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Your dad needs to think about the next best 5 guys, and how to pick them up for cheap when the layoffs happen. At his age striking out on his own will seem absolutely terrifying.

Work on him for a few months. He must have built up some serious contacts over the years. His pitch is straightforward. HP can't actually support their products anymore, they don't have the staff. He knows the hardware inside and out. Sell support contracts. Snipe the best after the layoffs.

You don't look for a job when you need one. this rumor is going to terrify customers. Since he has good personal relationships with those fortune 1000, he needs to monetize that. He must have some idea of what HP charges for his time. He can send the new guys, and come in to rescue at the end.

I know this sounds crazy. Think really hard about it though. There isn't anyplace that will hire him at 100k. He needs to set up his own shop. Think of it this way, 0.05 < P(new_biz_fail) < 0.1. What is the chance of him getting a good new job in 6 months? i'd guess less than 10%. With your mom, he needs to bring in serious cash. He's in a position to do that. If he picks good helpers, it won't consume his life, anymore than the current job. He really only needs 1 contract, and can build from there.

It sounds super scary. Hell, it is super scary. If he needs stability for the next 15 years or so, this is a really good way to do it. Really, in his position, as good as he is, it's less scary than going and looking for work.
I think with the mother you would want at least a gold level plan, right? That's pretty expensive.
One possibility is for him to take a job at one of his clients, running the procurement process for HP products and services (more generally, the business lines he supports). He probably knows a lot about the cost structures for HP and competitor offerings and can help the client not only drive the hardest bargain and play competitors off each other, but also minimize spend (inhousing less complicated services, etc.)
If your dad becomes unemployed and has very little income, he would most certainly qualify for a heavily subsidized ACA health care plan with caps on maximum out of pocket expenses. And that would tide him over until his mid 60s when medicare (and social security) kicks in. Point is, don't stress too much, they will likely be fine. Health care for the poor and elderly in the US is a much more accessible and affordable resource than we are led to believe, especially in a state like MN which has lots of doctors.
I sympathize with your family's predicament and I hope something works out.

At the same time, I would suggest severely redacting your post. Its one thing to overshare the details of your own life, its another to overshare those of someone else (particularly their income, health, and other factors which might affect hiring).
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I have an HP11C calculator I bought in 1989 I still use. It cost almost $100 back then. The first HP printer I bought was a DeskJet 550c. Made a beautiful whooshing and humming noises. Kept it for more than 10 years. When they discovered a tendency for premature wear on the pickup rollers, HP sent me a maintenance kit: one day it just showed up with instructions. I had a zd7000 laptop in the early oughts. It was pretty badass for it's day. Lasted until my boy closed the top with a pen on the keyboard and cracked the screen.

HP was a different company that made good stuff.
Respect. They don't measure mine, but if they did, the unit of measure will be picoUber.
They're the cost leader, along with Dell. The modern equivalent is Samsung with a lot of its cheaper hardware.

Sure, Samsung has it's high end flagships, but so does HP (elitebooks). Just because they've filled one shitty niche doesn't mean they're all bad.
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This sounds like a great idea, but I don't know if he's such an entrepreneur or risk-taker. Some people are, some people aren't. It's a natural thing.

I'm not sure of the papers he's signed (non-competes...), or the contracts that HP has with their customers (there must be some), but... he could definitely "get the band together" and pull off such a feat. Again, I think this goes back to the contracts he had.

He's one of 4 remaining from the "blue days" (time with Digital); I think they'd be able to pull it off if they did go this route. They're all pretty awesome.
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What I don't understand is why the Apple TV comes with either 32GB or 64GB of storage, but apps are limited to 200MB and I don't exactly see Apple letting you download content to the device (a la AppleTV 1st Generation). So, why all the storage?
Thanks for having shared this. I live in Italy, and in the last years we have get accustomed to news like "four hundred refugees reached Sicily last night", "50 Syrians died yesterday when their boat sank near the coast", etc. Reading this helps in preventing me from thinking of these people as just numbers.
A job working for a hardware vendor like HP doing local area field support? That will probably be impossible to find.

I think the trick is to find a different (yet related) role with a company that is expanding rather than contracting their business.

