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There are zombie startups. The business has stalled out, but breaks even. The staff and investors are checked out. Ambitious product people show up with big ideas that never work a…

Promos before the terminal level are easy because your manager wants to retain you. After the terminal level, they're used as carrots to squeeze more work out of you. One scenario …

I've been on the IC version of this. You have to be on the right team, do well, and have the right friends to get a promotion past the terminal level. Ask yourself where the team i…

> Great points - however this can keep your fridge running for 2-3 days (a pretty long outage). $1,000 buys a lot of groceries. It's cheaper to to have a small supply of shelf stab…

Where does it say Mozilla has your browsing history or sells it?

> Mozilla is selling your browsing activity in Firefox "privately" to advertisers Do you have a better source for this?

> no one asked for water resistance Manufacturers put water-sensitive indicators in electronics to flag this during warranty claims. Before water resistant phones, people would des…

Now you're trading off water resistance, size, and capacity. Choose 2.

It doesn't take very much effort to look at ink costs when buying a printer, so this is on consumers. It might even be the rational choice for low-income consumers since it's cheap…

I had one of these phones that would crash under load and the update fixed it. The technical fix was sound. Batteries can't supply full power as they age, and the CPU needs high po…

Are you talking about Coyote Vs. Acme?

If this doesn't give FF a noticeable bounce, FF really is a lost cause.

This happened to me. There was a layoff, I got overwhelmed with work that had to get picked up, lost motivation, and burned out.

> there are a lot of jobs that make it difficult to continue past a few years This has been a lot of my career. All my long, successful jobs have lasted around 2-3 years, and it's …

Maybe, but the gold chain, million dollar watch wearing CEO talking about masculine energy doesn't help the brand.

I'm not sure if it's accurate, but a certain nautical themed torrent directory currently lists Office 2016 as the third most popular Application torrent.

I got a copy of my background check a few times. They contacted my university (who has my graduation date wrong). I'm not sure if they actually contacted previous employers (who us…

> In Youth, you fantasize about one day meeting your idols Towards the end of my youth, I got to date a celebrity crush and work at my dream job. Both sucked and left me heartbroke…

Not WaPo, but chuckr is back at Meta because of the political shift. Chuckr is well-known for being a firearm enthusiast.

When he killed the Harris endorsement, that sent a stronger signal than endorsing her.

Projects I've seen at work. Projects posted on Hacker News. Data races aren't usually an issue for backend services, and modern Java/C# is multi-paradigm.

This, but I'm getting tired of people using Rust for things that really should be in C# or Java.

How's Paraguay? I'm told it's one of the safest places in South America outside France, and safer than Chile.

Chile is further south than you think and more developed than you think. Unlike most of Latin America, the tap water in Chile is generally safe to drink, so their electric grid mig…

Musk fanboys are always impressed by how much he does, but it's becoming clear he can't have time to be the CEO of Tesla, owner of X, CEO of the Boring Company, CEO of SpaceX, CEO …