The same thing could likely be said of all obtrusive advertising: it is a nuisance not a benefit.

"Reasonably well" is difficult to qualify in an HR Memo

Think of the Advertisers! Without gigabit residential service, how can they add all that garbage to useful content?!

And who really needed apps for their phone before 2007? All you needed was a good browser, email, calendar, phone, and SMS. It takes time for the use cases to develop.

Charge it for two hours at some other point in the day. Not rocket science...

Most developers haven't figured out how to make a watch app *work*. I like Zillow, Redfin, and ZonePlayer (a Sonos remote). The rest of my third party apps are a disappointment. The apps all require the developer to re-think what the app needs to do on the watch, and how to use the space effectively. If they aren't making money off of it, why bother. Advertising would be hard, and getting the word out is very tricky with the much smaller installed base.

OSX supports versioning natively since Lion in 2011(?). TextEdit does it for sure, and the API is open to all apps, but they have to enable it. (MS Office does NOT support versions.)

As someone who does not own a car, I doubt cost of public transportation is not a factor in its adoption. People don't ride public transportation for fairly specific reasons: wanting personal/dedicated space, wanting control of schedule, wanting to get from point A to point B faster, etc. The reasons why people *do* choose to ride public transportation are generally more dependent on financial limitations: parking is too expensive, don't own a car, tolls, etc.

To increase adoption of public transportation you need to make it faster and more convenient: no transfers, high frequency, easily understood route system, stops close to origins and destinations, etc. Where I live there is one commuter bus line and one "neighborhood" bus line that I use periodically. The limitations on increased use really come down to increasing frequency and making sure there are viable alternatives in off-peak times.

Provided records what is sent, phone records what is received. That is why I dumped ATT; they indicated I used 1GB in a month while the device indicated 120MB, consequently charging me for substantial overages. They actually have an incentive to provide bad coverage.

You are both leftovers. ;)

The divorce rates for marrying in your major would be a much more interesting study. I would think engineering and CS would top that list.

For the "grossly underrepresented group," though dating in your major is like shooting fish in a barrel.

Do you have wifi at home and work? If so, turn the phone off, put it in airplane mode, or shut off cellular data; you are doing something wrong if you think you are a light user and are consuming more than 1GB/month. I do video conferencing, web meetings, VNC, and a few other data-intensive uses, and am around 1GB/month (up from 250MB though a year or two ago).

With the iPhone you get application-specific cellular data usage, and you can limit applications' access; I assume Android does the same. For my iPhone, about half of my usage is system services and the app store (needed to replace phone while on the road, so I had to download everything over cell).

Focus on the trainwreck then. I will give one example: I get a resume from an engineer every 6-8 months from someone that I have heard stories about from one of his former co-workers as being a non-functional alcoholic. (The co-worker is what I would consider a functional alcoholic, read into it as you wish.) If this person were to put on their resume that they have been focusing on teaching yoga and spinning between professional employment then I would be forced to at least interview them.

Some specific advice: look at what part of the other things you are doing is what I consider "adult daycare." If you spend a lot of your time talking to people and trying to help them out then you really should approach looking for a job from the perspective of project management rather than engineering. If engineering is your passion, you work into it backwards.

I would say working under the table is a little different class; it might be the same ends, getting some extra cash, but working under the table is more like "doing odd jobs." (Tax law already accommodates this; you don't need to give a W2 or 1099 to someone you pay less than $500/year.) On the "employee" side, you just have more flexibility in reporting your income; not reporting is still a violation.

Agreed. A "dependent contractor" is by definition an employee. We have several people that have moonlighted for us over the years. We generally considered them 1099s as they did not generally work in our office, use our supplies, or have responsibilities other than delivering a specific product, which would place them firmly in that category.

Reality is that more people need to be considered W2 employees because that is the easiest way to prevent abuses.

The "gotcha" with Uber is what happens when a driver is simultaneously driving for Lyft, Uber, and the Pizza Company? Has he achieved a nexus where he is independent?

My bias is really over the issue of exempt/non-exempt employees though. Labor laws for non-exempt employees are really hard for small businesses when you get beyond restaurant/retail and into the professional realm. (Would you like a coding session when you are in the zone broken up by a mandatory 15-minute break?)