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You invest in assets using tools like NPV. CEOs don't have crystal balls. Some might have a gut instinct, but then they are no different than your gambling stock trader... who might be up today and down tomorrow. It's a function of luck, not a function of ability. You have founders like Stuart Butterfield who can claim over 2-3 successes to make products worth billions. I doubt most CEOs could do the same thing.
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I once reasoned that I trust my network of friends, family and colleagues to pass along any information to me that might be relevant to me - as long as I maintain a strong relationship with them - through regular meets, phone calls and texting each other fun memes.

I figured that I don’t need to consume any information from untrusted and unvetted sources (cable news, new york times, reddit, wsj, late night tv shows) - so I disconnected myself from all of the modern news sources and chose to live in ignorance.

Anecdotally, I feel great. I’m at peace, I still find out everything that’s useful - and I don’t waste cpu cycles in my head on things completely outside my sphere of control.

And yes, the whole world is doing really well right now - the way I see it - despite what the TV news anchors yell into the camera every hour.
There have been bugs I wish I hadn't caught for entirely different reasons. Mostly if you find them on Friday before a Monday release and have to crunch to fix it lol
We also should hold parents criminally responsible for their children's illegal behavior, at least until the kids move out. I think teachers must be fired if any of their students cheat or get disciplined. I also vote that every general and the president should get be jailed when a soldier commits a crime.
I thought I knew this stuff, but now I'm not so sure anymore. If I take care to only visit https sites, what's the risk in being on an open network or a network with a stupid password?

They can see what domains I connect to and when, but that's it, correct? No MITM, no further snooping, right?
> individual project + culture + experience + whatever else

That gives you the interview and determines what level you get if you get hired, so it still matters more than the white-board. White-boarding is still necessary to check that you are top x% in terms or some mishmash of skill and intelligence. Having tech leads who are less talented than our juniors would be bad, so testing that they are better in every way is important.
> That's fewer than 10 per state in the U.S.

I've personally met more than 10 in my state. They are uncommon, but much more common than you'd think.
Or it would force people to take draconian steps to hinder any investigation.

Threatening to throw individuals in prison for profitable but undesirable behavior rarely seems to get much done. Consider the war on drugs, if you want. You can make felons out of a lot of people, but if the profit motive is strong enough, that's just going to encourage people to do more to not get caught.
Yep, you're right on all points!
> That is just wrong.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "wrong"?

For instance, it's perfectly legal to record inside your house - visibly or not - provided it's not in an area or place where the user would expect privacy (usually meaning a bathroom or similar place - but could be extended to bedrooms depending on consent and other reasons).

It might be considered unethical, perhaps even immoral, depending on the reasoning or ulimate purpose for those recordings. But legally there isn't anything wrong about it.

Note: This all depends on your local or other laws of course...
My team has made a few comments about this lately. We deal with a lot of other teams and keep coming across levels of rudeness that we would probably not tolerate in our own teams.

It feels like something is in the air lately.
I think the paradox is that having a very good CEO hypothetically is worth a premium for businesses with massive revenues: Where even the square root of a profit delta relative to a 1% less effective CEO is huge, it makes sense that it's worth a nonlinear increase in pay to get someone who's 1% better.

But simultaneously people are very unlikely to correctly identify which person of a group of competent candidates actually is the best. It's just that marketing and confirmation bias are good enough to cover it up.
>Honestly, I was just trying to be silly ;) But you don't really expect us to watch your 20 min video do you?

I don't care if you watch it or not, but if you're going to comment on it and discredit it, it makes you look silly to do so without watching it.

>Obviously if folks have bad working conditions, I want them them to improve. But how are 'anecdotes' from people I personally know who work in Amazon FC's any different than 'testimonials' from people on TV. I know at least 2 people who work or have worked in these FC's and they never complained. They worked hard & collected their paychecks.

You're acting like the people that you know that never complained somehow cancel out the people complaining. That's not how it works.

>That doesn't mean this is everyone's experience, I'm sure many have been treated poorly. But it goes both ways, we can't assume because some were treated poorly that that is all FC workers experience.

It doesn't go both ways. The fact that you think highlighting some of them are being treated well is troubling. That should be the default. That shouldn't be commendable on Amazon's part.

>I have never worked for Amazon, but I have worked for FedEx unloading trailers by hand. It was back breaking work. The things I hear these workers saying remind me of that job. We were expected to throw boxes nonstop until it was finished, and our boxes per minute thru-put was closely monitored & expected to be kept above a certain level.

Sounds like FedEx has some labor issues to me. Do you think treating people like they're robots is a good thing? Both Amazon and FedEx seem to do so.

