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sdwedq

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    Comment #23642871

    I feel similar as you do. I haven't taken the steps to go freelance route yet. My biggest issues as an employee are lack of autonomy to work on my own hours, projects, technology, …

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    Comment #23629706

    In my experience, a lot of shops with Java in their tech stack usually get devs from Infosys or other consulting companies. So you are competing with super cheap labor.

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    Comment #23618356

    I do similar thing, but I just call it just "Keywords". Then I have separate section, Recent Skills, where I list buzzwords which I have decent experience with.

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    Comment #23552431

    I agree. I used to believe in absolute freedom of speech on the web. But then people start sending goatsx or whatever as joke in emails. I learned to avoid opening any links form c…

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    Comment #23530462

    Yes but they understand that in free market, they have to spend money on quality employees to make money. Hence, people still invest in companies where employees are treated better…

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    Comment #23530272

    You are lucky that you can ignore politics. As a minority, who has repeatedly faced discrimination; at various jobs, airports, in restaurants, and at social events, I cannot ignore…

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    Comment #23529007

    I have been considering freelancing route for a while. And the reasons you gave above are same for me. In addition, I work in a big corp where I spend a lot of time red tapes forma…

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    Comment #23528697

    You can learn sales and marketing when you have a product. In mean time, read books on these topics.

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    Comment #23457182

    Completely unacceptable. All of my managers were available during vacation if something truly blows up. But they never planned to dedicate a few hours for work on their vacations. …

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    Comment #23428854

    >> My inbox is my to-do list. I email myself things that I need to do too. > I was vaguely aware that people do that. Why does that work for you, though? Surely one could take up t…

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    Comment #23421818

    Between my work and gmail email accounts, I don't get much spam in my inbox. I also use filters, so newsletters, emails from various systems such as build tools, github, social med…

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    Comment #23405070

    Personally, it seems I touch wrong buttons quite a bit on my phone. I also click wrong buttons when using mouse but that is rarer than pressing wrong button on my phone. The most a…

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    Comment #23404728

    Touch screen is still very inaccurate and you don't develop muscle memory. You are more likely to touch wrong button on touchscreen than on physical ui.

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    Comment #23394047

    Drone racing sounds amazing especially if it is autonomous racing. How does one get started in this? I saw this https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/events/ai-innovati... but …

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    Comment #23240935

    Unfortunately, too hard it is too monetize a game on a web. I see people downloading games on their phones without thinking but don't know anyone who paid for a web-only game.

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    Comment #23195962

    In another life, I worked for small webdev/marketing consultancy. Their clients were multilayer marketing firms, subscription services startup and other startups. The company was r…

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    Comment #23180183

    This is seems like a good advice to increase competition by using nationalist sentiments. The problem is that many of these nationalist countries would outright ban competition. So…

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    Comment #23094294

    It depends on if you are a builder or a tuner. If you enjoy building stuff stay away from DevOps. It feels like endless config changes and fine tuning. If you enjoy tinkering with …

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    Comment #23071467

    You can use Netlify for this: https://docs.netlify.com/visitor-access/password-protection/...

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    Comment #23045166

    Seems like a good idea but a bit too complex, first you need to find an OS project that is close to your company's projects. It may work for PHP or JavaScript but not sure if it wo…

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    Comment #23023378

    They are asking what you did, not what they should do.