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doctorboredom t1_j9cyzku wrote

Reply to [OC] The End of Internet Explorer - Market share decline to permanent disablement by Metalytiq

Is this based on how many computers has IE installed, or is it based on how much internet data was actually served to IE vs other browsers?

When I made websites in the early 00s I remember very few users actually using IE even though most people had IE installed on their computers. My websites were pretty low traffic non-profit sites. Maybe traffic was different on major sites like Amazon?

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-domi- t1_j9cv9ap wrote

Reply to comment by joelluber in [OC] The End of Internet Explorer - Market share decline to permanent disablement by Metalytiq

Quick google reports (well) under 6% of users use Edge, which is absolutely laughable for what's the default browser on more than 50% of users' OSs.

Good =/= popular, and bad =/= unpopular. Edge is good despite being utterly unpopular. And i think it's unpopular because M$ made short-term decisions with ie which burned their image. That's the point of my original comment. It's now taken them Billions to get Edge to this point, and this point is still laughably bad. Look forward to the exact same thing happening with Google the moment a viable alternative surfaces.

To reiterate - i hope they all enjoyed their respective moments in the sun, because they traded away decades of unpopularity for them.

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the_finest_gibberish t1_j9crwj1 wrote

Reply to comment by 2-S0CKS in [OC] My sophomore year internship search by UglyDODO

Seriously. I did 3 applications, 3 interviews, one second round interview, and got accepted by that one.

Of the other two, one ghosted me, and the other rejected me but told me it was because a hiring freeze was rolled out the week after my interview, lol.

I cannot imagine doing 50+ applications and 14 interviews. Ain't nobody got the time or energy for that.

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roguespectre67 t1_j9crwhd wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in [OC] My sophomore year internship search by UglyDODO

Buddyroll, this is the way it works now. I was recently laid off, but I could see it coming and have been looking for a new job for maybe 6 months. One place put me through 2 rounds of phone interviews and about 4 hours of in-person interviews over the course of a day. Thought I did pretty well. Never even got a "thanks, but no thanks".

Another place I'm interviewing with right now has already put me through 3 rounds of interviews with the last one being almost 3 weeks ago, despite being contacted directly by a recruiter, and when I sent them an email checking in to see if I was still being considered, they basically said that yes I was but that the person I spoke to last had other interviews to finish and that there had been scheduling conflicts with the other candidates, so they'd check in with me when they knew whether I'd advanced to the 4th and final round.

I can't even begin to tell you how many applications I've sent out over the past 4 years or so since I've graduated college that have had no response. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Despite many of them having tailored resumes and/or cover letters.

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_Cabbage_Corp_ t1_j9cqpty wrote

Reply to comment by riptydeco in [OC] My sophomore year internship search by UglyDODO

Still no excuse. Any semi-competent company that is receiving that number of applications should have some sort of application to handle them. Don't meet qualifications? Either auto-reject based on information supplied, or a human hits reject. Either way, it should be able to send out a generic "form" email to the address that applied.

Literally would take no more effort than a mouse click. No excuse to not get one other than it being a shitty company.

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