Store the data locally? Easily. Set up the necessary back-end infrastructure to sift, twist, and churn the data efficiently? Now you're talking hiring some people to set up an infrastructure for that... Or you could upload it to Google and use their infrastructure.
PA Consulting are idiots and everybody who gave them this contract should be fired.
Saying "I didn't know" is no excuse as this is not the first time PA Consulting have lost data!
"The Home Secretary announced on 10 September that the government has terminated its contract with PA Consulting, following the recent high profile data loss
On 19 August PA Consulting formally notified the Home Office of the loss of a data stick containing sensitive information relating to the JTrack system which PA manage under contract to the Home Office
The data on JTrack relates to prisoners and other offenders in England and Wales."
> It's a fake and yet another black eye for CNN - the photo is from a movie!
As stated on your first link, the story was posted on a social network that CNN hosts, for which it is pretty easy for anyone to get an account. It's not labeled as news, and clearly labeled as not vetted by CNN. I don't see how this gives CNN a black eye.
Acquired company says it's business as usual, nothing will change, and then 6 months later things slowly begin to change and then after the vesting period of the acquisition finishes, and the newly minted sail off into the sunset, it all goes to hell.
The CEO just had a higher price than most other people.
To get $16bn cash from Facebook is hilarious.
Next time a start-up says they won't pay you market rate because of x, y, and z just walk away and laugh. For the sake of a few thousand dollars in wages, you could make them billions.
Don't work for cheap bastards. Funny how engineers are supposed to sacrifice yet we never see a lawyer or accountant charge below market rates, and their work can save businesses millions as well as jail-time.
I now feel like a jack ass for working at a MegaCorp. To be working like a donkey under a glorified email router paid 3x more than me for doing toothbrush factory era supervisors role.
And yes I do agree with you. I recently rejected a offer from a start up for offering 50% below market rate.
WhatsApp is actually the reason why people accept less than market rate from startups. No WhatsApp employee who's been there more than a year will ever need to work again once he/she survives the "golden handcuffs" period.
I'm sure that's what Zynga employees thought too. Sure, accept less than your market rate, but there are lots of trapdoors before the cash ends up in your bank account.
I think it's quite rare that any individual employee (probably excluding founders) is responsible for a significant percentage of the value of a company.
What's remarkable is that they've built up a strong engineering team without very much media attention in Silicon Valley to cultivate a "hot startup everyone wants to work for" image.
The opposite of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Dropbox, Palantir, etc...
This article offers an interesting look at Russia-US relations:
"Diagnosing Sochi Media Coverage: Virulent Russophobia...
The water, the toilets, the hotels – nothing pleases our pampered media divas, whose hatred of all things Russian oozes from between the lines of their "reporting" like pus from an old wound."
All the antipathy we saw aimed at Russia during the cold war years is now being revomited up by the political class, albeit in a new flavor: instead of genuine martyrs like Andrei Sakharov and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn being lionized, we see the professional provocateurs of "Pussy Riot" elevated by Western media to the status of "dissident" stars.
There is definitely some confusion to the names and efforts there are efforts to ensure there is a clear identity for the CouchDB project moving forward. (Couchbase is not compatible with CouchDB so there will likely always be some confusion there which boils down to historical trivia more than anything.)
TouchDB & PouchDB were some of the earlier projects which extended CouchDB's reach to in-browser and on-mobile databases respectively. In those days the brand confusion problem wasn't as clear. Hopefully in the future all you'll need to know is that the projects support CouchDB replication. Cloudant is a big supporter of the CouchDB community. It made sense to build upon community efforts where they existed already rather than replace them with completely proprietary components.
"CDTDatastore is available through CocoaPods, to install it add the following line to your Podfile:
Why CocoaPods? What is wrong with a static library? Or simply adding the relevant class files to a project?
I don't want to have Ruby infrastructure just to add a bunch of files to a project! Why are Ruby folk obsessed with doing things their 'Gems' way? They bring the same mentality to Go(lang). I always hear (ex)-Ruby folk asking questions at meetups about packaging and versioning...
As long as you also pull in the dependencies specified in the podfile, you'll be absolutely fine just adding the class files to the project. I've tried to be careful to maintain that as a viable option. That you retain the option is one of the strengths of Cocoapods to my mind.
While far from perfect, I chose to use Cocoapods as it's becoming the defacto standard in the iOS community. I've used it in my apps, and have found it easier to manage my deps than a bunch of git submodules or copying source code into my projects.
The problems with static libraries on iOS have been well documented at [1]. Essentially, that you can't build static libraries as a third-party for iOS without resorting to low-level trickery. This seemed like it would become a maintenance burden vs. the Cocoapods approach.
His nickname in Hong Kong is "Superman" so everybody trusted him. During the first dot.com he jumped on board the IPO wagon resulting in mom and pop investors getting absolutely fleeced. I think after that episode people began to see him truly for what he is: just another rich guy playing the politicians to extend his empire, built mostly on property.
Another tidbit. His younger son, Richard Lee, promoted himself as a tech guru having graduated from Stanford studying computer science (it said so on the IPO prospectus). Journalists later discover that in fact he had attended but dropped out of Stanford, and instead went to Canada to work at his dad's financial firm, before returning to Hong Kong to help run the family business.
You got to love all these baby boomer aged investors giving advice on how to get rich. Most my age never got the chance to buy property ridiculously cheap, and are now having to rent it from the boomers.
Not sure how old you are, but did you consider property in Florida or Detroit during the global financial crisis? Planet Money had the story of a girl who bought a house for $12,000 and rents it at $700/month:
I'm not saying it's easy (hey, I didn't do it myself). But there have been opportunities. You've got to put the effort into finding the opportunities & be brave enough to jump in & take the risk.
But how do we choose between CouchBase and CouchDB sync?