Yep. I've slogged through mud and snow at close to 3000m with full gear on 30 degree slopes working as a temp. I prefer it to sitting in a cube. And it whips you into shape *real* fast.

I forgot the footnote.

While I was finishing my degree I would speak to other researchers at conferences etc. After initial introductions the next question was always "Who's your adviser?" Advisers are rated by how good their students are.

She said I should become a Forester. She was right, the stints I did which required field work always made me the happiest. Maybe not Forestry but perhaps, Geology, Conservation, etc.
Listen to mom. If you are just starting out, bail before you get too frustrated and unhappy. There are too many BOFHs out there.

"this is the free market in action"

No, what you are seeing is the destruction of a free market. Uber is buying a monopoly and locking away information. They are restricting information and resources in order to destroy the market and skew the economics toward one company.

Yep Learn to say NO.

I posted this before but I want to top post it and elaborate.

Universities are Open Research institution. Researchers get raises and build reputation by both doing good publicly acknowledged research and by training the next generation of researchers[1]. Both of these factors are now longer present from the robotic researchers Uber hired away. The loss of open research and the loss of experienced trainers of research Scientists is a huge blow to competition, improving the state of the art in robotics, and in training the next generation of researchers. Even if they do a large amount of research the information is likely to be locked up for decades by Uber. In addition there will now be fewer researchers in the pipeline to feed continued innovation.

In my opinion, Uber just set research back by decades.

All companies are out to screw you. So you are a fool. A complete fool, if you give the company any loyalty.

Do not be afraid or feel bad to jump ship to another company that is offering something better. Also don't ever be afraid to ask for more money, because I guarantee you are underpaid.

They'll get multiple partners who see dollar signs and them destroy them. Like with Sybase and 'Stinger' vs 'Orange'. When the lamb lies down with the lion, they lamb shouldn't be surprised at getting devoured.

Nice come back.

It doesn't have to bear fruit, just block others from getting said research and thereby blocking them. A strategy used by MS.

I'm not sure if it is market value. It could be at a premium. In addition there was no indication they would actually be doing research. It could be a strategy, also used by MS, of poaching talent just to keep it from falling into the hands of the competition. Another factor to consider is that now it is private the information gathered is less likely to be openly shared. Proprietary and closed researched as opposed to open research. The situation could become very dysfunctional very quickly.

Glad to see DICE holding strong on their scumware downloaders.

I see your education on macs and OSX is so horribly outdated that your comment is essentially useless. Many do worry about it this is why several virus scanner companies are making products for OSX. Hell you can even get a free Avast for OSX. They would not even bothered if people were not asking for it.

"Just this space where you can hide and survive an OS wipe and reinstall." IF the user only put the unit to sleep and then woke it. Simply turning off the unit for a short time before OS wipe and reinstall defeats this potential hole.

I am betting that Windows, BSD, and Linux have a similar vulnerability lurking.

"They suffer from the fact that the test case itself may not catch all possible fault conditions of a function."

If we could determine all possible fault states of a function we could write flawless code.

"opened on bug trackers by automated QA being closed by project manager who aggressively push for WONTFIX and NOTABUG"

This is a personnel issue. I've been there and aggressively pushed for fixes. If I find the same bug closed and then it is logged as a new bug I make sure the earlier bug is reopened and the two are linked (We used ALM which allowed links from stories to tasks to test cases and to defects). That way the average defect age spikes which creates question among the managers. I also emailed various development leads, product owners etc. so that the person trying to avoid the bug could not hide.

I won in most cases. It was only when there was a consensus from numerous people that the defect could be deferred that it was set to a state of 'deferred' rather than closed. That way you could keep tabs on how things were going.