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I agree with the sentiment, but let's be honest with ourselves; there aren't that many type-A people bumping around in most organizations whose talents are going untapped.

Regardless,

Engagement, in my view, is like a double-edged sword--it cuts both ways. On one hand, getting employees to "pull the wagon" can immensely add value to the organization. On the other hand, employees attaching too much of their self-worth to their work (a consequence of being highly engaged) can lead to employees' egos being of greater importance than the results.

Low engagement is probably just a symptom of some other organizational ill.

Short answer: Yes

However, here's my 2c (BusDev 2+ years): a cold call/email isn't worth a dollar in your case. If the audience (target market) is a group of let's say 1000 individuals, and I need 8 to 10 touches to get a single response... then I'm paying your service $10,000 to (in all probability) be told, "sorry, not interested".

It takes an immense amount time and energy 'beating the drum' to get anyone to notice you. I think it was Bezos who said that in this age, attention is the scarcest commodity. He's right.

'The Art of Monitoring' by James Turnbull (https://www.artofmonitoring.com/)

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/government-contractor-facing-...

They should screen for laziness when vetting TS-SCI clearance. Something tells me that the only rational justification for this irrational move was that it somehow made his life easier. I don't think a mole would have the guts to pull something like this.

Good question. No reason to expect Google beating AWS, but absolutely Google beats Snap on price per Watt if Snap builds this infra out themselves. I'm no expert, but I'd say that when the outlook is five years and you're Google and you have your own internal energy hedge fund, a big margin (perhaps not 10x) is within the realm of possibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Energy

Many talking of software here, but at this scale I think we should be looking at the cost of energy. Suppose Google has a true edge on the rest of the market in terms of what the cost of a Watt is to them. Take that outlook over the horizon of 5 years; all software arguments are thereby moot. If Google can generate a Watt in 5 years at 10% the cost that AWS can, then this drastically changes the equation.

I was at the event, and this 'vow' didn't really come off as a vow to beat Musk.

We all know about Musk, but Muildenburg is someone worth checking out. His story is about as classic Americana as it gets. Raised in the midwest. Parents and grandparents were farmers. Trained as an engineer and then went to work for Boeing right out of school... I think he said what he said because he was just trying to share the room's enthusiasm to do big things with our future. Besides, he just might be right, so it might be worth taking a look at him.

While taking on this challenge will be something like building their own private Appalachian Trail, ambitious in its own right, I'll be interested in something more subtle that this article touched on, "upending the traditional relationship between seller and sender."--will we begin to see widespread shipping arbitrage[1]?

http://www.sidehustlenation.com/amazon-fba-clearance-arbitra...

A bot to keep me engaged outside of work. I need to be kept on task with small stuff around the home, chores, maintenance, finances, etc. Also when I've completed those tasks, I need stuff to do/read when I'm bored. What should I do with my weekend? What should I read on my ride home from work? Lists are fine but what I'm really looking for is a bot.

For those who may know, how does ZeroDB stack up against an incumbent like MarkLogic in the 'Security for Enterprise Big Data in the Cloud'?

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asobin@dragonspears.com

We're a custom application development consultancy that specializes in taking our client's data and building custom applications around that data from the ground up.

Interview process: quick coding challenge (very easy, takes 30 minutes max), 2 phone screens (HR and then a technical with one of our leads), and an in person. Usually takes 2 to 3 weeks to complete the process. Our interview process does not suck. If you're sharp but blow the coding assessment or don't have the time for it, we'll figure out another way to assess your skill. Point being, we're flexible, we just want to hire the right folks.

We're looking for full stack .NET devs who've recently switched over to the MEAN stack. Any machine learning or data science experience is a huge plus. Take a look here: http://www.dragonspears.com/careers

I watched Comey's entire hearing today. The article here is accurate, but I think that it takes an strongly opinionated view of Comey's guarded and yet honest responses.

Comey knows that the solution to this problem won't be solved with legislation, which is why he isn't going to expend his energy trying to accomplish what the EFF suggests as a solution. One good thing to consider is that the EFF and the FBI both recognize that encryption can be an evil thing and that actions need to be taken to protect the citizens and the government that serves them.

With respect to the debate I'm seeing here in the comments, it seems like, to me, that there is a considerable amount of misunderstanding. What was discussed today wasn't the issue of mass surveillance, but of how or even IF these companies that offer secure communication services could aid in FBI investigations. That is both a technical and a non-technical issue. Comey calls it a non-technical issue simply because he thinks the solution ought to be left to the technical people at each company, and that in principle, regardless of encryption strength, these companies should offer a way to help the FBI in these exceptional instances. I think people here are seeing one or the other side and not realizing that Comey is aware of both.

Peter Thiel's 'Zero to One' should be what anyone looking for more of this kind of reading should look into.

A lot of good talent is wasted on Wall Street. Fortunately, most (who don't care for the lifestyle/can't hack it) get wise and leave. The hard thing is knowing when to exit.

Swift is a language designed from its core to build apps that work well for Apple hardware. I understand why developers gag at its quirky paradigms, but at the end of the day, if you play by the rules, you end up with an extremely valuable product. The positives outweigh the negatives, open source or not.

Earthquakes, and the twitter responses to them, have been the focus of some pretty interesting academic studies that I've read (2011 Christchurch, NZ was what I studied). If I still had access to the academic journals, I'd pull up some articles. They present fantastic case studies of how using twitter user lat/longs, time logs, and nlp can be very useful.

Why not take this a step further and have another system try to diagnose the issue with the identified outlier server before handing it over to the alert system? Seems like you'd be generating a lot of alerts otherwise.

I don't understand it either. But perhaps (and this is probably a stretch) it is to serve as a deterrent to the other inmates.

Given Angola's notorious reputation as, well, Angola, and the fact that these two allegedly murdered a prison guard--it isn't inconceivable that a vindictive move like this one was played by the state. The logic being, you kill one of our guards and we'll lock you up and throw away the key.