Irishsteve

Can someone copy paste. Medium pay wall blocking me

That’s all contextual. If you work in adtech you are probably linking your work to the targeting performance.

If you’re in a research function it’s probably patents trade secrets or publications

Those for me are the two examples on opposite ends of the spectrum.

And usually yes I need to explain value but it really depends on what level that discussion happens. If I’m team lead looking for budget it’s gotta be measurable, if I’m a IC in a team it’s more did I help the team he successful

You’d usually do these moves to increase employee churn a bit as well. 6 months from now it will probably pick up again

Bummer that they could not replicate the results

Ask your manager / HR for support and training on how to manage.

Read up on 1:1s and ways to manage people performance I.e make sure they are working in things they are engaged with.

Found your post interesting. Thats it :-)

Disclaimer: I am not a cookie

How much market share would either apple or Firefox need to get before google consider following the same plan

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Give networks crowds and markets a glance. It's a fun book. https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/netwo...

But thats from Kleinberg - the person who I was referring to :-)

After that there is personalised page rank / Salsa which are probably the more widely known approaches to identifying trust worthy nodes in a graph.

For extra context: back then you would manually submit your site to yahoo and dmoz to end up in their results. They saw themselves as directories.

Google was all about crawling and building up the biggest dataset going.

Both approaches were victim to keyword stuffing (lots of keywords at the bottom of the page and if you were lucky it was in a marquee tag).

Pagerank was a pretty decent extra value with a relevance score to promote trust worthy sites. However there were similar techniques like hubs and authorities from kleinberg.

On a side note his old research students / postdocs ended up leading key initiatives at FB newsfeed and Pinterest discovery.

Does it at least solve the problem that it says it solves ?

Also gives me a pretty poor impression when I hear other sales people shouting over whoever I'm talking to. Feels like they are in some kinda boiler room selling me vapourware.

Suspect its breaching some term of the app store or at least in a grey area. So it's a pre-emptive move to avoid the Apple has removed Faecbook app news headline.

I think they would link all your accounts by phone number. This may not appear directly in the front end app.

Most likely though in the background they will use these links as ways to package your identity up when selling to advertisers. Thats what I'm guessing is the end goal , enrich their stagnant platform (FB) with their growth platforms (WhatsApp and Instagram)

1 Bed apartment in city center Dublin 2K a month. Thats 24K a year. For the sake of simplicity, that means you earn 48K to pay for that 24k (Tax) The landlord gets 24K into their pocket. They pay the government 12K in tax (50% threshold assumed again)

Landlord spends that 12k on fun activities. They pay 23% VAT

The government is making an absolute fortune with this absurd rental market.

Let's not even get into the high cost of mortgages because the government has a non trivial share in banks after they went bust 10 years ago.

Probably working with carriers and hand set manufactures to try and get WhatsApp installed by default.

This appears to be an excerpt from The future computed https://news.microsoft.com/futurecomputed/

Not countries, and not illegal _but_ :-) I personally know that Barcelona an Dublin have introduced laws that make it more difficult to have more apartments hit the market (Licences with heavy penalties)

The article paints a picture of how hard Mark has it - just remember for all the suffering he is going through he has billions of dollars. It's tough being at the top :-)

He failed to answer a simple question of who can their users migrate over to when they are not happy. Wonder if that will come back to hurt him.

Unless of course, the research is promising and can be integrated into the product somehow.

Cynical view would be its a good way to force unified accounts across your various verticals - a-la google plus, and in that case you can sell as one entity as opposed to seperate.

Turi (Graphlab) is an acquisition from last year. Can't remember if they had GPU support back then.

Big companies fund bands or give them exposure because if the song becomes popular its good for relevancy.

Check out Levi's as a good example in the 90's.

I know of one or two alcohol companies that fund small bands road tours in different countries as well.

Quote from MM -

"When I learned in September 2016 that a large number of our user database files had been stolen, I worked with the team to disclose the incident to users, regulators, and government agencies. "However, I am the CEO of the company and since this incident happened during my tenure, I have agreed to forgo my annual bonus and my annual equity grant this year and have expressed my desire that my bonus be redistributed to our company's hardworking employees, who contributed so much to Yahoo's success in 2016."

So does that mean no one pushed it up the chain

What does a CTO in Microsoft do ?

There seems to be some confusion going on about investment bankers and traders in the discussion.

Trading has been changing significantly since the 'big bang' when trading went from pits to electronic. From there on in you see the evolution of algorithm / program trading. This area has been using quants for decades at this point. There are a good few big names brands out there that are known for being 'algorithmic heavy', Man, Citadel, DE Shaw come to mind (I"m a few years out of date). That whole field has been open to introducing automation / algorithms to create a business edge and will probably continue to advance because its good for business. The profile of traders has also changed (Barrow boys versus PhDs)

Then I guess on the other side is investment banking such as m&a, equity and debt capital markets. Generally there its relationship based , juniors work on pitch books which from what I saw / heard were generally overlooked. This is potentially a lot harder to automate away. Then the bank would try to pull in some rain makers or grow them internally to land big deals. Usually these opportunities open up because their clients (Other companies) have learnt to trust the organization or at the least learn to expect a certain behavriour when enlisting their services.

If you think of your time on those projects, did your employer hire in a more seasoned IC to lead you or was it more likely that your manager asked what you needed to be successful and hired in the best / most senior IC's to help you achieve your goals?

Because assuming allocation is done at hiring that is probably where your job title is coming from.

It could make more sense to goto a startup where you get the problems (Probably not the scale) and autonomy / opportunity to own and build out a particular piece of the puzzle

Having a document on how to pull source, build it and deploy it in a development environment

Have a bug to fix for them

A starter project which involves using the codebase in an interesting / different way.

Microsoft research or Xerox parc / fxpal