From the video:"Structure works by capturing a pattern of invisible, laser projected light, which allows you to measure thousands of distances, all at once."
That's a little misleading. The structured light pattern is indeed generated by a laser, but the distances being measured are not distances to the object, they're displacements of a structured pattern (eg, predictable dots) seen on the object with an infrared camera.
I've worked at two startups with no vacation policy. My inference is that it is very much a cultural thing. My first company some people really took the opportunity to heart but most were subtly pressured not to take much time off. Plus, lots of people did working vacations. Then at the beginning of September last year they told the entire marketing team that there was no more vacation until the end of the year because the CEO felt marketing was gone too much that summer. In fairness, we had Christmas to NYE off but still. Plus, it made it harder for the sales team where they always had to meet their quota because vacation was never factored in.
In my second company, people take what they need and my boss told me not to contact him unless it was an emergency. I loved it. Set the cultural cue for me on how he perceived vacation time. People seem to take what they need. The CEO encouraged people to take advantage of our ski passes this past season during snow storms.
Bottom line: Management sets the cues and cultural norms. People practice what they see when there aren't official guidelines.
Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how your twitter influence is important to any job except for paid endorsements.
If I'm hiring an engineer, a project manager, or a designer, I care about their ability to do the job, not about how much they influence their twitter followers.
There are numerous benefits to having someone with social influence work for your company. Say your developer has a large following on Twitter.
- Any problem that they don't know how to solve can be solicited to x number of people.
- If they encounter a bug in 3rd party software that your company uses and publicly bitch about it, the better chance you have to get a timely fix.
- If your company uses/creates open source software, it is more visibile, and there is a greater likelihood that more people will contribute to it.
- They market your company.
- They attract more desirable hires.
I know for sure that Trada does (because I fill one of those data roles there :) ), but not sure about others! I'd love to hear if anybody has a big list that does though!
