Are they turning them out at the same level though? Big universities discriminate like crazy, and will let weaker candidates in their pipelines in computer science if they're female or black much more easily. Some of them will do fine, but a lot will only barely squeeze through, because they were not really qualified in the first place.
Then they'll just fail all the interviews once trying to get jobs.
If leading tech firms hired at a lower rate after adjusting for universities' lower admission criteria for these people, then sure.
Google is known for having a poor hiring process, so I'll give you Google. But most tech companies lately, even the big names, don't really have the luxury of being picky when hiring. If someone is even remotely qualified, even if its a female black trans covered in tattoos going to the interview in ripped jeans and a dirty hoodie with their face covered by a hijab, they'll get hired.
Even if you post a job offer at 500k/year, you won't get a significant uptick in how many qualified people will apply for it (you will see an uptick, but it won't double or anything). What you will see however, is a HUGE amount of idiots applying for it, and your hiring managers will struggle to find signals in all the noise. In the end it may take longer to find qualified people.
Pretty much. There's probably more job openings than ever. The problem is that it's all for high skill labor. And only a small portion of the population is high skill. The rest...well, that's a problem.
The issue with people "skipping in line" is that those who do are usually burdens. like those El Salvador illegal immigrants who come to sanctuary cities, and get taken in the public schools. That wouldn't be an issue, except in many of those cities, those public schools are having a hard time with cash, and in my town at least, taxes are already extremely high. It kind of sucks that the local poor who need help are told to share it with people who shouldn't be there. We can increase taxes...but if you're going to take more money from me, I'd like it to go to the people who were already legitimately there and needed it in the first place.
If someone comes in and ponies up 1 million bucks, its a heck of a lot less likely they'll be a financial burden. They may be a cultural problem, they may be fleeding some charges..but that's true of all the immigration paths, legal or not. Not having to support them financially is one less problem to deal with.
If Uber's drivers are considered employees, Uber would simply have to get some kind of liability insurance. The cars could still be rented from a 3rd party (isn't that what ZipCar does?).
The biggest overhead would be needing an HR department and having to manage all that crap...but they could contract out for that part.
It would definitely increase their cost, because they couldnt screw over their employees as easily as they could contractors, but it would most likely be possible while staying profitable.
My experience with DB2 was mainly in large finance (Goldman and Morgan Stanley), and while they have very large datasets compared to most of the industry, they don't push these things as nearly as far as others. That said, I mainly saw DB2 scaling well for data warehousing purpose, not raw transnational loads. There's a significant difference between the two. DB2 did really well when you just dumped loads of data on it and then did reporting. But constant transactions like you would in a retail/brick and mortar + e-commerce thing (so constant insert and read of that data with complex queries in real time), not really.
Its not an optimal way of using an RDBMS, but Oracle excels at it.
10000 isn't even that much. My previous employer ran 100~ billion record tables on a 100 million user a year, about 20-30k concurrent at all time, thousand transactions a minute, on freagin MSSQL on 16 core machines.
The only thing that happens is you have to be really careful with your database design, partitioning, etc. My wife works for freagin Amazon, and they don't have that much trouble getting their e-commerce site working. I never asked, but I'd be very surprised if they ran their backend on Oracle =P
Oracle's enterprise stack is pretty strong in certain fields. Their ERP is top notch in brick and mortar retail for example (better than SAP). And once you go down that road, its Oracle stack the whole way.
Beyond that, if you're trying to scale an old school relational database to crazy scales, Oracle leaves everything else in the dust. For horizontal scaling, nothing else comes close.
The thing is, if you're trying to do that, you're very likely doing it wrong. For insane amount of data, other commercial solutions do data warehousing better (Vertica) or cheaper (Redshift), if you want to make a lot of smaller, more efficient datamarts you're better off with postgresql clusters, for big data processing, stuff like Hadoop/Spark are the norm. If you just want service for fire and forget, Aurora is better. If you just want speed, something like Dynamo or Redis may be better bets.
A giant transnational system is pretty niche now. You're almost always better having a smaller one that that pushes data to a datawarehouse, or having a queue or stream collecting data and processing it into a lot of specialized distributed systems on the fly. And if you're too small for that, Postgresql is where its at.
You also do not need 64 cores on each machine to deal with billions of rows.
disclaimer: the company I work for runs a little over a trillion (a trillion as in a thousand billion) records in _ONE_ table, which is also our most used one. That doesn't count the hundreds of other tables.
Yes, the primary source of that data is a commercial database (vertica). Its also not an RDBMS (doing the kind of stuff we do even on an Oracle DB would be absurd). But we do use open postgresql and other open source non-relational dbs for the datamarts, and they'll easily take a few billion records.
