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Just because ideas have failed spectacularly in some places and on some scales doesn't mean they don't work well elsewhere.

First tried his own company for a year, which failed, but did get him some experience with javascript.

It's possible he wasn't prepared for the interview, and was thrown for a loop early on and failed to recover.

You have failed to demonstrate that the quality of television shows has declined over time.

As a social network it has failed, But as an Identify Platform it's really good.

I've tried and failed several times in the past 15 years to start using emacs for software development.

Perhaps it's to show that failed experiments are a valued part of the process?

That assumption failed when Google moved to BoringSSL, Adam Langley's rewrite to improve security.

I've experienced a startup that skyrocketed and one that failed and also one that's doing moderately well.

Now it is less valuable because we have seen that the company has failed to live up to those expectations.

You seem to be thinking that the employers should let you learn your profession on the job because the college failed to do it.

My first startup failed and yet I was labeled as tenacious with regards to it.

He faked his own references (via fax at that time) to get in the door, and when people made reference to university he just sidestepped the question or gave vague "yeah" type answers as he had not attended but had left school at the minimum legal age and become self employed (and failed a couple of times).