billy99k

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1051.
by billy99k 3y ago
Because many people are good at the beginning stage of a company, but just don't have enough experience to handle the company in later stages. Investors many times don't want to take this risk and will replace them with more of a
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by billy99k 3y ago
"Very few teams are like Google in its heyday. Firing on all cylinders. Innovating. Meaningfully moving the bottom line with tech is actually rare" Very few companies have products or a need for developers that require innovation.
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by billy99k 3y ago
Do you want to compete with someone for a job that cheated to get an education and got the job over you? By allowing this to continue, it will just add to the further decline of society.
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by billy99k 3y ago
10 years ago, I started a language meetup. Over the years, it grew to as much as 50 people and eventually people moved away, lost interest, etc. I met most of my friends and my wife from this group. Many of my friends even met their spou
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by billy99k 3y ago
I re-write all of my job descriptions. Usually because I touch so many different technologies, libraries, etc in each job, I can't put them all there. I try to tailor it toward the job description.
1056.
by billy99k 3y ago
When you can say you are any gender, without any proof, how do we know they lied?
1057.
by billy99k 3y ago
I have found that tailoring my resume to a specific job listing increased my response time significantly. I've seen so many articles about people answering 50+ job ads and getting no response.
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by billy99k 3y ago
"Why should an employer always be able to impose their desires on my lifestyle and not the other way around" It depends on your leverage. If you have a skillset that very few other people possess and the potential employer needs
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by billy99k 3y ago
If you want to work less and get paid more, there are better alternatives: 1) start a business 2) become a contractor/consultant. You can charge much more than a regular job and cut hours to get paid the same amount as you did before.
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by billy99k 3y ago
The auto industry with the UAW involved is doomed. They were booing Biden the other day because they don't want the move to electric vehicles. The reason? Electric cars need less people on the assembly line, so people will be out of
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by billy99k 3y ago
We are just bailing out the wealthy schools and not fixing anything. The schools don't have to worry about the money when it changes hands immediately when a student enrolls (the student takes out the loan). They have no incentive to
1062.
by billy99k 3y ago
The video won't play for me. What kind of cancer does he have?
1063.
by billy99k 3y ago
How do we know if it's long covid or vaccine injury?
1064.
by billy99k 3y ago
Well, it was fun while it lasted. These companies will soon be out of business.
1065.
by billy99k 3y ago
I just installed kali on WSL2 with GUI support. It's fantastic. Very fast. Much better than Vmware/Virtualbox.
1066.
by billy99k 3y ago
I just took two delta flights in the US. The first had free Wifi through Tmobile. It marginally worked. It was just fast enough to view low-intensity websites and I was able to connect to my linux servers back home.
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by billy99k 3y ago
Both. Many people with Dad's money have lost it in a couple of years. He was able to use it to fund multiple revolutionary companies (and succeed at it).
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by billy99k 3y ago
That isn't the point. When the union is involved, they keep demanding hire wages and benefits and it gets to the point where companies are better-off offshoring. Just look at the automotive industry. They have not only been offshorin
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by billy99k 3y ago
I was an Amazon seller 10 years ago. I noticed that as soon as I started getting some traction, Amazon would start selling alternatives and undercut me. At some point they started asking for proof of sales. This was then further used to
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by billy99k 3y ago
I don't really see a problem with this. Bandwidth is finite and if you have a little more money, you should be able to pay for it. The alternative is that everyone has data caps