How well does it work in practice and at scale? The marketing claims are 'cute' but they stay marketing claims until independently verified. I have tried other 'distributed' SQL' DBs such as crate and you can paint me unimpressed with the performance and, pun intended, bugs.
Well we do use human to develop new perfumes for women and men, and not really dogs or pigs, at least on the smelling part.
In the same vein we also do not, or no longer in developed countries, use humans to transport humans, we use horses, donkeys in places where beasts are more practical than cars/trucks.
I believe it is possible that while not as sensitive as a blood hound, our nose might be a lot more sensitive than assumed in the past but just not at a conscious level and we might not be as good at isolating individual scents amongst dozen of others. Think about hearing conversations in a crowded room, can't follow anything, but somehow you do notice when someone say your name. Could be similar with our nose.
I wrote a driver for multimedia, including volume keys, over 10 years ago and yes, I did include a key logger functionality in the debug build. That said the only keys I logged were the 'special', non ascii keys. I might have logged all keys on the very early stages of the driver development but I had absolutely no need to capture any of the 'writing' keys and if I wanted to record activity on these I would probably have recorded the event but not the actual character pressed.
Having worked in the software industry for my entire career and for several years at Software Security companies, a lot of developers just do not care about security at all. I've even seen a lead developer complaining that he had to fix a XSS exploit that was only accessible to logged in users. His argument is that we should trust our customers so a fix was not required.
At first I was thinking that boss did it on the cheap by not laying of your coworker with a compensation package... then I realized that for the guy to loose his job could have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Well played. This manager is really the kind that inspire loyalty, something that I feel is missing in a lot of places in the Silicon Valley unfortunately. As companies demand loyalty from their individual contributors, they often forget that it has to work both ways.
+1 this was a very loaded and biased summary. I use Apple machines for all my 'GUI' needs and Ubuntu for all my server needs so I could not care less about Unity vs Gnome vs KDE or whatever. If I'm sad about anything it would be more that Upstart never got enough love and could have been made great, instead we got to deal with Systemd, but even that is pretty invisible to me. I don't have any grudge against Shuttleworth, sure he might have made small mistakes but seems like a pretty good leader from where I sit.
Except the gender masking does not exist and the Google committees use the manager's feedback as a main source of information to rate employee performance as well as promotion worthiness. So of course the managers will not say 'pay her less because she's a woman', all they have to do is to write their feedback to stack rank their direct reports and the committees will follow. I also do not understand how the sex can be masked with the 360 feedback having 'Cindy played a role' or 'she contributed to' all over. AFAIK that's not masked.
My first Vizio, which I almost only used to play my PS3 games, which mean not much, died after 24 months +1 or 2 weeks. Fortunately it was bought from Costco, 2 years, with an Amex, +1y. They pretty much paid the replacement cost. The replacement one is a much nicer quality and I also barely use it if it dies within 3y, well I will get Amex to replace it. If it dies beyond that... $1000 for 6Y of decent quality 1080p then 4K 55" TV is not so bad.
Look at the models at Costco, the free 2Y warranty and the price difference alone could pay for the annual membership fee if you are not a member yet. Does anyone know if the new Costco Visa card has the +1 year warranty Amex had?
With cash back I get a very concrete view of what I'm getting back with real dollars and there is no blackout period or any of that BS. I only take the plane when I really need to though, with the trip back to europe every other year to visit family, and do road trips for most vacations.
I would guess that this one is to force youtubers to learn basic video editing before posting raw footage of 'My bedroom remodeling, look at the paint dry'.
Hopefully. Call me cynical, but question: of all the $$ they dish out for ad revenue, what fraction goes to small-time videos? Could be a good way to cut down on costs. Any google-ites care to chime in?
The way I read it is that it would cut down on incoming revenue to YouTube: ads are entirely disabled until 10k views on a given video. It is not 'no revenue sharing until 10k', it is 'no ads until 10k'. Quite different. This count is on the channel's view not per video so this should have limited impact for the content producers that have lot of videos with niche viewership. Unfortunately it will probably have the side effect of forcing small channels to split their videos in a 2, 3 4 part video to help bump the views count to 10k faster.
I second that, I have seen first hand that getting a promotion or not be part of layoffs has more to do with your political connections than merit at large corporations. In smaller shops, where everybody knows everybody, I found this to be less common, but still present if the top leadership has poor ethics.
The fingerprint also deactivates after several invalid reads. I know, because when my toddler get his hands on my iPhone I always have to unlock it with the pin afterwards.
