This exactly. I can't begin to list off all the rich dumbasses who had all sorts of titles in startups because they went to the same school, knew the founders, etc. I've had such people have no idea what model they even use for large chunks of their pipeline. Obviously they hire the actual talent and these guys get the credit.
How is this different from any other company though? It happens a lot where I live. You either know the higher ups through some sort of connection(school, event, family, etc) became friends and that's it you landed on a nice position.
I'd love to say it's only prone in startups but it's been plaguing companies forever, especially small-medium sized ones where it's easier because the owner is probably hoping to find able hands, perhaps the huge ones have slightly better processes to counter this type of scenario.
It's not different, all companies are like this. That doesn't make it any better though...
Success is mostly based upon who you know and being at the right place at the right time. That's why it's disingenuous to suggest you can "teach" how to be successful with blog posts like this -- you can't teach someone how to be born into the right family so they can attend the right school and meet the right people.
Nothing and no. It served as a jobs program of sorts to a lot of places that have nothing else, so that's about all it has boiled down to in the past 20 years. The people who started it all will die peacefully, though I hope I am wrong.
Can you explain to me why reddit feels like it is held together with duct tape? IMHO, it has the most problems with site uptime and basic functionality of any major site on the net. I am always getting search problems, site unavailable, or some other such glitch with it. I can't believe you guys just don't know what you're doing, so what does the present setup offer that is worth this shitty performance?
> always getting search problems, site unavailable, or some other such glitch
This sounds like my spouse saying "you always...". It's obviously not "always"; I think you'll get a better reply when you quantify it. For example, in the last month, how many times did you get a search problem (which was it), a site unavailable or something else (what was it).
It's about once per session for me. Seriously, compared to every other major site I know of, it is in a class of its own for flaky UX. At least one of the things I describe above per afternoon, lets say. Often many more than one if it is having serious problems. As for the issues with you and your spouse, I will just say it sounds like there is a opportunity for improved communication there. Best of luck.
This is genuinely threatening to too many interests in the US, will not pass. Much smoke, but no heat, just like the last few times its been proposed. They will not get a master key to everything lol, nobody trusts DOJ like this. The people in power have dirt to hide too, just like you and me.
What you did is not illegal at all, but the law doesn't really matter anymore, so I guess you have fallen into the "pissing off powerful interests" category, which is just as bad as doing illegal stuff. You should consider putting this up as an onion at the least, is quite helpful for some of us. Kudos:)
