I've started doing this as well too. I don't want to be someone's hosting provider or CSP. Too many headaches and building the thing is a lot more fun than watching it run and making sure you've in compliance with the 1000 governance documents the company has regarding production environments. There are a lot of good companies that already provide purely that service and, to your point, many companies have those teams already.
Yeah it's funny that it is called a sensor bar when it has no sensors.
For my undergrad, we had a cross-major project to build a robot that shot pingpong balls at various targets that were tagged with IR lights. We used 2 wiimotes to calculate the 3D space.
But then your costs get allocated to the spam operation. The owner of the website is benefiting because of the "traffic" they are receiving that is attributed to their non-spam venture. The hacker is benefiting because of the free hosting they are getting. The loser is anyone interested in buying the site and having the price hinge on the traffic.
Hi everyone. This is a tool I wanted to build for a while and last night I finally did it. Hope some of you find it useful. Let me know if you have any questions.
A few years back, I had a friend in another department ask me to build a prototype tool help manage their team's work more efficiently. I told them very directly that this was a hastily built prototype to help them see if a business case was viable. 3 years later, their entire department still uses that prototype and they have a small contractor team that makes annual updates to it. Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.
I wonder if the 6 month "consulting agreement" is 6 months of non-compete. This statement from the article seems to hint that:
"Jim will be serving at Intel for at least another six months it seems, in the role of a consultant, so it might be that long before he lands another spot in the industry."
Assuming I'm not an expert in some incredibly narrow and lucrative field, if I were being laid off and they offered me fully compensated garden leave (with no offsets) in exchange for a two-year noncompete I'd accept that in a heartbeat and spend that time learning something new in a totally different industry. Thanks for the scholarship!
> What if one is being laid off and the company offers them a severance package of X weeks pay for signing some papers?
That's not crazy -- they're compensating you for the inconvenience.
Whether that's a good idea or not is a different story, and would depend on how easily you could get a job, what it would pay you if/when you got it, and how much/how long the compensation would be.
In the oil industry it's not uncommon to see 1- or 2-year non-competes... with 100% compensation for the same amount of time.
That's different.. it's unlikely that this offer would be made to you "on your way out the door".. and then you have time to review and see if the deal is worthwhile.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant signing stuff during your exit interview, so on your last day and quite literally on your way out the door.
I had that happen to me once. But they said 'here's the paperwork, take it home and review it, have a lawyer look at, whatever you feel like; you have two weeks to decide'.
Any reasonable company would do it this way unless they are trying to screw you.
If they don’t give you time to review the terms and you later want to sue a court could find the agreement invalid. If they’re rushing you to sign the paperwork immediately that’s a red flag and you should definitely talk to a lawyer before you sign anything.
For cases when you sign a noncompete when you leave, that's going to be in the case if a layoff or soft firing where they've got leverage over you. Otherwise fron what I've seen on NY where noncompete can be enforced, the noncompete is signed when you get the job. For the case where you're signing things when you leave though, that's when they've got a severance to hold over your head.
There are a few news sites that I refuse to visit because I get so frustrated by the performance on these sites. Not to mention auto-playing videos, broken back buttons, lazy loading that causes me to click the wrong element, and a myriad of other design flaws that seem almost ubiquitous on all major news publications' sites. It's funny to me that these could easily be the simplest of websites that are made incredibly convoluted.
If you're in the EU, NPR is forced to ask you if you want to accept tracking cookies. If you say no, they redirect you to a text-only version. Which seems incredibly spiteful, but actually works out wonderfully in my opinion since you can just read the news without all that cruft you mention.
I'm building a service for finding a gym buddy (on hold now) and leveraging exposed endpoints has been great for getting gym locations for various chains. Much better than screen scraping.
I've done this a bit. I define ranges per numeric field and if it exceeds or is below that range, I send it to another queue for manual review. Sometimes I'll write rules where if it's a dollar amount that usually ends ".00" and I don't read a decimal but I do have "00", then I'll just fix that automatically if it's outside my range.
