It's like going to a dance and not knowing the traditional dance steps of your village. It's exactly like that. The whole interview is an encoded dance routine. It's not about you as an individual, it's about your performance in a ritual. Often the person on the other side of the table is just as awkward with the experience, and that's why they are staying on script themselves.
I'm not at liberty to disclose much about my other income sources as a principal owner of my family business. When I mention that I own a farm, it usually changes the conversation to a direction where I take control. It's a lot of fun to be the one who closes the interview.
I point out pretty bluntly that I have a comfortable mid-career professional standard of living and a healthy amount of assets that I want to protect and grow. This is usually sufficient to stave off any chance of an insulting low-ball offer. Obviously it helps a whole lot at the interview to not be desperate for cash or anywhere near it.
You don't ask to be compensated with $50K in private stock. You offer to *buy* $50K of private stock with a contract that compels the company to tender it out if you separate involuntarily. Cash is an important weapon on both sides of the negotiating table. After you have this legally protected personal stake in the risk-reward cycle, THEN you can realistically be compensated in terms of a *greater* stake. But just trying to put yourself on the receiving end is a fool's errand.
If firing you involves giving a contractually mandated refund of your personal investment (significance of which depends on the company's assets), you've won. Obviously to negotiate for this you have to have serious cash. But that's the difference between people who can't be fired and people who can. "I could fire you, but it would mean shutting down the line of business you manage because it was your capital that seeded it." I never understood entrepreneurship until I witnessed people doing this. Literally buying their job security. They come out way ahead versus trying to operate their own business. Basically your few hundred grand can buy you access to a few hundred million in resources, and that's the difference between an independent small business and a LOB within a larger corporation. A lot of fog lifted on a lot of mystery for me when I realized how many people were doing things along those lines. Since then, it's been a goal of mine to have a year of living expenses in liquid cash at the time of an interview or performance review. There's something empowering about that which makes the amount of cash more valuable than just its denomination.
The job interview is largely a social dance. It's pretty common in some sectors for neither the interviewer nor the interviewee to know the dance steps particularly well, making the experience awkward on both sides of the table.
My answer to "5 years" is always along the lines of where I thought I would be *five years ago*. From that angle you can spin the open-ended question into a realistic view of how that plan led you here today, and why that's a great thing for them.
You are disclosing a secret that should not be revealed. Please endeavor to maintain the premise that the entirety of Canada is a frozen, desolate tundra inhospitable to human life. There will be no further warnings.
File duplication is not the problem. You need to do it at the block level, in the filesystem driver, or it's not really going to be useful where it's needed. Suppose you have an exabyte of oracle tables on an encrypted logical volume. Now I want to store that logical volume on a SAN that performs data deduplication. Given a year and a five million dollar budget, what do you think you could deliver?
Yeah, find+md5sum gets you a long way toward dealing with file-level duplication, but that's not really the problem being addressed. What if you have an exabyte of database tables that aren't even stored in files in the traditional sense? You need something at the filesystem level that deals with blocks, and that implements some kind of copy-on-write semantics and so on.
I know that there are IT pros who, without really doing much analysis, assume that they have mountains of duplicated data (because their problems begin with mountains of data in the first place). They assume that a de-dupe solution will improve their situation, but this is not always the case. It's a very expensive proposition (sometimes much more than simply expanding storage!) and you might find that your assumptions are not borne out by results.
Yeah, file level duplication isn't really what's under discussion here. I do like your rsync command though. I do something similar for backup staging. We have users who make local copies of mountains of documents (terabytes of legal docs.) File de-dup in the stage saves on tape, and makes it possible to give shorter backup commitment windows. But this doesn't do anything for block-level duplication. On the other hand, I think a lot of people are surprised by how small a gain is made in real world scenarios with de-duping sans or block-level compressed drives or whatever. The tradeoffs aren't that great, in the real world. I'm sure there are some folks with exabytes of repeated data that's not at the file level, but there are solutions for them, often tuned to their database flavor as well.
