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These mistakes and the ending advice are pretty distracting tangents to a fundamental flaw: The business model can't afford employee overhead at even poverty salary levels. Everything else is just noise.

The best take away is yet another damning piece of evidence against the "gig" economy.

Surprisingly one of the areas I use my comp sci knowledge the most is in one of the most widely applied areas - relational databases. Every programmer spends lots of time reading and writing data, and understanding a lot of the low level operations, plus linear algebra, can really help with performance and assessing alternatives.

Absolutely.

I'm about 3 months in at a new company and starting to see areas for improvement. I just make a note and keep my mouth shut. In another 3-6 months I'll have earned the right to start diplomatically suggesting some of my ideas. For now i just try to understand the thinking that went into decisions that resulted in our current state.

If you want to go into a new organization and "be disruptive" and you're not a management consultant, be prepared for the likely outcome of failure.

It's also well understood that we incorrectly attribute success to the individual and failure to externalities when measuring outcomes, so the successful entrepreneur says "be like me", while the failure lists a lot of factors. Accounting for bias means there's a lot more value in the latter.

Although a big part of his job is writing about similar topics, so you could also say he's still doing the same thing, only posting to a different end point and getting paid. That too is success.

My $125 Alcatel Windows Phone meets or exceeds the specs of all but the highest end apple/android devices, but I can literally feel the ecosystem crumbling around me

Still on Windows Phone. Their inability to create a 3rd mobile ecosystem gives me all the smart features I want without the cost of apple or the dark patterns of android. Not that they didn't try... I know it won't last forever, but I'll enjoy it while I can.

Do you really believe this or are you just casually throwing it out there to see the response? Google, fb, et al most certainly do manipulate and discriminate against everyone. By design they give you the information you already know, believe and want because this increases engagement and usage. They're not giving you "news" as by definition journalism is intended to be balanced and unbiased. The existing platforms don't want to give you a wide cross section where everyone will disagree with certain components; that would be bad for business.

Except neither the president nor his close friends pay any taxes, so how would they know anything is broken? /s

Does it really need to auto scale for a well known and understood usage? If dominos can do it for the super bowl surely the irs can provision for annual fillings

They don't have to do the actual bg check though, just ask you do you have a criminal record. If you say no, then they do the check at the end and you do, you get passed over for lying, not for having a record. This is how many low paying front line jobs have always hired.

How will I know if my college roommates got fat though?

"but of an arse" is pretty generous for behavior that would cost him his job today.

No kidding. He wasn't told either, but easily figured it out. The rest of the executives should by charged with insider trading if they knew, or fired for incompetence if they were unable to figure it out.

No, that was public relations 101. Equifax the company and their domain can move past the beach without dragging along the baggage that's attached to that quasi-random, only ever so slightly connected domain. Mitigation playbook page 1, baby!

The article is about how they copycat app makes no mention of vlc or their gpl requirements, so while there's no guarantee you have the official vlc version, if it mentions vlc in the name you don't have this one.

Cigarette taxation in Canada depends a lot on provincial jurisdiction and with no inter-provincial borders it makes enforcement against smuggling tough