>I don't wish poor working conditions on these people, but I also imagine that some of this is getting blown out of proportion.

Where is your evidence that would lend credence to this getting blown out of proportion?
How much of the value provided here is by combining the custom offer information given to each of your customers into one pool to use as leverage against the individual suppliers?

Also, wouldn't the customer sharing that pricing information with you violate some (most? all?) NDAs?
I get the backlash against the hype, but to suggest that DL is simply "rebranded statistical methods" is just wrong. Yes, backprop existed before the recent explosion, that doesn't mean they're haven't been major leaps forward.
What I am talking about is not having any shield. If there is widespread illegal behavior in the company, the CEO goes to jail, period. It does not matter what their lawyers said, it does not matter what the auditors said. If it happens, they go to jail end of story. The buck stops with them.
Yeah, I knew that TB overall was deadly - but the post I was referring to implied that this particular strain was not deadly. As I said, I don't know if the implication about this strain is correct, but if it is then referring to that strain as "the deadliest strain of Tuberculosis" would be inaccurate.
When hiring for a CEO a company that offers negative reinforcement linked to performance will lose out against a company that'll promise you the moon regardless of the performance. It's the CEOs that have their pick.
I would contend that Zoom is also a good example of this.
Just taking a look at the judgement, Emilio was sentenced to 84 months (7 years) around this time in 2012, followed by two years of supervision [1]. I wonder if he was released. Super interesting read overall. Thank you!

[1] https://www.docketbird.com/court-documents/USA-v-Torres/JUDG...
It's in the bible for the WB religion http://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/

See - I've even gone through that. I'm that diligent.
Cloudflare has excellent offerings in the networking space, their tech stack seems solid. The customer base seems loyal: Once you're a customer, free or paid, there's very little reason to move out. Their revenue has been growing 43% and 59% for past 2 years: The business side of things seem to be kicking along at a good pace. They seemed to have figured out a perfect balance at offering services to freelancers, to small to medium businesses, to enterprises, to Fortune 500s. The diversity is astounding.

A few acquisitions and the next thing you know they are in the video-streaming business, in the ISP business, in the mobile carrier business as 5G rolls in and what not: The possibilities are endless? Esp as the world becomes more and more connected (IoT and proliferation of smartphones) and business move online, security and speed at scale are going to be of paramount importance and Cloudflare is primed to seize that market, imo

From running a honeypot network to winning techcrunch disrupt to this. What an amazing journey. One the few tech IPOs I'm genuinely excited about.

Congratulations eastdakota et al.
I know this is totally not the point of TFA, the parent comment or yours, but apparently the current consensus is that there was no such thing as the "Dark Ages", and it wasn't a particularly illiterate or barbaric age: https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/theres-no-such-thing-a...
Does that really happen? The CEO of my company left his last company in disgrace. His 'ruined career' means he makes 15M a year instead of 20M. I need that kind of 'ruined career'
It may well have started that way online... but it's a real thing these days. I've not encountered anyone who strikes me as a purposeful troll.
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You're basically saying good investors don't exist and everything is priced to perfection? This could range from investing in equipment, to expanding in a new business line, to acquiring a competitor and realising synergies that someone else would not have noticed. Putting 1 and 1 together in specific business focus areas might result in 3 for the well trained eye or the smart mind.

Plenty of people are good at investing (understanding how it all ties together, and understanding how they take risk) outside of the public markets. And plenty are horrible (i.e. mom and pop investing in the mutual funds of your bank).
Uber is a taxi company that replaced the taxi industry's global pain point: dispatchers, with an app. Secondary: medallions (which are eventually coming back via regulation).

How they populate their inventory of drivers is not particularly special. You used to be able to drive a hack for a few hours and lose money doing it, too. That part hasn't changed, you can just lose that money driving your own car now.
I'm not sure you fully understand the problem. If I hit the big red button and just shut Cloudflare off, millions of websites drop off the Internet. It is a massive single point of failure, and as you point out, a vertically integrated service (DNS, DDoS protection, WAF, proxying, etc).
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the bad is not possible, if a CEO make a decision with a chance of 50/50 being a good or bad decision. if it is a good decision CEO makes lots of money, if it is bad they get 0.

that is not a good thing, out of 2 monkeys throwing darts one of them will make money.
This post doesn't clear much up. The things you describe that are done by AI sound like project bootstrappers, libraries, or code-gen (in an IDE). None of those require "AI".

I just ran a tool that bootstrapped most of a CRUD app for me. Was it AI? No, because the program I ran didn't do any app-specific coding.