Even that incident is totally different from the UC Davis one. Main point: Those particular individuals were in a place where they had a specific right to be because it was their domicile. Orders to vacate could not be lawfully given in the first place, at least not without specific and valid reasons (they were not trespassing, they were not blocking ingress or egress, or creating any other specific hazard.) They weren't under arrest, and there wasn't a warrant for their arrest or even a judicial process through which their arrest was sought. If the police had authority to make arrests, they could have done so with the handcuffs and 45ACPs. It is exactly _because_ they didn't have this authority that got Pike upset enough to cease being a law enforcement officer and become a vigilante, disobeying orders, ignoring California law and the policies and procedures of his department, and take out his aggressions against these individuals. He treated them as though they were the same people as some group of Oakland rioters or whatever. When the lawsuits inevitably come, the university is going to have to settle them quietly because there are serious risks they face if they have to admit either that they lied about not giving orders to use force, or if they have to admit that Pike disobeyed orders. Either way, ugly.
Actually, the university spokespeople have made it quite clear that the orders were _not_ to use force, more than implying that Pike acted on his own, disobeying orders. A rogue agent. Are they lying?
It's about the government saying that a plant should be eradicated. A plant with countless known medicinal and industrial uses, should be eradicated. Take recreational smoking out of the equation and see how indefensible the position becomes.
Organizing a group of people toward a common goal turns out to be a challenge in *any* human endeavor. The fact that it is possible *at all* for a video game says something about the compelling nature of that game. Even if you are paying them a wage, it's hard to keep 25 people organized.
I've noticed that my mage's single-target damage is usually the lowest compared to any other class. I attribute some of that to my gear, and some of it is because I don't have any sort of overachiever rotation.
I mothballed my druid for no other reason that not being able to play the tree form full-time. I must admit that I did level a mage to 85, just to see all the new zones and dungeons. I also have to admit that it's been fun, but there is no way I'm getting into any mode of play that requires me to deal with other players or do any kind of PvP.
The problem with mitigating "fraud and waste" is that you can't put metrics on it. You can't say "this quarter we have an initiative to drop "fraud and waste" from 14% down to 9%. You can't set an objective to have 9% "fraud and waste", measure it, pay bonuses based on meeting the goal, and issue press releases claiming your success. If it's "fraud and waste", you either have to set out to eliminate it totally (without really even being able to *define* it very well, for the same problems), or you have to look the other way.
There is a weird cross-section class that has employer-subsidized health insurance; mostly people in bureaucratic and technocratic roles for larger institutions. These people often seem unaware of how much it would cost them to insure their family if they had to seek out private insurance, if it is even possible (because it is still very common to be denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions.)
What I'm saying is, health insurance for your family that actually covers anything substantial probably has monthly costs higher than your mortgage. Possibly double. A lot of people don't realize this.
I'd love to get a health plan that was useful. The trouble is, even if I went for a plan (upwards of $13,200 annually) it would not cover (relatively mundane) pre-existing conditions for us, which is the lion's share of our health care costs *anyway*. I'm looking for a high-deductible plan (high being in the $30-50K range) that covers catastrophic stuff and lets me just cash-flow the costs of mundane doctor visits and prescription drugs (which comes to a LOT less than that insurance cost, even if I bought retail priced name-brand drugs, which you aren't allowed to do under those expensive plans.)
The thing that bothers me is that so many people who rail against "Obamacare" being evil or whatever, don't even have much of a foundation in the subject matter of health care costs and insurance. They seem to just want to be on a popular bandwagon. And that really bothers me a lot.
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It's like going to a dance and not knowing the traditional dance steps of your village. It's exactly like that. The whole interview is an encoded dance routine. It's not about you as an individual, it's about your performance in a ritual. Often the person on the other side of the table is just as awkward with the experience, and that's why they are staying on script themselves.
