We had Exchange and moved to Google Apps 1. Email 2. Calendars 3. Contacts 4. To-do lists 5. IMs 6. emailcontactscalendar integrations
If we wanted something like Project or TFS or Sharepoint, that'd be a problem, but aside from those... I'd say we got pretty much everything we wanted, and it works pretty darn well. We also don't have to admin it.
Nope. Anne Aaron is not the project manager. She's the engineering manager.
You can find her career history at https://www.linkedin.com/in/an... -- after getting her PhD in EE from Stanford (thesis was about video encoding) she was a software engineer for 14 years until she was promoted in September/2014 to manager.
The general consensus on Slashdot is that: 1. Men have no advantage over women; quite the opposite, a significant set of disadvantages; 2. Women are under-represented in higher-earning professions because "they just don't feel like it" 3. Anything aimed at women only is end-of-the-word discrimination.
Who owns your face? Who has the right to decide what films your face will be in? Any world where the answer is "anyone who downloaded a few pictures of you from the internet and now has you starring in porn they're selling to your community" is a world I don't want to live in.
Actually, as of 1974 the USSR (and later Russians) have been replacing their 7.62x39 weapons and ammo with 5.45x39mm weapons and ammo (e.g. the AK-74). More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Because -- given the tech talent crunch -- tech companies are competing for talent. One way they do that is by providing more aggressive benefits. This means that as large name-brand companies change their benefits (such as parental leave) for the better, other companies are likely to follow.
And I speak here as someone who works at Netflix, which went public with "do what makes sense for you and we'll cover you for a year after your child's birth or adoption" a few months ago.
In short: Facebook doing it will have a positive impact on the benefits arms race which non-Facebook employees will benefit from.
At least in the case of Netflix, it's probably because Netflix has for a while now had a public offer to large ISPs where it will place caches of its servers in the ISP, resulting in a huge amount of Netflix streaming activity happening within the ISP's network rather than required to go over peering links.
You've got to log in as enabled in order to be able to use 'config' or 'write', which of course means you can't use either to recover from a lost enable password (of course, that's what starting up and interrupting the boot sequence and 0x2102 (which, BTW, I last used about 18 years ago and could still remember -- scary) are for.
Nobody had to pay $40 to vote in the Slashdot poll. They had to pay at least $40 to vote in the Hugos. This is also, apparently, a huge increase over the last number of people who voted in the Hugos (65% more than last time?) suggesting a significant groundwell.
I don't keep up with Harlan's schedule these days, but I worked with him briefly back when he was at Netflix. At the time, he didn't strike me as much of a braggart or prone to exaggeration. And his work ethic was... not high on work/life balance.
I wouldn't bet against him working that hard on NTP -- I've never before met anyone who loved a protocol as much as Harlan loves NTP:)
Netflix does not, has not, and would nto frown on asking for a full year off for maternity or paternity. To the best of my knowledge, there are at least three people who have in the last week indicated they're planning to take a full year off. I think it's pretty exciting and if any of them were reporting to me (I'm a manager at Netflix), I'd do nothing to get in their way.
Christ, people. It's just work. Family is forever.
It's a year per 'event' (so you don't get two years if you have twins, but if you have another kid you can have another year). There's obviously a potential for abuse of the system, given that it takes less than a year to hatch a kid, but the odds of that happening are probably lower than the odds of people abusing the existing unlimited vacation policy, or the likely harm from people abusing the lax expense policy, etc.
Firstly, there's a difference between "public cloud" and "private cloud," where 'public' implies "someone else's computer," but given this, and given that you can do private clouds, clearly the ownership of the hardware is not the defining characteristic for "cloud."
Rather, I'd argue the definition for "cloud" has to include -- perhaps more importantly than any other part of the definition -- the ability to request a resource from the system via an API and get it automatically (barring resource constraint issues or artificial limits) without human involvement. THAT is what makes it "cloud," irrespective of whether you're making that API call against the systems your own IT folks set up to get a resource within your datacenter or you're making that call against AWS.
