Why take on a person who reads things closely, thinks about them carefully, values privacy, and has a sense of integrity?
There are a bunch of reasons. But the business one is that modern companies can't concentrate power at the top if they want to be successful in the long term. Innovation and adaptation don't happen because the SEVP of whatever has a brainstorm. They happen because people doing the work are intelligent, well informed, and care about the customers, their colleagues, and the company. If the most important characteristic in hiring is "agree instantly with all authority figures" that's a recipe for organizational rigidity and stagnation.
Some of the best hires I've made have been "difficult". Because some kinds of "difficult" are just taking values seriously.
One reason would be: Negotiating contract terms in good faith proves that it's not a contract of adhesion. By making the contract non-negotiable in this way, Google also risks its existing employment contracts being deemed unenforceable, having certain terms voided, or being read in the least favourable interpretation in court.
So it's in Google's interest to at least pretend to negotiate.
I think you're missing the benefits outside of scalability. There are a lot of native AWS services that help you to quickly prototype and build reliable solutions. A startup saves a lot of money (and time) by not needing to hire a whole devops team to manage various service clusters.
Yeah, maybe. It's still hard for me to envision giving up a 2014 and 2015 MBP. They both work flawlessly and don't compromise on any of the useful features, like having USB A ports, SD card slot, MagSafe, no touchbar, reasonably sized touchpad and so forth.
I had a 1997 Micra about a decade ago, lost the key. Had someone come out, they could get in easily enough, but couldn't get it started without the original key. Had to go to dealer to get one programmed.
That seems to me to be far more secure than a modern tesla.
There's far less chance of leaving your key in the car if you have to press the lock button on the fob after you get out -- done that on hire cars before. The key is always in the same place.
Conversely you can leave the key in the ignition if you're popping into the store to pay for the gas and leaving your passengers in the car. I had a keyless fob on another hire car in my pocket, alarm went off when I went into the store.
Yeah folks are definitely forgetting that battery life != phone screen size. It's much more complicated than that.
I had a 6S and I couldn't stand the battery life (or size). "Down"graded to a 2016 SE and the battery life was leaps and bounds better -- plus, it didn't shut itself off outside on cold days.
Based on Apple's spec page, it does look like the Mini has worse battery life than the 12. The real question is:
- how is standby battery life?
and
- what kind of impact does 5G have?
The number's on Apple's site are a great deal better than the 2020 SE's battery life, so I think we might have a good balance here. Hopefully.
We have these accidents and pileups constantly without involvement of assisted driving technology. By your logic we should disallow anything that could ever hurt anybody.
Exactly, why add another way for humans to be negligent? I would absolutely love to see mass transit replace self driving cars as the panacea to our transportation issues.
Exactly. I don't think people realize just how terrible cars at at scaling, whether they are human driven or completely controlled centrally as a fleet. Even parking a single car requires as much square footage as the typical worker requirement for office space. And if you don't have onsite parking, you have double the miles travelled as cars leave the central business district to temporary storage far away, only to come back to pick people up for their commutes back.
The past century of car-based thinking has damaged the US's planning brains. We need to go back to first principles and think about serving the needs and wants of humans, rather than serving the needs of a hugely space inefficient and health-damaging transit mode.
Mass transit doesn't take you to every location and cannot. Cars must exist in some form or another for access to many locations. Mass transit has not replaced all cars in any (non-city-state) country on this planet.
Cars and transit are not mutually exclusive. The more people that use mass transit, the better the experience fire people that still use cars. However we are hampered from enabling better mass transit in the US by those who refuse to let the two coexist and want to force everyone into cars.
There are indeed lots of ways of getting around. Walk, tram, bike, e-scooter, escalator, funicular, metro, schwebebahn, car, train, taxi, rickshaw, boat, bus. The best cities utilize a mix of those that work for them. Rental solutions have exploded in recent years.
You can't pick just one and say it's the best for everything.
I can't relate to this problem either. At 5pm the work computer is turned off. No work apps on my phone. I think people just lack hobbies outside of work so they have nothing better to do than work.
When you don't have to work you're probably more likely to be in a place where you enjoy it. Having said that, I wonder how much work these guys do once they're in these roles and have already proving themselves time and time again. I imagine most of the less satisfying work is delegated away and they get to spend time on whatever they want.
Wouldn't we all be doing that if we could? Earn enough that you can have a team of people taking care of the menial tasks that are high effort/low reward and focus your attention into the important bits.
I believe I'd enjoy any role like that, if I'm skilled enough to tackle the problems I want to while having a trusted team which I can delegate things I know how to do but don't want to.
