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Definitely worth chatting with your manager. Sometimes an internal move is all it takes get on a career path you are excited about
Re:Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:31PM (#30266932)
I wonder if Apple would be wary of the regulatory attention that might attract.
They probably just readjust their currency hedges
Re:Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:10AM (#28326783)
So many companies have flatlined after a new CEO took over, think Microsoft after Ballmer took over. So I think there is some difficulty involve.
Re:Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:03AM (#28326730)
Thousands seems high for the largest company in the world with potentially the most complex supply chain ever assembled. And that doesn't even mention the political issues that need to be navigated.

Your choices I imagine are the other Apple executives and the CEO of another International technology and/or manufacturing (potentially) company.

Re:Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:59AM (#28326694)
It's a very interesting topic, but clearly the investors/board got what they wanted so they are giving him the payout. It was tied to a goal and they got that goal. So presumably the people paying are happy to pay him that amount.

Would he have reached/pushed for a particularly aggressive goal for less? Could someone else have achieved that goal for less?

No doubt there is some element of personal relationships between everyone in the compensation committee and the ceo.

Re:Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @08:40AM (#28141288)
In distributed databases that offer transaction semantics, they need timestamps to order transactions that take place. A tighter synchronization of clocks mean they can execute transactions faster because they can reduce the amount of time they wait (based on the potential clock drift between machines in the data center)
Re:Leaving Google on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:12AM (#27746784)
Internet search algorithms are bit of an adversarial competition against bad content, no? Given the amount of money at stake for beating the search algorithm, shouldn't we expect any search engine to decline in usefulness over time?
Re:Leaving Google on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:08AM (#27746745)
The problem gets harder and harder as the trash gets more SEO
Re:Leaving Google on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:06AM (#27746723)
Retention of very senior people really comes down to those people and their personal reasons. I don't think it's a group of people who all want the same thing, so it's impossible to make a general retention plan.

And realistically, the reason you want them to stay is because they are someone who has figured out how to operate and impact the organization without needing too much guidance or direction.

But I think it's why there are all the generic lifestyle perks and competition for titles like "Best Place To Work".

My question is would Copilot be useful if you could choose the codebase it would be drawing from? Almost as an internal company tool?
From the about page:

Objective-S is an architecture-oriented programming language based loosely on Smalltalk and Objective-C. It currently runs on macOS, iOS and Linux, the latter using GNUstep.

By allowing general architectures, Objective-S is the first general purpose programming language.

What we currently call general purpose languages are actually domain specific languages for the domain of algorithms.

http://objective.st/About

It's hard to measure the long term financial impact of irradiated soil
Not an urban legend, TOR was built in part by the US Navy and is still funded by the US government today (https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors/)
Presenting both options on equal terms is hard to measure, Apple is calling it "Tracking" when other (Facebook's) advertising networks do it, but they are calling it "Personalized Ads" when their advertising network does it.

Apple doesn't mind if users turn off the data feed to Facebook, but obviously they don't want users disabling the same data feed to their advertising network.

Advice to cut sugar and alcohol consumption would go against the lobbyists for the most powerful industries, right?

I think the parts that are right are not those that coincide with industry interests but those that go against industry interests. Those parts are probably directionally correct but have softened language due to lobbying.

Re:Patrick Collison's Questions on Sunday August 23, 2020 @10:33PM (#24257101)
Keeping and maintaining that excitement for self-driven learning is the most challenging part.
Re:Patrick Collison's Questions on Sunday August 23, 2020 @10:32PM (#24257096)
Exactly- people don't/can't really comparison shop when it comes to medical procedures. They don't know how good their doctors are at it, this is all unpublished information.

Similarly college textbooks- if your professors assigns work from their book, then you need that book. You can't competitively shop on that.

As the response points out, all of these groups and then backed by accreditation systems to limit new entrants.

Re:New York City is dead forever on Saturday August 22, 2020 @10:27AM (#24244349)
This article seems to be saying the rich are leaving New York. And the world that caters to them (expensive restaurants, etc.) is suffering. This is true.

But as you say falling rents offer more opportunities for the culture and lifestyle aspects of the city.

Also, this post rattles off a bunch of negatives, but fails to offer any alternative to rival NYC. South Florida or Phoenix? Maybe one, but certainly not yet.

Re:A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode on Sunday August 16, 2020 @01:11PM (#24179401)
I haven't seen gitbook before, is this a common tool for documentation?
It's about monopolization. Should a company be able to vertically integrate and install a toll booth to profit off of all developers on their platform? Or does that hurt consumers more than it would hurt businesses to separate that power?