Readit Newsphlowbieuq commented on Ring fired employees for watching customer videos vice.com/en_us/article/y3... · Posted by u/rahuldottech
What's a good cloudless setup? I've got a couple zwave devices, and have been looking into OpenHab. Win10 compatibility would be a bonus, as well as the ability to run my own OpenCV video analysis and voice recognition stacks...
I'm working on IP cameras sending their video to Surveillance Station on my Synology NAS. Totally local recording, and was super easy to setup with some random IP cam I had laying around.
My plan is to run cable for PoE cameras soon. Will have 24/7 recording, but accessible only locally.
"Qantas. Qantas never crashed."
phlowbieuq commented on How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers startupandrew.com/posts/h... · Posted by u/vikrum
I've seen a lot of companies that, like firebase, try to assess if a candidate "is excited about our company" early in the process.
It always seems weird to me. I barely know you- why would I be excited? Ask me at the end of the onsite after I've talked to a number of people across a variety of roles, seen your office, heard about the work, explored the culture, etc etc.
During the initial screen, I really only know about your business, which is not the biggest factor for me.
Firebase is probably a bit of an edge case on this one, because it was a paradigm-shifting developer product before dev products were cool.
If you were a top-tier developer, there was a >0% chance that you would be super excited about the product because you realized the pain point that it would solve for you if you were building a real-time product at another company. And that excitement or lack thereof was a useful litmus test for Firebase specifically.
I agree that "excited about our company" is not something you get up front if you are interviewing at a company that is building an on-demand AI marketplace for ML-optimized scooter rental office spaces.
phlowbieuq commented on Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons marketwatch.com/story/ama... · Posted by u/blumomo
I've no real love for the intended use of the dash buttons (re-orders of items) but do hope that some other company comes up with a similarly easily hackable wireless button for interactions.
As of now, Amazon appears to still be selling their "IOT button" (which is basically a programmable dash button)
phlowbieuq commented on Employers are mining the data their workers generate wsj.com/articles/the-new-... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
McKesson has not yet determined what changes it will make as a result of the findings, but has considered adopting a more open office plan to encourage more discussion between employees.
LOL, way to be super creepy AND learn exactly the wrong lesson from this.
> To register his car, the D.M.V. insisted on a real name — not an L.L.C. — and a street address.
I don't understand: whose name appears on all the corporate vehicles driving around? A security van for Google, and Amazon delivery truck, a Brinks van: I'm supposed to think there's some employee's name on the title? What if that employee leaves?
I feel like another unstated risk here is that if someone can get his plate number through the DMV registration, they could buy tracking on it from one of the large ALPR firms and deduce his home location.
This has nothing directly to do with their market failure but they probably are driven by the same leadership problems.