California is different than many states in the USA. In many places a non-compete agreement can stop you from going to a competing company. That doesn't just affect entrepreneurs, it affects all employees. The end result is employees can't change jobs as easily and wages are depressed. Non-solicitation agreements have a similar effect.
I don't think I'll ever root for companies enforcing non-compete or non-solicitation agreements. But, if Apple can prove that this guy was working/soliciting for his new company on Apple's time or while using Apple equipment then they may have a case, but it should be a limited case.
Exactly. Why do they need to know categories of websites? They should be collecting the things your computer is doing from a technical standpoint. Then I could be convinced that they were trying to learn how to improve their products from an engineering perspective. As it stands CIP looks like a way to use the large installed base of their products to improve the marketing/partnership side of their business.
I work for the federal government. Another team in my organization is using it for contact management and some other CRM tasks. They are very happy with it. My team is developing a custom dashboard prototype for leadership. Our results are mixed. Please note that I've only been working on this project part time for about 4.5 months, so I'm far from an expert.
Basic entry and view forms are very easy to create; Basic reporting is very easy, as well as basic charting. But the provided charting components can only be customized up to a point. For example, you can set the color of chart segments by value for pick-list fields, but not for calculated fields, and only for certain types of charts.
Salesforce is a big, complicated system and it takes a while to learn. If your needs can be met by their built-in Sales or Service modules then it may be a great choice. If your needs can be met by a 3rd-party add-on, and you're willing to pay extra for that, it may also be a good choice. If you want to recreate your custom business logic in Salesforce then you may want to hire a consultant.
Salesforce also has a lot of pricing and licensing options, so you would need to be careful about making a purchase before you know all of your needs and understand the different license types and pricing tiers.
Salesforce reporting is relatively basic,consider Einstein Analytics for more advanced stuff. Alternatively,just connect it to Tableau and do all the fancy shpancy stuff there.
It ain't too pretty, but instead of creating of thousands of workflow rules or spending days clicking, you can simply use spreadsheet to decide how your logic runs.
Just as alarming for me is that Facebook engineers don't seem to understand risk management:
"In this situation what we’ve found is these passwords were inadvertently logged but that there was no actual risk that’s come from this. We want to make sure we’re reserving those steps and only force a password change in cases where there’s definitely been signs of abuse."
Inadvertently logging passwords is a risk. If those logs were accessed then that's a bigger risk. Signs of abuse is an issue. There is no such thing as an "actual risk", there are just probabilities (and possible consequences). Once a consequence happens, it is no longer a risk -- then it's actual.
Yes, and the Ptolemaic Kingdom was a Greek kingdom founded by Ptolemy I Soter, a companion and historian of Alexander the Great. He started the kingdom after the death of Alexander.
I understand how the "value argument" influences the initial price of a good, but once it is out in the market demand should be taken into account. If a product's supply is (practically) infinite and its demand is low, then the price should be low. Anything else smacks of poor business decision making or price fixing.
This is absolutely true, but it mostly applies when your code is in development. Inevitably you will be asked to troubleshoot problems in production. So you'll need to learn how to read and understand log files. You should also learn how and when to log actions in your program.
That last sentence is part of my piece of advice: Try to add stuff (comments, logging statements, etc) to your projects that will make things easier in the future, either for you or other developers.
The problem is that Facebook was presenting truth and lies in identical ways. People should be able (and willing) to dig in and find out what is true for themselves, but that takes time and effort.
If Facebook itself does not, then those with the power to game Facebook itself will do so, because there is a gain to be had by disseminating disinformation, propaganda, distraction, fomenting distrust, etc., etc., etc.
What you actually do want, whether you realise it or not, are well-formed, well-behaved, epistemic systems. Note that the original false dichotomy I referenced was between no regulation of this and unaccountable regulation.
The fact that that is in fact not the entire universe of possibilities seems to be being studiously ignored.
Whatever metric they choose is almost certainly much more likely to be gamed by powerful people. One doesn't need to look much further than PropOrNot, or the Google changes to address supposed fake news, or the immediate reactions to the Russia indictment, to know that any drive to "eliminate fake news" will immediately be turned against independent media and causes like BLM, opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, any political figure not popular with Beltway types (like Sanders or Stein), etc.
I do enjoy being told what I actually want, though, so keep using that not-at-all-patronizing rhetorical maneuver.
Russia spent a lot of time and money amplifying that discontent, so they clearly thought it needed to be "imported". It's also important to remember that they amplified discontent on both sides of the spectrum, because that increases discord and makes our political process look (more) dysfunctional.
I don't think I'll ever root for companies enforcing non-compete or non-solicitation agreements. But, if Apple can prove that this guy was working/soliciting for his new company on Apple's time or while using Apple equipment then they may have a case, but it should be a limited case.