This came up in a meeting the other day where I asked someone to define technical debt. I instantly remembered the first company I worked for calling it 'being hit by the baby bus'. They were combining the concept of the 'bus factor' with the fact that 2 of the senior people on the project (out of 6 of us total) had babies within months of one another.
At my first job, 6 of us (all programmers) sat around a large conference table. If I had a question about the code, I peaked over my laptop's screen, someone else noticed and asked "What's up?" It was great for that quick collaboration, but it also exposed us to every annoyance possible. There was a guy who burped a lot and liked to sing show tunes. The guy next to me bought me earbud-style headphones because the cheap ones I was using leaked out a lot of sound. We also needed an always-be-working atmosphere to prevent a conversation unrelated to work from taking more than 5 minutes.
I've had my own office for the last 3 years and enjoy the privacy, but occasionally miss the instant answers and social aspects of that open plan.
Is it? I'd rather they split this into 2 plans and let me have just the fast shipping for $79 (or less) and people who want streaming can pay $99.
Netflix still has the better offering IMO. Not only content, but the video interface is better too. Initially Amazon's video player worked on Linux out of the box, but now it's just as hacky to get running as Netflix.
Due to this price increase, I'm going to reevaluate how important fast shipping is to me.
It's not just fast but free shipping. For someone who orders from Amazon regularly throughout the year, that's the real value.
Also, Amazon has way more content on their video streaming service with the caveat that you have to pay to rent/own a lot of it. Agreed about the interface though, Amazon's app offerings for PS3/SmartTV have been subpar in comparison to Netflix though.
For MIPS (recommended for starting out), check out my post. It walks you through creating the initial program in C all the way through finding its vulnerability and exploiting it. The buffer overflow building is done in Python through Bowcaster. http://csmatt.com/notes/?p=96 (also check out the links at the end). Good luck!
I'm 27 and killed my LinkedIn account because 1) I just don't find them to be a company that is concerned with user privacy and 2) I have not once seen a benefit to being on it.
I think it probably depends on your industry. I'm a programmer, so maybe if you're a finance major it's more useful.
