Comment Re:Stupid idea - no surprise (Score 1) 25
much like Waze - another one of the stupidest apps ever created.
Ok I'll bite. Why is Waze stupid?
Comment Re:The market share (Score 1) 81
This almost never works - when a giant company buys a small company for "talent", usually a sizable chunk of the talent leaves, because they didn't want to work for the big company (they could have done that already if they wanted).
So the buyer really is just left with the IP, not the talent that created it.
It sounds like we've had very different experiences here. I've been part of the opposite on several separate occasions with multi-year lock up agreements in place to keep key folks around after an acquisition is complete. From memory, I feel like most of those folks continued to stay on even after their agreements expire, but certainly not all do.
Comment Re:The market share (Score 1) 81
and the engineers. Probably the engineers more than anything. Amazon employees are rapidly unionizing and demanding better working conditions. Amazon is more than profitable enough to pay them a good wage, but, well, they don't wanna. I mean, only 2 Super Yachts for their CEO? Who can live like that? So they're hoping they can replace all the employees with robots.
Agreed, they want the talent for sure. Also, Bezos isn't the CEO.
Comment Re:autoplay, no stars, reviews nuked, no 4k bluray (Score 2) 181
The user experience has been in decline for years. The autoplay in their streaming app has got to be some scheme to gin-up view #s. Everyone hates it. You have to speed-read the description before that Netflix bong sound kicks in for all their content. Infuriating.
I totally agree, however they did add the ability to disable this some time ago:
Comment Re:Thoma Bravo (Score 1) 55
My experience with them was the opposite. Like many PE's, they have more than one playbook, and it sounds like you just happen to be on the receiving end of one of the less desirable ones.
Comment Re:Gopher... (Score 1) 84
Raise your hand if you don't associate that word with the Go programming language and/or burrowing rodents.
Comment Re:How does this change anything? (Score 1) 220
This is the top 10 states by numbers of total infections
New York - Blue
California - Blue
Florida - Red
Texas - Red
New Jersey - Blue
Illinois -Blue
Arizona -Red
Georgia -Red
Massachusetts -Blue
Pennsylvania - Red
North Carolina - Red
You somehow missed Texas..
Comment Re:Tweedle Dum meets Tweedle Dumber (Score 1) 18
Between the two of them they should be able to burn through a phenomenal amount of venture capital.
They're both publicly traded companies..
Comment Dropbox, Stones, and a Glass House (Score 2) 33
Comment Re: Was he ever knowledgeable? (Score 1) 78
Whats great is when you have a internet outage and they ask why they can't still access their applications. That look of awful realization never gets old.
Is it still 2010 where you work?
Social Media Platforms Leave 95 Percent of Reported Fake Accounts Up, Study Finds (arstechnica.com) 32
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The report comes this week from researchers with the NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence (StratCom). Through the four-month period between May and August of this year, the research team conducted an experiment to see just how easy it is to buy your way into a network of fake accounts and how hard it is to get social media platforms to do anything about it. The research team spent about $332 to purchase engagement on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, the report (PDF) explains. That sum bought 3,520 comments, 25,750 likes, 20,000 views, and 5,100 followers. They then used those interactions to work backward to about 19,000 inauthentic accounts that were used for social media manipulation purposes.
About a month after buying all that engagement, the research team looked at the status of all those fake accounts and found that about 80 percent were still active. So they reported a sample selection of those accounts to the platforms as fraudulent. Then came the most damning statistic: three weeks after being reported as fake, 95 percent of the fake accounts were still active. "Based on this experiment and several other studies we have conducted over the last two years, we assess that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube are still failing to adequately counter inauthentic behavior on their platforms," the researchers concluded. "Self-regulation is not working."
About a month after buying all that engagement, the research team looked at the status of all those fake accounts and found that about 80 percent were still active. So they reported a sample selection of those accounts to the platforms as fraudulent. Then came the most damning statistic: three weeks after being reported as fake, 95 percent of the fake accounts were still active. "Based on this experiment and several other studies we have conducted over the last two years, we assess that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube are still failing to adequately counter inauthentic behavior on their platforms," the researchers concluded. "Self-regulation is not working."
Comment Re:And Google is correct (Score 1) 125
Exactly. Perhaps the article was accidentally posted here rather than The Onion?
Comment Re:EV car "boom" feels like the 3D TV "boom". (Score 1) 204
You had me until:
EV Mini anyone?
That's just disgusting.
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 146
Blah blah, security people suck, engineers can't think for themselves, I hate managers, blah blah.
You've obviously worked in some toxic environments my friend. Your words read like a woman scourned.
Comment Re:Cloud (Score 2) 60
If your org can afford redundant subject matter experts in all the technologies they require, then great. Many can't, or they don't want to and would rather invest in whatever their core business happens to be. There are certainly good points you brought up regarding disadvantages to having someone else manage a piece of software for you, but in the end it's a question of risk and cost...and there's no single answer that works for all organizations.
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