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Keep in mind that Joel was talking about a business with zero value added by the founders. For a SaaS business, 100% of the value is added by the software written by the founders.

If it's worth $50/month to the customer when manned by a guy doing a thousand tasks by hand and answering every email that comes in within 10 minutes, it's still worth $50/month to that customer once that guy gets organized.

But you're right, you probably won't earn much more than $25,000 per month for that half day's effort. Really puts a crimp in my yacht buying budget, that does.
I think OA is probably one of the scariest consequences of excessive CO2.

We've already crossed a couple of thresholds. Oyster farming in the Puget Sound, for example, now often involves moving the larvae to Hawaii so they can form their hard shell in a higher PH environment before moving them back.
I've been a remote worker for almost a decade now, and I've been through three different companies. My effectiveness always depends on how supportive the company is. As a remote worker I have to spend more time communicating; overcommunicating usually. It takes time to learn but the end result is worth it. I feel I have been more effective than I was in person and my quality of life has greatly improved. (Not to mention being able to afford a house).
Actually, the question would be more "what is judged by a competition ?". Levelling the playing field is not only a reason for pleasing the crowds (which happens sometimes) but also a way to assert what the competition is for. A car racing organization can decide that to judge the pilot skills is more important than judging the technology level, and therefore setup rules for that.
On the other hand, we could see in the foreseeable future another competition judging only the technology and letting a standard I.A. do the driving (Google car racing team ?). But spectators would maybe not enjoy much such competitions because they have to relate to competitors.
Same thing : at the Olympics, it is generally considered that the important part is the human effort, not the technological one, so they set up standards to judge only this human part. This is not a marketing strategy, but a philosophical choice. And this is interesting because this can be debated as the lines between the technology and the human will become blurred (remember the polemic when it was discussed if the blades of Oscar Pistorius were or not giving him an advantage ?).
But my view on that is we need to keep a strong 'human only' part of sports, even those where tech can play a role. I don't mind that there is a whole range of competitions with the whole spectrum of human / tech association in any proportion, but I would not be very interested long if the human part was very minor.
It's a "great" company but their "unique" culture isn't ideal for you. You want to get away from certain "dominant" personalities who exhibit "unacceptable" behaviour. You want to work in a more established company with a "well-developed corporate structure".
Biggest point here. You can't flunk out 90% of your applications and complain you have a shortage of qualified staff. You have people begging to work for you, how about you hire a few of them and teach them anything that's missing. Oh the horror, the employees aren't replaceable meat cogs in some giant machine.
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Seems some pixels are not displaying correct colours on the live feed (most visible as white pixels when displaying the black background of the F21 logo).

I guess the spool belts have run out of alignment? I would have guessed they'd have implemented closed-loop positioning for the colour-belt, but it appears not to be the case.
I'm tired of articles that explain absolutely nothing about the actual methodology of the hack.

Does Jeep Cherokee have separate buses for high-speed controller and low-speed infotainment CAN? (That's the usual setup.) What controller acts as the gateway between them? Is it read-write (which would be incredibly dumb) or did they actually hack that controller after hacking infotainment?

I had shown similar articles/research papers to my friends working in automotive. They pointed out several factual mistakes and said it's generic fluff with no meaningful technical details. (See the questions above.)

If realistically exploitable, these vulnerabilities are serious stuff. Hackers/journalists need to get their shit together and communicate these findings in an appropriate way. 99.9% of automotive engineers do not go to Black Hat conference.
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That's only part of the story. If you lose your job, you might not be able to stay -- and competitive pay may still be lower than a US candidate.

So who do you want if you're Google? An H1-B with really heavy golden handcuffs, or a US candidate who will rush off and join the latest hot startup next week after they've tagged 'Worked at Google' on their resume?
This is the exact same lesson I learned, painfully, with rental property. I think it probably applies to everything. In my case, despite owning property in a college town (which you would think would be a sure win), I lost a lot of money and experienced a lot of stress, and finally came to realize that I could either be a landlord, which requires personal skills I didn't have at the time (I think I might have gotten mean enough now - age helps), or I could just sell the damn thing and walk away. Doing the latter was a good move. I wish I had done it a couple of years earlier.
This feels like one of these Minecraft projects where somebody recreates a computer screen with redstone blocks, except in real life.
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a person newly enlisted in the armed forces and not yet fully trained.
• a new member of an organization or supporter of a cause.
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>face is representative of the lifestyle that he or she lives. Fat; thin; tan; pale; bearded; bald.