Not sure if trolling or just oblivious. This isn't about 'cloud' -- this is about "maybe, if you're going to build a large datacenter, you can not re-invent the wheel and use standardized DC components, courtesy of a ton of research work FB did to optimize the BOM."
When I started working at my current company (tech company, where I do tech things), my pre-employment paperwork required me to agree to a drug test (though none was actually administered). I was surprised by this -- never had to agree to this before -- but at my wife's counsel (in both senses of the word -- she's an attorney -- agreed because I didn't want to be "that guy").
About a week after I started, I was idly talking to our security guy and mentioned this, and he flipped out, and sent an email to HR complaining about the inappropriateness of requiring all employees to agree to drug tests. I got a really contrite email from HR letting me know that the drug test provision was there for the part of the company that was driving for the company as their job, because insurance and the law, apparently, required us to get them to agree to drug tests, but that people who weren't driving for the company would never, ever, ever be required to do a drug test; the pre-boarding paperwork erroneously specified this for everyone rather than just new drivers, apologies, etc, and they would fix it immediately.
They wouldn't need to write an insurance rule saying you can only activate the app when you're looking for fares -- as it is right now, if you're "on duty" and you decline too many passengers, you'll get kicked out of the service, so anyone using the app to get insurance wouldn't be an Uber driver for very long (I've seen news stories about Uber drivers getting kicked out after 2-3 days of having lower-than-acceptable fare acceptance rates).
Slashdot Mirror
We had Exchange and moved to Google Apps
1. Email
2. Calendars
3. Contacts
4. To-do lists
5. IMs
6. emailcontactscalendar integrations
If we wanted something like Project or TFS or Sharepoint, that'd be a problem, but aside from those ... I'd say we got pretty much everything we wanted, and it works pretty darn well. We also don't have to admin it.
Nope. Anne Aaron is not the project manager. She's the engineering manager.
You can find her career history at https://www.linkedin.com/in/an... -- after getting her PhD in EE from Stanford (thesis was about video encoding) she was a software engineer for 14 years until she was promoted in September/2014 to manager.
(Full disclaimer: She's a coworker of mine)
How long have you been here?
The general consensus on Slashdot is that:
1. Men have no advantage over women; quite the opposite, a significant set of disadvantages;
2. Women are under-represented in higher-earning professions because "they just don't feel like it"
3. Anything aimed at women only is end-of-the-word discrimination.
I wouldn't be against those laws.
Who owns your face? Who has the right to decide what films your face will be in? Any world where the answer is "anyone who downloaded a few pictures of you from the internet and now has you starring in porn they're selling to your community" is a world I don't want to live in.
Actually, as of 1974 the USSR (and later Russians) have been replacing their 7.62x39 weapons and ammo with 5.45x39mm weapons and ammo (e.g. the AK-74). More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Because -- given the tech talent crunch -- tech companies are competing for talent. One way they do that is by providing more aggressive benefits. This means that as large name-brand companies change their benefits (such as parental leave) for the better, other companies are likely to follow.
And I speak here as someone who works at Netflix, which went public with "do what makes sense for you and we'll cover you for a year after your child's birth or adoption" a few months ago.
In short: Facebook doing it will have a positive impact on the benefits arms race which non-Facebook employees will benefit from.
I like how you assume that because a female candidate left with a smile on her face, they probably asked her easy questions, cuz, you know, chick.
Super-classy.
At least in the case of Netflix, it's probably because Netflix has for a while now had a public offer to large ISPs where it will place caches of its servers in the ISP, resulting in a huge amount of Netflix streaming activity happening within the ISP's network rather than required to go over peering links.
You've got to log in as enabled in order to be able to use 'config' or 'write', which of course means you can't use either to recover from a lost enable password (of course, that's what starting up and interrupting the boot sequence and 0x2102 (which, BTW, I last used about 18 years ago and could still remember -- scary) are for.
