So you're on Slashdot during the fun part, then put down your phone when the guy starts reading the Bible and telling people not to touch each oher unless it's to have babies?
Clearly you have a twisted perception of fun. You must be a Gentoo user.
Trump only needs 270 votes to be elected, in a country of roughly 323,000,000 citizens and 11,000,000 illegal housekeepers and gardeners. Now THAT is democracy.
But at least he won't join the Western Imperium (sorry I meant the EU). He even wants to exit the NAFTA, because apparently selling subsidized grain and lumber to Mexico and Canada is hurting the middle class.
And the "best of both world" is Oracle on Azure. The cheapest instance is $825/month; that's Oracle Standard (not Enterprise of course) running on a 1-core VM with 750MB of RAM (yes, less than 1GB).
I've seen Oracle shit itselfs on 4-core machines with 32GB of RAM under workloads that wouldn't make a network-shared Access file blink, so I guess if one rents that $825/month instance, one must have something else in mind than using it as a database server for real.
If you ask me, the highest price society has to pay for Twitter is seeing their illegitimate CEO prancing around on tv and web clips as if he was a real businessman.
Funny enough they've started to use the words "active devices" instead of "users", like that lame java installer from Oracle (one billion devices!). So they probably know that most people now post using scripts or services like buffer without ever reading themselves what other people post.
What they did was not hitting themselves on the head, what they did was standing up and rejecting once again the idea of a unified Europe under German control. This is called the right to self determination, but of course you're against it, just like you're against letting a politician speak his mind unless you share his opinion.
Yes. Someone should find a way to stop Donald Trump from speaking to his supporters through twitter - or even better, let's keep disrupting his rallies and conferences because he's the intolerant one. Anyways that's entirely his fault if idiots keeps disrupting those events since he's the one who refuses to shut up with his opinions that the people that matter disagree with.
Freedom of speech is for people who really deserve it, and that does not include Donald Trump (or any GOP candidate in general).
Let's make America better! Support selective free speech!
The "at-will" thing is not a license to be an asshole. There's more to being a decent person than not breaking laws. For instance, there's no law that requires you to flush when you use a public bathroom, that doesn't mean it's ok to leave your shit for someone else to deal with.
Also giving notice is not the same as being "loyal", it's just professional courtesy. And it doesn't have to be 2 weeks; it's perfectly acceptable to have a civilized discussion with the employer, and figure out what would work for both parties. For someone in a very senior position it's not unusal for the employer to ask the person to stay on for a few months, because it's more difficult to find a replacement, but they may also feel like you're a potential liability and ask you to go. Either way doing this in a civilized manner will help a lot in building your reputation.
Like it or not, the company has taken a risk and spent good money in the process of hiring you, and even if you think that you're a special little snowflake that deserve an award just for showing up and letting a company "use" your time, it's still more classy to offer them some kind of advance notice.
As for being "mistreated", believe me you've seen nothing. I once worked in a company where a coworker was told to use his vacation days when he had to undergo chemotherapy, and where I was told by the HR manager that he had a stack of resume "this thick" to replace me when I complained about the A/C being turned off in the office on evenings and weekend when I had to do unpaid overtime. After quite a while longer than one might expect I had enough, but I still didn't leave without notice. They asked for a month, I offered a week, and we compromised on three weeks. FIVE years later, I shit you not, I was offered a juicy contract and found out that I won the business in large part because someone who used to work at that hellish company was in the hiring committee and told them I was a stand-up kind of guy. That contract set me on a highly profitable trajectory.
So yeah, I'll keep doing things my way even if the law says I can take a dump on an employer's desk when I no longer want to work there. Feel free to do things your way also, but don't be surprised if one day, sooner than you expect, you end up doing Fivers and Craigslist gigs because you can't get a job or contract. Of course you'll blame the economy and the visa workers, after all you never broke the at-will laws.
I'm not saying "fuck the SEC and their rules", I'm saying this filing is not important in this context. A global company will not engage in "pump and dump" operations to make a quick buck in the USA in a single quarter when they're obviously already ahead of the pack worldwide and are unlikely to lose their market share for a long time.
