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This 1000 times. He's not a rocket scientist and he hasn't discovered anything unique but he is challenging weak minded people to think differently.

If I read the affidavit right, there were confidential witnesses who may have shared their WhatsApp screens with investigators.

Give Azure NetApp Files a test drive. World of difference.

huh?

The one big thing I see missing here is the ability to increase your luck by networking and personal branding. You absolutely have to build your personal network. More exposure, more potential opportunity. Plain and simple - no matter what field you are in.

As I've followed OpenAI, the recurring theme is that the subject/company goals opens messy politics and philosophies rather than focusing on the research. In some ways I can appreciate their retraction and controlling visibility so they can focus on the research. However, this only further exposes more politics and philosophical questions. They have to decide what "they want to be when they grow up" and filter out anything else that gets in the way, even the criticism.

I can appreciate the problem here, but right now, the majority of the layoffs seem to be furloughs in the service industry and I'm betting they already weren't getting health insurance besides what they received from ACA.

Yes, very familiar with it... unfortunately there's a bit of vendor gamesmanship with these and they don't inform the MQ. Sorry, I've had too many years working with these tools, I'm cynical.

An important distinction (as I mentioned in another comment) is that you have no idea how much "aggregate customer feedback" Gartner really has, they don't disclose their research methodologies at all. That's a real problem. 451 research does... and sincere congrats on your award.

"Enterprise buyers use third parties to buy software. They consult Gartner, Forrester, and others to establish trust in vendors. These research agencies diligence software products directly and through surveys. This is the reason analyst relations are so important. Presence on the magic quadrant confers trustworthiness."

Strongly disagree on this point. With the exception of 451 Research, the major analyst firms do not share any of their research methodologies. Did they interview/research 10 orgs or 1,000? You don't know. The biases of the research analysts is also suspect. At Gartner, many of their analysts haven't actually used the software they are covering. As a consequence, we have no idea about the depth of their research at all.

The role of these analysts is to give C-level executives a "cover your a$$" excuse if things go wrong with the software. From my experience, most technical level decision makers rely more on their peers to develop trust than on analysts.

This is exactly right. I have worked for Japanese companies, do not underestimate the weight cultural pride had in how they prosecuted this case. It's not like the US at all.

Totally disagree as someone who has done both a few times: Try working remotely or from home with a small company or startup. In those environments you typically wear more than one hat and it requires face time. You'll also often work longer hours which throws any chance at a work/life balance out the window.

FWIW... most of Amazon's internal infrastructure was NOT run on AWS as of a couple of years ago. The idea that AWS was built to support Amazon is a myth. In fact, most of their own IaaS was a very traditional data center built on converged infrastructure. This is why Amazon was up and running when AWS would have a large outage.

Ultimately, this transfers shares to Dell that, most likely, provides liquidity that could be used to pay a little bit of their massive debt ($56B) that is choking them. Dell is in financial trouble. See https://seekingalpha.com/article/4278101-dell-technologies-m...

Interesting but wonder if this type of encryption ruins Dropbox business model since it keeps them from de-duping anything. I couldn't care less about Dropbox's business model... just curious.

"we are about to have a serious data-storage problem" is a bit hyperbolic but the technology is very real and being actively developed by a few different orgs.

No doubt that she is framing her concern from a political context which undermines her very good point: GMO's are scientifically safe but companies like Monsanto need to stop playing shady games to make their point. The overwhelming scientific consensus speaks for itself.

Lol. The big guys actually use NAS and/or obeject stores for Enterprise files, with on-premesis, in a cloud provider or hybrid. Even at reasonable scale, it's cheaper than Dropbox. You can do this with distributed file shares and they all sync. Dropbox isn't inventing anything new here.

What an idiotic story for the NYT.

OK, so you have a really awful Masters program for art at a for-profit school. So that damns all masters programs?

The problem isn't the school or the loan program... it's that someone would be so ignorant to think there is any sort of return on that kind of investment in education. It's not like the school is lying (that's not the allegation at least). There has got to be some level of personal accountability here. I'm assuming people incurring the debt at this school are adults with an undergraduate degree and I'm assuming if you've made it that far in life, you probably understand debt, the job market and how you might repay that debt.

Normally I'd say a Masters in Journalism is a waste of money but clearly this author might have benefited from learning some critical thinking.

This article is total garbage. Nicotine is no more harmful than caffeine if used in moderation. Some people are so anti-tobacco that they lose all logic and resort to old research. For more objective, modern research, read https://news.sky.com/story/nicotine-no-worse-than-cup-of-cof...

This is awful! When these things happen, why don't people name names? What restaurant did this????

This is such an awful post. This is the equivalent of looking back at the last 50+ Super Bowls and proudly claiming the winner of each one. Very "Captain Obvious".

Surprised he didn't have "automobiles" in the strong category and "horses" in the "weak" category.

A few of these (cloud and blockchain) touch on current technologies but this is a really twisted (and cheap) way to demonstrate his key point that truly innovative technology means thinking outside of current norms. No kidding!

Answer: Someone will have to clean the bus.

451 Research does VERY good research and they fully disclose exactly how many respondents, their size and other relevant demographics of their research. You will NEVER see Gartner disclose how they conduct their research and the demographics. You just have to take their word for it.

Nonsense. Most Gartner analysts have never touched the tools they write about. The interview a small set of users to draw broad conclusions. Overpaid journalists at best.

Gartner is a very expensive and unreliable CYA resource. This may sound brutal, but take a look at their authors. Most have never actually worked with the technology they are writing about and almost never have hands-on experience. They are pundits, on the sidelines, talking to a very small subset of users and making very broad conclusions. Often times the executives (and their subordinates) that rely on their reports are more knowledgable about the technology. Some even speculate that the more vendors pay for their consulting services, the better they write about you. I'm not convinced it's pure payola as much as it just bad analysis.

I'm challenging the authors over simplistic breakout of inner and outer circles which is not supported by anything other than opinion. My observation (and opinion) is there is a big gap in between the two that's not represented in his simplistic caste system.

This is a truly ridiculous over simplification of reality in the Bay area and so loaded with personal biases to be taken seriously.

The majority of people I know and work with are mostly in between the inner and outer circle the author describes.

That's a very large group who are paid well (many also sitting on options that will continue to pay well). Being a software/hardware engineer, marketing, finance or other back-office roles does not automatically put you in the "outer circle" on the edge of the middle class.

This is a classic example of an author with a very narrow world view based solely on their personal experience which doesn't look like reality.

Isn't that a description of Uber?

You could lump in San Jose in this story as well. It amazes me that well meaning residents and leaders of the bay area have completely ignored the social problems that engulf the region.