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Payment is either broken or a scam. Unsure. It gives what looks like a stripe error. Payment processor is on a Somalian domain and the contact page links to a Nigerian twitter acco…

Betting on black probably has a higher success rate than the average startup though.

I worked for the Watson group. It was largely a marketing play which did land with some enterprises but is ultimately a failure because the tech was not there.

I love slack. Slack search is terrible for me, but maybe it's the quality of data it has to search through.

Moveworks | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE or REMOTE (some positions) We're instant help at work. An AI chatbot solution that integrates with the chat system a company already uses (sl…

I'm not sure that IBM leadership really understands what direction they want to go. They seem to pivot all-in on a tech sector and then abandon it a few years later. Rinse and repe…

I do a bunch of of XML/XSLT work still. I use XPATH 1.0 basically everyday. It's also awesome for web scraping. Overall, it's a great tool that doesn't get a ton of exposure.

> Living somewhere expensive (within your country) seems like a lifestyle choice like any other. Right. I'm really looking to be able to drive a Tesla and vacation several times a …

This is great news. I wish worker pay was more based on the value they provide versus where they decide to live. If you're making $200k in the valley and you decide to move to Ohio…

Really? I had some decent success on FB early but not now. I also made a killing when MySpace launched it's terrible ad service.

> hey also ban you by default, assuming, I think I had my account banned the last 3 times I created a new ad. None were against their policies. My account go reinstated each time b…

Not only will they save money on office space but many of these companies are requiring employees to take pay cuts if they move to a lower cost area. Like all the sudden your value…

> But if you're single, staying cooped up alone at home can be a disaster. During COVID I would say this is more of a problem but in my 8 years of remote work I don't really miss t…

> which is problematic for building teams and culture; Why? I've been remote for about 8 years. I don't think I've had any problems building relationships. The only thing you miss …

I think that's what they attempted to do with Watson and Watson Health, but it didn't take off the way they were hoping. It seems like they were early in the "AI" space.

Their legal team is pretty good?

Speaking as a former IBMer. I understand IBM wanting to be a player in the cloud space but I'm not sure they ever will be. Like who seriously uses IBM Cloud? I know some big corps …

They don't. Tesla has stores that are company owned. Dealerships are a franchise system from what I understand.

Man when I was at IBM I had to buy a Watson shirt.

Sounds like it did land a job: https://twitter.com/davidwalshblog/status/131168544997550899...

I do wonder what breaking up large US tech corporations does to the competitiveness of the US on the world scale.

For those that don't know, there was a public case about the legality of scraping involving HiQ and LinkedIn ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2019/09/10/linke... ) TL;…