Sure, you could dump the trillion records in an RDBMS with "hundreds of gigs of ram". But that is downright retarded for anything but the most specialized scenarios. Even big finance no longer do that shit.
Yeah, and IMO its kind of a big deal. In the US, there's probably a bigger cultural difference between someone from San Francisco or NYC and an Australian, than there is between the formers and an Hispanic. Yet if you have a neighborhood full of australian, indians, french, swedish and english and not a single white...they'll still consider it non-diverse.
And this is where things are getting dicey for Oracle. Even an open source DB can deal with billions of rows. And when you go beyond that, people start using multiple interconnected specialized systems instead: a big mismatch of a relational db, hadoop, redshift, dynamo, vertica, spark, etc.
If you need a trillion records in one table, there's better commercial options than Oracle. If you can need specialized tool to handle different data sets of various size, you'll be using a soup of tools, most of which are open source.
There's no reason to use Oracle stuff anymore, aside for legacy compatibility, or if you use their ERP (which for large Retail, is probably the best one, unfortunately)
That can't work for a simple reason. Half of the people working on all these standards are downright retarded, and only failure in the real world gets them to realize it. Google's and Microsoft's representatives are the worse offenders, trying to stick their obsolete development practices in the browser, and failing over and over and over. (Hell, THIS is yet another attempt by them along with Mozilla)
They'll be the first ones trying to manipulate any kind of new standard, and what you'll get will be a weird hybrid of Java Swing and Direct X or some shit. It will be a disaster.
THAT is why web gui idioms keep having to be redone. They go on the right track, then the peanut gallery come in with big names behind them, and fuck it up. Then we have to start over. Over and over and over.
With a tablet, you come to expect a super thin and light experience and when holding them in one hand, the light weight is an advantage
These people must have never worked at a company that uses macbook pros across the board, or a startup using thin lap-tops.
Everyone holds their lap-tops with 1 hand like if it was a tablet, running around holding them by the lid, and all around handling them like they would their ipads.
Light lap-tops that you can carry with one hand without effort is a definite advantage for convenience.
It was pretty popular if your demographic was younger people, design people, or startups/small scale companies that aren't tied to Windows stuff (a lot of HR or sales software are).
If you were in those demos, you could easily get a 20-30% market share.
Had to be careful when taking the metrics though. Safari's splash page showing most popular sizes would render thumbnails by running all javascripts, with only an http header that can only be inspected server side to differentiate it (so pages on CDNs need not apply if using a hosted tracking suite like Omniture or Google Analytics). That would make Safari look like it had 50-60% market share on a bad day and confuse people like crazy.
Still it has a decent share, enough that you need to support it.
Of course. But instead we're in a world of "blindly distrust the rules". And that is just as stupid. (also, in a lot of the cases you mentioned, its a private entity dictating what to do on their own property, which they're fully allowed to)
As someone mentioned, one black woman, but probably a lot more woman. They were probably mostly all Asians.
Where I work, in the last 60 engineering hires (we're a semi-established but still small startup), we hired 100% of the black people who applied. 100% of them are among some of our most senior, respected employees, who are constantly winning every hackathons, prizes, company value awards, and are always present in promotions round. ALL OF THEM.
That is, all of them because only ONE ever applied. And by applied, I mean talk to us. It was a cold call that we poached from one of our -customers- (so we had to do something ethically ambiguous to get him).
It has to start at the cultural level when they're kids. So they stop worshipping hoodie wearing, gold chain dangling rappers that say "dope" as their every other word while making fun of everyone smart. Someone above mentioned it was a white created phenomenon. Fine. Wherever it comes from, you have to stop THAT before anything gets better.
The difference is that merely being a dickhead is relatively low risk
People don't try to understand why rules are there. "Don't park there" could be because the snow truck has low visibility and risks ripping your car off. "Don't jaywalk" has a pretty fucking good reason behind it. Ignoring non-smoking signs isn't just being a dick head. My condo complex has a no BBQ rule, because its a group of historical buildings that are basically dry firewood close to each other. I don't think anyone aside me does NOT have a BBQ. Someday everyone will roast alive.
Thats my point: people cannot make the difference between just being a dick head and putting themselves and others genuinely at risk. Rules are meant to be ignored, no matter how important they are, to these people.
The city where I live, when they had to hire someone to manage the school district and took public opinion, a lot of people were asking for diversity. We are an ethnically diverse city and that is part of the culture and it needs to be preserved.
So we need someone that represents said diversity.
What they repeatedly asked for? "Someone of non-euro-african or asian descent", the spanish community was asking.
