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by kspaans 10y ago
When I interned for the Federal Government in Canada my wages were for 37.5 hours per week (7.5 hours per day, 30 min unpaid lunch was the implied structure).
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by kspaans 10y ago
If you ever work on a team I can't recommend code review enough. I can't comment on how useful it is to review your own code after the fact by reading it, but you could certainly give it a try that way if you are currently working
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The Fall of a High-End Wine Scammer(bloomberg.com)
100 points by kspaans 10y ago|57 comments
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AMA with Canadian Couch Potato on personal finance and index investing(reddit.com)
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by kspaans 10y ago
This showed up on HN last year: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation It's got advice on where to start, common gotchas to look out for (in the US), and definitions of everything.
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by kspaans 10y ago
There is a nice glossary of terms here: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation
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by kspaans 10y ago
Understanding how much you owe the IRS in taxes is personal finance, which isn't the same thing as business finance.
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by kspaans 10y ago
Contractors don't get holiday or sick leave though.
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by kspaans 10y ago
Hey now, Canada makes that exception too! ;)
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by kspaans 10y ago
Have you looked into Trigger Point Therapy? It's worked for a friend of mine with RSI.
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by kspaans 10y ago
Did you get special incentives on your mortgage because you are renting out all or part of your property? (E.g. buy-to-let in the UK (London at least), where it's easier to buy a house you plan to rent out than it is to buy a house to
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by kspaans 10y ago
places where your mortgage payments are a bit cheaper than your rent would be And where you have the stability to stay put and maintain those payments. You can't (easily) sell your house every year and move to a new one.
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by kspaans 10y ago
The Cowspiracy documentary linked to is also quite good. It's very slanted, but it does a good job of presenting questions while being light hearted and not trying to make you feel massively guilty.
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by kspaans 10y ago
There are many who attend OS-related academic conferences multiple times a year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_science_confe... There are also some more industry-related conferences like http:/&#
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by kspaans 10y ago
It is a bit silly, but try thinking of it as "one developer who helps makes ten others be twice as productive". It could even be a non-technical manager who is really good at taking care of all of the non-development work for the
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Why Should You Care About Virtual Reality? Because It's a Source of Hope(antipope.org)
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by kspaans 10y ago
In the 25 years leading up to 2008 you will probably find that you already gained more than the drop. Also worth noting that the markets were fully recovered within 5 years (and usually sooner).
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by kspaans 10y ago
Market timing is a fool's game. Find out the right asset allocation for your personal risk tolerance and retirement goals, stick your money in, rebalance annually (contribute monthly if fees are low), and then sit and wait.
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by kspaans 10y ago
How are you efficiently saving for retirement? There are markets for real estate and gov&corp bonds too!
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by kspaans 10y ago
Interesting how the interplay of payroll tax and stock options creates a capital issue like that! On a sidenote, do you know why payroll taxes are charged to the employer, rather than showing up on the employee's paycheque?
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by kspaans 10y ago
Coventry, UK is a good example of this. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Coventry+Cathedral/@52.407... The city centre is essentially car-free, with a ring-road highway around it. The centre is dense enough
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by kspaans 10y ago
The advice I've heard is that you can do this, but you MUST lawyer/accountant up. My understanding is that it is reasonable for you to have foreign, pre-existing income, but you need the experts to file the right paperwork for the
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by kspaans 10y ago
I'm a Canadian working in software in the US with a B.Math, so I got in without a CS degree.
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by kspaans 10y ago
If Northern Ireland can't secede and join the Republic of Ireland, what will happen to that land border?
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by kspaans 10y ago
death penalty for non-straight or non-cis people Consider Iran, it's not so black and white. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29832690 Instead of immediately penalizing gay people, they offer them sex re
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by kspaans 10y ago
The SNP has essentially already promised to hold IndyRef2 if that's the case.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts and vote here on HN! I'm curious if you have any thoughts on what would happen to Northern Ireland and its huge, unpatrolled land border with the EU in the event of vote Leave? Disclosure: I'm a Ca
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by kspaans 10y ago
I'm a Canadian who recently relocated to SV from London, UK. Before that I was at RIM/BBRY in Waterloo. After receiving my job offer and an invitation letter from the company I flew to the US and, at the border , applied for a &q
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Vancouver Mayor Eyes Vacancy Tax(scmp.com)
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by kspaans 10y ago
It takes a different skillset to work remotely, so there is a lot of inertia behind current work setups.

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