I would posit that in the US, new drivers are "grand-fathered" in to automatics. There is no driving license restriction in the US for transmission types, so there is little value in learning to drive a manual before your test (you could always learn later if you wanted to). Couple that with the fact that often a new driver's first car is second hand from a more sensible parent or family member who wanted the ease of use of an automatic, repeat for a generation or two, and suddenly you have very few new drivers who even have an opportunitty to learn how to drive a manual.
> So I actually liked it, but because it was so poorly made technically I never bothered to Finnish it. Maybe I'll force my way through it one day, because of the story and atmosphere, but it's frankly one of the worst pieces of gameplay I've ever tried.
I'm a bit late to the party here, but this is where "Let's Play" videos on YouTube are really great. You can get all the bits you want without any of the frustrating gameplay. The trick is just to find a YouTuber you can stand for the duration of the video (Nerd Cubed is one of my favourites, but he would be an acquired taste).
I think that's the secret sauce for these quys. I'd be surprised if you can find out a lot about current techniques without signing an NDA and leaving your mobile phone in a box at security.
It's great that they're doing this. We had kicked around the idea of signing up all of our customers for HIBP, but decided against it for obvious reasons. What we would really like to do is to be able to notify our custoemrs when their email addresses show up in breaches. Besides being helpful to our customers (who will mostly not be aware of useful services like HIBP), it would potentially help reduce fraud on our sites.
Is anyone aware of a way to get access to sanitized dumps that we can compare to our customer DB internally? It's unlikely we'd get approval to go out and get the dumps and analyze them ourselves, but if there was a reliable source like HIBP, but for bulk comparison, we could bring a lot of value to the business and to our customers.
It's interesting that Smart TVs seem to have two lives, the first as a Smart TV, and the later as a dumb display.
At least in some cars, you can still replace the ICE if it accomodates single or double DIN units. The newer cars with hidden "brains" and a proprietary display though, will that be the equivalent of having an 8-track player mounted under the dash in a few years?
It reminds me of a very good Mitch Hedberg quote: "An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
I've certainly seen escalators undergoing maintenance where the floor at the base was opened up and workers were standing inside. Wouldn't want to take those stairs in that case :)
And I've taken some escalators which might as well be broken when they "become stairs", I wouldn't walk up and down the StPetersburg metro escalators (most of the stations are >50m below ground).
Best case: "I don't seem to be making any progress going up."
Worst case: "This is moving down way too fast! Aaaahhhhh!!!" -screamed by hundreds of people, many of which will die as they pile up at the bottom of the escalator.
Now imagine the brakes failing on an escalator that leads down into a subway with an electrified rail.
The weight of your body will set the escalator in motion and it will keep accelerating. As you approach the bottom end at ever increasing speeds you will have a few moments to contemplate on what a mistake it was to not take physics class in high school. Once you reach the end of the line your journey will end in a rather unpleasant manner due to the high velocity. You could get injured very seriously or even killed.
That is true about unpaid labour, but my understanding was that this isn't forced on to the prisoners. I understand that prisoners are given the option to work, and reap various benefits in return (modest pay, extra hours outdoors in the case of road crews, and potentially leniancy for "good behavior" at parole hearings).
I have a particular interest in truly disruptive start-ups, especially ones thats really flout the law like Uber does. I'm under the impression that conventional entrepeneurial wisdom says "Go ahead and break the rules, by the time they catch up with you or you've gained their attention, you'll have the money or support needed to fight for real change". Of course, all you have to do is look at Zenefits to see this isn't always going to be the case. It makes you wonder what type of person it takes to run a company like that. I relize Thuan isn't the CEO/founder, but when I think about a disruptive business, I weight up the threat of serious fines/jail time against a relatively cushy life with a stable 9 to 5. It's really eye-opening to see what type of person it takes to drive a busines like Uber forward.
>when I think about a disruptive business, I weight up the threat of serious fines/jail time
that is the point to Uber's (and the likes) success - they don't bear the risk of personal fines/jail time, it is the drivers who do. Similar setup to the one which prompted RICO.
Helping your employees to cheat on exams versus openly breaking the law because you disagree with it or feel that a law should be changed is of a different taste though.
>I have a particular interest in truly disruptive start-ups, especially ones thats really flout the law like Uber does.
