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by pink_dinner 11y ago
Many IT titles are fluid. I've been a: Computer programmer, software engineer, software developer. Right at the bottom it states: "Software Engineer: $0.94"
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My issue is that before his consulting career, he was lauded as a business god, when in reality his main business couldn‘t pay the bills for a single person in most parts of the US.
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"Here is what we are witnessing: the end of the on-demand dream." The problem is that city managers are seeing money they can't tax and either pushing these companies out completely or creating new taxes and diminishing the p
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"I discovered this when the company told me they couldn’t show off a lot of things they wanted to." Many of these factories will tell you anything to get you to buy, so I wouldn't exactly believe this. The problem is that not
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"Many companies, especially rapidly growing startups, make the somewhat false assumption that cultural wins come from superficial perks. Games rooms, zen gardens and branded loot (from skateboards to iPads) are all dangled enticingly a
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You can probably find a VPS provider at $5/month, but it most likely won't be reliable. I probably went through 50 or 60 providers over the years and most of them are fine, until there is a major issue, and then you will see why
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Dating apps and sites are a tough business. As soon as you obtain a customer (which can be costly), your app will ensure that they don't come back if you are at all successful (happy people in relationships don't pay for dating a
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"one of his “friends” was sure to groan and say how boring Ross was, how stupid it is to be smart, and that nobody cares" The sad fact is that the majority of people will find intelligent discussion extremely boring. Especially i
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This won't work when I need to scrape 100,000 pages in an hour.
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"if someone steals my TV, gets caught, and the punishment is for him to buy me a new TV and fix my door that he broke and another 100 hours of lawn care on top of that, that's a lot cheaper and better for society than sticking him
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This is why I started my own company: So nobody could tell me what to do. It's not really even about the money.
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It really isn't just about knowing the words. It's about being disciplined enough to memorize/study them. You could really say that about many subjects. I don't use half the math I learned in college. Does this mean I
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"Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week." This statement, but itself, doesn't really give you the entire picture. I've had my own company for the last 10 years. Running a comp
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Because millionaires have something to lose.
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"Don’t assume we want to become mothers. And if we already are mothers, don’t assume that we’d rather have fewer hours or responsibilities. " This isn't just an assumption. Pretty much every woman I worked with that became a
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It reminds me of Webvan all over again (the first time all of these food delivery startups failed). Food delivery is extremely difficult to get right. You needs lots of money in the beginning and the shipping routes need to be really effic
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So..more free press for Donald Trump?
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" If you’re going to copy, copy the really important stuff like a diverse workforce." I disagree. We shouldn't be pushing for a 'diverse' workforce. We should be pushing for a merit-based workforce where the best
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I used Fiverr to make a logo a couple of months ago. The company I used not only wouldn't follow any of my directions (they were very simple, considering it's only $5), but the logo quality I received was nothing compared to the
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Wow, they fooled everyone! In reality, everyone I know were laughing at anonymous because we already knew the info had been public for years. I find it funny that anti-trump protesors have to resort to violence (there were violent protests
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If you are getting paid the same salary and aren't being 'fully utilized', this isn't 'underemployment'. Underemployment is when you aren't working full-time and/or your employer isn't giving you
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"There are several problems with this simplified view of the economy. Namely that the inflation rate is not realistically tied to minimum wage in any way." 'Simplified' is believing that raising the minimum wage to $15&#
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As a counter-example. Let's look at some of the events put on by the fashion industry. It alienates and has a not just 'unconscious bias' but a clear-cut, in your face, bias toward heterosexual men. I'm okay with this a
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All too often, people use excuses for their own failure s. Getting funding is damn hard. African americans make up only 14% of the population. Only a small percentage of this will pitch VC and an even smaller percentage will get accepted.
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Zuckerberg wanted his employees to read the latest book by the current Chinese president a few years back. The book was pure propaganda. I wish he represented freedom and standing up for everyone's freedom of speech (and privacy), but
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Mandating a higher wage through law won't work in the long-run. Inflation will catch up in a few years and a person making $15/hour will no longer have the increased spending power they once had when they first got the boost in p
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This has happened with pretty much every site that has gotten big. Look at Twitter: They gave developers access to their data, allowed them to build companies around it, and then removed access abruptly. In some cases, they offered these c
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It's like anything in life. You have enthusiastic people that have this vision in their head about becoming a software developer and joining a startup. When the realities hit and they realize that some of it is mentally taxing and bor
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Many people thing $10 is too expensive for a movie ticket, why would they pay $150?
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Global trade is very similar to the Music (and software) revolution that happened over the last 15 or so years. The original creators of creative works were upset because free music, software diluted the value of the original work and it wo

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