Not even close.
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I'm over it.
It's useful for groups, some of the ads really are useful, it's nice to sometimes keep up with people that are far away, but the news feed has had done way more harm than good for our society, including my own life.
After the 2016 Election, Facebook posts lead to so much drama in my family that certain "branches" of the tree have unfriended and blocked each other and we haven't spoken since. My dad and I constantly argue because he will see some comment I made on someone else's post and have to give his own opinion, or read to me what the other person said back. There is no way to turn this part of the feed off.
Overall, it is a totally unpleasant product to use now. The only reason I want it to succeed is because I own stock from when I worked there.
On a more superficial level, I put memes in slides.
This was for a databases class. Very important nowadays, but known to be one of the more boring classes.
I worked there for a very short time as a consultant and I remember Barry. I remember being astonished at some of the things I saw and heard at that company and I am surprised it's not them getting the scrutiny and instead the larger tech companies.
Working at Riot Games was like working in a frat house where you get paid, and I mean many of the bad parts of living in a frat house. Of the places I've worked, Riot had to have the lowest median age (early 20s), which probably contributes to the problem. The guys could be assholes, but I fear that some of the women, being young and this being their first job and an amazing opportunity, get disillusioned into thinking that this behavior is normal in industry and that is really sad.
I am surprised not more have spoken out. Riot (and other gaming companies, not just Riot) has some of the bro-est culture out there and it's going to cost them in a lawsuit, just give it time.
You might have a personal marketing problem, or you might have an interviewing problem.
Small companies can be great. I tend to think "startup" when I hear small company, but I think the same rules may apply. Your tech stack is probably more fluid and you can learn new technologies more easily. These are great skills to have. But... if you are not clear about what type of work you want to do and how your skills apply to that work, it is easy to turn off a larger company because they can't fit you into a role (a "box"). A good recruiter will try to shop you around the company a bit, but there's a limit as to how much time they are willing to spend doing that.
Story: I recently had a set of interviews for a large company (the recruiting process was a mess and a joke) where I was bounced from place to place and nobody (myself included) could figure out where I fit in the company. I feel that company was very tight lipped or unsure about the roles they were hiring for, so I had no better answer than "I'd be happy in either position" to which one of the hiring managers said I would be a better fit for a startup. I came into the process very wishy-washy about what I wanted. Considering this didn't happen with any of the other companies I applied to, I blame this company. Everything was secretive and somewhat adversarial. I ended up at a much larger company with a much better reputation.
Point: If you are not clear about what you want, you may get stuck in the small company loop.
The good news is that you are getting phone interviews at larger companies. Before you take an interview, research the company and its culture, don't just rely on what you know about the company. Focus on what you have accomplished at your companies, and not the tech stack you use. I've heard a lot of candidates tell me about the complexities of the open-source stack they've worked with, and that's great, but I want to know how they will help us in our mission. Those types of nitty-gritty answers would better fit smaller companies, in my opinion (unless I am specifically asking about how they did something).
Also, larger companies have a pretty standard interview process. Data structures/algorithms and coding phone interviews. You need to practice, practice, practice on Leetcode or some other platform and even re-read an algorithms book. Smaller companies tend to be more holistic and use take-home projects, have you participate in a hackathon, whatever, but to get into a larger company, you need to learn how to play the interview game rather than just being a great coder (irony intended).
In the older days, structural failure was a common cause (a blown cargo door UA811, the roof coming off Aloha 243). That just doesn't happen anymore.
Another possibility is a hijacking. Another EgyptAir flight was recently hijacked by a man wearing a vest containing fake explosives. The plane landed safely. Some dude took a selfie with the hijacker.
A Russian airliner recently exploded over Egypt as well.
It depends on the size of the drone and where it hits.
I am not sure how large these drones are, but if they have the mass of a flock of large seagulls, say, it could disable an engine (like the US Airways jet).
A collision with a wing could cause substantial damage to the wing which would change the aerodynamics, and that could be potentially dangerous at low altitudes because of the neighborhoods underneath. Debris could fall from the sky and injure or kill someone. I doubt it would come close to tearing off a wing.
A collision with the fuselage could breach the cabin which is dangerous in itself, but would not cause a decompression at that altitude.
A collision with the windscreen of the flight deck would be dangerous for obvious reasons. In the minor case, it can blind the pilots temporarily. In the worst case, debris from the drone would incapacitate the pilot during the most dangerous phase of flight: landing or departure.
What is really dangerous is the speed at which the aircraft hits the mass of the drone. It may seem like the aircraft would just kill the drone, and that is probably the case with most drones, but if it has large mass, it wouldn't.
The most dangerous scenario is if a drone hits the control surface like the flaps (very important for landing), or the horizontal stabilizer in the tail, it could be disastrous.
It's an interesting problem because there are so many ways to define optimality. Does it mean working with the same manager? Working at the same facility? Minimizing travel between facilities? Number of shift in a week? etc. The problem can be extended with reinforcement learning with employee feedback. If there are manager preferences as well, there is a two-player problem with two perhaps competing interests.
I would love to work on this problem with high school scheduling for building both a master schedule and individual student schedules. No clue where I would get data though.
It's a very cool problem.
A bug like this would be financially catastrophic.
- $$ for special effects or special "data widgets" - have an online video editor that uses the "cloud" (so users are locked into their services and software). Sort of like Dropbox, but for GoPro videos and includes an awesome editor. Charge $$ for membership and/or space. - $$ for GoPro sensors.
Of course, I hate to have to lock my video into their servers... but that is how they would make $$.
If this were to be a hardware pursuit, you'd have to buy a bunch of sensors, all which have a price tag and their own limitations and issues. This might bring in $$, but also cause a lot of frustration that users would not find intriguing. Or, the sensors could be in the camera which would cause even more problems with power, heat, etc and the price tag.
Software, which can read data from a variety of sources such as GoPro, GPS, thermometer, whatever, and then integrate it all into a video timeline would be more practical. Then let the user overlay data onto the video using a variety of free and paid visual effects and templates.
GoPro should be working on a competitor to VIRBedit for this purpose. VIRBedit is great and doesn't require a Garmin VIRB cam etc. There is also http://www.traceup.com/ for snowboarding and surfing.
GoPro really missed an opportunity here, but it may not be too late.
Zigbee is the biggest joke with tons of proprietary and incompatible implementations of an open standard.
Either he is going to amazing places, or education is really coming a long way into better integrating technology and open-source.