What's "soft" real time mean, vs .... "hard" real time? Real real time?
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Outside of the fact that different programming languages run on BEAM and the JVM, what's the difference between the two?
I believe BEAM ships with supervisors, which is why Elixir can utilize them... what else is different?
> Parents can use the institution’s job and family services, study through its GED program, or design meals at the on-site food bank to cook at home.
This solution seems way more holistic. It might totally fall on its face, but I'm really interested to see how it turns out.
For his Github, we just forked popular projects like jQuery and then ctrl+f replaced the name with his first name, like "bradQuery".
Surprisingly, we had many recruiters contact us about the popular "bradQuery" library. And we uh, had to play the part of a douchey brogrammer. It's amazing how far those conversations went.
It was really fun at the time, but also maybe a little mean to recruiters. They do have a tough gig and they're usually under the gun. Ah well...
While you're right people will want an actual plan on how things are going to change, they also want a genuine expression of contrition. As hguhghuff noted, deleting someone's business is a serious, serious issue.
The _only_ admissions of guilt or wrongdoing was were these lines:
"Here’s what we are doing to be as good as our word, and provide a more careful, accurate, thoughtful and empathetic account management experience for our GCP customers."
"We sincerely apologize to all our customers who’ve been concerned or had to go through a service reinstatement. Please keep the feedback coming, we’ll work to continue to earn your trust every day."
Which, if you yourself were scared that your livelihood could be wiped away, would you think that was a sufficient apology?
It doesn't help that Google tends to lack a human touch when it comes to its image. But here, now, you all have an opportunity to change that. I know it sounds "politics" or "public relations" or whatever, but all we need to know is that you fully understand the fear GCP customers felt and what that means for us.
https://www.trackinghappiness.com/about/method/
Not knocking on the idea of sleeping more & general well-being, but "tracking happiness" seems so wildly out of touch with reality that it's hard for me to buy into this analysis.
I use Backblaze now and once I get my NAS, I’ll probably end up using a B2 based backup. But let’s make an honest comparison. Backblaze does not replicate your data across data centers. The standard S3 storage class does (0.23/gb). The comparible storage class for S3 is one zone infrequent access (.01/gb). B2 still comes out ahead, but I wouldn’t use either one for primary storage. For thier suggested “3-2-1” backup strategy, sure. Then again, just for backup, I could use S3 glacier for $.004/gb. That’s cheaper than B2 and I get multiple AZ storage. The data charges would be higher - but its backup. If catastrophe struck and I lost my primary and my local backups, getting my data fast is the last thing I would worry about.
The original "action offices" by Herman Miller were a lot more similar to the "open offices" you see today. There's space to collaborate, but still enough to have your own privacy. People can engage and disengage how they see fit.
However, corp overlords took the "action office" to its logical extreme and created the oft-loathed cubicles to cram as many workers in one space, like cattle.
Then, the backlash. Open Offices! So cool! Everyone talks to each other! This, too, was taken to its logical extreme, with long tables and 0 privacy. Similarly, this was born out of short-term objectives around the bottom line instead of thinking about the employees and getting work done.
The real solution, I think, is to get out of the frame of open vs. closed vs. cubicles vs. whatever, and start thinking about not only your corporate culture, but how your company plans to get work done on a day-to-day. Great offices are really expensive, at the end of the day. If your employer makes a lot of money but still treats you like an expense, rather than an owner, then perhaps consider looking elsewhere.
Here's a video I found that's related to the afore-mentioned article that I couldn't find:
How effective are scraping countermeasures anyway?
There's also the option of more efficient support & operations, which is arguably the approach that Lyft took.
Uber chose to raise a ton of money and outspend their competitors in the hopes that they bleed them out via spending in acquisition and creating new products via R&D (maybe express pool is an example of this).
Lyft, however, seems to aim for profitability and stability. I assume this means investing in internal tools & processes so that they can be more efficient.
I'm not sure who wins in this situation. But I imagine Lyft isn't going away, and Uber may, truly, run the well dry at some point.
https://minnenratta.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/things-i-have-l...
Hmmm... sounds _very_ restricted. This feels like either a PR stunt, or they're catering to programs that only allow Walmart employees to grow within Walmart and not branch out elsewhere.
The lack of detail seems really suspect.
> In fact, we all use the same set of contracts. They tend to get passed around founders.
Care to share? ;)
Really? I just read a comment from the CEO of HashiCorp who has a very different take:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022563
Unless all remote employees of Ghost are just contractors...
Although I don't think that's a bad idea in principle - everyone has a set amount of likes & comments they can do per day. It'd make the value of a "like" much higher (a la Tinder).
The system is. broken. to. begin. with. And not just with cheating, with a number of different factors.
What incentive, as a student, do I have to NOT cheat if I won't get caught?