I'm not at liberty to disclose much about my other income sources as a principal owner of my family business. When I mention that I own a farm, it usually changes the conversation to a direction where I take control. It's a lot of fun to be the one who closes the interview.
I point out pretty bluntly that I have a comfortable mid-career professional standard of living and a healthy amount of assets that I want to protect and grow.
This is usually sufficient to stave off any chance of an insulting low-ball offer. Obviously it helps a whole lot at the interview to not be desperate for cash or anywhere near it.
You don't ask to be compensated with $50K in private stock. You offer to *buy* $50K of private stock with a contract that compels the company to tender it out if you separate involuntarily. Cash is an important weapon on both sides of the negotiating table. After you have this legally protected personal stake in the risk-reward cycle, THEN you can realistically be compensated in terms of a *greater* stake. But just trying to put yourself on the receiving end is a fool's errand.
If firing you involves giving a contractually mandated refund of your personal investment (significance of which depends on the company's assets), you've won. Obviously to negotiate for this you have to have serious cash. But that's the difference between people who can't be fired and people who can. "I could fire you, but it would mean shutting down the line of business you manage because it was your capital that seeded it." I never understood entrepreneurship until I witnessed people doing this. Literally buying their job security. They come out way ahead versus trying to operate their own business. Basically your few hundred grand can buy you access to a few hundred million in resources, and that's the difference between an independent small business and a LOB within a larger corporation. A lot of fog lifted on a lot of mystery for me when I realized how many people were doing things along those lines. Since then, it's been a goal of mine to have a year of living expenses in liquid cash at the time of an interview or performance review. There's something empowering about that which makes the amount of cash more valuable than just its denomination.
There's a threshold where your personal investment stake is the main component of your job security, your compensation, and your responsibilities.
Have you considered applying the rule to patriotic ribbons?
I'll bet some people in your organization sees and seizes opportunities, or creates them, even if you don't.
The job interview is largely a social dance. It's pretty common in some sectors for neither the interviewer nor the interviewee to know the dance steps particularly well, making the experience awkward on both sides of the table.
I thought the point of the brain teasers was that there really *wasn't* a "correct answer."
My answer to "5 years" is always along the lines of where I thought I would be *five years ago*. From that angle you can spin the open-ended question into a realistic view of how that plan led you here today, and why that's a great thing for them.
I've always been surprised that North Korea doesn't exploit its situation of having the darkest skies in Asia for the purpose of optical astronomy.
You are disclosing a secret that should not be revealed. Please endeavor to maintain the premise that the entirety of Canada is a frozen, desolate tundra inhospitable to human life. There will be no further warnings.
File duplication is not the problem. You need to do it at the block level, in the filesystem driver, or it's not really going to be useful where it's needed.
Suppose you have an exabyte of oracle tables on an encrypted logical volume. Now I want to store that logical volume on a SAN that performs data deduplication. Given a year and a five million dollar budget, what do you think you could deliver?
Yeah, find+md5sum gets you a long way toward dealing with file-level duplication, but that's not really the problem being addressed. What if you have an exabyte of database tables that aren't even stored in files in the traditional sense? You need something at the filesystem level that deals with blocks, and that implements some kind of copy-on-write semantics and so on.
I know that there are IT pros who, without really doing much analysis, assume that they have mountains of duplicated data (because their problems begin with mountains of data in the first place). They assume that a de-dupe solution will improve their situation, but this is not always the case. It's a very expensive proposition (sometimes much more than simply expanding storage!) and you might find that your assumptions are not borne out by results.
Yeah, file level duplication isn't really what's under discussion here. I do like your rsync command though. I do something similar for backup staging. We have users who make local copies of mountains of documents (terabytes of legal docs.) File de-dup in the stage saves on tape, and makes it possible to give shorter backup commitment windows. But this doesn't do anything for block-level duplication. On the other hand, I think a lot of people are surprised by how small a gain is made in real world scenarios with de-duping sans or block-level compressed drives or whatever. The tradeoffs aren't that great, in the real world. I'm sure there are some folks with exabytes of repeated data that's not at the file level, but there are solutions for them, often tuned to their database flavor as well.
