ME: "I've been supporting your team a lot for the past year.
ME: "I've been supporting your team a lot for the past year. Can I just join your team? You have a lot of interesting projects available." MGR: "Actually, it's really hard to onboard new people right now. We're stretched very thin. Can you do this urgent project for us and then get back to me?" MGR: <onboards some new hires> ME: <finishes urgent project> ME: "So, any chance I can join the team?" MGR: "Actually, I'm not sure we really have space on the team anymore, I'm really sorry about that." Takeaway: If you're in a meeting with a manager and they sound completely unenthusiastic , and not even making eye contact, and falling back on their basic lead training to feed you non-committal apologies, you have lost hard . I don't know how you messed up or what clues you misread, but there is nothing for you there. Stop hoping to strike gold. Run.
Posted by legerdemain on Apr 28, 2021, 8:29 PM
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To be fair, Inform7 can't succeed, generally, because there is no market for the kind of games that you create with Inform7.
New> The notion that somehow LR reliability is misunderstood by Consumer Reports, JD Power, Car & Driver, Automobile etc.
Custom trigger IDs are not displayed in the new 2026.10 trigger selector
I hate that too, but I think it’s more the ux than the concept of a default.
> The biggest problem with UX developers is they know better than you AND force you into their paradigm.
"Focus follows mouse" is what I use to keep the file manager from popping up when click-dragging files.
The biggest problem with this is if the target URL doesn't load but also doesn't quickly error out, like e.g.
Google wants to build up a private web here.
ME: "I've been supporting your team a lot for the past year.
ME: "I've been supporting your team a lot for the past year. Can I just join your team? You have a lot of interesting projects available." MGR: "Actually, it's really hard to onboard new people right now. We're stretched very thin. Can you do this urgent project for us and then get back to me?" MGR: <onboards some new hires> ME: <finishes urgent project> ME: "So, any chance I can join the team?" MGR: "Actually, I'm not sure we really have space on the team anymore, I'm really sorry about that." Takeaway: If you're in a meeting with a manager and they sound completely unenthusiastic , and not even making eye contact, and falling back on their basic lead training to feed you non-committal apologies, you have lost hard . I don't know how you messed up or what clues you misread, but there is nothing for you there. Stop hoping to strike gold. Run.
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