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Our client services team is in overdrive making sure all our customers are as happy as possible. This is something every company should be doing right now.
I don't want to claim that there isn't a spike in crime. There may well be. But you really have to be careful in relying on what you see reported on these apps. Especially with so many people at home, nervous and stressed out.
I live in a high rise. Every time I am in my garage, find my iPhone thinks I am in the building next door. If I am in my kids bedroom, it thinks I am across the street.
What if the person above me is in their kitchen at the same time I am in my kitchen?
How can you know this? If it is not being reported, you must be relying on anecdotal reporting? Reddit, nextdoor, facebook?
My company decided that we would likely have to go remote-only about 6 weeks ago and asked people to start planning out how to make it happen. One of the things was to redo all deadlines with the expectation that family would need to come first.
But knowing that you are not legally required to stay has to be an improvement.
The news media simply does a terrible job of communicating what exactly these "lockdowns" mean.
People that had a daily respite because their spouse left for work, or (as the article mentions) the stress of the situation is causing alcoholism and relapses into violence are people that need help and that the system in place most likely doesn't have the capacity to handle. This is where additional resources need to be made available.
To me, that sounds like a leadership problem at the outside dev shop. Properly supervised, properly supported, and with reasonable deadlines, mediocre developers can provide extraordinary results per dollar spent on probably 80-90% of dev tasks.
I think you are right about this and furthermore, non-optional bluetooth tracking is just going to encourage people to leave their phone at home when they go out, especially if they are on the fence about whether or not they are a danger. If they need something they are going to go get it.
We need a rapid cultural adjustment that causes people to voluntarily minimize spreading.
My company has been remote-only for about 1.5 weeks now and we have 4 different conferencing systems that people are using. It's interesting that everyone has their preferences, but for small meetings nobody is using Zoom as far as I've seen.
Things would be a lot better if this was taken seriously months ago. Things would be better if people in leadership positions all over the world were better leaders, but they are who we've got right now.
From now on, we have to make this up as we go. We have to try our best. We have to see what works and what doesn't and use that information to make better choices going forward.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is an affiliate of MIT. Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory is an affiliate of UChicago.
If someone says "that didn't happen there!" you can always say "oh sorry, I meant the other one"
Not counting hundreds of thousands of college students is a pretty big deal!
That ship has sailed.
If you have a child that is away at college and that school has not sent people home, you will fill out the survey without that child, as he or she is supposed to be counted in the city in which their college is located.
If, after you fill in the survey, the college goes online-only and sends students home and does so before April 1, what do you do?
The 20th Amendment: Section 1: The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January...
Section 3: If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
If there's no election, he stops being President at noon on the 20th of January.
As for multiple accounts, they exist on iOS. You just have to be managing the devices for education:
https://help.apple.com/deployment/education/#/cad7e2e0cf56
When I mentioned multiple accounts, I meant on AppleTV. AppleTV can switch accounts in "consumer mode" so each person gets their "personalized experience"
Honestly, it's a mess. But they can improve by working on it and paying attention to real-world situations.
* The technology investment isn't going to pay off unless they scale up to thousands of stores very quickly.
* Running a small convenience store is boring and not very profitable. The technology is cool though, so lets see if someone else is will to do all the boring stuff while we focus on the interesting things.
Release the iWork suite and some sort of thin client/remote desktop app and then see how people use them. Learn, iterate, repeat. They can build an ARM-based Mac bit by bit, out in the open, without anyone freaking out and killing their x86 sales.
It's probably a local shortage. A few days ago, I had to fly to Washington DC and stopped at the Walgreens in downtown Chicago. They had tons of hand sanitizer in many container sizes; it wall all on sale - buy 1 get 1 for 50% off.
In the developing world, most of the food wast that occurs at the source (farm/distribution) is unintentional and would be reduced with better infrastructure, policy, property rights, etc. Building a modern cold-storage warehouse in these locations is not a solution!
The new one: it doesn't appear to offer any performance advantage at its price point. The case appears to be great for flexibility and ease of access, but it is clearly overstyled for the purpose of being as expensive as possible.
It really isn't as impressive as the original.
The main reason: They'll go away when the graybeards retire and the companies fail without them.
For the last 5 years, I've been babysitting a C-based system that generates more than 70% of our corporate profit. The youngsters working on the 7+ year-old project to replace it are on the 3rd refactoring of the 2nd programming language codebase and the "architect" is already talking about rewriting in a new language for "productivity improvements." For the 4th year in a row, the first of five essential elements of the new system will go on line Next Year, leaving still more years of work until we can shut the old system down and let the C programmers go (except we all know more new languages than the new guys, as we all have loads of free time - our old system is quite reliable). Without a substantial payment directly into my kids' trust fund, I have no intention of delaying retirement by a day - I have way too many side projects to explore!
They have a wonderful section in the museum about dimetrodon; you have to pass through Mass Extinction #4 to get to the dinosaurs.
PS - somewhat controversial perhaps, but you have to pass into Mass Extinction #6 to exit the entire exhibit: the museum contends it is happening now.