Do you think for a moment that a manager would ever end up in the bottom 10% bucket?... No, stack ranking systems like this exist to reinforce management's masters of the universe self-image.
I've worked in a place where the company was doing poorly and they were laying off the bottom 10% from performance reviews... Senior managers and directors were included in the 10%, even one of the VPs was slashed.
The stack ranking system is not a product of some management hive mind that helps managers -- in fact, most hate it. It's a product of the CEO, HR, and usually some business consulting company. Almost everybody else is worse off for it, including all levels of management below the top couple of tiers.
Clearly, if you believe an iPad or equivalent device is enough for you, you are clearly not the target audience. This isn't a stupid fashion statement/gimmick like an iPad - it has real uses and those who have a use for it knew it the moment they saw it. No single product is ideal for anyone - it's a matter of choosing what you need.
Ok, why do you have to throw that bit in? It's about choosing what you need, but if you choose an iPad then you're choosing a stupid gimmick. Way to believe in the rest of your words.
iPad has plenty of uses, they may not be "real" for you, but it's been selling too well and for too long to consider it a useless fad. People don't keep upgrading things they don't have a use for.
But your company broke the law by hiring you when an American could have done the job. They did so to save money, and it came at the cost of driving down the standard of living for everyone.
You assume a lot. First, the criteria isn't that some American could've done the job, that would've taken just about every possible job off the list. It that's you've made a *reasonable* effort to find one and you didn't. Even if there are plenty of Americans in other cities who don't want to move, or the same city but with jobs they don't want to leave, it's still ok to hire somebody on H1-B.
And, second, how do you know they got him cheap? Every computer engineering company I've worked at has been paying foreign visa employees the same salaries as local employees, and they had to deal with significant lawyer and visa expenses to get the work permits, and later applications for permanent residency. The H1-B has always been the least preferred option in hiring discussion because of all that extra work.
Not every company is Infosys, and not every job is for an app developer. There are plenty of high-skilled engineering jobs out there that stay open for over a year because of the shortage of qualified candidates, and real and honest companies need to fill them to continue to do business and grow.
Every tech company I've worked at had some kind of a version of "stack ranking", and some were dysfunctional and some functioned very well. I don't think stack ranking has anything to do with it... It's a simple math problem --- you have some amount of money to divvy up, and you have to identify the most important and most worthy people to spend the most on. I think most people understand that.
The alternative of giving everybody the same reward only works at the smallest companies where the general performance bell curve hasn't started to form.
Where things run into problems is when you allow politics, favours, and poor evaluation skills by managers determine your "stack locations", at which point you start creating resentment which fuels the next round of evaluations.
Nobody was asking about innovation in this particular thread. The question at hand is "why is microsoft's future in jeopardy?".
Metro might be innovative, but it's also driven the rest of my family away from laptops and Windows. We're back to the old days of sharing one desktop when heavy usage is needed, and non-Microsoft tablets and phones are used for everything else. That's not the direction they wanted to go in, I'm sure.
I've got two of them, and both have lousy wifi connections in two different parts of the house where other devices connect fine (including BoxeeBox right next to it).
I ran ethernet cables into both rooms, and now I'm happy with Roku... but I don't recommend it to anyone who can't get a wired connection.
6 weeks before the original iphone launched, Jobs said - no plastic screen, use gorilla glass - why? Because your keys in your pocket would scratch the screen. How many other executives would stop production to do that?
It wasn't 6 weeks. It was at least 6 months, maybe more. The story goes that he put the order sometime in 2006, before Gorilla Glass was even ready for production, and iPhone came out in June of 2007.
In places I've worked, executives stopped production all the time, for all kinds of reasons. The good ones were the one that saw the problems ahead of time and didn't have to stop anything, but adjust well before the production began. I believe that's what Jobs did in this case, too.
You should follow you own advice and look at places other than the capital. It's pretty common for capitals of dictatorships to be at a significantly higher level of standard of living compared to the rest of the country..
Pick one of the smaller cities and zoom in.. you are indeed going to see lots of randomly scattered shacks.
What makes you think that Intel doesn't have ARM designs that they could turn around and Fab? Just because they don't have a commercial product that they sell does not mean they don't have something on the back burner that they could bring to market if they felt the need to do so.
If they did, wouldn't that be exactly what ARM wants? ARM doesn't care who makes the ARM server chips, it gets paid either way. And having Intel develop ARM server ecosystem so that other partners can jump in would be downright fantastic for them.
Intel would have to be close to bankruptcy to do something that desperate.
There is the climate. As I type this, it's 106F (40C) right now. It could be worse
Yeah, summers are rough. But, from about October last year until three weeks ago, it was nothing short of amazing. You're not going to beat California weather anywhere, but Ausitn weather is still way ahead of most of the country, especially in winter.
To me, the weather is much more of a plus than a problem.
When it comes time to address the roads, the tax payers will get the bill, rather than the even-more-wealthy developer.
