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How big is your company? you're talking about 2 hours of interviews before you get to the take home. Seriously?

My current gig, my boss talked to me for 30 minutes and made me a job offer by the end of the day. This is at a firm with 200,000 employees. I've been there for 4 going on 5 years. I started as a contractor and have decided to make the hop to FTE.

I'd offer the candidate a 30-60 minute interview followed by offer with a mandatory 90 day termination / probation period or a 1099 contract. Ask the senior about the last project they led, talk through challenges and how you faced them, talk to them about politics and how they manage those, talk about a technical problem they faced etc.... Behavioral interview ish ... Engage, talk, gauge experience and if they don't jive, don't hire them.

"Best outcomes" by what metric? My dad did that in college and dropped out, joined the military. We were always poor growing up. Every person I know who did not go to college and got someone pregnant is very poor. Trailer park poor. I was trailer park poor growing up...

I'm the lucky one. I went to college, graduated at the bottom of my class because I was working 40 hours a week trying to stay afloat. I was the first of my class to get a job, the only one with a job before graduation. After about 2 years, I was making six figures and have for the last 8 years.

I'm lucky. Today I'm closing on my second house. The first one I bought 6 years ago with only $9,000 down on a 3% conventional loan has ballooned in value to give us a home 2.5x the space with over $240,000 down. $9000 into $240,000 in 6 years. Magic.

I have a wife and a kid. Lucky. Waited until I was 30 to have a kid. He's almost 3 now. The best outcomes? If I had a kid at 18, he'd be 12 and I'd be poor, never had gone to college. I would have either worked a full time job, retail or restaurants only in my small colorado town and never had the opportunity to go to college, to get internships and work part time. After community college, I went to state school and started working 40-50 hours a week. Multiple internships to reduce the debt.

I can relate, I have a propensity for a lot of hobbies and ideas; though props to the guy for doing it!

sounds like enough of a reason just to buy a Tesla.

This is why things like MarchPassword2022! comes about ... not that I've ever used that password...

MarchPassword2022! is very easy to remember...

MyMarchPassword2022!1

IsThisAGoodPassword2022?

One thing everyone is getting hung up on is the fact that Amazon isn't wholesaling the dongle. The contract isn't a wholesale deal, meaning if your widget doesn't sell, it's sitting on your balance sheet, not on Amazon's balance sheet. It would be like if Costco instead of buying 1000 legos, just stocked legos in it's warehouse, then paid Lego company everytime a single unit sold. Then they figured out how to make their own legos through a different supplier, they fixed the original Lego price $5 more expensive then the store brand legos. Now Legos sell for $30 a box and Kirkland Legos sell for $25 a box, same exact product, just a few bucks cheaper. Oh and lego couldn't drop the price from 30 to 20 to compete....

That's what Amazon has done. Price fixing and control of the competitors inventory. Damn bastards.

oh god. Could you imagine someone actually using this to write a real program?? Get it into production? oh, my eyes are bleeding....

I have this issue all the time. I do have to say the red dot thing in the middle of a think pad is brilliant. I love that. If only apple would add a red dot mouse

I wish they had gluten free pop-tarts...

I started on Mac in 2007, in 3 years I had 4 logic boards and hard drive failures. It was a White Macbook plastic edition. I was so impressed with the warranty in spite of the crappy heating issues, I later bought a Macbook Pro all metal edition. I got the 3 year warranty then and used it once when my logic board overheated. After that I held it for nearly 10 years until I replaced it last year.

How can we contribute to a Stockfish go fundme?

- Family interruptions

- Family thinking that you actually don't work and instead thinking they can schedule tons of things to do while you're supposed to be working

- No boundaries in terms of when work ends and begins

- Not leaving the house enough; eg getting tired of being home all the time

PHB?

