It's likely that people within the organization already knew things weren't going well.
So, the bright side of this is that:
A) employees can spend the entire holiday week or two with their families, and
B) employees can start out their new year unencumbered by the stress of working for a failing company
Personally, I'd rather have it this way than come back from whatever fun holiday adventure I'm on to find out a week later that I'm losing my job... that's a terrible way to start the year's momentum.
Sure, there could be mitigating circumstances, but I've worked for a startup that folded just after Christmas while the office was closed for the holiday, we were all fired by phone.
It sucked.
Spending the holidays with family can be even more stress inducing when you've just learned that you lost your job. No ability to go out with local friends or former coworkers to commiserate about being fired and talk about job prospects. I was too distracted with job searching to really relax and enjoy time with family.
Rumor was that the investors pulled the plug before the end of the year for tax reasons, but I'm skeptical since it took months to sell off assets (physical and virtual) and wind down the business.
I made out pretty well though, got a lucrative contract with the company that bought the core software to keep it running for them until they could merge it into their systems.
I am not sure if even the CEO knew that sufficient venture capital to succeed was unavailable until all avenues had been exhausted. I had a hint that things were not going well when my request for equipment was denied until round B funding was raised.
The fact that it's somehow considered an insult to link to a CDN, rather than installing a gigabyte of tool chains that take years to learn, in order to achieve the exact same result... would be the reason nobody takes front end developers seriously.
In my experience supporting Linux desktop is hardly ever the right thing.
Example: ubutnu cannot consistently ship a version of network manager that supports reconnecting to a wifi network suspend with out being manually restarted.
I suspect that at a dollar value there is most no point but I don't have access to enough data to prove it.
Your experience is limited, and tainted. wpa-supplicant by itself can accomplish what you desire; NetworkManager (poorly) adds three or four extra layers of abstraction on top of that.
Meanwhile, Wicd and connman do exactly what you need, and don't constantly crash while doing it.
Blame ubuntu for following Red Hat's lead, and using their "solutions" to the problem.
At the same time, if someone has indicated that they want to give my app a bad review, am I obligated to take them to the review point so they can do it?
I don't think that any of these dark patterns represent the breaking of obligations by any party.
Dark patterns don't represent anything truly sinister, and in most cases they are perfectly legal. They are just bad UX because they're dishonest about their intent.
Do you think it's strange that cities need to map nature to prove its economic value?
I've never understood the appeal of cities (other than a quick 1-2 day visit).
Cities are more inefficient[1], have more pollution[2], have less nature[3], stink like shit[4], have less happiness[5], have more noise[6], require subways and mass transit just to get around, are more expensive[7], etc. (the list almost doesn't end).
What it says is that there is a point where further increases in density will provide less positive economic effects than negative. It does not say what that point is, nor does it say that there aren't means that can move the interesection point further up. The point where a city becomes less efficient than a rural area is also much further up the density scale, because to get there you first need the inefficiencies to outweight all the benefits, not merely rise faster than the benefits.
The paper doesn't even try to quantify which cities might have reached or exceeded the threshold where further density would be detrimental. All it does is try to establish office rents as an indicator of the efficiency of land use policies.
The paper itself also points out a lot of caveats even for their very limited goals.
Amazon will likely begin competing with many of their AWS customers.
Step 1: develop a Trojan horse to gather growth and profitability data (QuickSight).
Step 2: roll out home-grown apps to compete with their most profitable AWS customers.
This is exactly how Amazon.com operates[1].
I can only imagine how the conversation went:
Bob: We need to diversify!
Earl: You're right! Let's do some research.
Susan: That'll cost a ton...
Ed: Eureka! We'll just let everyone give us their data.
It'll be a quick sight into all the markets!
Becky: Ed... You're a genius!
Ed: I am?
Becky: Yes. We'll call it QuickSight!
