This is the only reason I use Uber (though I push it a notch and use Uber Black, even though its pretty expensive).

When I need to take a cab at 4 AM to go to the middle of nowhere (I don't have a car, as I only need this like twice a year or something, not worth it), hailing a shady dirty taxi who'll bitch and moan about me asking to go somewhere unprofitable isn't exactly my preference.

Uber (Black) has been doing quite nicely. Up the standard of normal taxis, even if you have to double the price, and I'll happily use them again.

The Samsung one already does that. I dunno if it has has many features, but it has the heart rate monitor and movement meter at least.

Future ones will most likely have all the bells and whistles. These are just early adopter models. They're mainly sold on the play store...hardly mass market.

When I was walking around with my Palm PDA, and later on, my Windows Mobile one, people were telling me the same thing.

Then Apple came in, made very very incremental improvement (remember, at the time the iPhone wasn't that special, no app store and all... it had a better touch screen tech that everyone was starting to use around the same time, a better scrolling paradigm, a decent browser and the biggest thing, came with unlimited data plan, which has nothing to do with the device itself). The market was taken by storm.

Maybe these watches are not cutting it. These particular ones definitely won't, they're prototypes more than anything (the Moto 360 and future models, as well as the iWatch, probably will be much better), but its just a matter of time before someone gets it right.

The line between everyday accessories and high tech gadgets is blurring. Soon there won't be a line at all.

Well, the thing is, they were sending it internally, which would have had the encryption and all the security around it. They sent it to a non-encrypted medium by accident.

The only issue is that the client tool to send via secure channels is the same as the one to send via unsecured ones.

When I worked for one of the big financials a few years ago, we had a mail client add-in on all machines that would check if you sent anything to anyone outside of the company. If you did, it first would warn you and ask you to confirm, and if you had attachments or if the content of your mail contained some data beyond a few sentences, it would make you convert it to a link, just as you described.

The thing is, it wasn't fool-proof and there were ways around it. Its probably what happened here.

Not saying I agree with separating the sex, but I can see why you would want to.

When talking about competition like this, you're talking about the very tip top of players, at which point, differences that would be minute to insignificant day to day (practice and training trump any biological difference, even when playing football. A girl who plays football 50x more than a guy will kick his ass at it pretty much no matter what) start showing up.

At the 0.1%, maybe men can click faster, maybe women can keep track of more things at once. Who knows, but I'd be very very surprised if, all other things being equal, members of one sex or the other didn't come up drastically on top. Which one it will be? Who knows, right now women just don't have the numbers in these type of e-competition to be statistically significant, but one day, they probably will be. And then maybe we'll be like "Whoops, there was a difference after all"

Nah you're right, I'm just an idiot. I was replying to a few things at the same time, and mixed up non-competes with NDAs.

My post made no sense when talking about an NDA. Whoops!

If his NDA is written with the standard terminology used in states that allow them, the wording is probably something along the line of "You agree not to take a position for a competitor in a field that specifically compete with what you were doing here". Even if its not worded that way, its historically how they're enforced in the few tech hubs situated in states that have enforced them.

That is, if you, let say, work for a retail chain, and jump ship to another retail chain, that isn't enough. If you're in the analytics department of retail chain A and go in analytics department of retail chain B, that starts being warmer. If you're the lead database architect of the analytic department specialized in cloud computing of a shoes retail chain A and go to be lead database architect of the analytic department in cloud computing of shoes retail chain B, THAT is when you're in trouble.

And reading the article, its basically what the guy did. Its unbelievably narrow, and he basically hit all of the triggers, precisely. You have to try really hard to do that, but he did.

Those agreements are silly and shouldn't be allowed...but in this particular case, if he went to Google doing the same job, but in a different department, he'd have been fine, even if you take his non-compete agreement verbatim...

The guy really pushed the limit there.

I absolutely agree there simply shouldn't be non-competes, and in some states, that's the case.

That said, if you have a case of someone working for company A, in a very specific division, and maintains a customer/contact list, then goes to the #1 or #2 competitor of that company, in precisely the exact same division of a fairly narrow field, physically across the street, that's definitely pushing it in term of ethics.

I still think you should totally be allowed to do that. But at least it isn't a case of "Tech worker goes to another tech company and gets sued over non-compete". Its a fair bit narrower than that.

You can't sign away your rights.

Depends where you are. I think they're unenforceable in California? I don't know about Washington.

A big chunk of Amazon's AWS division also sits in Cambridge, MA, where they can be enforced for certain high profile positions or something very meaningful in related businesses...so a senior software architect who designed key infrastructure, or a salesman with a list of customer, could get slapped for moving to a related business 2 blocks away to Google.

I just skimmed the article so aside for which journal published it as a hint, I didn't see where the employee was located, Seattle or Cambridge...so it really depends, and even if the former, what exactly is that state's stance on non-competes?

HTML5 local storage. Not useful for large documents, but more than enough for most purposes.

Because modern browsers are the closest thing we've ever gotten to an actual cross-platform ecosystem with an efficient distribution system baked in. While not 100% by any mean, we're pretty close to a point where you write an app for Chrome, and it will just work in other browsers, including IE back a few versions. You have to make sure not to use certain features, but you don't need annoying abstraction libraries like you would in native code to support *nix vs Windows, nevermind mobile operating systems.

And because of that, the ecosystem around the language is blooming, and the code written can then be used in other environments, like server/client (node.js) and data (mongo). The language sucks, but what was made around it is blissful.

More generic interpretation:

People get good at doing stuff they care about.

This.

First, you start with the talent pool, which is very low on minorities and females.

Then you cut off the 95% bottom part, as these companies get more applicants than the average tech company, and can be somewhat more picky. You have even fewer (not because women or minorities can't be good, but certain demographics statistically do better at showing off their strengths in the shark pool).

Now of whats left, these companies have a biais to hire ultra monitivated/no work life balance/eat and dream computer science people. That cuts off anyone whom's life doesn't revolve around the field.

And then the coup de grace, they favor younger applicants, and women and minorities usually have kids younger (the gender age gap stereotype of women usually dating older guys doesn't help here...it means usually the woman will be significantly younger when they have kids). So a young man is more likely to not have kid than a woman of the same age, and thus will have more time to dedicate to the career.

All that together means you end up with white males, asians and indians. Its just the correlation between these groups and the criteria the hyper-competitive companies use to hire that cause this.

The article uses energy and electricity to mean the same thing. So if you have a gas water heater, then it won't be in the same bucket as the box.

I do have a 50 gallon electric water heater, and its definitely a distant third in electricity consumption, behind the HVAC and the gaming computers (only if we put both computers and count them as one thing though)

The laundry machines are a joke, especially if you have a gas dryer. In summer, my stove/oven + dryer together cost me 6 bucks a month to run.