...or would have moved to another job elsewhere that offered an equivalent to a promotion

This is what I see happening in the industry that I am. We compete with the larger consulting firms (KPMG, Deloitte, etc.) and more often than not, people are changing jobs every 2-4 years. For people who have been in the industry long enough, they often times end up going back to a firm that they might have worked at previously.

I do not really understand it because it is counter to my own career progression during which I have spent at least 5 years with each employer and received steady promotions and increased responsibilities. The only thing that I can figure is that those big firms are always hiring the "best and the brightest", overachieving, Type-A personalities. If a person is not getting promoted, they have to constant deal with an influx of new, eager to be overworked, dreamy eyed college grads who will do the same work, for less pay.

Or another way of looking at it is that managers should be so highly skilled that they can do the work of everyone on their team. Those managers should then train their people so that one day, those people can replace the manager.

I know it sounds ideal, but this is exactly what I am doing with my team in my organization. It is working so well that every time I have an open position, I have people on other teams scrambling to apply to the position.

There is a tangential corollary here. Often times employees are expected to do a job / handle the responsibilities of a position for a year or more before they officially given the title and pay that goes along with it. In that way, organizations protect themselves by trying out an employee in a position before promoting them.

While the above is okay, it potentially puts the employee in a disadvantageous position. Unless they are willing to negotiate or leave for another job, they run the risk of getting stuck doing work far above their pay grade without reaping any of the benefits.

I work in an organization that struggles with this. One of my guys is a very competent technical resource who deserves to be paid more than we are "allowed" to pay him based on his current title / position. Our company is a consulting company and the compensation model was designed to reward managers who are leading large teams of people on client engagements. The model is not flexible enough to reward people in technical positions who do not have direct reports.

In order to hack the system, we had to setup a bunch of dotted line reports for him on the organization chart. He does not technically "manage" them because he is not responsible for performance reviews and all of those other fun managerial tasks. But since he could technically delegate to them, they count towards his head count requirement.

Well played sir

They are probably all selling access to the same set of DSLAMs at the CO.

The de-regulation of DSL was a mixed bag. On one hand, it produced competition and lowered prices. On the other, there was so much competition that companies were folding left and right. When I was doing SMB consulting in the mid-2000s we had one client who had to change providers four times in three years because they always went with the lowest priced provider and those providers kept folding.

Agreed. I was with Charter for about a decade and had good service. I always got more bandwidth than I was paying for and the service was stable. In ten years, I never had an outage.

It is a bit of an interesting situation because the Century Boulevard exit shares the transition lanes from the 105 onto the 405. So from the Waze POV it probably saw it as the "105 Freeway" and noticed that it was less congested than the 405. Having said that, the instructions were "Take Century Boulevard exit" and not "Merge onto 105 transition".

This should link to the area. The exit is basically at the 105 and I merged back onto the 405 near W Arbor Vitae St

https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

We see them on electronic billboards over the freeways. I received one on my phone once upon a time, but it came with the option to unsubscribe from future alerts and I did that.

I am not sure how big of a problem child abductions really are. My sense is that nine times out of ten they are just custody disputes. Mom / Dad gets upset with their spouse and takes the kid out to run errands / go to the bar. Spouse freaks out and calls the cops. Cops over react and issue Amber Alert.

They also seem to have implemented what I am calling the "Dick Move" algorithm. The dick move is using the exit lane to pass people.

For example, I was traveling north on the 405 to Santa Monica. When I got to LAX, they told me to take Century Boulevard off ramp.... and then merge back onto the 405. It was a great move and let me bypass about a mile of bumper to bumper traffic. At the same time, I think most people agree that doing that is a dick move.

Yes. We usually see Amber Alerts at least once a month. They are usually 'child abductions'. The authorities share the year, make and model of the vehicle plus the license plate number.

I agree with you that you are not anonymous to Google. That is easy enough to deal with. Stop using their services.

The bigger question is whether or not Google anonymizes your data before sharing it. Just because the data is all there does not mean that it is being shared.

While Google might provide data along the lines of, "Within the last 30 minutes, 5000 people have averaged 35mph over this 0.1 mile stretch of road" ... They are not going to provide a detailed list of who those 5000 people are, the last time they bought gas, the brand of car they drive, or what they ordered for lunch to any random person who wants that information.

Are you certain that the data is not being anonymized? In the case of traffic data, it is trivial to do technically. Just write a function to replace the unique ID (cell phone number, ESN, IMSI, whatever) with a random primary key and retain the rest of the data (position, speed, time, etc.)

Maybe they are breaking it up into two buckets. One is used by Google Now for personal consumption (daily route suggestions). The other goes into the public consumption data (traffic reports).

I have an Evo 840 for my OS and I put my games on a RAID1 array built from 2, 1TB Western Digital black drives with 64MB of cache. The Windows pagefile and temp directory are on a second RAID1 array with older drives that have 32MB of cache.

I play a lot of Battlefield 4 and I am frequently one of the first players to join the map, even when I am playing on a server with others who have SSD drives.

When I am moving files around my system, I often get ~120MB/s read speed out of the RAID1 array.

While this is obviously not an apples to apples comparison, I am happy to be getting similar performance and more space for considerably less money per gigabyte. I am using the built-in Intel SATA RAID controller.

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Good job Tim!

As will .blows and every other domain that aligns with a negative connotation in the English language.

I wonder if the Farsi equivalent of .sucks will have the same problem.