The thing is, multiple availability zones are in multiple data centers. We now know that they have a common failure point, but how could anyone have known that before it happened.
For all we know multiple regions could have an undiscovered common failure point.
Don't get me wrong. Heroku isn't entirely blameless--I had a production app that was down for about 12 hours.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the reason the yellow badge worker's aren't given those benefits is to keep them separate from the rest of the work force for security reasons (to keep them from talking about their work)
They allow janitors and food service workers access to these perks, it seems kind of weirdly targeted if they are just doing it to save money.
They're probably doing work that is so confidential that google doesn't want to give them the chance to socialize with other workers.
No, it screams these employees are working on something confidential. Google keeps them from socializing with everyone else in order to keep them from talking about their work.
There probably is a number on the back of the badge to call. There is a lot of ongoing litigation dealing with Google's book scanning.
The simple explanation is that Google doesn't want these workers talking about the work they are doing. The easiest way to keep them from talking is to limit social interactions with other employees, by sequestering them.
I worked in Geek Squad for 5 years (finally started making a enough money doing freelance development to quit this past december).
I've done malware removal on 5-10 computers a day, 5 days a week for most of that time. So I've seen thousands of malware infections on the average consumer's computer. I've seen more different malware infections than just about anyone outside of an antivirus research lab.
When I first started most of malware came from users downloading files from P2P sites. However, for the last 2 years nearly all the malware I found was installed via a drive-by download that happened without user input.
You can talk all you like about avoiding porn sites and installing AV software, but it's not that simple. The majority of the computers I worked on had current AV programs--they weren't able to prevent the infections. The situation with malware and windows is absolutely terrible, and it doesn't only happen to idiots who stuff their drives with porn.
Macs have security flaws--they aren't perfect, but when compared to the malware ghetto I've dealt with over the years, calling this a mac malware problem an "explosion" is just ridiculous.
I've seen plenty of the same fake AV malware that installs itself via drive-by downloads on computers with up to date firefox installs.
Security patches aren't instant. Updating your browser helps sure, but it's not a real solution.
There is a tendency for people like us to assume every time we see someone with a malware infection that it must be because the user is a moron who: still uses Kazaa, doesn't know about the good porn sites, is browsing on IE6 and installs anything that a popup asks him too. That just isn't true.
It's not just idiots, the average non-moron windows user is massively vulnerable to malware.
In my experience (I'll limit it to friends and family b/c of the obvious selection bias of including Geek Squad customers), nearly every (non developer) windows user I know has had at least one malware infection over the last few years that required either my help, or a system restore.
Based on the general state of the computer, and many times customers asked me to try to identify the source of the infection.
To do this I checked the history for recently visited sites.
Before most browsers had private browse modes, and the ability to only delete recently browsed data, a non empty history with no obvious porn listings could usually be taken at face value.
I would guess that some of that is b/c my developer friends are less likely to need my help with malware, so they don't tell me about it.
Another guess but the rest of it is probably behavior based. Developers are less likely to spend all day on facebook playing flash games, more likely to have flashblock and adblock installed etc..
Definitely a selection bias--I mentioned that previously in a post down below.
I'm not saying everyone is sick though. I'm saying I've seen thousands of windows machines with malware and a lot of the time it wasn't just an uneducated user problem.
My first store was also about an hour away from the nearest mac store so I also saw a pretty fair amount of macs while working there. They came in all the time for hardware issues so obviously they aren't perfect--But I never once saw one with malware--not in 5 years.
I don't think that they are magically immune to malware and some of it can be explained by smaller market share, but whatever the reason from my experience dealing with thousands of windows pcs and hundreds of macs--malware on macs is so insignificant that it doesn't exist.
5 years ago people were saying that malware for macs was coming (In fact Best Buy was pushing AV installs for macs when we first started carrying them), but it didn't materialize.
For the average user--if you buy a windows machine you will probably have to deal with malware, but if you go with a mac the chance is so low that is virutally nonexistent.
What are they going to be doing? Does either one have any business skill at all? Is there any reason to believe they are capable of running the business while you handle the development side. Is one of them a designer, or an expert on the subject-matter?
If not, then it's really just a guy with an idea and I'll give you 10% to build it. That would definitely be a no for me. I'm probably approached about once a month by a friend who has a great idea for a website. They don't realize that I have way more great ideas than I have time to build them.
What is the doctor giving you in return? From my understanding it's not an valid contract unless both sides get some kind of consideration (such as money or a discount for service).
Yes he used the scientific method, so by definition is a scientist. However, I'm sure the title is using the popular definition of scientist (a professional researcher) in contrast to an amateur hobbyist.
A while back my gmail account was hacked by someone with a chinese IP. It made me wonder.
What if they goal of all this is to build a giant database of identities and known passwords. Say the chinese govt has 50 million online identities each associated with an email address, and known passwords for each.
If they do decide to launch a massive cyber attack, it doesn't matter what security we have in place; they could just log in.
