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every time I've looked at remote (out of country) work, it was always as a contractor/consultant. Never as a true employee. That way the company pays an invoice, the contractor handles all their own taxes.

Treating your "foreign" remote workforce as employees I imagine will land you in some tricky international waters much better suited for your accountant, tax attorney, and your general business lawyer.

go talk to your instructors about the course work. It sounds like you're banging your head on the wall in silence. They are there to teach you, not just lecture at you.

If they pull some sort of weed-out classes bullshit explanation, learn to get respectfully angry and demand your due as a student. You're there to learn, they should not be preventing you from doing that by not doing their own job well enough.

Same as with linear algebra. It was never part of my course work. Differential Equations, yes. Linear algebra, no.

I plan to teach myself one day. Maybe I'll start today

Interesting, the first thing I ever knew about smugmug was their purchase/data save of Picturelife[1], and the story on the Reply-All podcast[2] about the problems Picurelife users were having (err, before the purchase, not after. The discussion of how things went bad for Picturelife is worth the listen).

[1]https://news.smugmug.com/smugmug-rescues-nearly-200-million-...

[2] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/71-the-picture-taker

In the penal colony.

I read all those you mention and more at university. They still stick with me as books I'm very happy to have read, but never want to read again.

My biggest problem is deferring and when I don't do that, I railroad or say 'fuck this, I'm doing it anyway'. None of which is useful or productive.

But for me it boils down to an inferiority problem. What has helped is recognizing that feeling of 'something about this isn't right' and instead of either pushing it down (because I don't want to look stupid) or immediately saying 'hey that's shit but I can't tell you why' I take some time to really think about where that feeling is coming from.

Then, if I find the problem quickly enough, I specifically talk about and explore that, trying to be extremely careful to not use any 'blame' language. Because laying blame is unhelpful and makes people defensive. What I want out of these interactions is the best solution, not to be right.

If I don't find the reason for the feeling quickly enough I try to keep my mouth shut. Just because I've got a feeling that something isn't adding up, doesn't mean it's true.

I stopped pigeon holing myself as an introvert.

I quite literally looked at my life, thought about where I wanted to be, and then looked at what traits I'd need to cultivate in order to get there.

One of them was 'how to have a conversation with people' which was hard to learn, and embarrassing to practice, but I got there. I'm not 'extrovert' at it, and it is exhausting, but I'm no wallflower any longer.

Another one was 'how to disagree with someone and not be deferential, passive aggressive, or just plain aggressive about it' this I'm still working on, but I've gotten better at it.

Thankfully, the 'I can do it myself' attitude I had to cultivate as a child, gave me a good foundation of life skills. I can travel alone, attend conferences alone, eat out alone, generally take care of myself. I just needed to add some extra skills to be able to get to the 'happy' point.

pretty much. A couple weeks ago there was a post to the facebook group for my village 'watch out there's a man with a white van shining a torch into people's houses'

To be followed by comments saying 'that's just the Hermes delivery guy'

The BBC has another whole set of constraints on it when it comes to it's commercial services.

Other content creators and such aren't operating under royal charter, funded by a license fee that every person in the UK watching (or recording) any live tv (not just BBC) or using iPlayer is obligated to pay.

The BBC can certainly engage in commercial services, but it's balancing act will be different to most other content creators.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/about/h...

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one

I see no reason in that for anyone to assume an entire internet forum to be exclusively one gender. Someone sees a set of interactions that they assume to be between a single gender, so they assume everyone is that gender?

why do you picture all posters on HN to be men?

that seems to say more about you than anything else.

simply those who have not yet learned how to 'open in incognito window'

I chose the Nest because we don't have a typical up-leave-home-bed schedule. I contemplated highly programmable thermostats, but felt the extra capability of the Nest was worth it to us.

how does your boss respond to the question 'are you HIPAA compliant?' when he's selling your software?

your sign-up link: http://www.dell.com/learn/uk/en/ukdhs1/campaigns/black-frida...

yes, I can now hold down small talk conversations, ask people about their lives, be interested in them and remember to ask follow up questions next time I see them.

