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Re: Nest is acquiring Dropcam

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Post by Corrado »

aragot wrote: post #101

I don't understand their pricing. $9.99 a month or $99 a year for a rolling 7 days of video. I guess most of that is a still, unattended image. Amazon cloud storage is cheap. It seems very expensive to me. For example. My flatmate has a child. His ex-partner is prone to make stories in her head and go to the police with that. I'd be keen to host the kid until the father comes back from work, but I'm afraid of the ex-…

I think you can export the video snippets and save them to local storage. This would allow you to keep as much video as you want, basically for free. It would be nice to have it linked in to Google Drive so that you can store selected video snippets there.

Re: Nest is acquiring Dropcam

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Post by enneff »

hueving wrote: post #104
_delirium wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Salaried Google employees, officially at least, work a full-time schedule according to the local standard workweek, which varies by jurisdiction. That's 40 hours in the US/UK offices, 37 hours in the Denmark offices, 38 hours in the Australian offices, etc. And enneff's profile indicates he's in Australia.

Interesting. I know several Googlers in the SV area and none of them work on a 40/hr schedule like that. They work like a regular salaried person where they just do the appropriate amount of work to get their tasks completed on schedule. Sometimes they will have a relaxed week where they only work ~20 hours and other times they will be in a code sprint and do 60-70 hours.

That's pretty much what I said. I work more in the crunch times, less in the slack times. But my variance isn't that wide. My working week is between 28 hours and 48 hours, but most weeks are just 38 hours.

Re: Nest is acquiring Dropcam

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Post by jsolson »

jmduke wrote: post #18

Some interesting quotes from Dropcam's CEO last year: “Our business model is very straightforward. I think if your business model is not straightforward, it veers into potentially being unethical, if you look at things that are quote-unquote ‘free.’ None of the people who work here want to work on something that works like that. They look at it as tricking the user, when [a company is] turning around and using some p…

> "He thinks the lavish perks at many technology companies, especially the free on-campus meals, are a disguised form of mind control, designed to get employees to work 12- or 14-hour days."

I can't agree with this, and I have some experience with both sides of it.

I have worked at a company that does not provide much of anything in the way of perks (Amazon) and a company which is known for them (Google). I've NEVER felt pressured to put in more hours at Google, while at Amazon it was more or less a constant of existence.

As with all anecdotes, your mileage may vary, but I think it has little to do with the perks and more to do with broader company culture. At Amazon, the lack of perks and long hours become badges of honor that you share with your peers. Looking back on it, it feels rather toxic.

Re: Nest is acquiring Dropcam

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Post by spacehome »

insaneirish wrote: post #67
spacehome wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except for the fact it's nothing like that at all. The perks are free, and employees are generally paid well - when compared to other professions, if, perhaps not their value add.

> The perks are free Haha. That's cute.

I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Re: Nest is acquiring Dropcam

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Post by gress »

pgeorgi wrote: post #96
gress wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or providing video to law enforcement on demand.

I guess it doesn't make much of a difference if Google or Amazon is doing it.

Amazon isn't in a position to build a law enforcement portal to this service. Google now is.
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