I'm not sure I agree with the, mostly accepted, idea that offshore == lower quality. The car analogy would be Toyota vs the american manufacturers. Toyota managed to build cars in Japan, at much, much higher quality than Detroy could and then sell them for cheaper. South Korea was a little behind Japan on quality but is pretty much on par now. Of course things are not 100% perfect with exploding phones and bad airbags but I would say the quality is still on par, if not better, than the western counterparts. China still has a problem of consistency with a lot of low quality, fakes and just plain rip off items, but they do build very high quality items nowadays. A lot of the price difference between 2 items, US vs offshore, is not always manufacturing cost. The offshore item will have a lower margin, little to no marketing cost, . For example I personally do not believe that the manufacturing cost of a MacBook Pro would have a very significant percentage difference on the retail price if it were manufactured in the US. I also believe Apple would have a higher market share, by how much no idea, if they bragged about manufacturing in the US only. It worked for the car industry so why not?
To me one economical danger of offshoring production is that the western companies are both training and financing their future competitors. Look at all the computers and smartphones from offshore companies. Most quality TV brands are 'offshore' brands (Sony, Samsung, LG) and nobody thinks of them as cheap low quality compared to US brands (which ones really? Vizio maybe?). Even the TV market is starting to see Chinese brands.
So let's stop always putting offshore in the bucket of low quality, the US is producing low quality and badly designed products as well. Made in USA is not a guarantee of superior quality.
I never heard such nonsense. The definition of resident for tax purposes is different, than for immigration purposes, and an H1-B is not exempt from paying federal taxes. A long time ago, when I was on the J-1 program, I was exempted from social security withholdings and my taxes were rather very low since I was only an intern. As soon as I 'upgraded' to the H1-B status I had to pay full taxes like everyone else. I'm not even sure that a former H1-B is entitled to receive money from Social Security at retirement age if he left the country. Now... if the H1-B left the country before he stayed 6 months during the given tax year... then yeah I guess you could say that he could save on taxes, is there a spike of H1-Bs leaving in the weeks/days before July 1st each year? In any case if you leave the country after 6 months to avoid paying taxes, it is not trivial to come back.
It is starting to happen... I've seen recruiters in India reaching out to me for local Silicon Valley jobs. Considering 80% of the local recruiters reaching out to me don't even seem to have read my Resume/Profile, I cannot imagine how someone in a different continent can understand the roles. If the hiring company is too cheap to use recruiters in the US, how much do you think they will be willing to pay, and then how long before they send your job offshore? No, thank you.
There definitely is a blacklist, it is even in plain sight on the WorkDay system as a checkbox "eligible for re-hire" and many companies actually abide by the blacklist they have. As for back channels, I have witnessed more than one candidate being turned down because the back channel feedback was negative, even if it was feedback from years old interaction with the candidate. Your reputation is important for your career in the long term, especially when you move up the ladder.
Surprisingly not always, at my most recent job we got 2 months notices, but our last day int he office was a week later. We still got several weeks severance on top of that. Legally they had to give us notice since several hundred employees were laid off, but it was more generous than legally required. The exact team actually leaked a memo that our group was being shut down 2 month earlier, I guess that would count as 4 months notice.
But in general, yes, most companies will not give you notice and ask you to leave right away. I usually give 2 weeks notice and up to 4 weeks once because of consideration for the team working for me: the people, I hired.
And they have a kickback option where they give you $10 back if you used less than 2GB in that month on a line. For me it looks like I will end up paying $80 all included for 3 unlimited lines. I'll have to pay $25 for the new sim card and that's it... now I have to figure out who gets the iPhone 5: the dog or the toddler?
Yes, just hop somewhere else. All of my significant salary raises have come from switching jobs. The added bonus is that it has usually meant to be exposed to different practices, some good, some bad, but always accelerating acquisition of experience as well with several *big* name companies on my resume now. Some employers might frown upon staying less than 4 years and value loyalty but there is little to no loyalty the other way around so I do not see why it is expected for employees to be loyal if: A) the company keeps you because you provide more value than hiring someone else, B) they refuse to give you market raise, knowing your replacement would get more than you currently get.
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Actually, yes you can. Google delivers food to my house quite often. Although it is mostly non perishable but they do deliver bread and other edibles.
How well does it work in practice and at scale? The marketing claims are 'cute' but they stay marketing claims until independently verified. I have tried other 'distributed' SQL' DBs such as crate and you can paint me unimpressed with the performance and, pun intended, bugs.