Considering that we don't get any new roads, ever, it's not really a problem, either;).
And how would you go about comparing which one is "freer"? It seems like citing numerous examples of similar-style freedom violations on both side is a good indication that the relative freedoms are probably fairly similar.
Unless you can provide some objective measurement of freedom levels, this is all we have to go on.
Nope, the moral of the story is to NEVER go to the police in the first place.
Ok, am I the only one that's considering the fact that this guy committed murder? The moral of the story is primarily "do not kill others", and then "if you do kill others, don't go to the police to talk to them about it".
No, I do not just copy, paste, compile, test, deliver, done. If it's small then fair use applies, so no problem there
The Java implementation for BigInteger doesn't qualify as small? Or that 20-line algorithm from the paper? He was explicitly talking about copying little snippets of code, not full projects.
BTW, here's the definition of "a criminal" from the Collins English Dictionary:
criminal n 1. (Law) a person charged with and convicted of crime 2. a person who commits crimes for a living
Also, you have some serious problems if you cant wait 30 seconds for anything. Seriously, people suffering from ADHD tend to have more patience than that. However as someone who sells high priced items that provide minimal gain, I like suckers like you.
Ok, you had good points until here.
Any (good) programmer, artist, writer, or anyone else who creates on a computer for a living will tell you that they hate unresponsive applications. Open a new file and wait 5 seconds before you can see it? It's distracting, and it breaks your train of thought.
It's not ADHD, it's the fact that we're used to, from the "real world", to have instant response to actions -- pull out a piece of paper and you can read it immediately. Put a brush to the paper, and the colour shows up instantly. The brain expects the computers, which are trying to model this real world interaction, to work the same way.
BTW, Canada's murder rate went DOWN after we stopped executing people. Just sayin.
I think that has to do a lot with gun control, and not the death penalty. While the murder rate *with firearms* has been going down consistently, the overall murder rate has been stable for a while and has recently started going up. It's much harder to kill someone with a knife than with a gun.
If you look at the violent crime rate in Canada, I think that confirms my opinion. It has been steadily growing, at the same rate before and after the death penalty has been abolished.
Same here. I was 8 when I got it... I used FOR loops to write my name over and over in different colours. A friend of mine told me about RAND USR, and POKE... that was a fun time-waster.
Then, my mom got me a "write your own text adventure on ZX Spectrum" book, and I was off to the races...
If the anti-trust laws were enforced, S4's would cost about $150 and there would be no such thing as 2 year contracts for service.
No way on the $150 price. Just the parts that go into an S4 are more than $150. The S4 would still cost close to what it costs to buy it outright now, but the plans would end up being much more affordable, due to the competition and the lack of phone subsidy cost.
Global e-book reader shipments in the fourth quarter of 2012 will reach 4.57 million units, hiking 92% on quarter but dropping 49.1% on year, according to Digitimes Research.
Thus, 2012 global shipments will reach 9.82 million e-book readers, decreasing 57.3% from 2011. Amazon will be the largest vendor in 2012 accounting for 55% of global shipments, followed by Japan-based Kobo with 20%, Barnes and Noble with 10% and Sony with 6%.
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I've worked in a place where the company was doing poorly and they were laying off the bottom 10% from performance reviews... Senior managers and directors were included in the 10%, even one of the VPs was slashed.
The stack ranking system is not a product of some management hive mind that helps managers -- in fact, most hate it. It's a product of the CEO, HR, and usually some business consulting company. Almost everybody else is worse off for it, including all levels of management below the top couple of tiers.
Ok, why do you have to throw that bit in? It's about choosing what you need, but if you choose an iPad then you're choosing a stupid gimmick. Way to believe in the rest of your words.
iPad has plenty of uses, they may not be "real" for you, but it's been selling too well and for too long to consider it a useless fad. People don't keep upgrading things they don't have a use for.
You assume a lot. First, the criteria isn't that some American could've done the job, that would've taken just about every possible job off the list. It that's you've made a *reasonable* effort to find one and you didn't. Even if there are plenty of Americans in other cities who don't want to move, or the same city but with jobs they don't want to leave, it's still ok to hire somebody on H1-B.
And, second, how do you know they got him cheap? Every computer engineering company I've worked at has been paying foreign visa employees the same salaries as local employees, and they had to deal with significant lawyer and visa expenses to get the work permits, and later applications for permanent residency. The H1-B has always been the least preferred option in hiring discussion because of all that extra work.
Not every company is Infosys, and not every job is for an app developer. There are plenty of high-skilled engineering jobs out there that stay open for over a year because of the shortage of qualified candidates, and real and honest companies need to fill them to continue to do business and grow.
Every tech company I've worked at had some kind of a version of "stack ranking", and some were dysfunctional and some functioned very well. I don't think stack ranking has anything to do with it... It's a simple math problem --- you have some amount of money to divvy up, and you have to identify the most important and most worthy people to spend the most on. I think most people understand that.