That completely ignores congenital conditions, skin diseases, losing the genetic lottery, etc. There are a lot of people who lead truly shitty lives and who look great and vice-versa. I think we're buying way too much into genetic determinism here and this all sounds like shades of eugenics.

Its incredible that even geeks buy into "Prettier people are better people" silliness.
I don't think we'd call it greenfield, then, if you're constrained by tech you need to interact with.
This means that before long there will be a general feeling of resentment, after all if you (and possibly your co-founders, also lying on the beach) are going to receive all or at least a very large chunk of the profits then why do all the hard work?

If they like their job and you redistribute a good share of the profits, I don't see how this can happen.
So, how to beat the game then? Say, an instruction how to apply a touch of makeup before going to the business meeting or to the interview.
Thank you for your statistical analysis.

Is there matching statistics comparing the death and injury percentage of non-robotic surgeries?
Agreed, even though I don't care for exposing the database quite this directly, it is a very interesting approach...

I'm also unsure of using the DB's authentication system. While approachable, I'm at a place where imho, for most systems there is a conflation of users, accounts, and logins. IMHO, a user may only have a single account, but a modern system should support multiple logins... Supporting social/jwt/oauth style logins in addition to local database backed logins is generally the best option for public facing sites/applications.. and even then jwt/oauth will allow for more seamless integration with internal SSO options.

Then again, this type of approach may work well if you want to be able to use it as an additional abstraction of your database access from a UI backing API.
This looks like a good way to break down some of the barriers to remote work. There are several good strategies, and several problems with good solutions. Hopefully this will give more managers and business leaders the confidence to consider remote work as a viable labor solution.

I like how this is organized both by-question and by-company, so you can get one question answered from different groups, or you can see each group's perspective by going down their responses on their page.

I feel as though the concept of remote work has moved on past the bleeding edge and early adopters, and now we're about to see many late adopters (especially the more nimble BigCos and governmental departments) start to consider remote work seriously. Within 10-20 years, we might see the "office culture" become as rare as remote work is today.

Edit: And the site looks to be rather burdened. I'm now getting a database error instead of a helpful FAQ.

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jbob2000 had an interesting comment that is dead for some reason:

Most of these companies started remote. I'm really curious about how to transition from non-remote to remote. What does a company do with all the hardware and furniture? What about the administrative staff who would serve no purpose in an office-less company? How did employees deal with going from buying a lunch everyday to making one or getting one delivered? etc. etc.

Some groups might let workers transport office equipment home, to be used when working remotely - if Asim is going to be working from home, let him take his work chair and work monitors to his home, so he can use them for work from home.

For some companies, they might consider moving into a smaller office at some point. Something to consider for an office culture is that a usually-empty office can be demoralizing when people are used to being infected with their coworkers' enthusiasm. And it's easier to fill up a small office with a few people, than to make a large office space feel full with only a few people.

Another large part of an office culture is the lunch routine. This is not just a common biological need, but it's also a social time for coworkers to both discuss non-work activities and workplace issues, while networking. Do remote workers miss out on this? Is this a cause of the rise in popularity of coworking spaces?
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No NO No NO NO!

There is no justifiable reason for these things to be integrated at all. Yes, it saves the mfr some $$, but people can DIE because of this stupidity.

As recent events have shown, the aviation industry hasn't integrated these systems securely - they're just harder to get to so it took a while before people started discovering their flaws - http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/17/us/fbi-hacker-flight-computer-...

Secure integration is not possible - the only right way for companies as inept as legacy auto makers to do this is for the systems to be separated.
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That's what open source is, isn't it? Anyone can use it, including hackers, NSA, etc. Why is it surprising that they, like nearly every other technology company, depend on open source software?
> The next thing you learn is that we really need to do something about tasers, because if there's a top 3 set of circumstances for death involving police officers, "death after tasing" is at least #3.