It's no longer a Bay area thing. It's the same almost everywhere. Infosys alone has currently +30,000 visa workers in the USA, and their biggest markets are Sunnyvale, Charlotte, Houston, Phoenix, Atlanta. They have the same number of people in Seattle, Hartford and NYC. Throw a dart on the map and they're bound to have 800-1200 workers in the closest big city.
And that's just Infosys. There's Tata, Accenture, IBM, all playing the same game.
So you're left with two choices. You can swim against the current, or you can find a niche. But make no mistakes: we, qualified non-hipster white males are not a hot commodity at the moment. China and India are creating a million new engineers every year. For the most part it's not skilled labor but the sheer number and the explosive growth can't be beat. Odds are that there's hundreds of Chinese or Indian workers with an identical skill set as yours willing to work for 60% of your income.
But here's what the numbers don't show. Those qualified workers are a drop in the h1b ocean, and by the time they represent a higher percentage of the flock, the domestic economy in China and India will have improved significantly, creating more opportunities at home. Already it's happening in the manufacturing industry in China (they sell more stuff in China than they export).
So hang in there. We're on the tail end of a global workforce correction.
I get calls all the time from people on my professional network asking about such or such person because they saw on their resume that they worked at a same place I used to. Often if I don't know them I will make a call to whoever I know and trust that still work there, and I'll get the straight dope. There's even been cases of double hops, with my contact reaching out to his own contacts. That's how a good network works.
When I get those calls I never badmouth anyone, but I've given enough glowing reviews about excellent former coworkers that people who ask me can tell from the lack of enthusiasm when they're dealing with a bad apple. And anyone who leaves without warning is a bad apple in my book.
Employment verification between HR departments usually serves the purpose of validating the dates on your resume. If the role to fill has any importance, it's the informal calls or discussions during a random encounter at a trade show that will seal your fate.
Little bitches throw tantrums and storm out with bitter accusations to justify their immaturity. A decent person does what you did. End things like a pro and walk away standing tall.
It doesn't matter if the company would have ended things with less class. That's like saying, no I won't give a dollar to that homeless person because I don't think he would give me one if I was the one in a tough spot.
Exactly. Apple had a shot at taking the market and keeping it. But they insisted on those proprietary power adapters that they even changed for yet another proprietary adapter, they insisted on the lack of sd cards, cheap cameras, disposable hardware, etc. They went for the quick buck and shamelessly exploited their customers.
Can you imagine the sustainable success it could have been if they had been just a little less greedy? Instead it will have lasted a mere decade.
Are you aware that merely 10% of the world's smartphone users are Americans? Samsung's numbers are global and they trade in multiple stock markets, who cares about the SEC
Thank you. Although I actively play the Devil's advocate I have my doubts about the Theranos story (read my earlier comments before this bullshit media storm and you'll see I have no love for Mrs Holmes), but when imbeciles start calling someone a Holocaust denier for disagreeing with them about such a globally unsiginificant matter as the Theranos scandal, that's a sign that the "truth" they defend is shallow and stands only on the weak shoulders of a misinformed lynch mob. There's talk, there's heated discussions, and then there's fanatism which is the line you crossed, as you used the suffering and murder of millions as a podium to promote your point of view in a simple discussion that didn't require such exploitation.
Just so we're clear: you're not a clever or witty vigilante stepping into a public forum to strike down a naysayer, you're a repugnant and vile self-righteous cunt that shows no common sense or moral clarity. If this kind of behavior worked for you in the past, it's because you probably bullied someone weaker or less intelligent than you, but this time it's not what happened.
Reply or not I don't care, you're a worthless debater.
Or maybe she's a genius and this device is detecting the font, then uses an advanced algorithm that sends vibrations across the book to make it type the font name. That's why she keeps putting books on her macbook keyboard in the video.
Literally the whole thing is about they claimed they had a novel blood test and they falsified records that the tests worked when they didn't. Are you not familiar at even a basic level what the problem is and why they're in trouble?
You obviously don't even understand the biased version reported by the media, so let's just write you off as someone who will never know what this story is until Oliver Stone makes a movie about it
You talk as if we were in a post-Enron analysis situation, but that's not the case at all. First they're still in business, still making money doing regular tests at a lower price than the competition (which I start to believe is the root cause of this whole charade). They're still doing research and perfecting their process and technologies, with the goal not to detect cancer from a drop of blood, but to lower even more the cost of blood tests.