Well we do use human to develop new perfumes for women and men, and not really dogs or pigs, at least on the smelling part.
In the same vein we also do not, or no longer in developed countries, use humans to transport humans, we use horses, donkeys in places where beasts are more practical than cars/trucks.
I believe it is possible that while not as sensitive as a blood hound, our nose might be a lot more sensitive than assumed in the past but just not at a conscious level and we might not be as good at isolating individual scents amongst dozen of others. Think about hearing conversations in a crowded room, can't follow anything, but somehow you do notice when someone say your name. Could be similar with our nose.
I wrote a driver for multimedia, including volume keys, over 10 years ago and yes, I did include a key logger functionality in the debug build. That said the only keys I logged were the 'special', non ascii keys. I might have logged all keys on the very early stages of the driver development but I had absolutely no need to capture any of the 'writing' keys and if I wanted to record activity on these I would probably have recorded the event but not the actual character pressed.
Having worked in the software industry for my entire career and for several years at Software Security companies, a lot of developers just do not care about security at all. I've even seen a lead developer complaining that he had to fix a XSS exploit that was only accessible to logged in users. His argument is that we should trust our customers so a fix was not required.
At first I was thinking that boss did it on the cheap by not laying of your coworker with a compensation package... then I realized that for the guy to loose his job could have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Well played.
This manager is really the kind that inspire loyalty, something that I feel is missing in a lot of places in the Silicon Valley unfortunately. As companies demand loyalty from their individual contributors, they often forget that it has to work both ways.
+1 this was a very loaded and biased summary. I use Apple machines for all my 'GUI' needs and Ubuntu for all my server needs so I could not care less about Unity vs Gnome vs KDE or whatever. If I'm sad about anything it would be more that Upstart never got enough love and could have been made great, instead we got to deal with Systemd, but even that is pretty invisible to me. I don't have any grudge against Shuttleworth, sure he might have made small mistakes but seems like a pretty good leader from where I sit.
I used to work at Google for several years and have inquired to 'committee' members about the process.
Except the gender masking does not exist and the Google committees use the manager's feedback as a main source of information to rate employee performance as well as promotion worthiness. So of course the managers will not say 'pay her less because she's a woman', all they have to do is to write their feedback to stack rank their direct reports and the committees will follow. I also do not understand how the sex can be masked with the 360 feedback having 'Cindy played a role' or 'she contributed to' all over. AFAIK that's not masked.
My first Vizio, which I almost only used to play my PS3 games, which mean not much, died after 24 months +1 or 2 weeks. Fortunately it was bought from Costco, 2 years, with an Amex, +1y. They pretty much paid the replacement cost. The replacement one is a much nicer quality and I also barely use it if it dies within 3y, well I will get Amex to replace it. If it dies beyond that ... $1000 for 6Y of decent quality 1080p then 4K 55" TV is not so bad.
Look at the models at Costco, the free 2Y warranty and the price difference alone could pay for the annual membership fee if you are not a member yet. Does anyone know if the new Costco Visa card has the +1 year warranty Amex had?
With cash back I get a very concrete view of what I'm getting back with real dollars and there is no blackout period or any of that BS. I only take the plane when I really need to though, with the trip back to europe every other year to visit family, and do road trips for most vacations.
I would guess that this one is to force youtubers to learn basic video editing before posting raw footage of 'My bedroom remodeling, look at the paint dry'.
Why did I look? Of course it is a thing!
Hopefully. Call me cynical, but question: of all the $$ they dish out for ad revenue, what fraction goes to small-time videos? Could be a good way to cut down on costs. Any google-ites care to chime in?
The way I read it is that it would cut down on incoming revenue to YouTube: ads are entirely disabled until 10k views on a given video. It is not 'no revenue sharing until 10k', it is 'no ads until 10k'. Quite different. This count is on the channel's view not per video so this should have limited impact for the content producers that have lot of videos with niche viewership. Unfortunately it will probably have the side effect of forcing small channels to split their videos in a 2, 3 4 part video to help bump the views count to 10k faster.
I second that, I have seen first hand that getting a promotion or not be part of layoffs has more to do with your political connections than merit at large corporations. In smaller shops, where everybody knows everybody, I found this to be less common, but still present if the top leadership has poor ethics.
The fingerprint also deactivates after several invalid reads. I know, because when my toddler get his hands on my iPhone I always have to unlock it with the pin afterwards.