Sorry if I sound ignorant but I don't see how Uber (or 99% of startups) are disruptive at all. I never used it because I prefer other modes of transportation, but it is basically a cab service, right? They just changed the packaging. To my knowledge here they charge exactly the same for a ride, without paying the fees cab companies are due.
The hard problem is to convince (or scam - not talking about Uber here) people to perceive your service as quality over competitors, regardless of what you offer in reality. If you are successful, you can brag and call it disruption.
I'm not a fan of Uber in general, but they did drastically improve cab service in the markets I've used them. Being able to summon a cab from your phone, see where it is when en route so you don't have to wonder when it will arrive, and not having to mess around with a credit card or cash when finishing the trip are all big improvements that every cab service should provide. Many of the non-Uber cab services provide such conveniences now, but wouldn't have bothered if it were not for Uber threatening their monopoly.
Yes, that is what I'm arguing, they are selling perceived big improvements, but I see low hanging fruits at max, certainly not disruption. Without hindsight. The few times I used taxis, I called them from my phone/skype long before Uber, and they arrived exactly when discussed. What is the fuss. And you eventually have to pay up, I don't really care what is the method. Getting from A to B on demand was solved long ago.
All, without operating in the frame your competitors have to is a bit fishy.
Your experience with calling cabs from the phone is much better than mine. Perhaps that is where you live. I'm in Central Florida and have had similar poor experiences when traveling. Glancing at my phone and knowing how far away the cab is is a lot more convenient than being told it will arrive in 20-45 minutes and watching for it and not being able to make good use of the waiting time.
As for paying, it's a big deal to me. Being able to just exit the car at the end of the ride is a lot nicer than waiting for the driver to scan my card, sign the receipt, etc.
These two small things greatly reduce the friction and make me more likely to use a cab over other options.
What city were you in where the cabs came reliably when you called? That has not been my experience in Boston or Ft Lauderdale. Have you never had a cab driver claim their credit card reader was broken, only to have it magically start working again when you reminded him of the law stating he shouldn't be in service without a working reader?
It's a cab service that ignored the laws surrounding cab services in most of the markets they enter, backed up with enough lawyers to not instantly be shut down, thus they're able to offer a service other people cannot. That is what is disruptive about it.
I like the idea of using my LinkedIn page as a way to highlight interesting articles to spark conversation. I'm not aticvely recruiting at the moment (but I do use Linked In when I am), so I could see having already built a "community" of my peers on MY page would beuseful for both recruiting for my current team, and also any future job searches I embark on. Where did you come up with the tweaks for your own page? I'm curious if there is a tutorial for this, or if you just kind of stumbled on to it? I did a little search for "linkedin disable scrolling", hoping to fin a MySpace style skinning tutorial, compelte with embedded HTML, but had no such luck.
I actually asked someone here on Hackernews and they let me know its fairly easy to block the scrolling function of LI's homepage by using uBlock.
I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn (3 hours on average a day) and early in my career when I was avoiding making cold calls I found what made other peoples LinkedIn profiles stand out and copied them. Now my profile is a personalized and tweaked version of the 100's of interesting profiles I've viewed.
I do a lot of profile optimization internally for my company and team but I have thought about making some type of public guide or offering a service but it seems like there is no good way to edit or suggest edits to a profile without actually logging into someones account and that raises obvious recruit risks for most people.
However If your interested I can send you the powerpoint deck I use to give meeting on this topic.
Thank you for this, especially the point about silence. This is such an under-recognized negotiation tactic. I'd venture to say that negotiations often wind up as a contest of "who can bear the silence the longest". I particularly like the suggestion about a stronger statement when making a counteroffer.
It's very refreshing to hear this advice from an agency recruiter, because they are indeed maligned here and elsewhere. Part of the problem I think, is that the incentives of the recruiter are rarely aligned with the candidate.
I hear the misalignment of incentives argument quite often and I've written about that several times.
If we are talking about an agency recruiter representing 15 different candidates for one position, clearly the alignment isn't there.
For smaller agencies like me (solo) doing lower volume work and working with startups, I find that my incentives are almost always aligned. If I only have one candidate submitted for a position at a given time, you can be sure that my incentive is for that candidate to get the job.
A system where candidates paid recruiters as a "job agent" would ensure aligned incentives, but candidates aren't likely to pay for a service they currently get for free (understanding of course that the hiring client is the primary recipient of the service as most view the relationship).
