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4 Easy Passive Income Sources for Programmers

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Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Who doesn’t want to earn some extra money? But the problem is everyone has a job, and to earn extra money, we have to give extra time. Regularly working extra hours is almost impossible and also harmful for your physical and mental health. That’s where passive income comes. You can earn money without actively working. There are many ways to create passive income but let’s talk about how programmers can do it. What is passive income? Passive income  is the money you earn that doesn’t require you to do a lot of “active” work to continue making it. Like if you own a house, and you earn money from the rental income. You can earn money from the rental income without working actively. According to Wikipedia, It is called progressive passive income when the earner expends little effort to grow the income. Programmers have more opportunities than any others to make passive income because of their skills. Here are the four easy ways: 1. ...

Management Basics: Determining a Performance Rating

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One of the most stressful parts of the end-of-year process for managers is the dreaded performance rating. This process forces you to boil down all of the work that a person did over the year, all of their accomplishments and misses, into a numeric score (often from 1–5) that may also come with words like ‘meets expectations’, ‘exceeds expectations’, or the unhappy ‘misses expectations’. If you work for a company that h a s a ‘pay for performance’ model, your rating will influence the employee’s compensation. It may be used as an input for promotions, and yes, as a factor in firing or laying off employees. And so while this process is painful, every manager needs to get comfortable with assigning ratings to their engineers, and justifying those ratings to both the person receiving the rating, and potentially to their peers, boss, or other stakeholders who have a say in the distribution of rating scores at the company. Your manager rating is a combination of measurable inputs and your o...

Gone Girl actress Lisa Banes dies aged 65 following accident

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  Gone Girl actress Lisa Banes dies aged 65 following accident Publishe IMAGE COPYRIGHT GETTY IMAGES US actress Lisa Banes has died aged 65 after being involved in a scooter collision in New York, police confirmed on Tuesday. Banes was perhaps best known for playing Marybeth Elliott, the mother of Amy - the titular Gone Girl in David Fincher's 2014 psychological thriller. She also appeared in films like Cocktail and A Cure for Wellness. Actor and director Seth MacFarlane led the tributes, saying her death was "a tremendous loss". I am deeply saddened at the news of Lisa Banes’ passing. We had the good fortune to work with her on The Orville this past year. Her stage presence, magnetism, skill and talent were matched only by her unwavering kindness and graciousness toward all of us. A tremendous loss… — Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane)  June 15, 2021 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. View original tweet on Twitter New  York police confirmed to ...