Holy shit that's diverse.
When people ask for diversity, what they usually ask for isn't to exclude white christian English speaking males. That would be increasing diversity.
No no. What they want to for their particular group to increase. If you increase diversity via other groups, "it doesn't count. But if they say it that way, no one will take them seriously. Thats why having lots of asians is bad for them. Asians are a proof that people who aren't Caucasian christians can succeed. Hell, southern Chinese are hardly white. And historically they had a hard time, so its not like they were born into riches.
You're in a world where everyone is constantly being told to do whatever the fuck they want, and everyone else is told to deal with it. People smoke while leaning on no-smoking signs, people drive through streets clearly labeled as private streets, people scream in libraries, yap on their phones in theaters, and take flash pictures in zoos scaring the animals away and there is fuck all reasonable people can do about it.
So now you have a rule in an amusement park that some idiots don't think apply to them (as usual), and its actually really important. You think they'll get it, after being able to ignore every other fucking rule they were ever subject to?
No, they won't. They'll treat the "No selfie stick sign" the same way they will every other damn sign they ignored.
There's a few things that are hard to avoid on Windows. Startup slowdown is one of those, because way too many software do stupid shit on startup. An SSD will largely solve this problem.
For the OS itself? It should stay snappy for years and years.
Certain pieces of software will kill it. Many popular anti-virus are worse than the viruses themselves, including very popular ones (Avast used to be a prime offender. I don't know about today, but so many people kept recommending it...).
Another major killer is iTunes. This one is even worse because of the psychological aspect. Its an Apple product, and it makes Windows go to a crawl. People using itunes are very likely to be also using MacOSX at time, even if they use Windows at others. So then they compare Windows with itunes to MacOSX, and conclude that Windows is far worse than it truly is.
Let me guess. You're one of those the article talk about, who doesn't know what homeopathy is.
Just in case: natural products, herbs, and all kind of old school medicines are not homeopathy.
Homeopathy exclusively refers to some absurd ritual involving diluting a tiny spec of something into water until its so diluted there's virtually not a single molecule of the original left.
There has never been an homeopathic remedy that ended up as a "standard" medicine. All it is is distilled water. Nothing else.
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Are they turning them out at the same level though? Big universities discriminate like crazy, and will let weaker candidates in their pipelines in computer science if they're female or black much more easily. Some of them will do fine, but a lot will only barely squeeze through, because they were not really qualified in the first place.
Then they'll just fail all the interviews once trying to get jobs.
If leading tech firms hired at a lower rate after adjusting for universities' lower admission criteria for these people, then sure.
Google is known for having a poor hiring process, so I'll give you Google. But most tech companies lately, even the big names, don't really have the luxury of being picky when hiring. If someone is even remotely qualified, even if its a female black trans covered in tattoos going to the interview in ripped jeans and a dirty hoodie with their face covered by a hijab, they'll get hired.
That's IF they are qualified...
Even if you post a job offer at 500k/year, you won't get a significant uptick in how many qualified people will apply for it (you will see an uptick, but it won't double or anything). What you will see however, is a HUGE amount of idiots applying for it, and your hiring managers will struggle to find signals in all the noise. In the end it may take longer to find qualified people.
How do I know?
Simple: we tried.
Pretty much. There's probably more job openings than ever. The problem is that it's all for high skill labor. And only a small portion of the population is high skill. The rest...well, that's a problem.
The issue with people "skipping in line" is that those who do are usually burdens. like those El Salvador illegal immigrants who come to sanctuary cities, and get taken in the public schools. That wouldn't be an issue, except in many of those cities, those public schools are having a hard time with cash, and in my town at least, taxes are already extremely high. It kind of sucks that the local poor who need help are told to share it with people who shouldn't be there. We can increase taxes...but if you're going to take more money from me, I'd like it to go to the people who were already legitimately there and needed it in the first place.
If someone comes in and ponies up 1 million bucks, its a heck of a lot less likely they'll be a financial burden. They may be a cultural problem, they may be fleeding some charges..but that's true of all the immigration paths, legal or not. Not having to support them financially is one less problem to deal with.
If Uber's drivers are considered employees, Uber would simply have to get some kind of liability insurance. The cars could still be rented from a 3rd party (isn't that what ZipCar does?).
The biggest overhead would be needing an HR department and having to manage all that crap...but they could contract out for that part.
It would definitely increase their cost, because they couldnt screw over their employees as easily as they could contractors, but it would most likely be possible while staying profitable.
