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Comment · 3 years ago
Definitely worth chatting with your manager. Sometimes an internal move is all it takes get on a career path you are excited about
Comment · 4 years ago
I wonder if Apple would be wary of the regulatory attention that might attract.
Comment · 5 years ago
They probably just readjust their currency hedges
Comment · 5 years ago
So many companies have flatlined after a new CEO took over, think Microsoft after Ballmer took over. So I think there is some difficulty involve.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thousands seems high for the largest company in the world with potentially the most complex supply chain ever assembled. And that doesn't even mention the political issues that need to be navigated.

Your choices I imagine are the other Apple executives and the CEO of another International technology and/or manufacturing (potentially) company.

Comment · 5 years ago
It's a very interesting topic, but clearly the investors/board got what they wanted so they are giving him the payout. It was tied to a goal and they got that goal. So presumably the people paying are happy to pay him that amount.

Would he have reached/pushed for a particularly aggressive goal for less? Could someone else have achieved that goal for less?

No doubt there is some element of personal relationships between everyone in the compensation committee and the ceo.

Comment · 5 years ago
In distributed databases that offer transaction semantics, they need timestamps to order transactions that take place. A tighter synchronization of clocks mean they can execute transactions faster because they can reduce the amount of time they wait (based on the potential clock drift between machines in the data center)
Comment · 5 years ago
Internet search algorithms are bit of an adversarial competition against bad content, no? Given the amount of money at stake for beating the search algorithm, shouldn't we expect any search engine to decline in usefulness over time?
Comment · 5 years ago
The problem gets harder and harder as the trash gets more SEO
Comment · 5 years ago
Retention of very senior people really comes down to those people and their personal reasons. I don't think it's a group of people who all want the same thing, so it's impossible to make a general retention plan.

And realistically, the reason you want them to stay is because they are someone who has figured out how to operate and impact the organization without needing too much guidance or direction.

But I think it's why there are all the generic lifestyle perks and competition for titles like "Best Place To Work".

Comment · 5 years ago
My question is would Copilot be useful if you could choose the codebase it would be drawing from? Almost as an internal company tool?
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
It's hard to measure the long term financial impact of irradiated soil
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Presenting both options on equal terms is hard to measure, Apple is calling it "Tracking" when other (Facebook's) advertising networks do it, but they are calling it "Personalized Ads" when their advertising network does it.

Apple doesn't mind if users turn off the data feed to Facebook, but obviously they don't want users disabling the same data feed to their advertising network.

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