@Stormblessed You voted to close this question May 2 '17 at 16:50 that was 10 minutes after asking as it was no longer reproducible. I personally think temporary glitches don't need a bug report, SE has enough monitoring tooling to know something blew up. That is why I both down vote and close vote such question as they have no long lasting value, specially not for future vistors.
Early closing might prevent answers and that would help get a question roomba-ed earlier.
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I'm pretty sure they'll regret it if they remove it.
On a completely unrelated note, if anyone is interested, I have about 10k clean residential IPs with proxies on them that I can configure to only allow connections to Stack Exchange and related sites. I wouldn't mind giving them out for free if anyone wants to let SE know just how bad a decision it is and happens to prefer to use one of 10k proxies instead of their home IP for whatever reason.
(SOCKS5, but I could change them to HTTP proxies too)
I saw Microsoft has created its own Q&A system, designed to incorporate the same Stack Overflow-style Q&A, but with additional samples, documentation and tutorials.
Someone asked "Why not use SO" and got some interesting answers.
I assume MS Q&A isn't using SO as the backend platform, as 'sald...
@TheforestofReinstateMonica obviously it's only a n=1 sample but The Water Cooler over on Workplace is significantly quieter these days, some of the regulars have left, others have scaled back their involvement in SE and others just have things going on in outside life.
Anyone, any 4 people, care to test with me if this edge-case exists: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/339381/… Where you get a notification if you cast the 5th re-open vote on one of your own questions?
It's also something she wants to do, so I'm not going to discourage her diversifying her energy away from creating albums of religious violin instrumentals that she can't get churches to let her perform and sell...
My parents do lots of sales classes, but after a certain point, getting checklists of sales activity and practicing sales talk doesn't marginally help your economics (it doesn't seem to be helping theirs, but the economy where they are is bad...). I want my wife to eventually (early next year?) get some certifications, like "Accredited Buyer's Representative" and so forth...
She asks me because she's not making much money, so if she closes some deals she won't feel like she needs to ask me anymore (or so I kinda hope because I actually do respect and love her).
Anyone got any ideas to help me better communicate the love and respect thing? I get pretty focused on work and technology and don't give her as much attention as I should.
The new blog post Introducing the Loop: A Foundation in Listening links to a survey, that appears to be what the Loop is at the moment. That is this: "Through the Loop Survey" on SurveyMonkey
When I go to that survey, the first thing I see is this:
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well, we're both really into the goal of getting a lot of money in savings for retirement, but we don't have an official budget. I'm hoping to get a financial plan from my financial advisors with a budget in it. That could probably help.
But there's the big factor of her barely making any money, which I'm hoping the real estate sales may improve. I figure, worst case scenario, she takes a min-wage gig that her license and a cert or two makes it a no-brainer to hire her for. Then she'll have her "own" money for studio time and marketing and stuff.
@AaronHall Is she into playing other genres, apart from classical & church music? There's some interesting stuff happening in alternative country / contemporary folk, eg imwithherband.com
I know NYC is good for jazz musicians. A lot of Australian musicians do well there (which means we don't get to see them much here in Oz). But I guess it depends on what genre you're into.
She's got great reviews for lots of proposal gigs, but gets them maybe 1 a month at the most? And they pay like on the order of $200 a gig. Any "serious" musician (that hasn't "made it") has to be doing other side work, as far as I can see.
The Christmas season should be a big opportunity but with really niche genres... people like listening to stuff they know like the Bach Magnificat... choral or orchestral music. Or interesting small groups. I still remember a great flute/harp performance I went to 20 years ago.
So I'd say she has a strong competitive edge (website, videos, repertoire, broadway experience, teacher of students that won lots of prizes) that should help her "make it", her way, but the economics (supply/demand) are terrible. She's done private tutoring, but wants to get away from it.
Well it's definitely tough for her... which is why I support her getting a side-gig in real estate.
I had her studying for the general stock-brokers exam a long time ago, after visiting NYC on vacation, she got enamored of the trading floor (which is still dying...) I did not have strong hopes for that, but the education was good. Every bit of education she wants I'll support. I told her I'd pay for her a Master's degree (Arts) in fact.
I won't support sales-school after sales-school, though. One? ok. If you're not making sales after several sales schools, you need to improve your economics.
(differentiation, different field, whatever it takes, but smiling with a new mental model for sales isn't it.)
anyways, I explained it all. If anyone needs me to explain anything on any topic whatsoever, I'm a professional know-it-all, and I work pro-bono for my friends. :P
This is a question related to the new feedback procedures announcement.
This site (Meta Stack Exchange) has various functions: (per the help center)
Meta is for...
... Stack Exchange users to communicate with each other about the Stack Exchange network (asking questions about how the...
I saw Microsoft has created its own Q&A system, designed to incorporate the same Stack Overflow-style Q&A, but with additional samples, documentation and tutorials.
Someone asked "Why not use SO" and got some interesting answers.
I assume MS Q&A isn't using SO as the backend platform, as 'sald...
The new blog post Introducing the Loop: A Foundation in Listening links to a survey, that appears to be what the Loop is at the moment. That is this: "Through the Loop Survey" on SurveyMonkey
When I go to that survey, the first thing I see is this:
To continue, please confirm you are at...
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