This type of environment is not exclusive to banking. Both doctors (during internship and residency) and lawyers (during the first few years at big firms) go through similar experiences.
Two choices IMO, 1) if you can afford it, replace the laptop. 2) If you can't afford it, then take up a collection from the attendees. As for adverse incentives, you should always presume that people are honest and good. However, to cover yourself (and it is a good idea anyways), make them fill out a police report. Keep a copy on file for yourself. This would give any would be profiteer pause, as there are real consequences to filing a false police report.
Kara Swisher and AllthingsD have very good sources. They get info that no other tech journalists get. So, I would assert that this article should be taken at close to face value.
I actually had a physical gift given to me (it was a cookie, I think), but I did not feel comfortable with giving my physical address for delivery. For some reason, though Facebook knows a huge amount about me, it seemed like too little reward for too much information. (Note, I am aware that they may only have been passing the data to the vendor, but I still felt uneasy).
I appreciate that the CTO took the time to answer the question. I know it is good for promotion, etc. Nonetheless, it is nice that the effort was put forth.
I think this is a very interesting way of looking at long format data. What would be helpful is to have some visual indicator (color or something) that links the columns and rows. Presently, I am getting a little lost while clicking around.
I think that this move by Bloomberg shows that Bitcoin (and other similar currencies) are becoming legitimate commodities. It may be the case that become they new gold.
The contrary position is that if a company stays in its rundown office space, it will stagnate, morale will suffer, people will leave and the rest of the operation will shrivel up and die. New space is a reward for ambition, and one of many steps to becoming bigger and better operation.
Great post. I am surprised this sub did not do better. It seems that the front page has been occupied by a huge number of posts about the NSA, which were not very on point with HN Guidelines.
I 100% agree with with the sentiment behind this rally, but I often feel that rallies like this in San Francisco are preaching to the choir. They make the participants and observers feel better, but do little to effect real change.
Funny to note, the study cited by the NYT was published by PloS, which was founded as an alternative to subscription based scientific journals and allows articles to be republished under Creative Commons.
I agree with you. The fact that you have to tell users what to do next with arrows and etcetera is much the same as using narration in a movie. It works, but it is a little like cheating. Nonetheless, I like the evolution away from standard text on a page with a picture or two.
Also, she included angel groups like Angels' Forum, Keiretsu Forum and Sand Hill Angels that do not have official funds, as well as, including strategic funds like BASF, who do not have an investor or die model. Finally, she lists Ron Conway and Chris Sacca's Lowercase Capital, who are not out of dry powder.
If anyone is curious, this is the first step to monetizing email beyond ads. Fast forward a few years and the store as much content as you want (Gmail model) will be an exception not the rule.
By way of update, word is that only 3 people, including Nick, are going over to Yahoo!. If this is accurate, I am unclear on the long term value of this deal.
I agree. I really don't see the value beyond a few talented search engineers. They lost a lot of people with similar skills in the last few years. Nonetheless, this is a massive premium and I am not sure where the return on this investment will come from.
I think this may have less to do with the fulfillment of a long term Google+ type social strategy and more of a reaction to the explosive growth of communication apps like WhatsApp, Wechat, and Line. These apps have grown to critical mass and can use their positions to grow into full blow threats to anyone with significant market share in social.
It not the size of the GDP that is at issue, bank runs happen out of fear. I can tell you from conversations I have had with friends (not very scientific, admittedly) that people in European countries are legitimately freaked out by this. Additionally, there may be a physical limit on withdrawals, but electronic transfers are far easier and more common in the EU. That is the real threat. If we are all lucky, tempers will cool by Tuesday.