Since you've looked at the data, could this be survivorship bias? Is there data on how often tasers are used where firearms would've been, in the absence of tasers? It certainly could be that tasers reduce the number of people killed by police, but it sounds hard to measure that.
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It seems like your question is more, how to create passive income so you can pay off debt faster? I suggest posting to Quora and looking there for options. Also, you have to have support of your spouse or it will never work. You have to get rid of what you don't need and yes, sell a car and the house. It will take huge sacrifices to be able to have time to work on your own projects, you can't do both. It's not easy and it takes commitment and creativity. With kids it's harder, I have two and am a single mom, but it is possible. You have to get organized and keep daily visual lists to remind you of your priorities. I don't think you are in dire financial straights but like most people these days just living with a family.
cool, but maybe they should invest the money in fair labor practices instead.
Those are bands, not threads.

Threads are 1 dimensional; bands are 2 dimensional.
• White alone, percent, 2013 (a)	77.7%

• Black or African American alone, percent definition and source info Black or African American alone, percent, 2013 (a)	13.2%

• American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent definition and source info American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent, 2013 (a)	1.2%

• Asian alone, percent definition and source info Asian alone, percent, 2013 (a)	5.3%

• Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent definition and source info Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent, 2013 (a)	0.2%

• Two or More Races, percent definition and source info Two or More Races, percent, 2013	2.4%

• Hispanic or Latino, percent definition and source info Hispanic or Latino, percent, 2013 (b)	17.1%

• White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent definition and source info White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent, 2013	62.6%

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> The problem is not population (or even food production) but energy consumption. But that effects our first world lifestyle so no one in the first world wants to take it seriously.

The first world is rapidly getting more efficient with regards to energy usage, and while I can't speak to the rest of the world, the US is quickly deploying renewables. With wind generation alone, we can supply 10x our annual energy consumption.

Enough sunlight hits the earth ever 5 minutes to power the entire world for a year. Its not an energy problem, its a capture and distribution problem.
Yeah, it's easy to chase that dream without giving a moment's thought to the reality that would have to pertain for the dream to work.
Sadly there's not; this is one of the complaints about the article that has come up in previous discussions.

Another commenter did come up with equivalent statistics that showed humans with a much higher error rate; however others disputed the comparison as the time frame and other factors did not match exactly.
Bald is representative of my life span, but of my lifestyle only to the extent that it has helped me to live to be old enough to lose the hair.
You're referring to capitalism, the game where rich parents raise their entrepeneurial offspring.
Google is well known in the Valley for having really bad interviewing process, but from this article it's not really obvious that's the case here, nor that she's being discriminated for her age. Her resume does look nice, but that tells us nothing about her skills or performance on the interviews.
What about this officers actions lead to increased safety and peace for the public of waller county?
> When I see a big, tattoo covered individual I feel more nervous than unmarked, average sized individuals. Having grown up with a sister who eventually majored in photography I know plenty of tattoo'd people who are amazing people and often artistic and creative, but my brain still sends the signals.

I'm a fairly large individual, and I discovered recently that my resting face is normally somewhat of a scowl. I've had instances where I will be walking around a neighborhood which I feel somewhat nervous and unsafe in only to have people walk across the street when they see me coming. I was perplexed by this until I realized much to my amusement that I am actually the type of person that people are afraid of bumping into based on appearances, and so my fear was unjustified.
They can't provide a "reasonable explanation" for passing on any candidate because of legal issues. No major company that I know of does that for the same reason.
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The title here is "Hacking Team steals open source code to build Android spy tool", while it seems to me that they didn't "steal" anything. They just used some open-source software to build their tools.
Maybe someone could argue that it is GPL code and there should be redistribution of the code, but this is only towards the client of Hacking Team.
I don't know... They interviewed me 5 times, and I don't mind so much. It's a bit frustrating, but I can understand why.

Sure there were a few cases of "oops, didn't realize we interviewed you already" and I'm sure there are cases of "we just don't like you as a person". But I'm pretty sure overall, with Google and most companies, the reason was just "you just weren't good enough compared to our other current candidates." And that's OK.

The fact that they re-interview someone they dismiss is a good thing. The fact that they re-interview N times a person they've dismissed N-1 times is just unfortunate and makes it more visible, but it's not in itself a malevolent thing. Maybe it'd be best if they didn't re-interview at all because it makes them look bad (after all, chances are higher they'll reject you again if they already did). But I guess I prefer the view that they don't want to pass on someone that might have improved, or someone that they might have dismissed for the wrong reasons the first time. And I see that as rather positive.

