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811.
by cimmanom 8y ago
As far as working in east Asia: most of the BigCos have multiple headquarters and internal transfers. It’s probably easiest to get hired at an office in a country where you already have work authorization. After a year or two, you can apply
812.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Would you find it satisfactory to work for a for-profit company that instead of automating away jobs or costs was using technology to open new markets? What about one in an existing market that’s getting consumers better prices by bypassing
813.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Most people don’t have the good fortune to be in a financial position to keep trying.
814.
by cimmanom 8y ago
You can take pride in doing good work and you can take pride in the outcomes of your work even if you're not passionate about the work for its own sake and even if you wouldn’t be interested in the work without being paid for it.
815.
by cimmanom 8y ago
I always figured the text was so you could elaborate on your question since Ask HN posts with just a title are often too vague to answer.
816.
by cimmanom 8y ago
An impeachment is not a conviction. Bill Clinton was impeached, and that doesn’t seem to have hit the economy particularly hard. A conviction, now, that might be different. The best comparison in modern history might be to Nixon’s resignati
817.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Not that I'm defending a one-child policy, but fwiw even China's policy had an exception for twins.
818.
by cimmanom 8y ago
But one that many women in the mid-century had to resort to Valium to endure, and not one that anyone should be forced or pressured into.
819.
by cimmanom 8y ago
That looks like Appalachia plus a swath of the Deep South. It's a region with particularly deep poverty and challenges around education and health care.
820.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Most people who get fertility treatments are struggling to have one child, or at most a second - which is still below replacement rate. Fertility treatments for people who waited too long to have kids isn't going to contribute to over
821.
by cimmanom 8y ago
"Ruler"? Personally, I find silly over the top terminology like that or ("ninja" or "rock star") a turn-off in a job posting anyway; but for those who do find it appealing, there's plenty of gender-neutral
822.
by cimmanom 8y ago
And... the only job posted there also uses a gendered term ("king") that suggests it's not open to women.
823.
by cimmanom 8y ago
We started doing this a year or two ago. We collect postal code (not full billing address) and pass it through to a vendor that calculates how much tax needs to be collected. The vendor also calculates for us how much needs to be sent to wh
824.
by cimmanom 8y ago
The terrible grammar, spelling, and proofreading do not give me all that much confidence in the writer.
825.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Because for the vast majority of software, fast to build is far more important than provably correct. Because there aren’t any batteries-included RAD frameworks in functional languages yet. Because most undergrad degrees, if they touch on f
826.
by cimmanom 8y ago
High level execs tend to have their attention torn in a million directions at once. This means that how you communicate with them can be very important. 1. Always provide context for what it is you’re bringing up and be specific. “Can we ge
827.
by cimmanom 8y ago
You can probably find this on a contract basis.
828.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Depends on the PTO reason. If I take the day off for medical reasons, I’ll check in from time to time on email as Slack just to be considerate to my co-workers - unless I’m actually unconscious. Medical PTO is also more likely to occur on s
829.
Ask HN: Do you use handwriting recognition for note taking?
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830.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Just ask to change that clause to cover only work done for the company (even if that work is done from home) or using company resources. Most will. If they won’t, walk away if you’re in a financial position to; or work there for a few month
831.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Where the CXO is generally focused on vision and externally facing aspects of strategy and growth, the VPX is typically focused on the internally facing aspects and the execution. CTO: how does Internet of Things fit into our strategy as an
832.
by cimmanom 8y ago
It’d be perfectly reasonable to share a link to on HN after writing it in a blog. But HN isn’t a blog or a blog hosting site.
833.
by cimmanom 8y ago
TDD usually means tests-first development. It’s possible to have tests-required without TDD or tests-first.
834.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Are you working at my company? Ok, more seriously: that’s the way existing code is about 90% of the time - it’s the reality of working in our field. It may or may not reflect on the original developer. Maybe they were learning a new framewo
835.
by cimmanom 8y ago
I’ve memorized landline and cell numbers for two family members and one family friend. Phone numbers aren’t all that difficult to memorize, though some repetition helps. (This was easier to do naturally back in the landline days.) Try print
836.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Eh. I type about 150wpm for a sentence or two already composed in my head. 100 when having to think ahead while writing an email. Probably about 30 while programming because that many more cycles are spent in the brain and fewer in the fing
837.
by cimmanom 8y ago
If your work laptop is issued by your company and you work on side projects whose IP you want to continue to fully own, you need a separate home device. Surely you don’t want your employer to have ownership over your personal emails? Your c
838.
by cimmanom 8y ago
But how much damage can he do to the country before then? And will all or even most of it be reversible? In our current political climate?
839.
by cimmanom 8y ago
Arguably, most of the work there is to do on software is maintenance. The percentage will only increase as more and more of the software that people find useful or entertaining has been implemented to an MVP level.
840.
by cimmanom 8y ago
NY already did the losing their teams to other markets thing, they just did it 60 years ago.

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