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Why aren't you running your own business, maybe as a consultant? You shouldn't be selling your services but your knowledge.


Actually, I would appreciate some advice on this. I truly don't know what services to sell. I can set up machines, design databases, write graph algorithms, train machine learning models, design web services, etc. But I'm not a "leading expert" on any of those things. I'm a generalist and usually have an answer for any problem I run into simply because I've run into it before. How do I market myself as a general problem solver?


I'm in the exact same boat and would love to hear some ideas.


There should be a market for people like us. My personal network is not large enough to build a practice around. Have you had any ideas on this?


exactly, the USA had a case of antitrust against Microsoft for doing that. The whole world is aware of that except that "journalist".


> standards compliance that won the browser war, not Microsoft's extensions

OMG, what about the whole antitrust case of the USA against Microsoft in the 2000ies?

I can't read any other paragraph written by "journalists" like those.


Suppose you have a job for a Kernel hacker. You have John, who has zillions of non-trivial patches applied upstream available, but "flubbed a BFS traversal". And you have Joe, who you haven't heard before but took a whole year doing nothing but traversing graphs and trees to pass your interview. Who would you reject?


Whiteboard interviews are not for hyper specialized roles. They're for companies who get hundreds of applicants every week. Right tool for the job.

In this instance if I were John I probably wouldn't want to work for the company anyways because they clearly have no idea how to hire.


Problem is that most companies copy “the right tool” for all the jobs just because the famous big brother(s) do(es) it.


if you answer why there are american companies milking till the last drop of our natural resources I can answer why we get your jobs.


'code written by some stranger on the internet is always perfect' - AWESOME! :D


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