Remember: these days, business isn’t about running a company that will generate a modest profit for generations. It’s about convincing people that a polished turd (or enshittification of your predecessor’s product) is the next big thing, then selling your shares and jumping ship before it crashes.
I would say he has been very successful. He managed to become a billionaire by collecting money from investors without even needing a viable product. Even when the bubble bursts, he probably has enough other assets to live a very comfortable life.
Personally, I don’t care if it’s one message or two. The thing that annoys me is people who send a greeting and then wait for a response before telling me what they actually want. If someone sends “hi” and then immediately starts typing their actual question, that’s fine for me, especially on platforms with a typing indicator.
You’re welcome to start with “Hi”, “Hello” or even “Greetings, my lord” but please don’t just leave it at that. Follow up with your actual question immediately so the recipient knows what you need and if it’s urgent.
They are pretty effective at showing how many victims there were. There are three right in front of my door and in some German cities you can’t walk more than a few dozen meters without seeing one. And now remember that only about 100k have been placed. That’s only about 1% of the total victims.
I have two. Both not the worst in terms of total delay but memorable for being horribly annoying.
Correction: a TV show of which you’ve seen most episodes at least 15 times. There’s always that one season that you skip because you didn’t like it the first time.
Not the point of the video.
I think OP is not a native speaker. The (implicit) question is probably “Do you agree?”
I finished high school in spring which was a true blessing. I had always been a good student (4th best in my year) but got bullied for being a nerd.
Over the summer, I worked as a programmer for a small game studio, making a Nintendo DS game that got cancelled by the publisher on the day we sent in the last release candidate because they finally noticed that their idea was crap and they should have accepted the changes we had proposed. Didn’t matter, I had already been paid and got a lot of experience out of it.
In October, I started university which was a great chance to make new friends. By now I’ve lost contact with most of them but some are still around and I appreciate them a lot. I was lucky enough to already live close to the university so I could stay at my parents’ house.
Through all of this, I was in the middle of my first serious relationship. My partner moved from across the country to a town just an hour away from me. Being able to see each other more often was amazing but at the same time it made things more complicated. We were constantly struggling with aligning our schedules, couldn’t agree at whose place we should meet and got annoyed when one wanted to meet friends on a day the other would be free. We broke up in 2009 but we’re still good friends.
It was pretty much the peak of a community that I’m still part of today. Apart from long online discussions, we met twice a year for community events with about 60-80 guests who decided that it’s our turn to define what being a grown-up means. These events still exist (the last one was just a few weeks ago) but they’ve gotten smaller and some of that chaotic creativity has been lost forever.
Overall, 2008 may have been the start of one of the best sections of my life. I’ve never had more active friendships at the same time, before or after. I had many of the perks of being an adult without most of the drawbacks. I earned a bit of money and could keep most of it because university is cheap in my country and I didn’t have to pay rent. If I had the chance (and could take a few people that I met later with me), I would probably go back.
Oh, definitely. Just wanted to stress that it would be even worse without one of the richest and most productive states.
Well…
California contributes more than 10% of the USA’s GDP, so while it might be tempting to gain power, it would probably demolish the economy.
It’s the “It’s photoshopped, I can tell by the pixels” all over again but even more obnoxious this time. Sometimes I feel like people falsely accusing artists of using AI has done more damage to some than AI copying their work.
The worst sites are the ones that let you sign up with an unusual address but not log in. The worst I‘ve seen was some ticket system that rejected dfyx+theirdomain@mydomain after I clicked the link in their confirmation email.
Lemmy 1.0 will support scheduled posts
Did we ever get an explanation for that?
Quick, let’s all abandon Linux (edit: and git) because the main developer did something we don’t like! /s
I don’t think our measures are that different. I meant “successful as a businessman” which is mostly equivalent to “selfish prick” and very different from being a good person.