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What type of jobs are you applying for, can you share examples? Keep in mind that jobs advertised as remote on remote-centric job boards will be inundated with huge numbers of applications and so you should expect rejection even if you’re a
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> [...] he still believes that he has the power to change society and doesn't need to follow any laws that's not a partisan position, there's fruitcakes of every political persuasion who think they're above the law. f
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A break-even user is a low-risk opportunity to upsell in future and it’s the long term ability to starve your competitors of an audience. If Spotify cut-off ad-supported users today, another service would scoop them up which poses a risk to
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The hardest part of documents within a business is not producing documents but rather creating a useful library. Google Docs is a place where great documents go to die. Notion’s success (for example) is more about it making it possible to c
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Filters introduce additional risk because they themselves can become dirty (or even contaminated). Looking inside a well-used water filter can be a horrifying experience. Personally, I filter all water because I’m an obsessive but I’ve come
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Consumers often mistake hasn’t changed for a commitment to never change: any sufficiently large product will be littered with these kind of implicit commitments made by the product to consumers that nobody has visibility into. You’re unfo
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Depends on the type of bankruptcy and in what jurisdiction. Even in the US with very creditor-favourable bankruptcy laws, you can’t just declare bankruptcy to get out of financial obligations: owing a bunch of people money is not the basis
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A portion of your comment was aligned with my own view, sure, but I read the substance of your comment to be regarding the likelihood of LinkedIn following through on their threat and the correct course of action for the OP if that happens.
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terrible advice that may be parody, but just in case you're being sincere: you cannot bank on a big corporation getting cold feet about legal action because legal action is as much about the message it sends to future opposition as it
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A big part of LinkedIn's business is providing tools for recruiters to search the database of profiles and extract information, essentially, your extension is compromising their core revenue-generating product and you're loudly an
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Don't be dumb money. AngelList syndicates mostly exist to con rich shmucks out of their money. There are many people with money who long for the prestige of successful Angel investing and will try to take any shortcut available to them
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I wouldn’t describe it as weird because people who struggle with a disability can lose their confidence over time in things unrelated to their disability, but I certainly agree with your point: if somebody could write code 5 years ago, they
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> We run petabytes of storage, and growing. That can't be right -- can it? They have less than 50,000 users. For petabytes of storage to be necessary, their average per-user storage would need to be dozens of gigabytes . I've
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by phphphphp 4y ago
this is a long-standing meme: any behaviour you don’t understand on the internet must be some sort of sophisticated operation by a nefarious third-party network. The question you should always start with is why and if you can’t come up wi
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I can believe that they're careless and used the wrong copy of a document but I'm not sure I understand why you're signing an agreement like that on exit: you've signed it on hiring so that regardless of the outcome of
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I'm just a layman so perhaps you're referring to some top secret scientist internet but here on the normal internet it has been drilled into me through comments for as long as I can remember that a large part of anti-biotic resist
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by phphphphp 4y ago
My phrasing must be bad because you've just said exactly what I was trying to say. I certainly don't intend to frame it as a bad choice, I think it's a great choice, I was addressing why offering open-source does not cannib
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Anybody with money to spend is going to be astute enough to realise that the burden of self-hosting is far above any potential direct cost savings, and so self-hosting becomes an option utilised only by those who probably wouldn’t be going
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Content is expensive to produce. Disney+ is not just a streaming platform for existing Disney content, rather, Disney produce content for it. Likewise, Netflix spends most of its money on content, operating the actual platform is comparativ
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That's the benefit of working with high-paying customers!
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I don’t think nice things can be characterised as caring, though. If their decisions were actively harming the company in order to benefit the humanity of their employees, that would be reasonable evidence that they care, but I don’t think
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Right, because they didn’t know it wouldn’t last hence taking the risk. The message is being written after the fact, and the message isn’t a lie per-se, rather, it’s a human framing of the situation with the subtext of we are a company a
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Companies don’t need to be right, they need to maximise the chance of succeeding. Yes, it was obvious that the raining-money period wasn’t going to last… but what if it had? What if Google had decided to ignore it, and then by some ridiculo
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I don’t think so, Retool has a loyal fan base, I know multiple Retool customers who’d write a comment like that. Retool are popular enough that they don’t need to astroturf to get comments like that.
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> [...] OpenAI’s outsourcing partner in Kenya was Sama, a San Francisco-based firm that employs workers in Kenya [...] Does this qualify as nominative determinism, given OpenAI founder Sam Altman's username is... sama?
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No, my argument is that most of the footguns described in A Fractal of Bad Design have been long since fixed and those that remain are being removed as and when it's feasible and the PHP community has matured a great deal to the poin
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You can quote yourself ad nauseam but that does not turn your incorrect statement into a correct statement. If you spent any amount of time looking at a modern PHP codebase, you'd discover that the type of code people write today is ra
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> Yes; in several billion years, e.g: [...] You just invented the "several billion years" part. I absolutely, unequivocally believe the premise of the article we're discussing, that space-loving billionaires (like Elon Mus
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I don't wish to be the bearer of bad news, but nobody is trying to convince you to use it: nobody cares what you're using for software development... and you're working with out of date information if you think that A Fractal
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academia doesn’t set cultural expectations. If the culturally influential people in the space sector are saying humanity is doomed on earth and our future is on Mars and other planets, that’s the message most people will take onboard. The a

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