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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Why do you think that? httpss://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corporation
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
But you do have to choose specifically _when_ you consult with that medical professional. Late in the afternoon after a day in front of the computer, when your eyes are tired? Or first thing in the morning when they're fresh?
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
"and they you allowed to answer with anything except "yes" or "no"?" None of the Celtic languages have an equivalent of yes and no. Just make a habit of speaking, say, Irish or Welsh at work. (To an English s
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Software people tend to assume that the rest of the world is far more organized than it actually is. In particular, they seem to think that construction projects tend to be well-oiled machines with perfectly followed specs written in advan
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
This is, of course, absolute hogwash. If it were true Silicon Valley would have been built in a low tax, low regulation state. Blue state regulations and taxes are what enable technology companies, not the other way around.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Marked as answered is a fundamentally horrible idea and that feature should be removed. The problem is that the person asking the question isn't capable of determining a correct answer. Far, far to often they pick something that appe
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
As a first approximation, there are no C++ developers available. You're probably right that there are more of them than there are Rust devs, but filling a team with either one is going to be a very hard problem.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
And used with broken screens are cheaper yet.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
I take it you haven't done any home remodeling work lately? Businesses like plumbers _love_ cash, in the sort of amounts under discussion. Thinking it doesn't happen is just bizarre.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
There's no waiting period if you pay by check. (Yes, real world personal experience.) Don't forget they're happy to let it go with just a promise to pay later.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Because dairy farms go under all the time. These days, the well fed happy cows just stroll over to the next field, where there are massages on tap if the stress of eating grass in the sunshine gets to be too much. To put that in non-cow te
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
This would have been much improved if the cute legacy system has been speaking a dialect of Latin found in ninth-century Bavaria, with a slang vocabulary developed for its specific problem. And insisted that everyone else use that dialect
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Not compared to Seattle, as far as I can tell. Things have changed rapidly in the last few years.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Health insurance is a problem. Solve it before you move to contracting. Taxes, on the other hand, are completely skewed in favor of consulting. Look at 401k contributions, for example. The limit for your contribution is the same, but your
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Except you're talking about a guy who seems to be happy getting containers filled with almost certainly worthless books. I doubt his values and yours are aligned.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
C++ and the dotNet CLR (so C# etc) support tail recursion elimination. That's a big percentage of widely used languages.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Why in the world would anyone be interested in doing this? Companies are competing for talent, not the other way around.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
In the United States we basically only have trial employees. There's nothing at all like French job protections.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Why? What do you do that is new/special/different? Going to the link doesn't show me anything interesting.
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by phonebanshee 7y ago
Depends on the amount of money involved, doesn't it? I don't care how you pay me, as long as the amounts involved make it worth my time.
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by phonebanshee 8y ago
Dental insurance isn't insurance in the normal sense. It's more a way to prepay dental expenses with pre-tax dollars.
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by phonebanshee 8y ago
I mean that if you're trying to hire people with C++ experience, you're having a very hard time. It's a very small pool to draw from.
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by phonebanshee 8y ago
You're overlooking something important: they can't hire C++ people. They just aren't around. Sure, if you're directly competing against someone who has a lot of relevant experience, they're likely going to try hir
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by phonebanshee 8y ago
British Airways have first class on the LHR/SEA route, ten and a half hours.
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by phonebanshee 8y ago
I use both. xargs does a simple job reasonably well; if I'm just typing on the command line it often is the tool I use. parallel has many, many more options and ways to turn output from script A into parallel invocations of script B
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by phonebanshee 8y ago
The American phrase for this is contract-to-hire. You hire someone on a short-term hourly basis, with the understanding that this is a trial period that can be easily terminated by either side. The huge downside for the employer is that yo
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by phonebanshee 8y ago
Keep in mind that most people in Seattle think those are features, not bugs. Fast and efficient does not mean a system you want to live in.
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by phonebanshee 8y ago
A bit more than half of bankruptcies are medical. And you're forgetting that someone can declare bankruptcy multiple times in their life. But yes, it's a savage system.
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by phonebanshee 8y ago
And for most software companies, seniority is irrelevant. There aren't any assets to split up, so you'll be the first in line to get your slice of nothing.
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by phonebanshee 8y ago
Wow, that's low. It's $749 here in Washington.

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