Online education, networking events, business cards.
Yup, having been burnt by a few bad e-book purchases (both, fiction and non-fiction), now I stick with big name publishers. Unless books are recommended by trusted Twitter or hn accounts.
There always will be certain percentage of people who will take advantage of return policies. I am sure at Amazon's scale, they can detect abusers easily. Most people hate to return stuff, and I think retailers take…
> These are then immediately followed by a 1 star review along the lines of "This is the biggest piece of junk I've ever bought online. Will be returning to Amazon. DO NOT BUY!" I really wish Amazon expose return rate…
I never had courage to watch any such videos. But read a few things about torture and such, just reading these things traumatized me and triggered years long depression and anxiety. I lost my faith in God and humans. I…
I agree with statement "Hard deadlines for some sort of fix or workaround do exist". Key being get this done before CEO's big presentation or hard code something or CEO doesn't demo this feature. The point is no one…
I am using this one: "Learn concepts and practice for the Kubernetes Certification with hands-on labs right in your browser - DevOps - CKAD" by Mumshad Mannambeth.
Usually, you don't lose a customer over a bug in two days. Customers are reasonable usually and understand that it takes time to fix bugs. Most of other reasons like CEO doing a demo at a conference can also be managed.…
Yes, this is correct response. This applies to both, bugs and feature deadlines. Early in my career, I would freak out whenever there were hard deadline, spent hours of personal time trying to meet deadlines. Now that I…
There are some excellent courses on Udemy.
This is so common, we even have ethics training at our mega tech corp and we are supposed to report any such activities. A lot of time kickbacks are subtle though like unpaid internship at vendor for CTO's niece. Or…
Online education, networking events, business cards.
Yup, having been burnt by a few bad e-book purchases (both, fiction and non-fiction), now I stick with big name publishers. Unless books are recommended by trusted Twitter or hn accounts.
There always will be certain percentage of people who will take advantage of return policies. I am sure at Amazon's scale, they can detect abusers easily. Most people hate to return stuff, and I think retailers take…
> These are then immediately followed by a 1 star review along the lines of "This is the biggest piece of junk I've ever bought online. Will be returning to Amazon. DO NOT BUY!" I really wish Amazon expose return rate…
I never had courage to watch any such videos. But read a few things about torture and such, just reading these things traumatized me and triggered years long depression and anxiety. I lost my faith in God and humans. I…
I agree with statement "Hard deadlines for some sort of fix or workaround do exist". Key being get this done before CEO's big presentation or hard code something or CEO doesn't demo this feature. The point is no one…
I am using this one: "Learn concepts and practice for the Kubernetes Certification with hands-on labs right in your browser - DevOps - CKAD" by Mumshad Mannambeth.
Usually, you don't lose a customer over a bug in two days. Customers are reasonable usually and understand that it takes time to fix bugs. Most of other reasons like CEO doing a demo at a conference can also be managed.…
Yes, this is correct response. This applies to both, bugs and feature deadlines. Early in my career, I would freak out whenever there were hard deadline, spent hours of personal time trying to meet deadlines. Now that I…
There are some excellent courses on Udemy.
This is so common, we even have ethics training at our mega tech corp and we are supposed to report any such activities. A lot of time kickbacks are subtle though like unpaid internship at vendor for CTO's niece. Or…