I remember one interview I had with a candidate. It was for a database analyst position that required SQL.

The first round was typically a phone screen where I chat with the candidate, get to know them a bit.

Second round was code review. I asked them to do a SQL query that did x.

The queries were simple. The goal was to get the candidate to walk through the query.

I had one candid that, over screen share, wrote the query flawlessly. Then I asked them to explain what it was doing. The candidate froze.

I can get understand getting nervous so I moved onto an insert statement. I had them write one and then do another without using certain terms (often leading to a sub query).

Again, flawless. I asked what situations would you use one over the other.

Again, they froze. I started to get suspicious that they were cheating and had them, instead of typing the answer, say the answer. When they couldn’t, I knew enough that it wasn’t going to work.

The problem is that the people who hold the rights don’t want to share. They want that sweet, sweet, monthly subscription income. They don’t want to compete because that means they’ll potentially earn less and have to spend more.

I tell people about fmovies every chance I get because it has just about anything you are looking for. I’ve only run into a few titles they don’t have.

No registration, completely free, and easy to use.

They don’t have to pay unemployment if you are fired for performance.

That said, my understanding is that you should always file for unemployment and file an appeal when it’s denied. Chances are higher that it will get overturned on appeal.

Won’t you PLEASE think of the shareholders?! They don’t want to ask the government for yet another government bailout.

The best way to fight the fingerprinting is for us to all use the same throwaway email address.

I use thepresident@whitehouse.gov for shit like this.

Probably because anyone can contribute to it. But you have to pay to use them.

Kinda like another website that recently made this change…

From lemmy.world’s perspective, I get it. Our current legal framework makes it damn near impossible from a financial standpoint to take a stand against corporations with pocketbooks the size of some first world countries.

But the rise in piracy is a direct consequence of these corporations’ actions against their very users.

Piracy has and always will be a service problem. I don’t think lemmy should be used to share torrents for example. But honest discussion about the current state of affairs and alternatives should be allowed.

The admins took a measured approach here and it’s one that is refreshing given the regime that many of us came from.