Downside is it doesn’t allow mp3s. I’ve been making my own meditation mp3s using AI tools and wish I could listen to them when I’m on my walk with mighty and no phone.
>I think the real question is if someone other than Steve Jobs was running Apple, would they have gone the same way the companies you listed go as well?
I think the true lesson to learn from the CEOs who weren’t Steve Jobs was that one of them had the foresight to get Steve Jobs back, after he had proven he was a keen leader with NeXt and especially with Pixar.
Clearly you're not as keen business-wise as noted terrible CEO Gil Amelio, who correctly saw that NeXt being in the dumpster was a good thing, since they needed its software, not its revenues.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Yes, likely if NeXT had been doing better financially Apple couldn't have afforded it. You can check NeXT's aborted S-1 here.[1] They had an accumulated deficit of $273 million as of a few month's earlier, were almost out of cash, and were losing money.
Apple's purchase price of $400 million was not exactly a bonanza to their investors...
While I continue to dig in to the specifics of the billing and support issues described, I can confirm this bit from the blog post:
if you stored 2 million images and delivered 1 million images, your total cost for that month for the Images product should be ~$210, not $400+
I've reached out to the author to get some additional information which will help me investigate this further. Also happy to chat with anyone else with questions or issues (zaid at cloudflare)
It seems like the author already went above and beyond to try to get this resolved through the proper channels. Why did it take an HN front page post to get it actually looked into? It does not inspire confidence in your service.
The thing is that Cloudflare has no proper channels. Anyone that has tried Cloudfare's support (even as a paying customer) knows that it's almost impossible to get a sensible answer to anything.
That's the way tech companies work today. You need to have connections or spend social capital to reach people who can solve issues. Or you need to bang your head in support channels for weeks hoping that someone will escalate your issue.
Sometimes there's workaround, if you pay big bucks, you might get "personal" manager who can actually connect you with necessary people. But that service is not available for every company out there. And if you don't pay big bucks, you don't have a chance.
This scheme probably makes sense. At certain scale you just can't talk to everyone. When you have 20 developers and 20 million clients, one person can have only so much time. And most support issues are stupid anyway.
I recall several similar situations with Cloudflare: a user has billing/service problems and the only way to get some support is to end on HN frontpage or reddit ...
Skimming through the blog post, it sounds like in the end they were not overcharged, but the timing and calculation of prorated charges for upgrades, vs. the credits for what what already paid, was a little weird and not obvious.
What contact info did you use? My partner is the author of this blog post, and neither of us has been contacted by Cloudflare that we know of.
My original ticket number was 3029706 but it seems to have disappeared after the support platform migration.
False. Credit card companies are simply protecting their business. From what? The laws and court rulings that make them liable for damages from really terrible edge case scenarios.
Uzi Nissan was one of the more interesting people I met as a freelancer in college. He replied to a craigslist ad and we met for coffee. He had some crazy ideas (and conspiracies:) about all the things he wanted to hire a freelancer to do with nissan.com
>I feel like others lose opportunities by not doing the same
IMO it is a slippery slope to see this as opportunity too strongly. Sure, doing the right thing may be net beneficial to the business in the long run...but the $RIGHT_THING should be done first and foremost because it's the right thing.
I'm not completely sure. I think MIT's conclusions might be correct, they might be preferable to GPAs. I also think there might be other alternatives that aren't easy to implement, that require either a restructuring of how we do school or a better distribution of resources than we currently have.
One conclusion that MIT hints at (although it doesn't say it outright) is that SATs might be a better indicator of success across economic levels in part because it's harder to buy a better SAT score with money. Looking at things like extracurricular activity runs into many of the same problems as looking at Github repos during hiring processes -- a lot of people don't have time to do a bunch of extracurricular activities, and access to those extracurricular activities is likely highly correlated with socioeconomic status. It might be difficult to move in that direction when access to school resources varies so much between areas.
I do think the SAT could be improved -- I think one really easy way would be to change how it's administered so that it optimizes less for formal test-taking skill. The really good thing about the SAT is that it's a less school-specific measure than GPA. So a better alternative might be a version of the SAT that kept a standardized metric but that either widened its scope significantly or was administered differently.
I also want to put forward the idea that admissions might just be really hard, period, and there might not be an easy way to assess potential, and trying to figure out the easiest way to do it might be like asking, "what's the best way to teach a child to play an instrument in a single day?"
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One really important point that I want to get across: there is a difference between a measure being good and a measure being "the least terrible option we have at the moment" -- and confusing the two can cause real harm.
At the top of this thread I see the quote, "so much for that common, popular notion that standardized tests do not predict anything of value." And if that's somebody's attitude, then they're never going to find a better option because the whole thing is being approached through the lens of "see, we were right, this is a good metric."
I think a lot of criticism of standardized testing, IQ, coding tests for hiring, etc... is not necessarily trying to destroy everything, it's just trying to point out that many of these measures are really bad and they shouldn't be treated with the respect they're often given. I think that someone can very easily both have the position, "yeah, MIT probably should use SAT scores alongside GPAs" and the position, "people place way too much confidence in these things as an indicator of success."
Downside is it doesn’t allow mp3s. I’ve been making my own meditation mp3s using AI tools and wish I could listen to them when I’m on my walk with mighty and no phone.