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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
This would be the place to mention the Panama Papers...
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
You map out your ancestry. That's great: records found, tree built, work complete. Business relationship over.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
30-60% isn't a marginal increase, that's just a solid raise. I'd call 5-10% marginal. Maybe they're holding out for something larger, like 300%,
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
When did they give a statement like that? Show me
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
I agree with the initial assertion as to how companies work when they start to grow to medium or larger. The rest, though, feels an awful lot like projection on the parent's part; someone's an insecure admin or programmer revelin
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
I've been in the ISP, MSP, Fed'Gov, and Manufacturing sectors in one way or another, and dealt with SAP in most/all of them. Some were worse than others about this, but it was a universal problem. "CYA is SOP", hen
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Total cost means nothing. What was forecast? What was the original budget? If the original was billed at 1.3 billion NOK and we're at 2 that's still very high, but it's a different discussion from a 400K NOK estimate. &quot
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Their entire salary, or close to. They're there to ensure profitability and stability, so you choose stable and reliable vendors.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
As mentioned above, it may be a 60k to settle, 100k+ to build something compliant, or close down (and maybe move to another location). It's not hard to see why it's not worth the investment. Shut it down, take the breach of contr
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Probably not Montreal -- they have a reputation for lower pay and higher taxes. But also considerably cheaper COL. As a friend from out that way put it, "its harder to be a consumer there, but easier to be a human".
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
That's not marginal, that's damn near 40%, ballpark of 80k USD per year difference. That's close to $100K CAD per year. And while the current state of play in the US is rather odious, the idea that you'd be less secure
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Currently the exchange rate is .77, so $170k CAD is $128,025.30 USD. That's nothin to shake a stick at, but by NYC, DC, Seattle, LA, SF, etc. rates it is middling. Meanwhile, SDE2 at Amazon or others is like $200K USD, at least accordi
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
USA-ian in Canada here. Been able to work remotely for US firms consistently for going on ~5 years here. I hope these changes drive up tech salaries in Canada -- I fear they won't. Currently they're about 20-40% less than the US
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
I wish SaskTel was nationwide.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
I'm a USA-ian in Canada, working remotely. I'm in a big Canadian city, we have a hockey team. The average IT salaries where I live are in the ballpark of 70-100k Canadian Dollars (CAD) -- at least according to Indeed.ca, LinkedIn
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Why do you need an extra room? Laptops can go anywhere, and my living room is empty until ~4pm when my kids get home. I've been remote for going on 5 years now and routinely take my work laptop to the kitchen or living room (though I&
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
It'll vary heavily by state and local law. In most cases they expect you to groom or otherwise manage your outdoor space, but no one will protest if you put several raised beds full of veggies or flowers. Plenty of folks in New Mexic
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Anyone who asks is just trying to get leverage. How so? As in, "you're out of the job market for a while, so you seem sketchy, and thus I'm going to pay you less"?
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
I liked, and will second, Getting To Yes
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
For non-Austin readers, this is on par with a warcrime. Probably a joke in there about Shiner Bock too.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
The average end user, or even a technical user paying half-assed attention, is not going to pick up on, or care, about those nuances. We're nerds on a tech nerd forum, so we care. But HN isn't a good reflection of society, or eve
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
In a college class we tried using rockets for transmitting. Like, the middle-school "rocket club" style rockets, a simple kit with a control board, and another that just had a very large spool of wire a la guided anti-tank missile
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
exploding CD's, or going heavy and randomly shooting mortars at an enemy base. fun times.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Apex legends, Rust (the game), PUBG and other "battle royale" games fight for it's marketshare. TF2 has been around long enough to have the weight of history.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Weren't the predicting a 50% performance hit if/when the microcontrollers were patched?
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Tyler Cowen runs the George Mason University Mercatus Center, which is directly funded by the Koch bros; one of the Kochs is directly on the Mercatus board. In other words, they have a very specific economic and political axe to grind. Mr.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Wasn't that quote Steinbeck, the writer? Grapes of Wrath, etc.
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
The bill takes effect in 5 years -- aka another president's term, most likely -- and will force a massive tax hike for that president, which would swing the pendulum back again. The folks pushing for the cut don't care about any p
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
The book is "What's The Matter With Kansas" and it came out in 2004. Old hat at this point, e.g. Koch brothers, Fox News, Identity Politics, etc. The real story is why the left isn't able to pull them back in, or reach
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by blaser-waffle 7y ago
> Note that I consider the bulk of that utility to be in communicating to upper management. A massive amount of software, tools, and techniques exist entirely for that purpose. Best advice I heard was something like "treat them like

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