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If Google priced Premium to replace the very small revenue they must receive for adverts (at least for the small amount I use YouTube), that would be one thing. But they're asking for a lot more.
Two parents w 6 Google logins between them (2 personal, 4 work entities) and 4 kids, each w a personal and school account. This would require 14 YouTube Premium accounts. Um...no.
How about a company providing user agents which can undertake searches on one’s behalf (e.g. to Google, DDG, etc) and filter those results? There may not be a need to reinvent search but instead to filter search results. Such agents may preemptively download result pages and use machine learning and other users feedback to assess their relevance. It could also curate content more than ad blockers and Readability by, for example, hiding less relevant content (e.g. all recipes seem to follow some SEO-optimized format of posing pages of gibberish before presenting the actual recipe). This sounds like a browser or browser extension coupled with servers to maintain the relevance models. This may be coupled with a VPN so pages could be downloaded as that user and analyzed in the cloud and sent to the user only if/when needed.
I wonder how the DA could settle with the victim (we won’t keep the money if you promise not to sue) when the original civil forfeiture charge is technically against the money, not against the victim. I wonder if he has the right to continue legal action against the DA because he did not receive any benefit for relinquishing his legal rights. If a civil rights organization chose to pursue this and convinced a court that the DA would have to provide restitution, that may convince law-enforcement that there’s a cost to pursue civil forfeiture if it’s without basis.
Makani Power (https://www.google.com/makani/) positions itself as obtaining more power at 250-350m but perhaps a more important metric is obtaining higher "capacity factors" (i.e. more reliable).
We desperately need a couple of additional coders to work with our tech leads. However, (perhaps surprisingly) having no additional coders is better than someone who's a bad fit (sorta like it's better to be single than married to someone you cannot stand).
It might be that you're hearing about job openings at companies which are large enough to have a marketing budget or happen to make a narrow range of products which you may use. Candidate and company both prefer candidates who are "walked in the door" by a trusted intermediary. However, for a company such as ours, we're small, our folks are heads-down on their work so don't spend much time at conferences, we sell to enterprises so you wouldn't hear of our product, and we don't use recruiters. There's probably new hiring forums/recruiters/technology stacks which would help this process, but I get a few such offers each week and how would I determine what works?
We've gone through a number of approaches to interviewing and haven't yet found an interview "formula" which reproducibly gets to firm assessments. An interview (typically filled with talking) usually distinguishes between a "probably no" and a "probably yes". In contrast, a day or two of the typical back-and-forth while coding on real problems produces a highly accurate assessment...and enough insight to pay a premium for someone who could really help us get where we're going. However, interviews rarely include such real programming. As some other posts have mentioned, recruiting (and particularly the interviewing aspect of recruiting) is tough.
While it's bad news for a company to hire the wrong person, it's also bad news for the candidate. Assuming you're not looking to hop from company to company, a good job is IMHO for 5+ years--a substantial portion of your productive years. Once you get a good sense a company is attractive to you (and vice versa), why not offer to spend a couple of days (e.g. a weekend) working with someone with whom you'd actually be working if you were hired...before you or the company commits? For our company, maybe we could pay you as a consultant so you could work on real code/real problems. No, don't ask for big dollar consulting fees--the benefit to the company is probably negative given your limited context and the oversight you'll require--this is just to reduce the likelihood of companies engaging in this practice without being actually interested in hiring you. It's a big investment from both sides, so this would be after achieving the "probably yes" outcome.
For both the initial, superficial programming tests and optional 2-day programming projects, how about proposing to the hiring company how you'd like to be assessed? For example, our company develops single-page, collaborative editing and annotation applications for patent offices. If a candidate liked our company's people during the normal interview, tried our software, and proposed to add a feature to an open source project we use, the results would be a pretty clear indicator. You'd also be doing something you find interesting, since you suggested it.
Our jobs are at https://angel.co/edyt
Possible bug report: I searched for "thunderbolt LCD" and [recently ended graph] doesn't seem to match up with prices in [recently ended table].
Edyt (http://edyt.com) is in Alameda CA, an island in the San Francisco Bay. On-site full-time ideal; remote considered for senior devs with particularly relevant skills.
Edyt is a National Science Foundation startup providing browser-based, collaborative authoring/reviewing software for enterprises. We've received a five-year contract (with optional five-year extension) to extend TeamPatent, a patent-specific customization of Edyt, for the European Patent Organization. TeamPatent will be the centerpiece of this influential IT project worth over $100m.
Edyt is currently seeking front-end, back-end, and full-stack developers to contribute and grow with us. We perform complex processing on a JavaScript front-end client and increasingly use Node.js on the back-end so expertise or willingness to become expert in JavaScript is a huge plus. We also use Python and PostgreSQL on Linux infrastructure to support semantics, search, and collaborative document stores.
We offer a collaborative environment with ample opportunities to integrate and extend open source, work with others who live and breathe code, and travel internationally. You MUST be passionate about web software as you’ll need to quickly learn our technologies and become an individual contributor who mentors others. Expect to argue over the merits of various approaches at both technical and product levels.
We’re located in Alameda, a lovely island in the San Francisco Bay. Alameda is great for families, with tremendous walking neighborhoods (Our office has walk score of 98!), and a 20 minute bus ride to downtown San Francisco providing a unique combination of small town atmosphere with metropolitan opportunities.
Edyt holds the potential to be a career-making project with enormous intellectual scope and market potential. Please join us!