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There's no reason to have the "claps" -- they could easily measure engagement without the readers having to actively do anything (visits to page/time on site, etc.). This reeks of a gimmick/someone trying to do something for their MBA thesis, vs. actually trying to get authors fairly paid.
This is an excellent idea.
There's no way that affiliate links can pay the bills for publishers; numbers don't ad up (otherwise everyone would do it, and no one does -- well, actually, there's extremely limited situations where it works in some consumer corners, but those situations are limited and the total amount of revenue is also very limited). And how much extra traffic are you really going to refer? Ads are sold on the thousand -- $X per thousand (consumer can be cents up to maybe $8, B2B much higher). So even if you referred 200 people that's not even worth any effort. Unfortunately, if you're not going buy a subscription, register for a paper or click on an ad, you're probably not worth anything to the site anyhow.
I love this, but I worry about longevity -- if we convert all our code snippets to this, and then this dies, all the older blog posts become useless. You'd be surprised how many reads even 5+ year old blog posts can get.
And that's the problem -- the CEO wasted a ton of time and resources trying to create a Spotify competitor that just burned resources.
And you may be absolutely right -- I'm going off what I've heard from young people anecdotally out of college who say they weren't given a second look because they weren't from MIT or Cal Tech. But perhaps that's only for entry-level positions, or perhaps my information is just plain wrong.
This is a great link -- thanks for posting!
Let's break down the reality of this situation as it currently stands:
1) You can't say what you want at work, period (there are no first amendment protections at work, just from the government). The person who posted the memo was naive and this memo from the CEO is corporate bullspeak to look good for outside PR. That's all this is, and if you take it for anything more you're also naive. For all intents and purposes it means nothing.
2) The company might be trying to make women feel more welcome by having the statement from the new diversity officer and the CEO, but I can tell you as a woman the LAST place I'd want to get a job right now is Google -- everyone is going to look at you like you only got your job because you're female; it's going to be extremely hard to get people to take you seriously. That's why, if you're going to hire only for diversity (not that I recommend it), do it in silence, don't tell the world, as it only backfires against those same employees you're bringing in.
3) If Google really wanted to get more females and minorities in its rank it should be looking at why it focuses so highly on only top rank schools (IF TRUE: MAY NOT BE-- SEE DISCUSSION BELOW) -- there's plenty of great, smart people constantly overlooked by Google because they can't see past their own biases in this area, which some would argue is a bigger barrier to diversity at Google than straight hiring by gender and race alone.
The site as it stands doesn't, as looking at the site currently has plenty of jobs that requires passing a criminal background check. It appears this site is more idea than execution at this point.
This should be the site's tagline!
In the US the bank sends a notary free of charge with all your paperwork to sign. What a pain that you don't get this service!
I'm sorry but I call bullsh*t on a lot of aspects on this story. I think this may have been true 5-10 years ago, but not now, not the way the Web works now. Everyone ignores those cross-link e-mails. Getting the amount of articles he says is NOT enough; you need more. You just don't get high-quality content for .05 cents a word. And that's just for starters. I know, why would this person lie? But really, for those of us who do the Web day in, day out, there's a lot that just does not ring true in this post.
Yes, my bank branch notarizes for free.
You can't just file on behalf of someone else; copyright doesn't work that way. If you own copyright, you can sue. If you don't, you can't. If Zillow doesn't own the images, this is one and done -- she wins.
So much in here is interesting (and right), but the best part I think comes at the end: Zillow doesn't own the images. So whether or not you there's a legal argument for fair use, Zillow has absolutely no right to file a copyright case in the first place because they don't own the images. As the EFF rightly points out, there is no "super copyright" that Zillow can exercise here. Really good stuff overall on fair use, but love that nice whopper at the end.
I'm thinking I'm going to listen to the many, many outside experts, plus what I see myself reported by other insiders, vs. one anonymous insider I run across on a site who worked for her and appears to have bias.
She was a bad CEO by the measure of ALL CEOS, not just Yahoo:
https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/top-10-management-mistake...
https://qz.com/314225/everything-we-learned-from-marissa-may...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2015/11/20/marissa-ma...