As for investors: this is a private company and we don't know what they share or didn't dhare with their private investors, and we don't know what kind of return they get on their money, what kind of deal they made. How come everyone is talking as if it was a few retiress who had lost their savings in a Ponzi scheme? Because outsiders claimed it was "worth" billions at one point, and zero later on?
What went wrong is they got caught. That's what "went wrong".
It is almost certainly more complicated than that. There is no way that a fraud like this could actually work in the long run, and any sensible investor would know that. What is more likely is that Elizabeth really thought her tech would work, hyped it to get capital, thus inflating expectations. Then she had too much pride to back down when the tech failed, so she started fudging a little, to buy time to fix the problems. But she couldn't fix the problems, so she then had a choice to either admit failure, and admit to the initial fudging, or... dig deeper. Just like Bernie Madoff, she grabbed a shovel.
I think you're onto something. A lot of this comes from her having her moment in the spotlight.
As for the shovel thing, though, maybe it's important to keep in mind that a lot of the "it doesn't work" stuff comes from unreliable reporting from the WSJ, which has been since quoted as if it was The Truth. I'm not saying Theranos cutting edge tech works, I'm saying they never claimed it was ready yet. Some of their early work failed, and they proved somewhat careless with lab procedure, but this is a private company with no requirement to open their books to nosy reporters. Claiming that investors were defrauded is at best hypothetical, we don't know what progress they've made in R&D or even what proportion of their income (made on regular blood tests) is being used for research. All we know about is 81 bad tests (they've done millions of tests so far), one careless lab manager in a small branch office in California, and one big pharmacy chain that dropped them as a partner - which for all we know could be caused by the media frenzy and not by actual concerns about the services rendered.
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So you're on Slashdot during the fun part, then put down your phone when the guy starts reading the Bible and telling people not to touch each oher unless it's to have babies?
Clearly you have a twisted perception of fun. You must be a Gentoo user.
no, those "commit suicide"
Trump only needs 270 votes to be elected, in a country of roughly 323,000,000 citizens and 11,000,000 illegal housekeepers and gardeners. Now THAT is democracy.
But at least he won't join the Western Imperium (sorry I meant the EU). He even wants to exit the NAFTA, because apparently selling subsidized grain and lumber to Mexico and Canada is hurting the middle class.
And the "best of both world" is Oracle on Azure. The cheapest instance is $825/month; that's Oracle Standard (not Enterprise of course) running on a 1-core VM with 750MB of RAM (yes, less than 1GB).
I've seen Oracle shit itselfs on 4-core machines with 32GB of RAM under workloads that wouldn't make a network-shared Access file blink, so I guess if one rents that $825/month instance, one must have something else in mind than using it as a database server for real.
I'm sure it made Bill Gates cry many times
If you ask me, the highest price society has to pay for Twitter is seeing their illegitimate CEO prancing around on tv and web clips as if he was a real businessman.
see: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...
Funny enough they've started to use the words "active devices" instead of "users", like that lame java installer from Oracle (one billion devices!). So they probably know that most people now post using scripts or services like buffer without ever reading themselves what other people post.
Jokes with a political bias are only funny when:
1) the reader shares your bias
and
2) the target of the joke is not already ridiculed on a daily basis by comedians sharing your bias and being immensely funnier
So you failed. What you did was the equivalent of spelling Micro$oft with the dollar sign, it stopped being funny a long time ago.
Pro tip: If you want to go for the low-hanging fruit expect some competition.
That's one more thing you got wrong.
What they did was not hitting themselves on the head, what they did was standing up and rejecting once again the idea of a unified Europe under German control. This is called the right to self determination, but of course you're against it, just like you're against letting a politician speak his mind unless you share his opinion.
Yes. Someone should find a way to stop Donald Trump from speaking to his supporters through twitter - or even better, let's keep disrupting his rallies and conferences because he's the intolerant one. Anyways that's entirely his fault if idiots keeps disrupting those events since he's the one who refuses to shut up with his opinions that the people that matter disagree with.
Freedom of speech is for people who really deserve it, and that does not include Donald Trump (or any GOP candidate in general).
Let's make America better! Support selective free speech!
