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burnallofit
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You do "tech support" and are generally tech savvy? Try getting a job doing remote QA. There are online services for testing apps/software. I work for a company that employs such a service to test our stuff. Now, your real go
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I got a degree in CS at UC Berkeley. There were exactly 2 lectures on ethics, both given by the same professor. Kudos to him (Ousterhout), but shame on the department. I'm not singling out UCB, I'm sure many other schools have the
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11y ago
Nobody wants to bother questioning the numbers. The first line shows Zynga, $3545, $147K, 47%. First hit on federal income tax calculator using single standard deduction no kids gets a federal tax liability of $30K, leaving $117K or a month
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11y ago
The simple fact is that 90%+ of startups fail. The economy is certainly not built on failure but rather on knowing when to redirect effort to where it will actually make a difference. Recognizing when a ship is sinking is critical to one&#x
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OP's first mistake is only interviewing at 2 companies, which apparently both sucked. OP's second mistake is staying at the same company for so long despite the fact that (a) they have to fight for decent raises (b) the company su
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I tried to look myself up, and indeed they don't have my current employer (a small startup). My guess is that only larger employers participate. More importantly, this raises significant privacy issues. How can a current or former empl
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To an employee, the actual benefit offerings are the primary consideration. If one provider had great payroll but so-so benefits, that's not worth a slight reduction in management overhead.
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The spreadsheet links to Vulnerability Note VU#582497 ( http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/582497 ). This links to additional information in CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java ( https://www.securecodi