Datacenter tech springs to my mind -- a fair number of tech companies have midwest sites (mostly Chicago, sometimes Minneapolis or Nebraska or elsewhere) that don't have local techs. Issues are often handled by the east coast team flying out, which is less than ideal. Someone with that many years of hardware experience is pretty hard to find for those types of roles.
Indeed. I think what I'm trying to clear up is that the "money" created by banks is not "free money". It is a carefully crafted game of musical chairs on the bank's balance sheet. Bottomline is, the loan is an asset and the deposit is a liability. Banks don't create M0.
I loved the OST, especially orbital's "Halcyon on and on". It's still on my 'snowboard' playlist. I still remember the intro scene vividly[1].

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Yesterday I picked up a rental car. I wanted Cheri listed as a driver. I emailed the photo I took of her driver license before I left the house to the person at the counter. All using my phone. I didn't need a scanner or a printer or ink.

I take documents with me using my phone. The printer business ain't like it was.
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This is a concern even for first-party apps, as you are not secure from a malevolant client. Or hell, your own client could have bugs which create some insanely expensive queries on, say, 1% of your devices - didn't catch it in QA, end up pushing it to millions of device for a nice ddos.
My experience with FullContact was one of constant duplication of data (at both record and field level for both exact and inexact matches. I.E. two contacts representing the same person with say, differences in first name -- Jon vs. Jonathon for example -- would often result in two contacts with a combination of fields from each of the originals. Didn't have to be name. Address, for example. "Road" vs. "Rd" confused the hell out of FullContact routinely...), totally useless features to resolve (in particular) non-exact duplicate matching, and an absolute contempt for any manual curation at all.

Essentially it made mash of my contacts, wouldn't let me correct them either in their UI (with features built exactly for that), and or in any native apps, more than a year on I'm still nowhere near cleaning up the mess.

All they had to say about it was that "synchronizing contacts is a hard problem", or something to that effect. No effort to repair/undo the damage, no suggestions on how to avoid future problems -- sorry we ate your data, sucks to be you.
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At that point, why do you need blocks? Couldn't each transaction just be signed by a certain percentage of validators?
If you do not realize that we have always been monitored, usually without a legal vehicle, by government agancies, you are just too young. If you believe for one second that the NSA is more of a threat than the ultimate climate created by the aggregation of every set of data collected by ISPs, Cloud service providers, app makers, and social media, please start thinking and researching just a few more steps ahead. Attacks will be patched, the NSA will decrypt in real time until someone finds a way to embarras them. The natural growth of company driven data theft and distribution can only result in an environment with revoloutionary sceintific achievement and statistical analysis that poses unpresidented virtual and physical threats to individuals and groups. The simple fact is our users have been slowly trained to implement and act upon concepts and technology they do no understand. When a person that can hardly type can watch a video online with explicit instructions on how to hijack a cell phone, but easily use too much power and suspend service in an area, what do we really change when housese burn and heart attack victims die because they have no 911 service?
> Way less developing

I've worked in an organization where leads were expected to do all that a lead is generally supposed to do AND also have sprint velocity (work throughput) equal to or higher than senior engineers on the team. I always thought this was absolutely bonkers, but at least now I know I'm not crazy
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>I'm old-school and still appreciate face-to-face time over online tools.

a.k.a you like to interrupt people on a whim. Show some respect and just schedule a meeting.
Doing the math on this, they apparently believe that each one of those people is costing the company $108k per year, net. Given that HP's revenue per employee is ~$350k, I find those numbers simply unbelievable.

And let's suppose for a second that HP is somehow right. How did they just notice that 10% of their employees are doing something totally worthless? On top of the 55,000 employees that they laid off in 2012? I don't understand how this isn't an admission of total management incompetence.

There's also the classic MBA mistake of seeing employees as expenses rather than assets. HP has been investing in these people for years. What a waste to just fire them all. And this is surely damaging another valuable asset, organizational morale. That they couldn't figure out a single valuable thing to do with those assets is just sad.
The vast majority of people who are great aren't great because they want to be. they don't have a choice, they need to be. He's got some time, he can figure it out. Maybe partner with those friends. Sharing the load is incredibly motivating.

At least get him to take a long look at those contracts. Heck, he might be released from them on severance.

