay or about $2300 for the new battery pack (plus some dealer work -- figure on a total of about $3000).
At netflix, each app owner (either person or group) figures out what release process and frequency make sense for them. Some apps get pushed extremely rarely -- probably for actively developed systems, the least frequent I see around here is every other week. Other apps get pushed more quickly. Lots of people who push weekly; lots of people who push ad-hoc, whenever there's a change they want to get into production. Our Engineering Tools people are also finally starting to support continuous deployment, so it'll only get faster.
If you think you can hit AND damage that small a target with a .22 rifle from a few hundred yards you're either wrong, or the world's only .22 hand-loader, because that's not something you can do with any .22 rifle or ammo I've ever seen.
".22 LR is effective to 150 yards (140 m), though practical range tends to be less" from the Wikipedia article on .22LR.
At the risk of saying something positive about Comcast ..
About six months ago, soon after the first year of us being in our house and having Comcast passed, I noticed I was paying sort of a lot for Comcast service (internet and cable). I called them and said "listen, I feel like I'm paying a lot of money for Comcast service."
The next five minutes was spent with the representative asking me about my usage patterns and coming up with innovative ways to drop my bill by about 40%. No haggling, no "I'm going to leave the service," and no huge wait. Just a straight forward "help me save money on your service."
I was impressed.
The slashdot audience is sometimes incredibly cynical. "Oh, sure, cure Malaria, but I'll bet you all those people will just die of something else!"
Yes, true. If there's one thing we can probably all agree on is that in the long run, no one will be saved. Everyone will die. That's what happens to people.
The answer is either to give up and do nothing about it, or start doing something about it, knowing that even solving a part of the problem (Malaria) isn't solving the whole problem. Do you want to move the ball forward or sit back and snipe at those who do?
Personally -- speaking as someone who saw his father almost die of Malaria in the early 80's after returning from a trip to Kenya -- I can't see this as anything but a good thing.
One of my coworkers can use only one hand. He has no special equipment, uses a regular keyboard and mouse, etc. The guy's wicked-effective, and his work output appears to be -- at minimum -- at reasonable volume. Frankly, he's one of the most productive engineers I know. And that's with both Java and Perl, which is a pain in the ass given its special characters.
Consider using this as an opportunity to focus on design and thinking before you bang your keyboard. You may be surprised by the results.
Yes, well it does seem rather ... intuitively obvious that it never actually exceeds certain death.
Not necessarily two years, but in my case, I got a Mac; a year later I replaced the HD with an SSD; a year later, I replaced the 256GB SSD with a 512GB SSD. that's where we are right now, about two years after I got my Mac. Chances are that sometime in the next year I'll replace my Mac (this is a 15" MBP).
I'm pretty sure that, two years ago, 512GB SSDs either did not exist or were HORRIFICALLY expensive -- far more than the $399 or so this new drive cost me.
We're a tech company. I'm talking about every single person in the company, including the engineers responsible for releasing and maintaining critical services.
Sure, you can't have 75% of your employees taking the same time off. But if you've hired adults then you find that they can actually be pretty responsible about this sort of thing.
Yeah, it does. I work for a ~1000 person company without any vacation tracking (you don't accrue vacation days, you don't spend vacation days, you take whatever vacation you want). It works just fine.
And just to prerebut: Yes, people take vacations. All the time.
I've been through Ben Gurion a few times (I'm Israli-born and still have an Israeli passport). They may certainly assume that, but -- given that I was traveling at the time with a portable DVD player, additional battery, two power adapters, a cellphone, and an iPod, I can assure you it is in no way banned.
You know that the RPi is also manufactured in a third world country, likely in what looks like the other "slave farms" which manufacture electronics, right? They abandoned plans to produce it in the UK.
It's worth noting that while the USPTO just GRANTED the patent, it was filed back in 2006. I was all set to join the pile-on -- Outlook 2011 on the Mac has this feature -- but I can't recall Outlook, at least, having this feature back in 2006.
When you have to fly oxygen, food, and water to feed humans, you have to make the trip happen much faster -- and therefore burn way moe fuel -- than when you can take your time because the only thing you're consuming is electricity (and you can recover some of it via solar).
Sure; but frankly, I don't think I've got composite on my current 50" plasma. I don't care.
HDMI, like it or not, is the standard for AV these days. If they support HDMI as well as Thunderbolt, I don't see how anyone can fault them for it.
I've got an AppleTV.
It connects to my (tomato firmware-running) wifi router via industry-standard 802.11n
It connects to my (Panasonic) TV via industry-standard HDMI
I use it to watch movies from the iTunes store and Netflix. I also use it to stream music from non-Apple sources and watch videos on YouTube.
I'm guessing no proprietary connectors for their TV set.
The right english word you're looking for, by the way, is "dressing." As in, "killing and dressing an animal."
(I know, I know, "dressing" to mean "take the fur off and throw the stomach out" makes absolutely no sense. As a fellow "I didn't learn English as my first language" person, I sympathize)
US is not another availability zone -- it's a different region. There are multiple AZs per region and -- if Amazon is doing their job -- a lightning strike should not take down more than one AZ in a region.
(I work at Netflix)
When I was underemployed a few years ago, I made a game of trying to get as many DVDs from Netflix as possible. I figured out at some point that the maximum possible number of DVDs you can get in an average 30-day month is 10*X, where X is the number of DVDs you can have out at a time. So the best-case scenario for a 3-at-a-time plan is 30 DVDs a month.
(I mentioned this when I had my second interview here. The person I was talking with confirmed, and noted we had 8-at-a-time subscribers who were going through close to 80 DVDs a month).