But yet they clearly state they make money by charging artists to play their songs for listening. Music has a dirty history of pay to play(payola) and this is just an instance of passing a small pittance onto some desperate listeners.
There is a tremendous adverse selection problem here: people who click "make $12/hr at home!" ads don't have any money. Artists only pay for advertising if they think it's going to result in a sale: if you have to pay someone to listen to your music, it's probably not a hot lead.
Payola was paying DJs to play your music on the radio, exposing it to thousands of potential customers, not paying individual largely disinterested people ten cents a pop to listen to your track.
As long as they continue to burn trash this is a joke on par with the ad campaigns for californians to conserve water and not waste food; actions which, do not target the actual major offenders amd are little more than feel good measures.
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/20/515814016/t...
I used to believe in every little bit helped until I read actual data on who wasted or contributed to the problem on a large scale.
Why would they? You already overpaid for their hardware and ecosystem because you believe in it. A smart consumer would, given the defined variable if not wanting to switch to android etc, buy a bunch of microsd and backup to them. They sell dongles that plug into any phone's port and hold a microsd. You can even overwrite the card for free. And use its contents when you have no signal. Cloud debates are hilarious to me.
Have you seen a MicroSD die before your eyes, failing writes, then reads? I did several times.
A RAID array of MicroSDs, or maybe other flash devices, could be more reasonable reliability-wise, but it would be anything but a sleek consumer device.
OTOH, Apple is selling the "experience", the polish and automagic features. Maybe iCloud integration leaves a lot to be desired, it still beats a dongle 99% of the time.
Yes I have and it's no less horrifying then thinking you can access your cloud server when you suddenly cannot. My point is for a small amount you could afford to buy microsd cards in bulk and backup every day. Or even CD-R/DVD-R/BR-R. But I was trying to keep the discussion to direct transfer from a cellphone as per the parent.
A relatively hassle-free, alternative local backup solution makes sense! Does it exist? For being realistically useful, it should work either over w-fi, or over cable when attached to a computer.
Yes as I already described amd you chose to ignore. Pick your choice or backup program that asks what drive and select your sd card. They are also available with wifi dongles.
Because nobody gets assigned a task and rushes to a white board with a non-collaborative audience. The WB wire framing etc is always a discussion amongst peers. Sit your prospects at computers spec'd like they would be using in their role with appropriate Internet access. Knowing what to Google is generally the most used function. What is googled varies with each individual.
The pressure of dumping pseudo code is a poor metric.
A good WBI should feel like a discussion with a peer. While I think the interviewer has to be careful not to direct/guide things too much, they should be giving input/feedback/questions along the way, much like a coworker on a real design problem might. Dumping pseudocode shouldn't ever be the metric to evaluate a WBI, but just a product of the conversation with the interviewer, which is a far more interesting indicator.
I agree but have yet to find one that went that way. More companies in the wild, as I alluded to, who feel that's what they should be doing with little to no understanding of how. Same for all of those brainteaser fizzbuzz-esque problems.
Good ones aren't as common as they should be...bad interviews in general are disturbingly common, though, I don't think tech interviews in general or whiteboard specifically are any different.
Brainteasers and fizzbuzz are very different things though: I'm not totally against brain teasers as a prompt for discussion, but they're not my favorite types of questions, and can be hard to judge or of little use if the person either already knows the trick, or just doesn't figure it out. Fizzbuzz on the other hand makes a lot of sense when you're interviewing someone who you don't have any other knowledge of their coding. That type of question absolutely makes a good first pass filter: the problem is easy to explain, the implementation is trivial to do in a few minutes if you are at all qualified. Sure, it's annoying for an experienced person to have to do a fizzbuzz variant for the 200th time, but given that it takes almost no time, and helps the interviewer quickly jump to more advanced stuff or cut off an interview that isn't going to go anywhere, it's a pretty minor inconvenience.
I've worked places where the dual monitor denial was based on jealousy from other job titles like manager, producer, sales, etc. Who didn't recognize it as a task enabling tool, but perceived it as a status item that they should receive before the lowly developers.
Same goes for a quiet workspace even though their job relies heavily on talking and face to face communication.
My personal favorite is,"sure you can go to that conference/event that is related to our department." Followed by,"oh, we don't have anybody to fill in for you." And then all the aforementioned jealous employees go to something they could care less about just to get that sweet writeoff.
The lie of training seminars and conferences is always a carrot. Yet we are treated like shit at most companies for trying to get it. Obviously this doesn't apply to tech staples or cutting edge industry startups, but then again their influence on a metric is within a margin of error compared to the rest of the country.
Suprisingly good movie, I skipped it in theaters because the ad campaign was just heavy cgi Inception ripoff scenes and no real plot. Glad it came to Netflix, totally worth seeing.
Fantastic movie with some really imaginative CG, the whole 'fractal'-like effect had me fascinated every time it was shown and was pretty much the entire reason I watched it to begin with. The fact that it was a decent movie was a nice bonus too.