Talk to him about it. No matter what happens, it's going to be a rough time for him. If he feels safer going and looking for work, good for him, there's no judgement. But you make it sound like he really needs to take care of his family. Just keep this option in mind. Time is on your side, for now.
You can imagine how proud he was, he really wanted to show off his clock. I can think of a few times I got shut down by bored adults when I wanted to present something I built.

But he wasn't met with boredom, he was met with an arrest. Police still threatening charges.
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I disagree. I think at least part of that is cultural (I'm in Australia), and part is about what "measuring actual results" really means.

The idea that you only measure results is a worse situation for the engineering team than measuring time.

If we only measure results, then a piece of work can be estimated to be "a week's work", and then the engineer is expected to deliver on that estimate and have it done by the end of the week, even if that means working overtime.

I don't want that. I want to be able to tell my team that, if they did a solid week's work on it, and it's not done then that means our estimates were out and we'll adjust the plan. But that is measuring time - they did a week's effort even though they didn't get the intended result.

The flip-side is that if something is estimated to be "a week's work" and they get it done in 3 days, then I don't expect them to take the next 2 days off. Rather, it means that our estimates were off (in the opposite direction) and we'll pick up some additional work this week.

To me, "taking 2 days off" and "only working 5 hour days" are essentially the same thing. So if I had a team member who told me "the task I was assigned for this week is actually pretty easy, so I decided to just finish at 2pm each day", then I'd consider that wildly inappropriate and tell them so.

In the same way, if a manager told an engineer "the task you were assigned this week is really hard, so you're probably going to need to work until 9pm each day" that would be wildly inappropriate.

I don't care very much what hours my team work, as long as it's effective - which includes having enough overlapping office time do have in depth technical discussions, and so they can provide mentoring and advice to junior team members (or get advice if they are the junior). But if someone is "coming late and going early" (direct quote from the article, but the emphasis is mine) then they're not doing the job that they're hired for, and we need to discuss why.

Most engineers aren't employed (paid) based solely on results - and don't want to be, they want to know that if they do their hours, then they've done the job. But conversely, if they haven't done their hours, then they haven't done their job.
Perhaps you missed this in the article, but these layoffs are in the Enterprise division. The printer business is separate.
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So, do you believe that there should be no trade allowed between countries at all? What is the right amount of trade, and how did you determine what that is? Is it possible that your determination is wrong?
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Thanks, I'll be sure to echo this to him.
The school is just upset that one of the students is learning something. Public school teachers are glorified, overpaid babysitters.
What's the iot reference for? How does putting Bitcoin implementations into random pieces of plastic (like a "smart cup") figure into your analysis at all?
What do you all think a company like HP should do when they (finally) realize that they're overstaffed by a big number like 20%, 30% or 50%?

One thing I realized working for a huge company and comparing that with my time at their much smaller competitor was that organizations in huge companies become hyperspecialized. This is great during the good times, because everyone is able to squeeze out that last 5% of performance (or whatever other metric they're optimizing for), and this combined effort allows them to keep their lead over the competitor.

But it's terrible during bad times because of the overstaffing. And firing people just makes things worse because the company loses important parts of its organizational memory. Because of the hyperspecialization, no single person/organization knows how to do all the things that need to be done to get the product out the door. And if you fire 10% of your workforce, you're going to forget 10% of the stuff you needed to know to build your products. In fact, you probably lose much more than 10% because people who are actually good see the writing on the wall and leave, taking a disproportional amount of the organizational knowhow with them.

I feel like these companies get caught in a death spiral. They can't do things the old way because they don't know how to any more, and they can't do it the way their competitors are doing it either because they never knew how to do that! So they just flounder along for many years slowly becoming less and less relevant. They solution is to luck into a completely different business model that somehow ends up working a la IBM in the 90s. But how realistic is that?
What about the other $900?
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> could affect safety

Be careful about what you're saying here. Conformance to regulations is not at all the same as safety. My (anecdotal) experience is that Uber drivers are consistently better in anything that could be considered related to safetey - namely having functional seatbelts and paying attention to the road.
You wouldn't even need a browser extension in Chrome, as it supports "greasemonkey" style user scripts natively: any `.user.js` file you drag onto the "chrome://extensions" page is converted to an anonymous Chrome extension automagicly. YMMV with other browsers, if course.
Curiously, they make decent servers with a decent build quality (or used to, at least)
The point I think is that Apple expects users to have many apps they use regularly - allowing each app to take up large amounts of space reduces the device's overall functionality.