My honest advice is to talk to a lawyer and get this company off your resume ASAP.
Well, he was afraid he was going to be murdered by criminals. Under those circumstances even slight suspicion would be terrifying.
I'm a huge critic of Google, but the demagoguery and double speak from the competition is tiring, not to mention disingenuous.

Let's all note how none of the same entities peep a whimper at Apple, and default search options on iOS Safari! They excel at taking down an easy adversary who is a lot less iron gripped, and open about their platform.

YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO BE FEATURED ON GOOGLE's $0 CHARGED OS, FOR FREE! IT'S NOT GOOGLE'S JOB TO PROMOTE YOU
Nothing's going to get thru a black industrial sharpie; if that doesn't work, though, black fingernail polish, or if you don't mind the expense - black Testor's acrylic paint - will do the job.
Can I use this simulator to make phone calls?
I have a Samsung Smart Plasma TV. 1080p

It is fast, 3D capable. I actually have hooked it up to my computer to do real high end CAD (NX) in 3D. Frankly, it is amazing. I probably am the only one in North America who does it. Spiffy, and I really am sad plasma displays are no longer produced. Might just score another one while I can.

Nothing beats glowing phosphorus in glass man!

I did update it for newer codecs to play movies on USB, but that is it.

Totally unsupported now.

I like to buy the Smart models on clearance. I got this one, and it is huge, for like 800 bucks. Ignoring the smart part can be a cost savings if one looks.
Globalization simultaneously brought competition for many workers and allowed for large multinational companies with the ability to pay their CEOs more.

Is that rigged or is that just change?
1. The subscription price is tied to headcount. If you're below 100 employees, we charge $2k per month and it scales up based on # of employees. We tied pricing to headcount because it is a solid indicator of quantity of products and total $ spend. At these levels, we are to maintain a positive ROI. I'm open to suggestions and improvements with the pricing model!

2. Our sweet-spot is SaaS but we are testing non-SaaS purchases. As an example, we recently helped one of our customers save a bunch of money on their SOC 2 audit fees. Do you have specific non-SaaS purchases in mind?

Also, within our customer base, there is significant overlap in products. Meaning, most companies use G-Suite, Slack, Sfx, and others. So, we've learned how to buy those products efficiently and have a good understanding of what it should cost. This saves everyone's time (including the salespersons).
This is kind of the worst part about the discrepancy. When the proverbial excrement hits the air moving device, the poor guy at the bottom of the chain is the one held accountable even though he makes a fraction of what the CEO makes.

Think about all those 737-MAX MCAS FAA certification documentats submitted by Boeing. I'd bet the vast majority of those are signed by some relatively low level software engineers. Maybe some QA leads and a few project manager types? So when the dust settles and the Feds start digging into who knew what when, guess who's names they're going to come across again, and again, and again. But the upper level guys probably run things so that they never have to personally sign off on anything like that, so they always have that buffer and plausible deniability.
Nobody deserves anything. CEOs get paid because they negotiated the pay and people are willing to pay them that. That’s a fact not an economic theory.
This is amazing. Is the EU still on the same level of consumer protection? Because I see some pretty large problems with Apple's walled garden.
Let look into causes and problems that cause more people to die every year.

What CNN front page shows might not be the best guidance to focus on.
aside: 2012 is the date because people figured out how to use GPU's to do the training, which meant that instead of 3/4 tries at getting the thing to work in a day you could do 30-40. This made things a lot more practical...
Logically, shouldn't the compensation for a worker be a function of both leverage and risk?

CEOs have enormous leverage to affect change in their company, with proportionate increase in company returns. An average worker or even an excellent one has fewer opportunities, and even then influence is usually limited to a single team or product.

An example of leverage would be, investing $x million in product line x instead of y. While anyone theoretically can make this decision, the larger $x is the more you want someone owning this who has made these type of decisions before. Which requires someone who has progressively taken more risks in their career and made the right calls.
I bought a digital thermometer with min/max from Walmart for $5, but the problem was the temperature would rise quite a bit (above 40F) if the door was left open even for ~10-30 seconds, so it was hard to use the "max" temperature reading.

It would have been more handy if the thermometer's min and max responded more slowly to reject these short fluctuations.
I'm only using X10 as an example with which I have personal experience. While it did have problems, it was a decent protocol considering it was developed in the 70s. I'm sure much better alternatives exist now (or could easily be developed).

The point is that lighting automation (and similar home automation features) is not a difficult problem, that doesn't need anything as powerful as a microcontroller or a dependency on the internet. A simple local-only control protocol is much more appropriate.
if the take is "VCs expect startups to fail so they don't do due diligence..."

