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>their primary audience seems to seek comfort in their stories about how they are in the right and how the opposition are the bad guys. Jesus fucking Christ. What would the opposit…

>cross platform frameworks improved No serious mobile application is built with a cross platform framework. It's a development strategy that relies on the product being "good enoug…

It's a little like AOL in the 1990s. A great business model, but one that won't outlast reliable internet access from service providers. Businesses like webcam studios bridge the g…

No. "Netflix / Disney etc seem to have copped onto one idea that works and just release the same tv show / movie over and over again with a slight tweak as it brings the money in w…

It's not usable as a currency except in the most dire circumstances and no one is working to fix this. Transactional currency has been abandoned as a goal by every major crypto pro…

Pets.com and WebVan were exemplary of the dotcom bubble. They had insane valuations and a problematic business model, but investors poured money in because of hype. But both those …

I support this. Overtime is free labor and the market should be regulated by the government to prohibit this. That said, I've been a software engineer for over twenty years and mos…

Software Engineering at Google [ https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book ]

Abolition is the only path forward. You can't reform this.

Twitter.

Early investors almost always require a friends and family round.

I went down a rabbit-hole last year trying out different MUAs and configurations, searching for that perfect setup. I like CLI interfaces and I wanted something where search was no…

In my city, Covid infections are still higher than they were at the peak last winter, so there has not been much discussion about returning to the office, though our offices are op…

Google used to be a pretty respected brand in tech spaces, didn't it?

I started at $50k, never made more than $200k in a year. My net worth will be a million well before I'm 65. A million isn't what it used to be.

>Any details on how that happened? buy food cook the food you eat generational wealth don't throw out food

>be as creative as you wish I don't think this is an area where creativity expands the existing options. If you have a stable job you will likely be approved for a mortgage. It mig…

I worked at a very large corporation that had a pay freeze for years. I didn't leave because of money, I just worked less each year. After more than five years of being underpaid, …

Yes. I would like to learn more about your union experience.

Similarly-sized software companies are also overpaying their executives at the expense of worker wages, so Mozilla is right on track.

iOS developer. I work from the spare bedroom in my house. Kitchen chair, Purple seat pad, 3' x 2' desk from World Market, M1 MacBook Pro, clip on ring light for meetings, Magic Mou…

Check out "The Four Tendencies" by Gretchen Rubin. It describes almost this exact scenario and provides tools that may help you overcome it.

Yes. Fully remote, good separation of work and life, the technical problems are interesting enough (for me), and management is mostly sane. I'm a software developer in the US.

Marketing is more important than the product because without good marketing, you'll have no customers. Logistics and supply chain is more important than marketing because without p…

No one has asked for my college GPA (2.4) since my first job out of school.