This is irresponsible conjecture. AWS has very strict privacy and data safe guards in place. There are a number of laws (particularly in the EU) that forbid such practices.
The reason AWS is successful is because Amazon takes privacy and security seriously. Why does Netflix trust AWS when there's Prime Video? Because Netflix knows that they have legal recourse against Amazon if they tried to do anything underhanded. I suspect Amazon would quickly fire anyone who breached customer data.
Curious - what stops an Apple employee working on the App Store from personally investing in an early stage startup that has seen tremendous growth on the App Store? Or similarly from insights on traffic from a Google team member? AFAIK, there is nothing legally that precludes you from doing so...
They sign a contract stating they won't do it when joining Apple.
Needless to say that doesn't work, especially given the number of enforcement officials at the SEC and the capacity there, and the fact that Apple would have to sue it's own employees (plus the fact that you wouldn't want them to be heavy-handed at all).
So SOX means that very few employees can have access to such data. The more enterprising amongst them still do of course - as do the ones that you really don't want to have access to it. The ones that would both "need" the data (not really), and would know exactly how to profit from it - general and financial management.
Yeah, it seems like if you are building a business on AWS, they are either going to buy you (Twitch) or compete with you (Netflix), and I don't see how you beat them when they're taking x% of your profits off the top.
So, Barack Obama's administration has been expanding the drone program, and illegally murdering people from the air, for years.
But… It's the next president that we should worry about, pertaining these same drones.
The kind of opposite-speak that the MSM uses has reached ludicrous levels.
This is much like reading, "Ted Bundy fears that the ideas he created will be used as inspiration by future mass murderers as they kill even more people.", except that analogy doesn't hold up, because Ted Bundy hasn't murdered anywhere near the amount of people that the Obama administration has.
Yeah who would have thought that the "wrong person" would ever get their hands on the drone program and huge domestic spying program. It's inconceivable! /s
This is what all the civil liberties peoples feared: you make a big pot of juicy data and unilateral executive powers, and it invites expanding their uses and mis-uses. The misuser may be GWB, Obama, Trump, HRC, or the next guy, but because they exist they will eventually be mis-used.
It may be rank hypocrisy for everyone to freak out about it now, but I welcome people getting freaked out about it.
That said many fewer people seem to trust Trump and he is an unknown quantity, so it's easy to see why the freak-out exists even if in principle it was late in coming.
Please don't speak for someone else without at least trying to verify what they have said.
"Trump said Tuesday that he would be "fine" with restoring provisions of the Patriot Act to allow for the bulk data collection" [1]
"I think we ought to start [surveillance] up again, and we ought to start it up this morning. We ought to start it up again and get going. And use your head. This is a lot of nonsense that we ended that," [2]
So, I guess you lose iTunes control keys while another app has control of the Touch Bar? Or maybe some controls can be global? This is a big issue in media apps
If only these were actions I took more often than using the F keys for various other applications, it wouldn't bother me as much as it does currently.
Honestly, I'll get over it; I'll set up other key chords to take the place of the various F keys I use today. It still bothers me that I'm the one who has to make these adjustments to support something that I have no need for. It's a short term productivity hit, combined with a long tail of annoyance as my hands use their muscle memory and will incur some random state change on my computer.
> The one exception to this is ESC, and I use it gratuitously.
macOS has a built-in option to remap caps-lock to escape. I haven't used it yet (I'm not a VIM user, so I mostly just use it to cancel dialogs), but I've ordered the new MBP and it's the first thing I'll do. Should take care of that issue and even improve ergonomics.
I should have remapped caps-lock ages ago, I never use it, but haven't had the incentive until now.
So, the bright side of this is that:
A) employees can spend the entire holiday week or two with their families, and
B) employees can start out their new year unencumbered by the stress of working for a failing company
Personally, I'd rather have it this way than come back from whatever fun holiday adventure I'm on to find out a week later that I'm losing my job... that's a terrible way to start the year's momentum.