The "at-will" thing is not a license to be an asshole. There's more to being a decent person than not breaking laws. For instance, there's no law that requires you to flush when you use a public bathroom, that doesn't mean it's ok to leave your shit for someone else to deal with.
Also giving notice is not the same as being "loyal", it's just professional courtesy. And it doesn't have to be 2 weeks; it's perfectly acceptable to have a civilized discussion with the employer, and figure out what would work for both parties. For someone in a very senior position it's not unusal for the employer to ask the person to stay on for a few months, because it's more difficult to find a replacement, but they may also feel like you're a potential liability and ask you to go. Either way doing this in a civilized manner will help a lot in building your reputation.
Like it or not, the company has taken a risk and spent good money in the process of hiring you, and even if you think that you're a special little snowflake that deserve an award just for showing up and letting a company "use" your time, it's still more classy to offer them some kind of advance notice.
As for being "mistreated", believe me you've seen nothing. I once worked in a company where a coworker was told to use his vacation days when he had to undergo chemotherapy, and where I was told by the HR manager that he had a stack of resume "this thick" to replace me when I complained about the A/C being turned off in the office on evenings and weekend when I had to do unpaid overtime. After quite a while longer than one might expect I had enough, but I still didn't leave without notice. They asked for a month, I offered a week, and we compromised on three weeks. FIVE years later, I shit you not, I was offered a juicy contract and found out that I won the business in large part because someone who used to work at that hellish company was in the hiring committee and told them I was a stand-up kind of guy. That contract set me on a highly profitable trajectory.
So yeah, I'll keep doing things my way even if the law says I can take a dump on an employer's desk when I no longer want to work there. Feel free to do things your way also, but don't be surprised if one day, sooner than you expect, you end up doing Fivers and Craigslist gigs because you can't get a job or contract. Of course you'll blame the economy and the visa workers, after all you never broke the at-will laws.
I'm not saying "fuck the SEC and their rules", I'm saying this filing is not important in this context. A global company will not engage in "pump and dump" operations to make a quick buck in the USA in a single quarter when they're obviously already ahead of the pack worldwide and are unlikely to lose their market share for a long time.
You sir are a Zen master.
It's no longer a Bay area thing. It's the same almost everywhere. Infosys alone has currently +30,000 visa workers in the USA, and their biggest markets are Sunnyvale, Charlotte, Houston, Phoenix, Atlanta. They have the same number of people in Seattle, Hartford and NYC. Throw a dart on the map and they're bound to have 800-1200 workers in the closest big city.
And that's just Infosys. There's Tata, Accenture, IBM, all playing the same game.
So you're left with two choices. You can swim against the current, or you can find a niche. But make no mistakes: we, qualified non-hipster white males are not a hot commodity at the moment. China and India are creating a million new engineers every year. For the most part it's not skilled labor but the sheer number and the explosive growth can't be beat. Odds are that there's hundreds of Chinese or Indian workers with an identical skill set as yours willing to work for 60% of your income.
But here's what the numbers don't show. Those qualified workers are a drop in the h1b ocean, and by the time they represent a higher percentage of the flock, the domestic economy in China and India will have improved significantly, creating more opportunities at home. Already it's happening in the manufacturing industry in China (they sell more stuff in China than they export).
So hang in there. We're on the tail end of a global workforce correction.
I get calls all the time from people on my professional network asking about such or such person because they saw on their resume that they worked at a same place I used to. Often if I don't know them I will make a call to whoever I know and trust that still work there, and I'll get the straight dope. There's even been cases of double hops, with my contact reaching out to his own contacts. That's how a good network works.
When I get those calls I never badmouth anyone, but I've given enough glowing reviews about excellent former coworkers that people who ask me can tell from the lack of enthusiasm when they're dealing with a bad apple. And anyone who leaves without warning is a bad apple in my book.
Employment verification between HR departments usually serves the purpose of validating the dates on your resume. If the role to fill has any importance, it's the informal calls or discussions during a random encounter at a trade show that will seal your fate.
Little bitches throw tantrums and storm out with bitter accusations to justify their immaturity. A decent person does what you did. End things like a pro and walk away standing tall.
It doesn't matter if the company would have ended things with less class. That's like saying, no I won't give a dollar to that homeless person because I don't think he would give me one if I was the one in a tough spot.
