Same on W7, Chrome build 30.0.1599.101 m.

This data would suggest otherwise[0]. It is the company with the second shortest tenure from the report, with an average of only 1.0 years.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-ranked-by-turnover-...

That article is using a horrible methodology. The reason the average tenure is low is because Amazon is growing at around 60% year-over-year.

At that growth rate, you'd expect the tenure numbers to be dominated by hiring rather than turnover, a point the article misses completely.

(Per their annual reports, Amazon had 88,400 employees on 12/31/2012, 56,200 on 12/31/2011, and 33,700 on 12/31/2010)

Hmm. I think data showing hiring vs time for companies would be more relevant than average tenure of an employee.

i.e. The faster a company grows, the less likely/harder it is to maintain culture and enforce hiring/recruiting standards - I can see how that may lead to shitty interview questions.

yaa average tenure never makes sense at all, i agree with you on your point.

Cmon grow up short tenures don't prove that its a bad company to work at, then in your opinion google is also not an appropriate company to work for.

It's amazing how a lot of big financial institutions are still running on COBOL.

Not just financial institutions - I've seen it when consulting at older medium-to-large companies. They've got new mainframes and code they've been running with minor patches for 30 some years.

I find the mainframe fascinating, honestly. It's an entirely different world than the one I'm used to, from terminology to how systems are structured.

Yeah, it is really comical, but it's not "just" a graffiti piece, the same way that the painting of the Campbell's soup can it's not just a painting of a Campbell's soup can, or football is not just 22 guys chasing/transporting a ball. You have to look at the context.

But if you use it for yourself and you pay a fair amount, say production+shipping+administration, you are not really making a benefit.

Say a store has a stereo on sale for $300 and you decide that since the wholesale price was only $120, a fair price would be $150. You're saying as long as you plan to use it personally, you could lay down three fifties and walk out with it without 'benefiting'? Your benefit in that case would be the $150 you avoided paying.

You get the licence plate. That's the benefit. You didn't have it before, you have it now, it's something someone (incl you) value. "benefit" doesn't mean "profit".

It's actually about a 50/50 split between rural and urban [0]. This means that the Chinese urban population nowadays is 150% of the total Chinese population in 1950[1]. So now that the facts are on the table, what is your point?

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-17/china-urban-populat...

[1]http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=chinese+population

I think that it would be easily fixable. Every time you disable an account you send an email to the email address they registered letting them now about it with a link to reactivate it. For the reactivation, you can even add a normal catpcha to prevent the bots exploiting the loophole.

Kinda negates the UI advantage of this approach, doesn't it?

Maybe there's an alternative, like a Javascript-filled ARIA-field that would read out "do not fill this field: robot use only"?

I just label my fields appropriately, and put a "skip to form" link (like a "skip to content" link). Other options exist like using media detection, or JavaScript (very few bots run JavaScript on pages. It slows down the process, and requires more smarts than a generic html parser)

No negative captcha will stand up to a targeted attack, but if you're not running a huge site, targeted attacks are very unlikely.

Nope, at least not in my case. I'd say that only 20-30% of the people I follow on Instagram (mostly Facebook friends) are on Twitter.

You are looking at it from the content consumer perspective. I'll give you the content producer view. When I realized that my Instagram pictures had far less reach on twitter than other options, I stopped using Instagram to share pictures on Twitter.

Your experience might be different, but I know a lot more people who use Instagram in closed networks than open networks. I would speculate that its growth is tied more closely to closed networks than it is to whether it enables cards in Twitter.

The fact is that when it comes to SMB the physics are a make it or break it kind of deal. If he hadn't spent that time tweaking them, SMB wouldn't have had a chance to succeed. And I'm not saying that the physics are the key to its success, but they definitely were a requirement.