I personally re-interviewed some people multiple times - and both people I had rejected before and people I had approved but who denied or who got hired but then left and decided to come back. It doesn't struck me as a bad thing to re-assess people based on your current needs and your current workforce. You just have not to be a jerk about it.

I'm sure not everybody shares that view though.
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> This is total pseudo-science, like a modern phrenology.

How do we know? I haven't heard of any studies that compare people's first impressions against the person's actual disposition or personality.

For example, this article pointed out that honesty was a trait people tend to read from faces, but it didn't ask the question: are people's reading accurate? It assumes that an honest-looking face has no bearing on a person's actual integrity, but maybe it does. We haven't actually measured.

To be clear: I'm not trying to agree or disagree with you, just point out that we don't have any strong evidence either way. As far as I know both positions are unsupported scientifically.
just the one.
Sounds like you've never heard how terrible the interview system is at google. Four interviews and no offer doesn't seem at all out of the ordinary. I know more than one person that started refusing google job opportunities due to the bullshit.
gboudrias said “spirit”, not “definition”.
Sudden, short outbursts of cheering or applause do it to me pretty consistently. Listening to the first 7 minutes of X Japan's The Last Live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdPQZqDF_Jk) where they introduce the band (and 140,000 people wail in unison) does it to me every single time without fail.

Once it happens you figure out pretty quickly what your triggers are.
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Come on, if that was true they would never be able to hire tens of thousands of engineers. They do have high false negative rate (by design) but it is far from impossible to pass. I personally know a ton of people who were hired by Google after standard interview process.
That's pretty cool, honestly.

People are just getting scare-mongered about drones the same way they've been made scared of firearms. A great many things which are dangerous and foolish aren't illegal, and shouldn't be made so.

I like the argument "but but but what if the drone accidentally delivers a handgun to a kid think of the children"--kinda reaching for straws.
Similar thing happened to me.. went through a very lengthy interview process and successfully passed it where they called me the day after and said that they were going to give me an offer the next day! I was ecstatic.

They then called me the next day and said "oh, yeah -- we aren't going to give you an offer" and wouldnt give me a reason.

The next time, they attempted to recruit me for the same position and I went through several days of phone interviews passing each one. Then I said -- "so you know, I interviewed for this position before and was told I would get an offer, but then didnt" they went back and checked and then said "Yeah we wont be continuing the interview process"

Then it happened a third time! Finally I sent the recruiter an email that said "This is the third time you have attempted to recruit me for this position -- Either offer me the job, with a salaray of X or take me out of your system and stop calling me"

They haven't called me since -- and I still have no idea why I am blacklisted.
The golden handcuffs of an H1B are not heavy. Just get in on Google's dime and join the latest hot startup next week after they've tagged "H1B" on their passport.
> a hypothetical of non-identical twins with the same exact lifestyle.

Which is a ridiculous hypothetical on the face of it. Non-identical twins, fraternal twins, are hardly more similar than siblings are. And siblings can differ quite a bit. Even if they somehow wound up the same on a few measured characteristics, they will still be rather different on many other characteristics and the hypothetical shows nothing.
Sure there is, you start making the distinction between ads and regular content impossible. If all of the images on the site and all of the ads all map to something like www.sitename.com/resource/somekindofhash, then how would you tell programmatically whats an ad? You could even assign each visitor a mapping seed, so that caching still works. Blocking would have to be done on a user-by-user basis, turning this into a MAD-scenario, where some users just start blocking EVERYTHING that isn't textual or generated.
Ah, life at the Chocolate Factory.
I would take these two free classes:
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It seems obvious to me that not having "enough" women in Stanford's CS program isn't Stanford's fault. There's an interest gap that's in place by the time children are in high school, and the numbers I remember reading suggest that it gets slightly better through college and in the workforce.
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d. to seek to enroll

The recruiter, recruited her to join google. just as coaches from many different schools might recruit an athlete. One does not in fact have to be successful to have recruited someone.
If you look closely, the bands are covered in (multi-coloured) threads.
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Indeed, you are relying on the inefficiencies of the market you are currently operating in. If you find a niche where that works, milk it while it last, but any serious competition will remove the middleman.

There is however a value added that can be overlooked: cashflow. If you have enough cash to smooth the various money transfer between client and provider A,B,C,D that may be enough to keep you in business.