My experience with DB2 was mainly in large finance (Goldman and Morgan Stanley), and while they have very large datasets compared to most of the industry, they don't push these things as nearly as far as others. That said, I mainly saw DB2 scaling well for data warehousing purpose, not raw transnational loads. There's a significant difference between the two. DB2 did really well when you just dumped loads of data on it and then did reporting. But constant transactions like you would in a retail/brick and mortar + e-commerce thing (so constant insert and read of that data with complex queries in real time), not really.
Its not an optimal way of using an RDBMS, but Oracle excels at it.
10000 isn't even that much. My previous employer ran 100~ billion record tables on a 100 million user a year, about 20-30k concurrent at all time, thousand transactions a minute, on freagin MSSQL on 16 core machines.
The only thing that happens is you have to be really careful with your database design, partitioning, etc. My wife works for freagin Amazon, and they don't have that much trouble getting their e-commerce site working. I never asked, but I'd be very surprised if they ran their backend on Oracle =P
Oracle's enterprise stack is pretty strong in certain fields. Their ERP is top notch in brick and mortar retail for example (better than SAP). And once you go down that road, its Oracle stack the whole way.
Beyond that, if you're trying to scale an old school relational database to crazy scales, Oracle leaves everything else in the dust. For horizontal scaling, nothing else comes close.
The thing is, if you're trying to do that, you're very likely doing it wrong. For insane amount of data, other commercial solutions do data warehousing better (Vertica) or cheaper (Redshift), if you want to make a lot of smaller, more efficient datamarts you're better off with postgresql clusters, for big data processing, stuff like Hadoop/Spark are the norm. If you just want service for fire and forget, Aurora is better. If you just want speed, something like Dynamo or Redis may be better bets.
A giant transnational system is pretty niche now. You're almost always better having a smaller one that that pushes data to a datawarehouse, or having a queue or stream collecting data and processing it into a lot of specialized distributed systems on the fly. And if you're too small for that, Postgresql is where its at.
You also do not need 64 cores on each machine to deal with billions of rows.
disclaimer: the company I work for runs a little over a trillion (a trillion as in a thousand billion) records in _ONE_ table, which is also our most used one. That doesn't count the hundreds of other tables.
Yes, the primary source of that data is a commercial database (vertica). Its also not an RDBMS (doing the kind of stuff we do even on an Oracle DB would be absurd). But we do use open postgresql and other open source non-relational dbs for the datamarts, and they'll easily take a few billion records.
Sure, you could dump the trillion records in an RDBMS with "hundreds of gigs of ram". But that is downright retarded for anything but the most specialized scenarios. Even big finance no longer do that shit.
Yeah, and IMO its kind of a big deal. In the US, there's probably a bigger cultural difference between someone from San Francisco or NYC and an Australian, than there is between the formers and an Hispanic. Yet if you have a neighborhood full of australian, indians, french, swedish and english and not a single white...they'll still consider it non-diverse.
Seriously @.@
Don't forget that a an area with 65%+ Hispanic is "ethnically diverse".
Wtf.
And this is where things are getting dicey for Oracle. Even an open source DB can deal with billions of rows. And when you go beyond that, people start using multiple interconnected specialized systems instead: a big mismatch of a relational db, hadoop, redshift, dynamo, vertica, spark, etc.
If you need a trillion records in one table, there's better commercial options than Oracle. If you can need specialized tool to handle different data sets of various size, you'll be using a soup of tools, most of which are open source.
There's no reason to use Oracle stuff anymore, aside for legacy compatibility, or if you use their ERP (which for large Retail, is probably the best one, unfortunately)
That can't work for a simple reason. Half of the people working on all these standards are downright retarded, and only failure in the real world gets them to realize it. Google's and Microsoft's representatives are the worse offenders, trying to stick their obsolete development practices in the browser, and failing over and over and over. (Hell, THIS is yet another attempt by them along with Mozilla)
They'll be the first ones trying to manipulate any kind of new standard, and what you'll get will be a weird hybrid of Java Swing and Direct X or some shit. It will be a disaster.
THAT is why web gui idioms keep having to be redone. They go on the right track, then the peanut gallery come in with big names behind them, and fuck it up. Then we have to start over. Over and over and over.
These people must have never worked at a company that uses macbook pros across the board, or a startup using thin lap-tops.
Everyone holds their lap-tops with 1 hand like if it was a tablet, running around holding them by the lid, and all around handling them like they would their ipads.
Light lap-tops that you can carry with one hand without effort is a definite advantage for convenience.
Fewer lines means easier to audit once someone gets down to it, though.
It was pretty popular if your demographic was younger people, design people, or startups/small scale companies that aren't tied to Windows stuff (a lot of HR or sales software are).
If you were in those demos, you could easily get a 20-30% market share.
