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I subscribed as a small perk for my team, now twice a month, we get a delicious surprise in the mail.
Always brightens the day.
"For the third time in less than a year the sentencing of Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu) has been delayed without explanation."
Subu as a founder of Lolzsec, organized "elite hackers" to attack a number of targets, until (and after) he was arrested and immediately turned informant.
Working for the FBI, Subu continued to recruit new hackers for new operations while feeding all information to his government bosses.
Read these chat logs. How is that not entrapment?
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/snowden_anon...
Right or wrong, there is no way Google is going to let developers use Paypal instead of their own Google billing, for which they keep 30%.
"In order to start this new company, I'll need to leave my current job. which pays very well and where I've spent years moving up the org chart. This new company is very risky. We might not hit our performance targets. So... I'll need a golden parachute, ya know, just in case I can't cut it."
I don't need to tell you what the VC's logical response would be. Too bad that logic doesn't apply to "top management".
According to Bloomberg, he's also receiving $64.6 upon termination, for a total of $109 Million from Yahoo!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-15/yahoo-chief-operati...
Since arriving at Yahoo in November 2012, de Castro’s salary, bonuses and equity grants totaled $44.8 million ... Upon his termination, de Castro will also receive $64.6 million, including accelerated equity grants, in accordance with his contract
I'm not sure how you would define "sell data", but other advertisers are using that data for targeting at scale already.
In the past 24 hours, they are still at 41%.
Although I agree there's bound to be a bit of random fluctuation.
There are records of which polling place a person voted at, and whether they showed up to vote, but (in theory) there's no way to tell which of the thousands of ballots from that polling place match to which individual voter.
There was a measurable performance increase, but it was disappointing overall. Perhaps my initial hopes were too high.
Our company is small and engineering/ops resources are very limited, leading to a lot of pragmatic decisions. After a few days of experimentation, I decided that HHVM was promising, but for us it's not yet worth the extra ops infrastructure.
We get much bigger improvements tuning other pieces of our stack.