I will ask questions about the outcomes of an approach rather than making statements about it so that I make sure we both are working with the same information.

basically it's made my life a lot less stressful, and my discussions with colleagues much more productive

can you write briefly about the issues you had with Druid? We've been looking at bringing it into out stack for our OLAP queries and aggregates and would appreciate a war story.

some UK companies do. from what I understand, you must have the cam on for every drive (some require them to be hardwired), and the insurance company will/can check up on your usage by requiring you to provide footage whenever they ask.

which ever you choose ensure it's written for your language of choice. It's a bloody pain in the ass to translate from python examples into scala.

I just bought one, yes. I drive a back road (UK, so lots of bends and also 60mph) for a fair part of my commute and the last time I came around a bend to see a car half in my lane, was the last straw. At least if I die in a 60mph head on collision I want proof it wasn't my fault.

I purchased a nextbase 512gw second hand for £70 vs about £150 new. Seems to be working well, the auto segment lock (hit a bump, it flags the recording segment to not be overwritten) is a bit sensitive, but it does seem to be learning a bit. It doesn't auto-lock as often anymore.

It's rather annoying that it expects to be always plugged in however.

If there has been no explanation for a requested change, ask for one. A reviewer should never ask for changes for change's sake, they need to have a reason. So ask for that reason, then you can decide whether to push back or not, or ask for further clarification.

It truly depends on what you're feeding the lambda with. I wouldn't recommend it for stream processing, ie reading streaming data from kinesis. If you're going to read streaming data from kinesis, write a KCL application. I can say 99% you will need the flexibility you get.

It may seem like nothing, but not knowing when the lambda context is going to recycle can also be a real pain in the ass.

I'm in the middle of this hell.

For reasons that I hope are rather obvious, I don't want my personal FB account linked to my employers Page. I also don't want apps created for my employer to be administered by my personal account.

And now I'm stuck in a weird lock-out loop for my work account. I was able to get a dev account and set up an app.

But now I can log in, navigate Facebook proper, but once I try to access anything in the dev pages, my account gets locked, I have to submit a photo, wait two days, my account is back. I log in, I go to the dev pages, my account gets locked.....

I can't find a way out of this hell, or anyone to speak with about it.

The photo thing gets kinda creepy after the 5th time.

I also work in an open office environment, with all the associated chatting, and general office noise.

I just ignore everything that isn't important to me.

at work, I generally don't. It's more important for me to know what's being discussed around me.

At home, I don't either, though I generally have some sort of nonsense tv on.

your wording is a bit odd to me.

If you strive to 'provide exceptional value', but want to be compensated highly, then the you are not providing exceptional value. Perhaps it should be 'commensurate value'

I use spark for batch data transforms, our data is structurally complicated, but not for streaming. I attended the EU Spark Summit last year, as of then Spark streaming wasn't prime-time ready, I don't know if anything has changed in the last 12 months on the streaming front.

You should have a look at Flink if you're looking into streaming transforms.

I use touchscreen a fair bit on my laptop, and miss it when I'm working on my work macbook.

Mainly when I'm just wandering about the internet it's often more convenient to poke the screen than to move a cursor.

At a previous job when I had an X1 Carbon touchscreen it was so much easier to be sat with someone, going over code or looking at an issue and be able to both poke and drag on the screen with out having to mouse or touchpad share.

I found doing presentations much more natural when I could use the screen instead of a mouse or touchpad.

The I-12 median barrier that significantly worsened the Baton Rouge area 2016 flood.

my phone is currently sat on my desk, about 10 inches from my right arm. I can, and do, check messages on it, by only repositioning my arm to unlock it.

I easily read any messages by glancing at the phone, never coming into any decent imaging range.