Maybe...and maybe not. Hopefully they won't decide to play WoW in the background and not get any work done.
I've had this experience with remote teams and sadly had to let many 'gamers' go.
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I've had this experience with remote teams and sadly had to let many 'gamers' go.
Security isn't supposed to be convenient. Autocorrecting passwords sounds like a bad idea all-around and will be exploited.
If this gets big enough, you will eventually need to keep some sort of record to comply with various law enforcement agencies.
I honestly don't see anything different than any other social networking site. Social networking sites are expensive to run and difficult to monetize.
Eventually you will need more money to keep the site running and when you do, privacy will go out the door.
Would you say that I am 'unpaid labor' because I have to do all the work of finding a good university? How about buying a new car?
I've dealt with many government agencies and if you think government-run care will be any better than what you describe, you're dreaming.
However, we now having more people making less money for essentially the same job. It's a win for consumers, because it's more convenient and in some cases, cheaper.
But it's a lose for the people that actually made a decent living driving who now are competing with college kids that are doing the same thing in their spare time without having any of the same startup costs.
Uber and Lyft removed the barrier to entry by breaking the law and the monopoly the Taxi unions had over the entire industry. But the result is lower wages and benefits.
This is great from a company perspective, but it essentially allows a company to get an employee at a much cheaper rate. Employees with more experience will get the same pay rate for the same job as someone with potentially much less.
Since all companies don't do this, I probably wouldn't ever work for your company knowing this is your policy. I bring much more value to a company with all of the experience and knowledge that I've gained.
At my last 9-5 job, I was able to get paid almost 20% more than many of my co-workers because of my negotiating skills and experience.
I just have to shake my head when I see so many people fighting for less power, rights, and inevitably less money and calling it a 'win'.
But, this doesn't really matter to me anymore. I've owned my own company for the last 5 years and don't need to negotiate my own salary.
You may say it doesn't 'increase safety', but Israel is a great example of it working. The attacks, hijacks, and deaths have nose dived to nearly 0. They have a hybrid system that involves both random checking and profiling.
I'm not saying we should lock up anyone that fits a specific racial profile. The problem is that when we use data and risk assessment to question specific people that may be suspicious, it's seen as racist if the person is anything but white.
The two articles you linked mention hijackers that happened pre-911. I don't think people are hijacking planes and diverting them to central america nor do we have IRA militants bombing planes.
We need a hybrid system between random checking and profiling. Random checks work so far, but will not help with long lines because everyone needs to be checked equally.
To reduce long lines, we either need to scale-back security (which is a bad idea) or use information and data to make the process more efficient (IE: profiling).
Some profiling is a good thing, but we can't completely rely on it.
Let's look at the terror watch list: I can bet 9/10 people on the list are from similar middle eastern countries, similar skin color and are from the same or similar religion.
Profiling based on this information isn't profiling based on any of these things, but based on risk factors and previous history.
The problem is that you can't even profile based on obvious history without also being accused of profiling based on religion or skin color.
This is what I'm talking about when I refer to 'political correctness'. Suspicious people can't be singled out without the PC police coming out in full force.
"ignore political correctness and do it based on something other than race, religion, or national origin."
I wish the terrorists bombing planes and killing innocent people were from different countries with different religions, but it's just not reality.
They had virtually no business model (and lost money on every order) and got millions in startup capital. The whole company imploded within a year, but some of the interviews with the executives of the company are pretty telling: they never intended on making a profit. The intent was to either get bought out by a larger company or get an IPO and bank the proceeds.
E-dreams is a really good documentary for anyone interested in seeing a small sliver out of the early days of the first .com boom/bust.
I watch it once-a-year to remind me of the craziness.
I sure as hell wouldn't fly if this was going on now.
The real problem is that we aren't allowed to profile.
Because we can't focus on a specific subset of travelers that are suspicious (based on data or behavior), everyone is treated as a threat and we get long lines as a result.
We can learn a lot from Israel:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-wagner/what-israeli-air...
They probably have more terrorist threats than anyone else in the world and have prevented nearly all attacks without the long lines. Mostly through a combination of profiling and hiring specially trained agents instead of $10/hour rent-a-cops to handle security. There's a reason why European Airports are targeted for attack, even though Israel is the main target.
At some point we need to make a choice: political correctness or safety.
In the beginning, programming was more fun. No oversight, bosses that don't really know what you are doing, programming at one point in time was treated like magic.
You glue together other pieces of code because in most cases, because the wheel has already been invented. This really was the dream of open source and with all of the free software and libraries out there, it's becoming a reality.