I'm not sure I agree with the, mostly accepted, idea that offshore == lower quality. The car analogy would be Toyota vs the american manufacturers. Toyota managed to build cars in Japan, at much, much higher quality than Detroy could and then sell them for cheaper. South Korea was a little behind Japan on quality but is pretty much on par now. Of course things are not 100% perfect with exploding phones and bad airbags but I would say the quality is still on par, if not better, than the western counterparts.
China still has a problem of consistency with a lot of low quality, fakes and just plain rip off items, but they do build very high quality items nowadays. A lot of the price difference between 2 items, US vs offshore, is not always manufacturing cost. The offshore item will have a lower margin, little to no marketing cost, . For example I personally do not believe that the manufacturing cost of a MacBook Pro would have a very significant percentage difference on the retail price if it were manufactured in the US. I also believe Apple would have a higher market share, by how much no idea, if they bragged about manufacturing in the US only. It worked for the car industry so why not?
To me one economical danger of offshoring production is that the western companies are both training and financing their future competitors. Look at all the computers and smartphones from offshore companies. Most quality TV brands are 'offshore' brands (Sony, Samsung, LG) and nobody thinks of them as cheap low quality compared to US brands (which ones really? Vizio maybe?). Even the TV market is starting to see Chinese brands.
So let's stop always putting offshore in the bucket of low quality, the US is producing low quality and badly designed products as well. Made in USA is not a guarantee of superior quality.
And all that plastic around the whole thing has no carbon in it?
Isnt that the guy that tried to kill his viewers with carbon dioxide?
Even more perfect, when the battery of the Android side catches fire the users get carbon dioxide poisoning.
Safety is number one priority
In his defense he does claim to be crazy, what do you expect?
They should have hired CrazyRussianHacker to do the ad. Jump at 1:46, "now you got two". See, same concept!
I never heard such nonsense. The definition of resident for tax purposes is different, than for immigration purposes, and an H1-B is not exempt from paying federal taxes. A long time ago, when I was on the J-1 program, I was exempted from social security withholdings and my taxes were rather very low since I was only an intern. As soon as I 'upgraded' to the H1-B status I had to pay full taxes like everyone else. I'm not even sure that a former H1-B is entitled to receive money from Social Security at retirement age if he left the country. Now ... if the H1-B left the country before he stayed 6 months during the given tax year ... then yeah I guess you could say that he could save on taxes, is there a spike of H1-Bs leaving in the weeks/days before July 1st each year? In any case if you leave the country after 6 months to avoid paying taxes, it is not trivial to come back.
It is starting to happen ... I've seen recruiters in India reaching out to me for local Silicon Valley jobs. Considering 80% of the local recruiters reaching out to me don't even seem to have read my Resume/Profile, I cannot imagine how someone in a different continent can understand the roles. If the hiring company is too cheap to use recruiters in the US, how much do you think they will be willing to pay, and then how long before they send your job offshore? No, thank you.
There definitely is a blacklist, it is even in plain sight on the WorkDay system as a checkbox "eligible for re-hire" and many companies actually abide by the blacklist they have. As for back channels, I have witnessed more than one candidate being turned down because the back channel feedback was negative, even if it was feedback from years old interaction with the candidate. Your reputation is important for your career in the long term, especially when you move up the ladder.
Surprisingly not always, at my most recent job we got 2 months notices, but our last day int he office was a week later. We still got several weeks severance on top of that. Legally they had to give us notice since several hundred employees were laid off, but it was more generous than legally required. The exact team actually leaked a memo that our group was being shut down 2 month earlier, I guess that would count as 4 months notice.
But in general, yes, most companies will not give you notice and ask you to leave right away. I usually give 2 weeks notice and up to 4 weeks once because of consideration for the team working for me: the people, I hired.
Peter Jackson is from New Zealand as demonstrated by the presence of sheep in his earlier work.
And they have a kickback option where they give you $10 back if you used less than 2GB in that month on a line. For me it looks like I will end up paying $80 all included for 3 unlimited lines. I'll have to pay $25 for the new sim card and that's it ... now I have to figure out who gets the iPhone 5: the dog or the toddler?
Yes, just hop somewhere else. All of my significant salary raises have come from switching jobs. The added bonus is that it has usually meant to be exposed to different practices, some good, some bad, but always accelerating acquisition of experience as well with several *big* name companies on my resume now. Some employers might frown upon staying less than 4 years and value loyalty but there is little to no loyalty the other way around so I do not see why it is expected for employees to be loyal if: A) the company keeps you because you provide more value than hiring someone else, B) they refuse to give you market raise, knowing your replacement would get more than you currently get.