I mean you can already tell how ridiculous that is just by laying it out
>It's the latter. Each TaskRabbit contractor charges a different hourly rate and you pay them for however long the job takes.

Without having an (even if approximate) estimation of the time needed?

So - in theory - the cleaner could have taken another 3.5 hours (or another 35 for the sake of the reasoning) and you would have paid her for that time?

> As far as I'm aware, there are no professional keyboard cleaning services that deliver turnaround time of less than one hour and costs only $90. I don't think there are even professional keyboard cleaning services period.

Well, maybe not in NY, if you were living in Calgary you could even have had your keyboard professionally cleaned for free:

http://www.onsitecomputercleaning.ca/freekeyboardcleaning.ph...
> without first making sure that we have a thorough understanding of what we are saying?

> I thank us all in advance.

Off topic: I've seen this line a few times before, and somehow it always drips with condescension. As though the speaker assumes the understanding of everyone else is borne from laziness and not background.
If you run local dev servers and expose them they could be accessed.

Also IP addresses and domain names you visit are visible.
Born with a golden spoon into a community willing to pay for their status.
I work at Google Cloud, and this is a common request. If you're on GCP, you can build your own using logging exports and BigQuery. Otherwise, I typically recommend Elastic.
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A neuron uses far more than electricity to communicate. The number of neurotransmitters and receptor types alone is staggering. There’s a reason why biology evolved past using gap junctions. The computer science view of the brain compares how the brain works to FLOPS, much like how previous generations compared the brain to horsepower from the steam engine. Better analogy, but still naive.
It is completely possible to be worth 1,000x more than the average worker in your company. Just because many (if not most) CEOs don't deserve this doesn't at all, does not mean that you can definitively say that nobody does.

Really awful rhetoric (from anti-capitalists) I hear is that nobody works 1,000x times as long or as hard as the average worker. Value is not manifested in how long or how hard you work.

I think it's part of a wider worldview that doesn't believe that talent is very impactful, and in favor of cooperation rather than competition.
Yah, absolutely. It's the only benefit I can think of (and it's not really a benefit, coffee shops and other coworking spaces with a day pass exist) and I've never heard them advertise it. They only advertise "community building" nonsense. I'm not saying that no company has ever made vital connections or new leads in a wework, but I'd be willing to bet money that it's a very, very low number. Nowhere I've ever worked has engaged with any other company just because they were both in a wework other than maybe playing a game of ping pong with some random people in the lobby or similar.
How widespread would the illegal activity have to be for the CEO to be at fault?

Warren Buffett has said (roughly), if you have a city of 300,000 people, you have to expect that some of them will commit crimes, and you need police officers for this reason. You should expect the same thing for a company of 300,000 people.
That's not an 'alternative' viewpoint.
Reading the headline already told me he was shorting the stock.
An alternative viewpoint would be: All the numbers add up and we expect growth.
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There's more degrees of freedom in accounting and accounting-related matters that non-accountants tend to realize. An easy trick to explain is a big deal of some kind that is closing near the end of the quarter. If your customer doesn't care, you may be able to choose whether you close that deal this quarter, because you need the revenue this quarter, or if you want to close it next quarter because you've got this quarter's "beat" covered, and there's no great advantage to beating by just that bit more.

Obviously in this specific case, it's only a quarter's worth of flexibility; I mean this as an example, not a manual on the practice.

There's a lot of ways of borrowing against the future to show revenue now. It is suspicious, but it may not necessarily be suspicious in the "fraud" sense of they aren't making the money they claim to be making, but rather, are they eating their seed corn to get this quarter's beat? Did they pull revenue forward they "shouldn't" have? (Sometimes it seems like it's better to beat expectations by a little for several quarters, then have one big disaster quarter, than to miss by a little for several quarters.) Did they profit this quarter by failing to invest in growth that they're going to need later?

So, I wouldn't say it's an innocuous explanation exactly, but perhaps rather, there's a range of explanation that range from mostly innocuous gimmicks to the outright fraud, and it's hard to tell from the summary sheets which one you're looking at.
We should require employee representation on Board of Directors. Germany requires half the board to be represented by the company's employees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany

I believe German CEOs typically make around 1/3rd of what American CEOs make (having trouble finding the source on that, but that's the number I've seen cited before), possibly in part due to these laws.
One description I’ve heard is that “tech companies”, as the term is often used nowadays, are organizations where software engineers and their work are respected and considered first class citizens. As compared to a company that might heavily use tech, but only as a necessary evil cost center. Never mind that the company would absolutely fall apart without its tech.

As someone who has worked in banks most of my career, I would classify most banks in the latter category.