It's also going to drastically reduce the wage of a programmer over time. Most businesses don't need to hire an engineer to create a complicated library. They can hire someone with much less skill to use an already existing library to get what they need done.
Since the skills to get the job done will decrease, the supply of potential developers will increase and wages will decrease.
They try to find the best candidate through the people they already know.
It's all about risk/reward. A random candidate will most likely be a higher risk than a know candidate.
Would you rather be roomates with a random person on craigslist or a friend of a friend?
Harassment and bullying seem to be just fine, as long as you are going against the current liberal narrative of the day.
Twitter isn't broken. We just need to grow thicker skins. I've been online since I was 12 (I'm almost 40 now) and have had the worst of the worst things said about me. I ignore them all, because frankly, it doesn't matter.
In addition to this, many of the people hurling these insults are teenagers or even kids. Since we don't have an accurate way to determine a person's age, I really wonder just how many of these new harassment laws are being passed due to a 10 year old insulting an adult (especially movements like Gamergate).
All of these 'safe spaces' are going to create generations of adults that can't cope with the many things they will face in the real world, including harassment and criticism (which is now being called harassment).
Moderation should be about removing the trolls, not what it has become, which is censorship.
It feels like many people personally enjoy moderating down disagreements because they don't get any actual power in their own lives.
It's one of the reasons I stay away from most online discussions these days: because nobody can be open and honest. It really makes me wonder if this is the reason why secret groups like the masons were created. Back in those days, instead of getting moderating down, you were killed or attacked.
For employees, it's the same thing. It's all about risk and determining if the employee can do the job and be a good fit for the company.
"We know that stock picking isn't any more effictive than random chance (that's the theory behind index funds)"
If this were the case, why aren't index funds comprised of startups and penny stocks? Index funds are usually comprised of stable companies that have an excellent track record. This means it's not random.
"Maybe the same is true for investing in startups and hiring employees."
It's not the same for stocks and it's not the same for startups or employees. You need a way to filter.
Did you read the article?
This is at the bottom:
"They'd hold a massive nationwide contest. They'd give out piles of cash like nobody else had before. And Lariat was in."
It appears they have a contest, which means it isn't random. It's a process to mitigate risk.
The business depends on code, but I can choose when to go on vacation and work from home or at the office when I need to.
It also helps that my wife runs the company with me.
I finally made the decision to quit when my last boss called an emergency meeting on new years eve over webex, because she wanted to go to a party and also get our product released. She also is the one that caused our product to be delayed by at least a month due to her inability to manage the project.
Sanders has a 'troll army' built in to his campaign, because he has such a large percentage of tech-savvy youth, they flood most political discussions online, regardless if it's factual.
This is called politics. Every politician does this. I'm not sure why we are singling out Trump.
Just be honest about the whole project. Let them know what they are getting into and set a plan from the start. If they decide to keep adding on requirements or changing things around, let them know how much time it will add onto the project.
You may never get the project done and it may be really complicated, but it will be great experience. I have many projects like these that I worked on after college.
This is exactly why you don't use unlicensed code in any commercial application.
I'm all for legalization, but I will not support the potential of endangering other people.
All of these new sites popping up are really just gimmicks. Studying a language is damn hard and needs complete dedication to get anywhere past the basics.
I'm on my second foreign language and I have joined a few meetup groups to meet other people that are also interested. Most people give up after awhile. I think I know only 1 or 2 people that have continued to study a foreign language as long as I have (6+ years).
Until we have universal translators, nothing will replace hard work and dedication. These sites are catering to the people that want an easy way to learn a foreign language. Some short-cut that gets around all of the boring, rote, memorization.
What I have found is that the same type of effort it requires to learn a foreign language is the same that is required to start a business and make it successful.
I think it's a little ridiculous that so much power is given to many buyers that only want to take out their anger on someone, even if it isn't really the fault of the seller.
I used to be an Amazon seller and quit because so many people would leave negative feedback over unrealistic expectations.
It seems to be the M.O. of the millennial generation.
I've seen the signs and gone through multiple layoffs over the years.
If you do get a job, the same law that allows you to have a long-term contract essentially makes you a slave to the company. It's so hard to get, it makes it that much harder to leave.
Owning your own business is nearly impossible due to the red tape and regulations involved, so the entire economic landscape is either a large company or the government.
The real problem in France is that it doesn't really give any incentive for a company to start there, and it certainly doesn't give it a chance to grow.
This will only become more apparent over time when the global economy gets bad and more companies pull out and move to more favorable countries.