cutthegrass2

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   by cutthegrass2 5y ago

   are you able to share any links to the info you read?
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   by cutthegrass2 5y ago

   This rings true with my experience as a contractor in London.
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   by cutthegrass2 5y ago

   I agree. I left £800pd for £150k salaried for work interest reasons mainly, but tbh I haven't noticed the reduction in monthly income at all.
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   by cutthegrass2 5y ago

   I'm in two minds about Hotz. Can't work out whether he is genuinely operating on a higher plane of perspective i.e. genuine smarts, or if he's just an incredibly obnoxious, full of his own self importance, type of person. In
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   by cutthegrass2 5y ago

   This is interesting. I'm currently on £150k in the UK working for a startup (non-VC backed, just an owner with very deep pockets) and have an ownership stake vesting in 3yrs. Like you, i'm trying to weigh up the risk of staying (m
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   by cutthegrass2 5y ago

   I have a couple of HHKB's (hybrid type s) and I find the build quality to be excellent. Granted, they feel lighter than i'd expected for a ~$300 keyboard, but they've been rock solid for me for the past few years. Maybe you g
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   by cutthegrass2 5y ago

   Similar to others here, I disable all interruptible notifications except for family sms and calls. Apps that I allow to notify me (there are a few), do so by sticking the notification in the system tray - this way, I dictate when I receive
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   by cutthegrass2 5y ago

   Wonder whether the AWS Mac EC2 instance types are affected too, anyone know?
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   by cutthegrass2 5y ago

   In the UK, HMRC (gov agency that is responsible for collecting tax) has a concept of Payment on Account [1]. You make 2 payments each year (Jan and Jul). The payments are based on last years actual tax liability, so the assumption is you&#x
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    Well TIL. I thought it stood for Old Guard meaning "original or long-standing members of a group", but I'll take "original gangster" instead, sounds better :-)
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    Thank you for replying, and for the nuggets of wisdom! Merry Christmas!
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    Incredible, if i'm reading this right (tired eyes, kids were up all night), you have 8 children? Curious if you have any words of wisdom to share around managing daily life with that many kids?
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    Had a similar dilemma to you a few years ago, except that my background was predominantly based in large organisations, i'd never worked in a startup or worked for myself as a contractor. I chose the contract route and was able string
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    If this were true, perhaps it points to the increasing use of PED’s in more recent years.
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    I've been on quite the mech board journey since March 2020. Have owned and resold: - Filco majestouch ninja (cherry brown) - Microsoft Sculpt - Kinesis Advantage 2 (KB600 - cherry brown) - Kinesis Advantage 2 LF (KB600LFQ - cherry sil
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    I'm in the UK (London specifically) and have worked for daily rates between £600 - £950, with durations lasting between 6 months - 2years. IR35 has certainly thrown a spanner in the works, but i'm noticing more and more businesses
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    This is exactly the view I hold too. I viewed them as a guided learning curriculum to keep me focused whilst learning AWS. Otherwise, i'd have drifted off down deep rabbit holes playing with some of the more exotic services and missed
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    Can anyone recommend a corded set of headphones with a decent microphone? I currently have the Bose QC35ii, so something like this, with a cord and no bluetooth. Noise cancelling not required, just need something decent for work.
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    Thanks for sharing the cloudoptimizer.io link, first time i've seen it. Looks great. As an aside, if the developer is reading this, looks like the example command on the api page is missing a closing ' (single quote) after the &lt
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    Ahh, useful thanks. I've been using Ctrl-l for years. cmd-k is an easier 'chord' for me on the kinesis so I'll switch.
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    Completely agree re the value of having side projects. I wish I had the luxury of time right now, maybe in a few years once the kids are older. The leetcode dance is, at least for me at this point, much lower effort than starting a side pro
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    I could do this and would welcome this type of interview experience. I'd be able to talk in general terms about the problems I work on and their solutions but not the low level specifics. To add some context, my work is in Financial Se
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    Yep, agree. 95% of the code I write is owned by my employer and is under NDA various other privacy / IP laws. The 5% that isn't, has no place in an interview. It's a bunch of brittle glue code automating and backing up data b
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    I'm so glad you mentioned this. I thought it was just me!
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    zsh can be a real pain to setup if you want a "performant" git status in your prompt. vcs_info is just too damn slow. I prefer minimal customisation and so tend to stay away from heavy plugins like ohmyzsh, though I have friends w
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    A Second Facebook Whistleblower Comes Forward(businessinsider.com)

    34 points by cutthegrass2 5y ago|4 comments
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    I second this. I pay ~£1700pcm for a nanny to look after my 2 pre-school age kids 5 days a week. This is (obviously) paid out of post tax income. At current UK income tax rates this equates to earning ~£2100 gross.
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    I managed to avoid it by (begrudgingly) accepting a permanent position. However, I pay less tax to HMRC overall now than when I was a contractor, around £13k annually. It's completely bonkers. I'm struggling to find any logical re
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    Also worth noting is the fact that when your body stores glycogen, it does so by binding it to water molecules in a ratio of 1g glycogen : 4g water (iirc). So increasing your carbohydrate intake also increases the amount of water you retain
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    by cutthegrass2 5y ago

    I have family in Australia (NSW and Queensland) who are becoming increasingly concerned with the habitability of Australia over the coming decades. Have you given much thought to this / do you have any practical advice besides emigrati