Apps can also go over the 200MB limit by providing content 'packs' to Apple, which are downloaded on demand by your app, managed by the OS, and evicted for space when necessary.

Overall the point is to simultaneously allow as many apps to be installed as possible while requiring as little user administration as possible w.r.t. disk space.

One persistent problem on iOS is that some apps really abuse the caches directory by filling them and failing to provide some kind of cache purging functionality or logic. Users' devices get full, and policing disk usage by apps individually is a pain - both fundamentally and with the current UI. Superficially the OS has the right to purge the caches folder any time it wants, but in reality actually doing so regularly would break a large number of poorly engineered apps.
Not really. I had several HP Kayak workstations; they were rock solid and built like tanks. A bunch of our servers were HP, and they were also quite solid. This was in the early 2000's, though.

I haven't seen a decent HP product in a long, long time. Their printers are simply average, and nothing like they used to be.
Not the same person, but I assume they're referring to the "Save Page Now" function of the Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/web/).

This tells Archive.org's crawler to immediately process a page and add it to the Wayback Machine's cache. Unfortunately there's no public API for this, but it is possible to programmatically submit a request to their endpoint and scrape out the resulting archive link (and I have code that does this, if that would help).
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I cannot tell you how mad this made me. The racism, the refusal to appreciate the nerdy kid, the police idiocy, the bad teacher, the horrible administration. 5 police officers interrogating one 14-year-old who just likes tinkering because he brought in a clock.

Does anybody know a good way (that is, polite and unlikely to be percieved as menacing) to send something to the family? I'd totally go in on a giant AdaFruit gift certificate for the young fellow. Or a scholarship fund. Or both.
I don’t mind the use of green (as compared to some other color) to indicate 'new site', but could you tone it down a little bit, or give users the option to disable it? On an otherwise neutral page, the green stands out and is quite distracting.

Maybe use something like #6a8966 (http://www.colorpicker.com/6a8966)?
One example of this, and it happens too often, is when people are training their replacements.

Jobs are sent elsewhere (outsourced, off-shored, or both) and the people currently doing those roles need to train up the people who will be taking them over.

I know one government department that decided to relocate a particular job function to another location as part of a broader "regionalisation" strategy. The people doing that job at the existing location were all going to be made redundant once the new team was ready to take on the work.

The old team had an economic incentive to make the handover take as long as they could. The new team didn't have a lot of incentive to make it go fast. Sure, they were keen to do some real work, but they were also reasonably happy to only have 50% of the case load, and leave 50% back with the original team. Since only the people at the top had any real desire to see the project succeed, you can probably guess how well it went.
I've never made $1 from anything other than my full time job though I've tried several times. It's much harder than it looks... Then again even lots of successful consumer startups took half a decade or more before they made their first $1 as well
>How do you block that without blocking every image on the website?

By blocking that specific asset? Blocklists will be much larger and slower reactively, but still far better than nothing.
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Is not possible. No context.
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HP/Compaq had the trained staff to do what apple and google have done. But management has been busy busy cutting their way to profitability. Cutting staff to make next years numbers look good is opiate of the MBA.
The Matrix? It is also unpleasantly fast predicting the future.
I have had to live with HP laptops for... close to 13 years now. No matter how far I look back, they were always horrible.
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I'm all for free speech, however it came off as rather tasteless.
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Academics who write crawlers that don't do much with the pages they fetch can do 100s of millions of pages in a day with an ordinary server and a big, fat network pipe. At that speed they aren't even parsing html, they're using regexes to try to find URLs and that's about it.

At blekko, we did ~ 100k pages/day/server with our production crawler, running on a cluster which was also doing anti-web-spam, inverting outgoing links into incoming links, indexing everything, and analytics batch jobs supporting development.

So unless you're doing a LOT of work on every webpage, you're kinda slow.

The easiest mistake to make is to not be asynch enough. This Python example is great.
So, a theory of regulatory practise might be to shoot a child every so often. Then the rest of the class would be quiet, certainly for a period of time.

(See analogy above, do not assume I see this as good educational practise)