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262704/why-wont-anyone-tal...
http://gizmodo.com/heres-what-happened-to-all-of-marissa-may...
https://www.thestreet.com/story/13332877/1/yahoo-ceo-mayer-i...
http://variety.com/2016/digital/features/marissa-mayer-yahoo...
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2015/12/30/worst-ceos-20...
http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/the-worst-ceos-in-corporate-...
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/272469
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-wh...
Do you want more?
Thank you for laying it out so well. I am a female executive and I am so sick of everyone saying that she's only getting criticized because she's female. So what, we can't get criticized if we do a horrible job? If we treat our employees unfairly? If we don't do what's best for our companies? She was a bad CEO and she deserved to be fired long ago.
Why not pay the reviewers? I don't understand this -- they're the most important part of the process. Pay the reviewers for their time and that might start to turn this around.
Did you watch the decisions she made as they came down? It was bad call after bad call after bad call. Pretty much no one thinks she did even a mediocre job.
I know someone who said they wanted to pick it up as a second job on evenings/weekends but after doing it for a few weeks and crunching the numbers when all was said and done they only averaged $5 an hour -- just wasn't worth it.
I've found that nothing works for me like a written list -- it's the act of writing out the to-do that helps me remember it for some reason (I usually don't have to look at it again if I've written it, but I won't remember if I've typed it -- I've tried a bunch of different formats). Plus I take a weird pleasure in manually crossing items off.
The Wall Street Journal employs highly reputable journalists with excellent sources. Basic journalism standards for this would require confirmation from three separate sources before publishing. And it's the WSJ -- they don't publish it on a whim, they publish it because it's news they believe to be true.
I wish I had some brilliant non-WP insight to share with you but once you deal with WordPress' security issues (not minor but conquerable), its ubiquity and flexibility make it a great solution for most smaller-scale (content-wise) projects -- the fact that you can turn to anyone from the local college kid to a major agency and hand them your site and they're going to be able to execute, or you can take it back and do it yourself at a moment's notice, it's just hard to beat that.
I think you're exactly on point and I think the only avenue for litigation here is possibly 4 for the drivers (and that's an if). I think you're spot on with the riders -- they agreed to and are getting a services, there's no harm they've suffered if they got a better service, plus there has to be a point of agreement in order to do the purchase.
Exactly, the error is on LASD's end most likely. Whether he likes it or not he's going to have to get a lawyer to get this resolved.
You need to hire a lawyer. It's not fair but that's how this is. This is going to haunt you forever -- not just this account! You have to do so ASAP and get this straightened out so you have the paperwork to prove it next time this happens. You also should write Consumer Reports Web site -- they'll love this story.
You are not kidding! I hire front-end devs and candidates constantly and utterly lie about their HTML/CSS/JavaScript experience (I've had more than one them tell me when we spot it, "Well, it's just HTML and CSS"). We can weed out some via interview questions but for others it's not until we get to our a hands-on coding test (where we watch what they do in real time) that we can spot it. It's extremely frustrating and such a waste of time for us. They are allowed to look things up in our hands-on tests, as we're trying to replicate real-world enviornment, but it still lets us see overall if they can actually implement what we just talked about in our interview (otherwise the questions we asked are useless), and more importantly, if they told the truth about what they just said. The truth has become very important to me in evaluating candidates -- I'd much rather have people say "I don't know" than pretend they know something, and esp. in our fast-paced work environment, we just don't have time for people pretending to know something they don't. How I see it is if you're wiling to lie in an interview then I don't want to work with you. So the two have come together for me, and at least we have this red flag now that I simply will not hire people who lie in any capacity (and a great green flag when people are honest about what they do/don't know).
I prefer everything about Netflix's user experience on all devices EXCEPT the auto-play trailers on Roku. They are the worst invention in the history of UI! 1) It took me forever to realize they weren't the episode/movie starting. 2) I now have to rush instead of leisurely browse through the menu (unless I turn the sound off) 3) ULTIMATE SIN: There's no setting to turn them off! I actually dread going to Netflix now on my Roku and sometimes go to Amazon first (gah!) just to avoid that one aspect.