Had to be careful when taking the metrics though. Safari's splash page showing most popular sizes would render thumbnails by running all javascripts, with only an http header that can only be inspected server side to differentiate it (so pages on CDNs need not apply if using a hosted tracking suite like Omniture or Google Analytics). That would make Safari look like it had 50-60% market share on a bad day and confuse people like crazy.
Still it has a decent share, enough that you need to support it.
Congratulation, you just created a police state, where we have to put enforcement on every fucking thing because we can't expect people to be civil.
Of course. But instead we're in a world of "blindly distrust the rules". And that is just as stupid. (also, in a lot of the cases you mentioned, its a private entity dictating what to do on their own property, which they're fully allowed to)
As someone mentioned, one black woman, but probably a lot more woman. They were probably mostly all Asians.
Where I work, in the last 60 engineering hires (we're a semi-established but still small startup), we hired 100% of the black people who applied. 100% of them are among some of our most senior, respected employees, who are constantly winning every hackathons, prizes, company value awards, and are always present in promotions round. ALL OF THEM.
That is, all of them because only ONE ever applied. And by applied, I mean talk to us. It was a cold call that we poached from one of our -customers- (so we had to do something ethically ambiguous to get him).
It has to start at the cultural level when they're kids. So they stop worshipping hoodie wearing, gold chain dangling rappers that say "dope" as their every other word while making fun of everyone smart. Someone above mentioned it was a white created phenomenon. Fine. Wherever it comes from, you have to stop THAT before anything gets better.
People don't try to understand why rules are there. "Don't park there" could be because the snow truck has low visibility and risks ripping your car off. "Don't jaywalk" has a pretty fucking good reason behind it. Ignoring non-smoking signs isn't just being a dick head. My condo complex has a no BBQ rule, because its a group of historical buildings that are basically dry firewood close to each other. I don't think anyone aside me does NOT have a BBQ. Someday everyone will roast alive.
Thats my point: people cannot make the difference between just being a dick head and putting themselves and others genuinely at risk. Rules are meant to be ignored, no matter how important they are, to these people.
The city where I live, when they had to hire someone to manage the school district and took public opinion, a lot of people were asking for diversity. We are an ethnically diverse city and that is part of the culture and it needs to be preserved.
So we need someone that represents said diversity.
What they repeatedly asked for? "Someone of non-euro-african or asian descent", the spanish community was asking.
Holy shit that's diverse.
When people ask for diversity, what they usually ask for isn't to exclude white christian English speaking males. That would be increasing diversity.
No no. What they want to for their particular group to increase. If you increase diversity via other groups, "it doesn't count. But if they say it that way, no one will take them seriously. Thats why having lots of asians is bad for them. Asians are a proof that people who aren't Caucasian christians can succeed. Hell, southern Chinese are hardly white. And historically they had a hard time, so its not like they were born into riches.
But nope, doesn't count!
You're in a world where everyone is constantly being told to do whatever the fuck they want, and everyone else is told to deal with it. People smoke while leaning on no-smoking signs, people drive through streets clearly labeled as private streets, people scream in libraries, yap on their phones in theaters, and take flash pictures in zoos scaring the animals away and there is fuck all reasonable people can do about it.
So now you have a rule in an amusement park that some idiots don't think apply to them (as usual), and its actually really important. You think they'll get it, after being able to ignore every other fucking rule they were ever subject to?
No, they won't. They'll treat the "No selfie stick sign" the same way they will every other damn sign they ignored.
Anti virus, bad drivers for bad hardware, and piece of shit software like itunes that hijack as much of the system as it possibly can.
There's a few things that are hard to avoid on Windows. Startup slowdown is one of those, because way too many software do stupid shit on startup. An SSD will largely solve this problem.
For the OS itself? It should stay snappy for years and years.
Certain pieces of software will kill it. Many popular anti-virus are worse than the viruses themselves, including very popular ones (Avast used to be a prime offender. I don't know about today, but so many people kept recommending it...).
Another major killer is iTunes. This one is even worse because of the psychological aspect. Its an Apple product, and it makes Windows go to a crawl. People using itunes are very likely to be also using MacOSX at time, even if they use Windows at others. So then they compare Windows with itunes to MacOSX, and conclude that Windows is far worse than it truly is.
Let me guess. You're one of those the article talk about, who doesn't know what homeopathy is.
Just in case: natural products, herbs, and all kind of old school medicines are not homeopathy.
Homeopathy exclusively refers to some absurd ritual involving diluting a tiny spec of something into water until its so diluted there's virtually not a single molecule of the original left.
There has never been an homeopathic remedy that ended up as a "standard" medicine. All it is is distilled water. Nothing else.