The tethering app wasn't discovered because it was extremely difficult to trigger - it required very specific network settings, a multi-step setup process, and tapping different colors in a specific pattern just to enable the tether. Very different from discovering an app is sending your data off wholesale.
yup, different. much more like THIS iphone app.
I wouldn't call the economist far right... they are in favor of legalization of drugs, for instance, and are generally against all forms of prohibitionism. I think they are quite left-wing on many social issues (in favor of civil liberties, etc), and a bit right wing on economy (as in strongly free market oriented).
simply put, they are classically liberal.
Paying 4X my current taxes for 40 years will be cheaper than my student loans.
sounds like you did an astonishingly bad job picking a school and major.
Maybe I`m a masochist
Like everything eventually does
I figure if I ask the question in good faith.. I'd feel quite happy arguing my point in a court room.
you might be happy with it, but it's pretty well established that there's a pretty f'in good chance you'd lose. then you would have caused yourself a ridiculous amount of time and money for no good reason (being that it's been well established what the safe bounds of interview questions are).
with your attitude, if your company lets you continue to interview, they're opening themselves to a LOT of liability.
i used to feel the same way as you do, until i became a manager and had to take all the legal training regarding what you can and can't ask, with real life examples of when the company has gotten in trouble for w/ hiring. it's absolutely amazing how easy it is to get into trouble legally.
As for what a person does (non programming) in their off time.. again.. I think perfectly reasonable. Also on the table in my opinion are what their favourite classes in high school were, what books/movies that like, what music, what they do with their friends on a Friday.
those are some horrendous questions to ask. say you're interviewing a great programmer, and you ask those questions. they answered that their favorite movie was brokeback mountain, and on fridays they hang out in west hollywood and suck d*ck at a glory hole. the next guy you interview for the same position ends up even more qualified, and you then end up hiring them. you may not care that they're gayer than big gay al, but the og great programmer doesn't know that, and may sue your dumb ass.
that's obviously meant to be an extreme example, but even more realistic scenarios will get you into trouble (i.e. a guy says he likes to go out with his boyfriend, or a woman says she likes to spend it with her kids, someone says they go to temple, etc).
there are some questions you can't ask, but asking some technically allowed questions will get the same answers as if you asked a illegal question, which can cause you massive headaches down the road. so stick to the questions pertaining to the job itself.
Clones are what nearly bankrupted Apple back during the 90s. Admittedly the clones were of poor quality, but they just about did the company in. While Steve did do more than just kill off the agreement under which the clones were being made, it did put Apple a fair ways back towards prosperity.
So it's more than a little understandable that they'd be clone shy.
far from being of poor quality, apple could not compete with the quality, speed, and price of the clones.
I drive a small car... I hear the whole 'squished like a pancake' thing all the time, but despite hearing it and seeing lots of even major car accidents on the Los Angeles freeways, I see a lot of people take hits in small cars and not only survive, but their cars are still working well enough to drive them away from the scene.
maybe that's because the average commute speeds in LA are so low (5-11 mph average in the sepulveda pass).
For example, the access to my country's equivalent to the ivy league schools doesn't depend on your family's wealth, which means that if you are dumb as a door knob and you happen to be the son of a billionaire then you still have to work your ass off in order to be admitted to one of those schools. It also means that if you are terribly smart and talented then you may enrol in those schools, no matter how poor you are. It's raw talent that matters, now raw cash.
and of course if you're terribly smart and talented, you can pretty much enroll in any school in the u.s. as well, and especially at the best- harvard, for example, requires NO contribution from students whose families make less than $60k, and families up to $180k are expected to contribute up to 10% of their income. it is NOT cash that prevents those who are "terribly smart and talented" from going to schools- maybe it prevents the average student, but that's a different topic...
But is 10.3 and 10.4 being faster than 10.0 and 10.1 really an achievement? Early OS X releases, if we are to be fair, were crap.
They were only "crap" in the sense that not everything in the window manager (essentially) had been worked out as much. People didn't like Finder as much as the old, there was not as much software - but the core was in OK shape.
no no, it was also "crap" in the sense that it was pretty dog slow. it's pretty good these days though.
I think the point is more that if you're working at the kind of place where it's "up or out" and 80-hour weeks, you've probably made a bad decision somewhere along the line. If you WANT to work in that environment with those kinds of hours, you should probably see a shrink.
or they just have different priorities than you- the thing about an 'up or out' place like the poster is describing is that the payoff is HUGE; these hours are a short term sacrifice to make the seriously big bucks.
Those of us with a life outside of work (you know, wife and kids, hobbies, outside interests, a social life) can clue you in: you're not going to take any of that stuff you're buying with you when you die, and you're not going to get any of those hours back. Ever. I can guarantee that I'm not going to regret quiet evenings spent reading with my wife, afternoons spent at the pool with my daughter, or any of the many other things I enjoy doing. I doubt you can say the same for the myriad hours you're spending in the pursuit of money you don't have the time to enjoy.
when these dudes make partner and cash out at 40, i don't think they regret their choices either. for example, my buddy is a sr. manager at deloitte, on the partner list for next year. already making bank. should *easily* be able to cash out at 40. his kids will be 6 yrs old then- and he'll be able to spend as much time as he wants with them, travel with them, etc, etc.
i've been on 9/80 for just about 10 years now. it SERIOUSLY ROCKS.
the only thing that sucks is the 'long' 5 day weeks.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