Even that incident is totally different from the UC Davis one. Main point: Those particular individuals were in a place where they had a specific right to be because it was their domicile. Orders to vacate could not be lawfully given in the first place, at least not without specific and valid reasons (they were not trespassing, they were not blocking ingress or egress, or creating any other specific hazard.) They weren't under arrest, and there wasn't a warrant for their arrest or even a judicial process through which their arrest was sought. If the police had authority to make arrests, they could have done so with the handcuffs and 45ACPs. It is exactly _because_ they didn't have this authority that got Pike upset enough to cease being a law enforcement officer and become a vigilante, disobeying orders, ignoring California law and the policies and procedures of his department, and take out his aggressions against these individuals. He treated them as though they were the same people as some group of Oakland rioters or whatever. When the lawsuits inevitably come, the university is going to have to settle them quietly because there are serious risks they face if they have to admit either that they lied about not giving orders to use force, or if they have to admit that Pike disobeyed orders. Either way, ugly.
Actually, the university spokespeople have made it quite clear that the orders were _not_ to use force, more than implying that Pike acted on his own, disobeying orders. A rogue agent. Are they lying?
No kidding. Medical users, those who use a vaporizer daily, are hard pressed to go through a couple of grams a week.
Are you saying that marijuana use was the sole destructive behavior engaged in by those people?
It's about the government saying that a plant should be eradicated. A plant with countless known medicinal and industrial uses, should be eradicated. Take recreational smoking out of the equation and see how indefensible the position becomes.
Organizing a group of people toward a common goal turns out to be a challenge in *any* human endeavor. The fact that it is possible *at all* for a video game says something about the compelling nature of that game. Even if you are paying them a wage, it's hard to keep 25 people organized.
I've noticed that my mage's single-target damage is usually the lowest compared to any other class. I attribute some of that to my gear, and some of it is because I don't have any sort of overachiever rotation.
I mothballed my druid for no other reason that not being able to play the tree form full-time. I must admit that I did level a mage to 85, just to see all the new zones and dungeons. I also have to admit that it's been fun, but there is no way I'm getting into any mode of play that requires me to deal with other players or do any kind of PvP.
The problem with mitigating "fraud and waste" is that you can't put metrics on it. You can't say "this quarter we have an initiative to drop "fraud and waste" from 14% down to 9%. You can't set an objective to have 9% "fraud and waste", measure it, pay bonuses based on meeting the goal, and issue press releases claiming your success. If it's "fraud and waste", you either have to set out to eliminate it totally (without really even being able to *define* it very well, for the same problems), or you have to look the other way.
There is a weird cross-section class that has employer-subsidized health insurance; mostly people in bureaucratic and technocratic roles for larger institutions. These people often seem unaware of how much it would cost them to insure their family if they had to seek out private insurance, if it is even possible (because it is still very common to be denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions.)
What I'm saying is, health insurance for your family that actually covers anything substantial probably has monthly costs higher than your mortgage. Possibly double. A lot of people don't realize this.
I'd love to get a health plan that was useful. The trouble is, even if I went for a plan (upwards of $13,200 annually) it would not cover (relatively mundane) pre-existing conditions for us, which is the lion's share of our health care costs *anyway*. I'm looking for a high-deductible plan (high being in the $30-50K range) that covers catastrophic stuff and lets me just cash-flow the costs of mundane doctor visits and prescription drugs (which comes to a LOT less than that insurance cost, even if I bought retail priced name-brand drugs, which you aren't allowed to do under those expensive plans.)
The thing that bothers me is that so many people who rail against "Obamacare" being evil or whatever, don't even have much of a foundation in the subject matter of health care costs and insurance. They seem to just want to be on a popular bandwagon. And that really bothers me a lot.