They wouldn't need to find backdoors, they could log in as customers to every major bank and start moving things around. It wouldn't matter if the banks caught it, the only way to stop it would be to shut down all transaction--which would cause the panic the attackers are looking for.
They could do this with any public website, and with enough computing power and bandwidth, do it fast enough to really cause a problem.
Just imagine if they had 0.1% of all public logins and passwords.
Having worked at Best Buy during college and for a few years after, this is what Best Buy has been trying to do for a while now.
They try to encourage solving problems, and building rapport instead of selling. However, the problem with Best Buy is follow through.
This kind of training comes down from corporate, but the district managers are allowed to run their districts like their own little fiefdom. Since most of the district managers (and store managers) got to where they are b/c they are great salesmen, they push the salesman attitude onto everyone else.
I just bought a capacitive screen multi touch android tablet for less than $200 from dealextreme for some prototype work I'm doing. There's no reason to assume that the iPad will continue to be comparatively cheaper a year or two out.
When everyone has the production ironed out, android tablets will drop, and apple will keep selling iPads for a premium price.
I love apple, but the tablet will never spread effectively if it costs $500 or more.
My friend and his wife use their iPads completely differently. They keep their computers upstairs in their respective offices to use for serious work, and whenever I come over one of them is on the couch browsing the web on an iPad.
When I was in college several of my friends majored in early childhood education.
Without a doubt it has to be the easiest major out there. While I was writing papers, my friends were learning how to make name tags with construction paper and crayons, and learning kiddy songs (this is not an exaggeration).
The problem is that once you get the degree and jump through the hoops, you're in. That's all there is to it
If any idiot can become a teacher, and a bad teacher makes the same a great teacher, then the pay is going to end up as the average of what you'd pay a bad teacher and great one.
Side-note: my mom, who also has a degree in early childhood education, tells me that when she was there 30 years ago it was much more academically rigorous.
Analyzing history through the lens of modern values is a foolish effort. At some point every person on the planet had ancestors who conquered, killed, and held slaves.
When discussing Alexander the Great we talk about how he spread Hellenistic culture and gave rise to western civilization. It doesn't turn into a flame war about how many Persians he killed, or how many slaves he owned.
If we judge historical cultures by modern standards none of them would come out smelling like roses.
@samyzee Stack level went to deep so I'm replying to my own post. I agree that Asians are underrepresented in terms of global GDP, and with time their share of the pie will grow much larger in keeping with their share of the population.
However economics is not a zero sum game. I'm not adversely affected if Asia's economies grow. In fact, I'd love to see them succeed. More wealth anywhere is good for free people everywhere; it give's me more people to trade with.
>but standards of living and of most economies will definitely decline...the stuff that you bought from china for really cheap wont be so cheap anymore
You've completely forgotten about automation. Within a generation robotics will make low cost labor obsolete. We won't need factories of Chinese workers to build our products; We'll have factories full of robots.
Also, I don't really care who has the most power. I don't care if America has the largest military in the world. I only want our military to protect our borders and police shipping lanes.
If China becomes more powerful than the west and my standard of living increases thanks to technology, I don't care. The only thing to worry about is chinese military intervention, but even if they have a significantly more powerful military our nuclear deterrents will prevent them from directly harming us.
In the U.S %69 of billionaires earned their wealth. The percentage of millionaires who earned their wealth is even higher. It's a commonly held misconception that most of the wealthy inherit their money.
Yes there are plenty of people who are capable, but not wealthy and vice versa. However, the OP didn't say "wealthy people == capable people". He said wealthy people are "...an approximation of "capable people"
Btw I'm not going to bother to include sources on my claim. If you want to validate it, the sources are easy to find.
> No, the worst-case scenario would be that guest copies keys, returns, and rapes and kills the owner/occupant.
The keys problem is fairly easy. I don't have keys. I enter a 4 digit number to enter my house. Just install something like that and change the passcode when the guest leaves.
It does sound just too ridiculous. I mean it's one thing to find the safe and steal credit cards, but I find it more than a little odd that he burned a spare set of sheets in the fireplace.
My first thought is that you'd might actually have a higher chance of having someone trash your house if you leave it unoccupied for week vs. letting someone rent it on Airbnb.
Did you read the article? It addressed that. According to the author many students in these countries pay for additional instruction fromt tutors to make up for the lack of individual attention.
Yeah, I recently read that a local district (Cobb country GA) spends 2x as much per student adjusted for inflation than they did 30 years ago. Yet graduation rates and test scores are about the same.
I used to be addicted to caffeine. If I didn't have some before lunch I'd get a terrible headache. So I used caffeine pills to control my dosage and step off gradually.
One big benefit, I find that my hands are much steadier now. Helps tremendously when soldering.
There is a huge difference between voting on compensation for public employees, and punitive taxation on private employees.
Plus the vast majority wouldn't vote for teacher pay cuts. There are a few exceptions, but look at the trends for education spending. America spends more per capita on education than most developed countries.
Look at the amount of time the average American has to work in order to by food. It's much less than it used to be. The only reason it feels like we have less money is because we have more stuff to spend it on.
