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Likely, every company ghosts, either occasionally or often. So really this is kind of a 100% hit rate problem.

I think it is very easy for the average person to forget or not realize how incredibly easy it is to get calories into the body and how little food is necessary to do so. Most peop…

Sounds like software engineering is not for you.

One of the biggest weaknesses of a non-technical founder looking for a technical founder are basically the following: * Not really having 'much' to bring to the table other than th…

This is pretty well said. I tend to agree and as a founder of multiple companies, as a well an engineering-background co-founder myself, I have definitely had interactions with "no…

This is true except FoxPro really was more of a 'normal' relational database model. It just had this 'tabular' view for its Database Viewer client front-end. FoxPro was certainly n…

Remember when a T-1 line was considered to be like the god-level status of internet connections? Whoa.... 1.5Mbps!? Later, more affordable DSL speeds would reach single-digit Mbps …

This rationale doesn't make a ton of sense. Say they had paid you more. You'd still have these back issues. You wouldn't say, "I have these back issues every day of my life now but…

The whole premise of comparing a company to a family is not only flawed. It's just straight up incorrect/wrong. Very little about companies and the way they run and operate looks r…

It does, but temporarily. If layoffs caused terrible, permanent, irreversible, core damage to a company, then companies would stop doing them. But they don't. It's not new, it's pa…

You mean like how crowds of people at live music events ALL have their stupid smartphones up recording the same damn recording which they should be paying attention to and absorbin…

Affordability is a factor, but also one of several. Affordability, among other issues, certainly would lead some couples to decide to have fewer children than they otherwise might …

This can 'sort of' be done thru loan assumption. But it is a provision that only some loans have. And it isn't tied to the borrower but to the asset. Example would be you were sell…

I messed around with it. First, it didn't look one bit like myself as a younger me. It was like an artificially blemish-free version and it even tries, haphazardly, to fill in a re…

Ya know, I remember a time when Airbnb was still pretty new (this would be 2010 or 2011 or so). Didn't have all the fees and other bullshit UX problems they have now. And it actual…

It's possible, yes. Empires rise. Empires fall. Toyota will adapt and 'missed the boat' implies that that's it; they're done. They're absolutely not done. They were also miles ahea…

Lol. Now that’s taking it to the next level.

You answered your own question. Yes. Who removes a CEO? The Board. If the Board does their job (correctly), then they will make the right decision to release or retain the right CE…

Seriously? What 'fairness' exactly is it people want when companies do layoffs? "Hey, we are laying off 3,000 people. Because of that, I am firing myself and the company will no lo…

I think your argument is advocating that the 'person who probably wrote half the damn code' should get a lot more, right? What should that person have gotten, exactly? Either they …

My pet theory is that tipping became more common by almost accident. As the proliferation of various kiosk-based credit card processing machines took place (Square, etc.) where a l…

Short answer is, like anything in these cases, it has complications and an investigation unit is needed first in order to collect data and evidence, assess which, if any, laws were…

... all families are dysfunctional ... all people have [different] problems ... nothing is perfect ... perfect is the enemy of good\ ... life is hard.

That makes complete sense! I wasn't even thinking about that angle.

I've wondered why embedded tends to pay lower. C++ (and C) tend to be 'harder' languages for the average mainstream developer, particularly web developers. I guess I expect embedde…