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by batmaniam 4y ago
Would LemmyBB need its own mobile app to stay consistent with its phpBB-like UI? The demo apps shown looks more like reddit. https://join-lemmy.org/apps
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by batmaniam 4y ago
That's true, and those laws are supposed to right decades of misappropriation of education, finance, basic rights back to those that were wronged. The intent is sound, but the execution of it? I'm not sure it's been done fair
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by batmaniam 4y ago
How does one become a product manager?
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by batmaniam 4y ago
Cool, congrats on the release! Can you tell us what game engine you used? I'm always impressed when someone releases a multiplayer game, let alone a co-op one. Was it hard to write all the networking/syncing code? Is your professi
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by batmaniam 4y ago
The CEO's stock is tied to that performance. The better the company is doing profit-wise, the more payout the CEO gets. That's why it doesn't make sense for us, the ground employees. But makes perfect sense when you look at i
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by batmaniam 4y ago
It sounds like a gas lighting attempt to paint employees as selfish and entitled children worried about losing their toys. Most people don't care about that stuff, it's all superficial anyway. Things like this usually means employ
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iPhone 14 Pro Programmed to Reject Repair(youtube.com)
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by batmaniam 4y ago
Seriously, I've had my share of horror stories on government systems. Do they just not dogfood their own product? Where is their QA team? It's atrocious how basic tasks are so broken all the time.
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by batmaniam 4y ago
People often say that if you make your boss shine, then your boss will in turn make you shine (ie, get promoted, etc). This may work for small development companies, but what I've found is that at most big companies, they'll use y
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BMW's $17/mo seat warmer subscription(cbsnews.com)
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by batmaniam 4y ago
The DMCA has provisions that is supposed to protect against copyright false claims. But every article I read about false claims always ends with some kind of definition of copyright. Like in this article, 'What is Copyright?'. It
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by batmaniam 4y ago
But OP is saying they consistently do this. At that point, it's a pattern, and it's intentional. And I do agree with OP: every company does this. They want to squeeze every bit of work out of you, and this comes in other forms, no
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by batmaniam 4y ago
> At what point do we simply ask if Amazon leaders have no sense of decency? We don't need to ask, we already know. Actions speak louder than words anyway, and we've all seen how they treat all their workers: from warehouse to
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Elon Musk tells Tesla employees: Return to the office, or else(cnn.com)
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Apple’s Corporate Workers Help the Mounting Union Effort(wired.com)
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Young people ask for pay transparency in job postings(cbc.ca)
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by batmaniam 4y ago
Honest question: with all the talk about brain elasticity being super slow compared to a twenty year old, how the heck are 50+ year olds able to pass leetcoding? Interviewers expect answers within 30 min to 1 hr. I'd imagine older peop
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by batmaniam 4y ago
Because of Dark patterns and Javascript. JS makes it hard to scrape unless you have enough processing power to run a browser headless for millions of product websites, and without bombing their sites too hard. Then there's dark pattern
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Meta is reportedly making ‘Zuck Bucks’(theverge.com)
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Pfizer asks employees who were overpaid from ransomware to pay company back(mlive.com)
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by batmaniam 5y ago
You already signed the letter, so technically the company doesn't have to pay you your verbal bonus. Definitely ask about it to HR because you don't lose anything by doing so, but don't expect them to correct the mistake. In
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by batmaniam 5y ago
Even corporations do this kind of thing, not just state agents. There was an interesting case where Ebay harassed two old couple for running a blog that was critical of Ebay practices. Ebay went so far as to cause long-term psychological da
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by batmaniam 5y ago
I don't get it. Isn't the covid virus still out there? It only takes one infection to mutate into another strain, one infection to pass it onto many other members of a community, one infection to cause long-lasting damage to your
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by batmaniam 5y ago
If the banks are tracking subscriptions, can we terminate the subscription from them instead of dealing with shady companies employing these dark patterns? Is this a recourse consumers have?
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by batmaniam 5y ago
This seems pretty common in our field. There will always be people who put down others to try and make themselves look good because that's how every corporate culture is incentivized to run. I have not seen any serious attempts to addr
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by batmaniam 5y ago
Hey OP, I understand your dilemma. The good news is you don't have to give up on your dreams completely, but the rate at which you work to achieve them will have to slow down a lot. You're thinking of starting a family. Unless you
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by batmaniam 5y ago
This index seems to indicate that people across all of tech have a good chance of suffering from burnout. We have a 42.1% chance of burning out apparently, which is pretty huge. It would be interesting to see the breakdown by age as well, a
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by batmaniam 5y ago
He considered it, but at his size it would have been kinda unhealthy to shed that many pounds in a short period of time: > “I was trying to figure how I could drop 80 pounds in six months, which, I mean, it’s possible, but it’s not the m
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by batmaniam 5y ago
People aren't machines. Productivity in the workplace doesn't translate to productivity in life, but managers would like you to think so, and because jobs are directly tied to your livelihood (with medical insurance and money to p
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by batmaniam 5y ago
No, it can be one in the same. A modern day example is neighborhood gentrification. Increase the price until only a certain group of people can live there, and those that can't tough luck. So the end result is we get neighborhoods that

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