The alternative of giving everybody the same reward only works at the smallest companies where the general performance bell curve hasn't started to form.
Where things run into problems is when you allow politics, favours, and poor evaluation skills by managers determine your "stack locations", at which point you start creating resentment which fuels the next round of evaluations.
Nobody was asking about innovation in this particular thread. The question at hand is "why is microsoft's future in jeopardy?".
Metro might be innovative, but it's also driven the rest of my family away from laptops and Windows. We're back to the old days of sharing one desktop when heavy usage is needed, and non-Microsoft tablets and phones are used for everything else. That's not the direction they wanted to go in, I'm sure.
I've got two of them, and both have lousy wifi connections in two different parts of the house where other devices connect fine (including BoxeeBox right next to it).
I ran ethernet cables into both rooms, and now I'm happy with Roku... but I don't recommend it to anyone who can't get a wired connection.
It wasn't 6 weeks. It was at least 6 months, maybe more. The story goes that he put the order sometime in 2006, before Gorilla Glass was even ready for production, and iPhone came out in June of 2007.
In places I've worked, executives stopped production all the time, for all kinds of reasons. The good ones were the one that saw the problems ahead of time and didn't have to stop anything, but adjust well before the production began. I believe that's what Jobs did in this case, too.
The EU prices include the sales tax (VAT), which is a bit over 20% in most EU countries. That's why they look worse than they are...
You're still getting screwed, but not just by the seller ;).
Possibly... but they are also neuroscience and psychology PhDs at UT Austin.
I don't know, how many? Do you know of many?
LEO: Ok, what's his number?
Citizen: Errr...
Do you actually have an attorney ready to receive police inquires on your behalf? If so, you'd be the only one I know who does.
You should follow you own advice and look at places other than the capital. It's pretty common for capitals of dictatorships to be at a significantly higher level of standard of living compared to the rest of the country..
Pick one of the smaller cities and zoom in.. you are indeed going to see lots of randomly scattered shacks.
If they did, wouldn't that be exactly what ARM wants? ARM doesn't care who makes the ARM server chips, it gets paid either way. And having Intel develop ARM server ecosystem so that other partners can jump in would be downright fantastic for them.
Intel would have to be close to bankruptcy to do something that desperate.
Yeah, summers are rough. But, from about October last year until three weeks ago, it was nothing short of amazing. You're not going to beat California weather anywhere, but Ausitn weather is still way ahead of most of the country, especially in winter.
To me, the weather is much more of a plus than a problem.
Considering that we don't get any new roads, ever, it's not really a problem, either ;).
And how would you go about comparing which one is "freer"? It seems like citing numerous examples of similar-style freedom violations on both side is a good indication that the relative freedoms are probably fairly similar.
Unless you can provide some objective measurement of freedom levels, this is all we have to go on.
Ok, am I the only one that's considering the fact that this guy committed murder? The moral of the story is primarily "do not kill others", and then "if you do kill others, don't go to the police to talk to them about it".
The Java implementation for BigInteger doesn't qualify as small? Or that 20-line algorithm from the paper? He was explicitly talking about copying little snippets of code, not full projects.
BTW, here's the definition of "a criminal" from the Collins English Dictionary:
criminal
n
1. (Law) a person charged with and convicted of crime
2. a person who commits crimes for a living
Ok, you had good points until here.
Any (good) programmer, artist, writer, or anyone else who creates on a computer for a living will tell you that they hate unresponsive applications. Open a new file and wait 5 seconds before you can see it? It's distracting, and it breaks your train of thought.
It's not ADHD, it's the fact that we're used to, from the "real world", to have instant response to actions -- pull out a piece of paper and you can read it immediately. Put a brush to the paper, and the colour shows up instantly. The brain expects the computers, which are trying to model this real world interaction, to work the same way.
Those cheesy powerpoint slides are the proof?
I call BS on that. Give us some examples of dozens of laws that a normal person might break every day.
Actually, quite a few do, at least in North America. Certainly just about every Acura, and probably many Hondas.
Even my few years old Altima has it...
I think that has to do a lot with gun control, and not the death penalty. While the murder rate *with firearms* has been going down consistently, the overall murder rate has been stable for a while and has recently started going up. It's much harder to kill someone with a knife than with a gun.
If you look at the violent crime rate in Canada, I think that confirms my opinion. It has been steadily growing, at the same rate before and after the death penalty has been abolished.
Same here. I was 8 when I got it... I used FOR loops to write my name over and over in different colours. A friend of mine told me about RAND USR, and POKE... that was a fun time-waster.
Then, my mom got me a "write your own text adventure on ZX Spectrum" book, and I was off to the races...
No way on the $150 price. Just the parts that go into an S4 are more than $150. The S4 would still cost close to what it costs to buy it outright now, but the plans would end up being much more affordable, due to the competition and the lack of phone subsidy cost.
http://www.digitimes.com/Reports/Report.asp?datepublish=2012/11/14&pages=VL&seq=200