Nobody had to pay $40 to vote in the Slashdot poll. They had to pay at least $40 to vote in the Hugos. This is also, apparently, a huge increase over the last number of people who voted in the Hugos (65% more than last time?) suggesting a significant groundwell.
Actually, there is such a thing as an AR-14 -- it's just so incredibly rare most people think it doesn't exist.
See http://www.thefirearmblog.com/... for one interesting article on it.
(But I agree, the original poster probably meant AR-15)
I don't keep up with Harlan's schedule these days, but I worked with him briefly back when he was at Netflix. At the time, he didn't strike me as much of a braggart or prone to exaggeration. And his work ethic was ... not high on work/life balance.
I wouldn't bet against him working that hard on NTP -- I've never before met anyone who loved a protocol as much as Harlan loves NTP :)
There's no management approval, nor tracking, for vacations at Netflix.
Your decision to post as an anonymous coward was rational and well-placed. Congratulations!
Netflix does not, has not, and would nto frown on asking for a full year off for maternity or paternity. To the best of my knowledge, there are at least three people who have in the last week indicated they're planning to take a full year off. I think it's pretty exciting and if any of them were reporting to me (I'm a manager at Netflix), I'd do nothing to get in their way.
Christ, people. It's just work. Family is forever.
"I took a year off to take care of my new kid, then came back to a new position" would be one way to explain it.
And speaking as a hiring manager? Ain't got no problem with that explanation.
Nope. Its (up to) a year per 'event'.
It's a year per 'event' (so you don't get two years if you have twins, but if you have another kid you can have another year). There's obviously a potential for abuse of the system, given that it takes less than a year to hatch a kid, but the odds of that happening are probably lower than the odds of people abusing the existing unlimited vacation policy, or the likely harm from people abusing the lax expense policy, etc.
I disagree.
Firstly, there's a difference between "public cloud" and "private cloud," where 'public' implies "someone else's computer," but given this, and given that you can do private clouds, clearly the ownership of the hardware is not the defining characteristic for "cloud."
Rather, I'd argue the definition for "cloud" has to include -- perhaps more importantly than any other part of the definition -- the ability to request a resource from the system via an API and get it automatically (barring resource constraint issues or artificial limits) without human involvement. THAT is what makes it "cloud," irrespective of whether you're making that API call against the systems your own IT folks set up to get a resource within your datacenter or you're making that call against AWS.
Don't make me laugh.
Not sure if trolling or just oblivious. This isn't about 'cloud' -- this is about "maybe, if you're going to build a large datacenter, you can not re-invent the wheel and use standardized DC components, courtesy of a ton of research work FB did to optimize the BOM."
So funny story about this ...
When I started working at my current company (tech company, where I do tech things), my pre-employment paperwork required me to agree to a drug test (though none was actually administered). I was surprised by this -- never had to agree to this before -- but at my wife's counsel (in both senses of the word -- she's an attorney -- agreed because I didn't want to be "that guy").
About a week after I started, I was idly talking to our security guy and mentioned this, and he flipped out, and sent an email to HR complaining about the inappropriateness of requiring all employees to agree to drug tests. I got a really contrite email from HR letting me know that the drug test provision was there for the part of the company that was driving for the company as their job, because insurance and the law, apparently, required us to get them to agree to drug tests, but that people who weren't driving for the company would never, ever, ever be required to do a drug test; the pre-boarding paperwork erroneously specified this for everyone rather than just new drivers, apologies, etc, and they would fix it immediately.
It was a nice way to start working here.
They didn't, last time an Uber drive struck and killed someone.
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/ar...
Speaking as the owner of three cats and a dog, cats already make dogs their bitches on a regular basis.
They wouldn't need to write an insurance rule saying you can only activate the app when you're looking for fares -- as it is right now, if you're "on duty" and you decline too many passengers, you'll get kicked out of the service, so anyone using the app to get insurance wouldn't be an Uber driver for very long (I've seen news stories about Uber drivers getting kicked out after 2-3 days of having lower-than-acceptable fare acceptance rates).