I had a hard time reading this post as well. Having a company fail when you are in charge is a difficult for anyone. Yet the "lessons" about needing to find yourself came off as self centered. What about your team who needs to get paid. What about talking to investors about losing their money. I can understand the need to get away, but with all the crap hitting the fan, it's time to step up and not run.
If this is the case, let's see it in action. There is a great deal of information about this event that has been released to the public so I am curious to see if the experts in this field can generate probable locations of the aircraft and when the aircraft is found take a look and see if following the recommendations would have found the aircraft more quickly.
The biases of this article aside, he sounds like a very interesting man. It saddens me that the way we found out who he really is was by a very gross invasion of his privacy. A sit down interview (in person or virtually)would have been much more interesting. I would have liked to have known eventually, but not like this
I tend to lean libertarian and did some GIS and tax programming for some county governments. I never saw issues with it. There are some government functions that really only government can do. In this case figuring out exactly who owns what piece of property where. 90% of the people I worked with in government were stand up people and fairly good at their jobs. It was the remaining 10% that is why government accountability becomes extremely important. One government IT director went to jail for fraud. Another IT director cost his city thousands of dollars because he refused to upgrade an old AS400 platform and the county had to employ us to wrangle the data so they could read it.
The more I work with government and see more examples of waste and out right fraud the more I think it should only have limited powers (and the whole issue with the NSA seems to support that point). Just because I want a very limited government doesn't mean I can't support the government in things it should be doing well.
So you want them only to read what has been "approved"? At that rate they should stop reading Noam Chomsky because he may have writings not favorable to the US Military.
The idea of education (even at a US Military Academy) is let students read a diverse group of authors in order to make well informed moral decisions once they get into the field. Saying a book has "dangerous" ideas is akin to a people wanting to burn books because they object to what is being written.
this is rank hypocrisy. The NSA is simply using what "security researchers" have been talking about at Defcon for years. One lone hacker gets into a telecom's system and he makes a name for himself (or herself). A government agency does it and everyone gets on their sanctimonious high horse when all the NSA is doing is taking hacking to its next logical step, government weaponization of hacking. .
I most likely going to get down voted for this, but am I the only one who sees the irony in that this is a conference dedicated to breaking into systems and they don't want the people who are arguably better at it than anyone else?
Make something that aligns with what your interviewer is doing. If you don't know much about the space that is ok, but it will at least give you an intro to some of the problems they are facing.
I had a yahoo account that got jacked Sunday Night. I checked my computers for any sort of malware and didn't find any. It was a completely automated attack that sent one large email to all my contacts.
Would the follow up question be "would you be willing to sell your soul to this company?".
Horrible question. I had jobs where they worked for this and it stunk.
I have been criticized in front of the team and the only thing it helped me do is start searching for a new job faster. It sounds like a good idea in theory but I would like to see a few more practical real life examples of how to make this work before I would dream of implementing something like this.
This looks interesting. Will the problem pitches be put online? I used to work in the health insurance industry so I am interested in seeing what problems they want solved.
I disagree. With software that works on top of client data the more hands on you are the better. Each client had "irregularities" in their data that have to be ironed out. With good access (and good communication) you can hopefully take care of "irregularities" before the client even knows they are there.
No. While a security breach would do a good job of knocking a competitor off the hackers would still have emails and money transfers from you to them that could be used as leverage at a later day.
I don't get this. If customers are already paying you money for something why get rid of it? Sure there are some ugly hacks in an MVP but that is why a start-up goes back and rewrites the ugly parts. I think Joel S summed it up in his article "Things you should never do."
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
At what age/level did the therapists find this helpful? My son is currently in autism therapy I have noticed therapists using polaroids so I can see where this would be useful.
Agreed neither came off very well. But for the PR guy this should have been a walk in the park to deal with. I used to do customer service at an oversized health insurance company this would have been considered a mild case. You make a note in your outlook (or whatever you use) to check on the situation every once in awhile, send a nicely worded email saying you are personally following the situation and when it is done thanks them for their patience. Sure customers are not always happy but let’s face it the company broke its promise. Instead this PR guy gets his ego on and for that he should be fired. He was unprofessional when he should have known better.
I like this idea. One of my first "hacks" in the workplace was using VBA to make an Excel worksheet automate some processes my co-workers hated. Incorporating JavaScript and HTML 5 means more programmers can make coworkers happy with less investment in programming infrastructure and not being able to use those skills elsewhere outside of spreadsheets.
There are some out there that can do both but I find it to be very rare (and thus should be highly paid). I have worked with some very artistic people in the past who couldn't code to save their life. I always tell them "you make it look good and I will make it work."
Nuts that would have been a cool project if it was not restricted to an HPC cluster. Hadoop for windows server would have gone places and using LINQ to query the data would have been great.