I don't think so. The firm I contract for requires me to work through MBO and use a CPA, which of both have a ton of advice and research on the 199A... See this:

> Under the law, most trades or businesses are “qualifying” businesses. However, for certain types of businesses, referred to as “specified businesses,” the deduction is only available to a more limited extent. “Specified businesses” include (among others) any trade or business involving the performance of services in the fields of health, law, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, consulting, athletics, financial services, brokerage services, and “any trade or business where the principal asset of such trade or business is the reputation or skill of one or more of its employees.” In particular, there had been considerable concern that the IRS might view the “skill or reputation” clause broadly.

> The proposed regulations, however, take the approach that the “skill or reputation” clause is meant to refer to a “narrow set of businesses,” and generally limits it to people such as reality TV stars, media hosts, and professional gamers, as well as celebrities making money off of product or likeness endorsements.

https://www.mbopartners.com/blog/contracts-finance/section-1...

There was an update in 2018 to the original laws.

> Therefore, self employed IT professionals such as programmers and software engineers will be eligible to take the deduction. However, they will still have to contend with some limits to the deduction that apply over certain income levels. For higher income IT professionals, it may be beneficial to operate as an S Corp and pay yourself wages to enable you to qualify for the QBI deduction.

SEE: http://kbfinancialadvisors.com/making-the-switch-from-employ...

My CPA and tax attorney would say otherwise....

I generally budget in 48 weeks a year of actual billable time. When it's crunch time and salaried aren't making any extra, (even bonuses factored in, which generally suck), I'm making an extra $1000-2000 a week; that's fine by me. I'm happy to put in the extra effort and earn a bit more.

To the author, you should also consider the "Section 199A" part of the tax code in your calculations which allow you to deduct up to 20% of gross income from your taxes, thus would drop your bracket from 24% thus would make your single example be capped at 22% or your MFJ at 15%. Huge tax savings.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/qualified-business-income-deduc...

I would hire a CPA to advise you. I did this year and it saved me almost $30,000 in taxes had we not used the 199a.

How are you no longer trading your time for money?

Why 0 points? I'm not Mr Money Mustache but down voting seems unfair.

Well, the google calculator says it's: (1.5°C × 9/5) + 32 = 34.7°F

1.5 C sounds like no big deal to me, being the uneducated American I am in terms of the metric system. Once you plug that into a calculator, I get "34.7" F. HOLY CRAP

That's a big change. Imagine Denver's average temp in December is currently 20 and with the change it would be 40-50. That's a MASSIVE change in Denver's ecosystem.

Skiing might not be a thing in Colorado in 5 years. We might be able to grow oranges soon....

- edit -

Apparently I am stupid. The Google Calculator uses the formula: `(1.5°C × 9/5) + 32 = 34.7°F` where as 0C is 32 F.

Therefore it's a 2.7 F change...

From that, https://paintlets.herokuapp.com/ amazing. SO COOL

This is really cool. I like the random background example or the ripple effect example in the video tutorial. I bet someone will compose a library of effects leveraging Houdini that will allow UI developers to greatly enhance their UI.

Things that we could only really do in Flash, like cool animations with transitions could become even more possible and easier to build with Houdini.

The table rounding is a really cool idea. I could see us combining a bunch of concepts to build really fast and performant designs that are cutting edge.

> State law determines whether a fired employee can collect unemployment. Generally speaking, an employee who is fired for serious misconduct is ineligible for benefits, either entirely or for a certain period of time (often called a "disqualification period"). But the definition of misconduct varies from state to state. In many states, an employee's misconduct has to be pretty bad to render the employee ineligible for unemployment benefits. An employee who is fired for being a poor fit for the job, lacking the necessary skills for the position, or failing to perform up to expected standards will likely be able to collect unemployment. But an employee who acts intentionally or recklessly against the employer's interests will likely be ineligible for unemployment benefits. Other states take a harder line, finding that employees who are fired for violating a workplace policy or rule won't be eligible for unemployment benefits, at least for a period of time.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/unemployment-benefit...

Like anything, it depends

You can if they fire you though...

Go right ahead. I double dog dare you infact. Then in 5 years, when your product can't scale, you're being audited for security issues or your customers leave because the quality is now a third of what it once was; then you'll be in a lot worse shape then keeping a couple of people around for 3x the price.