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1600 and your GPA was 4.0. Any other answer proves you aren't trying hard enough to get the job.

I took too much cold medicine and was given access to a coding agent. This is the result.

I was in an interview once and the prospective employer asked me what church I attend. I replied, "Catholic." He said, "Is that even Christian?" So, yeah, plenty of Americans have …

Bummed there wasn't one vampire joke or pun or allusion in this entire article.

I had the opposite experience coming from Django/Flask to Elixir/Phoenix. I found it very comfortable and that there were many similar patterns at the framework level. Now, LiveVie…

I'm interested to see how this goes. I recently used ChatGPT and Claude to help myself build a simple app for my wife. Just listing things and being able to edit them basically. It…

I wouldn't rely on their aggregation. But, with a subscription, you can just read the magazines in the same format and layout as they are printed. No aggregation to get in the way.…

Would you go into a store, pick up the newspaper, and walk out without paying?

Apple News does this. Tons of magazines across the spectrum and number of larger US newspapers. If you aren't in the US or at least wanting to read in English, I don't know.

Qobuz markets itself first as a hi-res streaming service. However, it also offers FLAC purchases without DRM that are yours even if you don't continue to use Qobuz. Their selection…

I spent a lot of time doing newspaper and magazine layout with this back in the day.

Really, any forum that focuses on a specific niche. They could be some of the best places in the Internet. Facebook ate up most of those amazing communities.

Stop using Facebook, already.

> Wow, just wow. This is not conducive to honest conversation. I've been nothing but polite in our discussion. Your sarcasm here and in further responses isn't constructive. > Mana…

In an altruistic and idealistic world, sure. But that's not the world I live in. Personally, I find the ads histrionic and would like them to change. However, an article like this …

I was an employee, past tense. I was referencing my own salary. I know nothing about the endowment so I can't speak to it.

If you think anyone is getting rich working at the WMF, I can disavow you of that notion. It's just not true. Each of those people is making far below market rate for their respect…

Your response doesn't account for the vast change in scale and technology since then. I also was clear that these two things didn't explain all of the expansion just that they were…

The issue with this kind of thinking is that you can't have the freedom of an impartial supporting organization like Wikimedia without the pitfalls that freedom might trip into in …

Exactly. Number of pages is almost meaningless. The system stores a diff of every edit, forever. That includes diffs between binary objects like images and videos. Increasingly, wh…

If you got paid market rate, people would be on here complaining about your compensation.

One of the issues here is this funding goes toward some of the more hidden work that folks using and even contributing to Wikipedia don't see. Let's take two examples: 1) Automatic…

There's an entire site dedicated to their financials including entire audited financial reports. [ https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/ ]

They burned it!