I'm sure they all miss you
Exactly. Apple had a shot at taking the market and keeping it. But they insisted on those proprietary power adapters that they even changed for yet another proprietary adapter, they insisted on the lack of sd cards, cheap cameras, disposable hardware, etc. They went for the quick buck and shamelessly exploited their customers.
Can you imagine the sustainable success it could have been if they had been just a little less greedy? Instead it will have lasted a mere decade.
Are you aware that merely 10% of the world's smartphone users are Americans? Samsung's numbers are global and they trade in multiple stock markets, who cares about the SEC
Thank you. Although I actively play the Devil's advocate I have my doubts about the Theranos story (read my earlier comments before this bullshit media storm and you'll see I have no love for Mrs Holmes), but when imbeciles start calling someone a Holocaust denier for disagreeing with them about such a globally unsiginificant matter as the Theranos scandal, that's a sign that the "truth" they defend is shallow and stands only on the weak shoulders of a misinformed lynch mob. There's talk, there's heated discussions, and then there's fanatism which is the line you crossed, as you used the suffering and murder of millions as a podium to promote your point of view in a simple discussion that didn't require such exploitation.
Just so we're clear: you're not a clever or witty vigilante stepping into a public forum to strike down a naysayer, you're a repugnant and vile self-righteous cunt that shows no common sense or moral clarity. If this kind of behavior worked for you in the past, it's because you probably bullied someone weaker or less intelligent than you, but this time it's not what happened.
Reply or not I don't care, you're a worthless debater.
I don't know what OS you think of, but even for OS/400 there's antiviruses.
http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fh...
Or maybe she's a genius and this device is detecting the font, then uses an advanced algorithm that sends vibrations across the book to make it type the font name. That's why she keeps putting books on her macbook keyboard in the video.
Our entire sense of vision is an illusion our brain creates as an interpretation of the real world.
Morpheus, is that you?
Literally the whole thing is about they claimed they had a novel blood test and they falsified records that the tests worked when they didn't. Are you not familiar at even a basic level what the problem is and why they're in trouble?
You obviously don't even understand the biased version reported by the media, so let's just write you off as someone who will never know what this story is until Oliver Stone makes a movie about it
Whose money did they take, and what didn't work?
You talk as if we were in a post-Enron analysis situation, but that's not the case at all. First they're still in business, still making money doing regular tests at a lower price than the competition (which I start to believe is the root cause of this whole charade). They're still doing research and perfecting their process and technologies, with the goal not to detect cancer from a drop of blood, but to lower even more the cost of blood tests.
As for investors: this is a private company and we don't know what they share or didn't dhare with their private investors, and we don't know what kind of return they get on their money, what kind of deal they made. How come everyone is talking as if it was a few retiress who had lost their savings in a Ponzi scheme? Because outsiders claimed it was "worth" billions at one point, and zero later on?
This is all bullshit.
What went wrong is they got caught. That's what "went wrong".
It is almost certainly more complicated than that. There is no way that a fraud like this could actually work in the long run, and any sensible investor would know that. What is more likely is that Elizabeth really thought her tech would work, hyped it to get capital, thus inflating expectations. Then she had too much pride to back down when the tech failed, so she started fudging a little, to buy time to fix the problems. But she couldn't fix the problems, so she then had a choice to either admit failure, and admit to the initial fudging, or ... dig deeper. Just like Bernie Madoff, she grabbed a shovel.
I think you're onto something. A lot of this comes from her having her moment in the spotlight.
As for the shovel thing, though, maybe it's important to keep in mind that a lot of the "it doesn't work" stuff comes from unreliable reporting from the WSJ, which has been since quoted as if it was The Truth. I'm not saying Theranos cutting edge tech works, I'm saying they never claimed it was ready yet. Some of their early work failed, and they proved somewhat careless with lab procedure, but this is a private company with no requirement to open their books to nosy reporters. Claiming that investors were defrauded is at best hypothetical, we don't know what progress they've made in R&D or even what proportion of their income (made on regular blood tests) is being used for research. All we know about is 81 bad tests (they've done millions of tests so far), one careless lab manager in a small branch office in California, and one big pharmacy chain that dropped them as a partner - which for all we know could be caused by the media frenzy and not by actual concerns about the services rendered.