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Reread the first comment you responded to. It was talking about cross compilation not error handling


He cannot


Microsoft, Facebook, NVidia and Intel apparently can.


You asked for a source and were given one, then went on to talk about joe Biden for some reason, may I ask why?


I'm very curious about this rewrite in Java, especially the orders of magnitude improvement. That sounds extremely impressive, and something that I wouldn't have considered possible. Can you share a bit more about how this performance improvement is achieved?


blind is very big tech and US centric, it's not really a replacement for glassdoor


then how do these behemoths go down? I'm sure there's a scenario or two where better solutions win eventually, is it all up to luck and time or is there an actual plan for that to happen


It's probably easiest for another company to pivot into this.

Say you have a maps / direction software with a very large userbase and decide to add a rating feature to locations. Or perhaps you have a professional social network and you add a feature to rate your employer.


LinkedIn.


Then they cannibalize the money they extract from recruiters to harass me for roles/services i have absolutely no interest in. Could also disrupt the power balance with companies paying for said subscriptions versus the free users.


Also, a cunning "growth hack" to improve user engagement ends up publishing employee ratings of their company in their colleagues' newsfeeds and sending out an email alert. This feature can be disabled by upgrading to LinkedIn Sales Navigator


they list a bunch of stuff in thei paid features https://www.glassdoor.com/employers/features-and-pricing/

looks like you pay for advertisements of jobs, some more marketing features and some other crap


It doesn't sound like a great business to me, not to mention the risk someone else rightly mentioned here of being taken to court by companies.


It is extraordinarily difficult to win any kind of defamation lawsuit in the US. The bar is really high.

I certainly wouldn't try to run a business like that anywhere else in the world, but in America they're probably fine, with just some basic screening.


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