cutthegrass2

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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Sure, I have 17yrs experience. I started out on a graduate scheme (after a BSc Maths) working for one of the global banks on ~£28,500 (in London). This was considered a good starting salary back then. You have a very good higher level degre
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
> "If these behaved like other forms of equity" I don't know what "behaved like" means in this context. By behaved like, I actually mean't "taxed like". You nailed it in your post. The employee is
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
I don't disagree with this. They are indeed a form of equity. My issue relates to how they're treated with respect to taxation by the various revenue authorities. In the UK, the tax paid on RSU's vesting is related to the per
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Yep, gotcha. I actually meant "pseudo", but I spend a lot of my day typing sudo so... and whilst we're nitpicking, I also meant "lose" and not "loose" in the sentence below.
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Slight tangent, but RSU's are "sudo equity" IMO. I'm not sure how the tax liability of RSU's works in the US, but in the UK they are treated as "income" and taxed as income, not taxed as "capital&quo
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
anecdotal I know, but companies i've worked with in the past hire freelancers do to the jobs the employees don't want to do.
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
memorise the ingredients list on the shampoo bottle, at least that's what I do when I forget to take my phone to the bathroom.
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Me too. I lost many an hour playing brick-breaker whilst sat on the toilet instead of working.
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Sure. General boredom and tiredness arising from many years operating in what are heavily political environments, is just giving me itchy feet. The other opportunity is with a startup, so quite different. Whilst i'm under no illusions
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Senior Architect - Global (US HQ) software consultancy. Main skillset is Java/Python/AWS and associated tech, mainly in a financial services setting, so thats where they post me. 2021 comp £140k base £9k sign on bonus £17.5k an
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Almost the opposite for me, although it could be something to do with having twins! Congrats on the weight loss!
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
+1 for Andrews & Arnold, very happy customer here.
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
We should all be reducing our sugar intake and the intake of any food that is quickly/easily metabolised into glucose. It’s one of if not the main fuel source of cancer cells.
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Does the AZ vaccine not appeal either? It is made from a weakened version of a common cold virus (adenovirus) from chimpanzee which has then been modified to contain genetic material from the coronavirus itself. Thus exposing your immune sy
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
The global financial system largely runs on a tech stack of Cobol, CICS, DB2 on zOS.
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
I really like this https://github.com/awslabs/aurora-snapshot-tool It's a small and simple codebase, that implements a cross account DB backup capability on your AWS deployments. I think it's an example of wo
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Similar story in the UK. People are sick and tired of Amazon deriving huge profits out of the UK market ($17.5 billion in 2019) and paying just a minuscule amount of tax on those UK sales (£6.3 million in 2019) using a mixture of clever acc
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Should be nice and easy for you to stand out amongst your peers then.
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Terminal, TMUX, neovim when i'm writing bash/python or any of the markup/config "languages". Intellij for Java, because of all the extra crap associated with Java.
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
For a non-FAANG London salary data point; I did ~5yrs Java development contracting in London/Finance and my day rates fluctuated anywhere from £600 - £950. Converted to perm in 2020 at £140k base + $40k RSU's working for a consult
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
> Though the youngsters coming up now drink way less than I did at 18 in 1998 I've noticed this too (also British). I'm very close in age to you and remember the news stories regarding University drinking challenges and deaths
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Yep, carbonic acid. If it tastes great, there's usually a catch somewhere!
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
depending upon where you are located and your method of commute, it's likely you're spending more per month commuting than you would on a local co-working space. This is the case for a large proportion of people in the South East
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
I'd buy a non-smart phone with a decent camera and SD photo storage in a heartbeat!
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
> (truly: this was york) York, UK? I didn't know IBM had a place in York back in the day.
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HashiCorp.
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Articles mentioning caffeine and or theanine always remind me i'm drinking too much coffee and need to cut down. For what it's worth though, I certainly notice the effects of theanine when I take it, usually 200mg upon waking befo
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
> A wrong decision can be fixed, but wasted time is gone forever. so true!
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
I hope to see day rate contracting adapt to the new legislation and make a big return, though i'm not holding my breath. As a data point, i'm London based, moved from £800 per day to £140k permanent position last year. "Lead
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by cutthegrass2 5y ago
Incidentally, I also found it more comfortable to switch over to a trackball style mouse - Logitech MX Ergo at the moment, but keen to try something even more vertical.

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