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totally anecdotal, but we have seen a fair number of not so great engineers leave our company for google in the last 2 years. these engineers were great prepping interviews (leet code, system design white birding etc), but in terms of contribution, accountability and impact were sub par to their peers. i’m hoping this is indeed anecdotal and not the norm!

As someone once said very eloquently on this forum: Apple is a consumer product company and makes money selling you products, while others (Google, Facebook, etc) are ad platforms companies making money selling you as a product. It's in Apple's best interest to keep your data safe and confidential, unlike other internet giants. When i had to chose a online photos storage provider, the choice was clear, for that very reason.

"In the worst cases, you might even have to use JIRA."

that's funny... but seriously, what's the big deal about Jira?

"At the end of February 2016, the total liquid ISK in the EVE Online economy was 948.043 trillion ISK (equivalent to $16.45 million using PLEX conversion)."

find this fact mind boggling!

This is a great precedent to why folks don't want to register their firearms.

I too, like the author, often was more interested in the topography and maps of fantasy stories. This is awesome!

He avoids paying taxes on the sale of stocks to finance the home.

Can you elaborate on that?

The ones having monopoly on violence are a much stronger force. There is indeed a constant balancing act between them and the masses, but at the end the sooner you accept that that is the real and ultimate power, the world and its inner working, across cultures, will become clear to you.

They're building a nice little ecosystem...

Operational Complexity: You need a mature operations team to manage lots of services, which are being redeployed regularly. IMO you need first and foremost a mature development team that releases operable, diagnosable and fixable (micro)services. Managing a swarm of mini component is a lot easier when each part is manageable to being with.

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In summary, Microsoft Azure had clear operating guidelines but there was a gap in the deployment tooling that relied on human decisions and protocol.

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Nor it should? I wouldn't want policemen to have the same death on the job as say loggers, if only because you don't want policemen to be reckless/desperate by nature. Anyway, my observation was that ratio it isn't usually expose in pieces I read from other sources :)

some interesting numbers...

This year 46 policemen were shot dead and

the police shot and killed at least 458 people last year

10% or so of death involving police is a policemen. Not that it justify the police force level, but an interesting statistic.

I guess you mean winning at a startup you confounded, haven't been kicked out of, and haven't had to dilute yourself to sub million. Because if you have had to do any of these, your win might turn out to be a decent house downpayment, not the "never have to work again" valley fantasy.

entertaining read! and learn 2 important things: 1) don't ever go to collection, your personal data will circulate across the globe for many years, 2) look at statute of limitations before taking any collection call seriously.

One has to wonder if this is a repeat of history in the U.S. or if this has really no precedent. Either way, the future of this nation looks bleak.

I hope you haven't chose the name based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Revolution. A wonderful revolution that left Quebec in its current advanced state ;-)

PS: not all of it was bad.

Echoing some of the other comments... the place i worked at was one of the 5 biggest Rackspace customer, and that didn't stop them from regularly cutting traffic or bringing down servers for hours in some case. You might get better uptime overall from reputable providers, but ultimately it's all about distributed application/service architecture.

Not to argue about its target audience, but the Economist is a multi platform publication at this point. Not only that but and audio version also comes default with the IOS app (i listen to it everyday on way to work).

Although I don't always agree with the Economist's position, e.g. right to bear arms, it's always refreshing to read a media that is not pigeon holed into the traditional left / right that we today are accustomed to. Liberal in values, conservative in its economic views, while not being to the extreme of today's libertarians. Total win imo ;)

doh!! Signed up for a trial just to realize yesgraph's a linkedin message cannon >:(

Don't services come naturally in SaaS? Because of its subscriptions model nature, you usually want to make sure your customer are successful and grow with you. I've seen entire groups within SaaS organization dedicated to customer success (on boarding, education, etc). Which part is being billed and which isn't seems to vary however.

Doesn't look like a very ethical/professional presentation. But then again, who said everyone's professional in all agencies. Its a conjecture to think our laws are systematically enforced by ethical folks.

That was my conclusion too ;-) Why do we try so hard right?

My all time militaristic fiction novel too!

Precarious position to be in when you have to clean up after others, and these 'others' are not pro-actively helping you out, or have no incentive to do so.

Every software company - or so it looks from my anecdotal experience - has one of more of these positions. It seems to be more rampant in larger companies or companies carrying a lot of legacy code.

Nonetheless, I've seen this pattern consistently in QA and Rel-Eng groups where the impossible expectation of delivering quality out of incomplete and poorly designed products.

It's also funny that usually the ones building new things - vs fixing / delivering things - are the ones getting the highest compensations.

I don't see that approach working in any competitive product marketplace. This is the kind of candy you don't want to throw to you competitor.

Anecdotal, there's a company that built their core product on Symfony 0.9x, and never upgraded. That was started around 6 years ago. The company is now worth 1+ billion on nasdaq, and still relies on Symfony 0.9x for the core functionality.

From a development point of view it sucks. Ask any developers.

From the business point of view, staying away from the kind of 6 month no feature s-bugs-only period you're talking about, is probably the reason it could beat its main competitor, and succeed the way it did.

Being good at tech interview is an art, that few masters, and many are good at while being poor developers. I have countless tales of wow-thumbs-up-interview guys that turn out to be just good at that: interviews. Also, very anecdotal, but my best hires in 15 years have been poor interview performers.

So what's the answer? no, not contract to hire. Although good in theory, in practice many companies won't support or approve contract to hire for full time position. Call it HR inertia, a.k.a 1 of the 4 horsemen of death in bigger more established tech businesses.

So where am i going with all this? Well, that's why networking is important. Get the people you worked with to bring you in places. You don't have to impress anyone on a white board (who codes on whiteboards anyway) but put the emphasis on culture fit since you already pretty much have been tech screened by your old pals.

In conclusion, be nice to your peers. Especially the smart ones you work well with.

Glad you bring that up. I'm a manager. I do mostly the things you mentioned to give my team some breathing room, and have to WFH when i want anything serious done. As you can imagine if the ambience is bad for me, it is horrible for my team. I try to help with some WFH days here and there. But it is a culture thing. It's in the freaking DNS of the place. Only so much i can change.