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by ukoki 4y ago
The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this.
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As long as we're being pedantic: "hand over X back to" is mixing phrases -- are they handing it over or handing it back? It should be "hand X over to" or "hand X back to"
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> This is an excellent framing that's rarely expressed. These folk express is quite well https://norightsemployee.uk/
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by ukoki 4y ago
Most companies I've worked in had an onboarding checklist or guide for new devs. You should also have an offboarding checklist. Whenever you add something the onboarding checklist, add it to the offboarding checklist as well ("gra
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by ukoki 4y ago
I think it's tempting to think that higher day rates equate to longer hours and a less cordial and more stressful work environment, but this hasn't been my personal experience as my day rates have grown over the years. I think thi
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Isn't the point of the danger and recklessness of hazing to build a team bond and sense of camraderie through a shared experience? Would an equally grueling experience that is missing real danger build as strong a bond?
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by ukoki 4y ago
Yep with the inside-IR35 contracts I need to charge a premium, but even the +20% premium I charged with my current contract is not close to covering my extra costs. I'm also strongly incentivised to do stuff like timing long inside-I35
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by ukoki 4y ago
To put it a similar way: If you get 5 LinkedIn recruiters reaching out to you a month looking for contractors, and you need a new contract once every 6 months. That's 5*6 = 30 opportunities per contract period. You can only do one, so
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by ukoki 4y ago
Inside sadly, but my previous contract was 950 outside.
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Well I negotiated a 150+ bump in rate for the 1100 contract to offset the IR35 taxes as my current contract is inside IR35, but it's still a net loss for me compared to my previous 950/day outside contract. At 1100, my total tax b
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by ukoki 4y ago
I take about 4-6 weeks holiday a year, so averaging about 19-20 days a month
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In terms of networking: I get all my clients from recruiters reaching out to me LinkedIn. I've "SEO"d my profile to make sure all keywords (and every variation) for the tech I specialise is in my profile. In terms of making m
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by ukoki 4y ago
Inside sadly, but my previous contract was 950 outside.
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For the Europeans feeling US numbers are unattainable: I'm on £1100/day in London with about 8 years devops/cloud/IaaS experience
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I've done very well with the following rule of thumb: If you're not a little bit embarrassed by the amount you are charging, you are not charging enough (also applies for making offers on a house and any other kind of financial ne
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What is this, a dial for ants?
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by ukoki 4y ago
DRY is not necesarily better for performance. Loop unrolling is extremely un-dry and often provides better performance. DRY can also lead to more branches which can lead to branch predictor misses which can impact performance. For example:
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by ukoki 4y ago
Seems incredibly dangerous. Imagine some bad GPS reading warps you from a highway to a school dropoff zone and decelerates you to 20mph
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by ukoki 4y ago
The trick is to exercise after your last meal just before bed. That way you clear out your glycogen reserves and your body has no choice but to fuel itself on fat until breakfast (or lunch if you can manage a mild intermittent fasting and s
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This is called "polarized training". Dr Stephen Seiler is the most well-known researcher investigating this and has done many lectures and interviews with endurance sport Youtubers and podascters about this -- just search for his
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> They use Google Maps' default "map turns around you" mode Physical maps that do this are infuriating. For example the "you are here" maps on the street and the tube/subway exit maps inside stations in cent
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Sounds like we're gonna need a Let's Encrypt-style NGO for age verification to kill these parasitic companies before they take hold.
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You've perfectly described one half of what makes me uneasy about "boots theory" which is the added risk of making fewer, larger purchases. The other half is that I find that often the more expensive choice does not have as m
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by ukoki 4y ago
JSON is a great configuration language: * It's in the standard library for most languages so you can write tools that read and write it that have zero dependencies. This is great for portability and for use in offline environments. * Y
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by ukoki 4y ago
> The advantage is that the blocking is total. Web Blocking only blocks HTTP and HTTPS. DNS blocks all protocols. eh, DNS is an address lookup service. It doesn't block anything. 1. Install any of the many "virtual hosts file&q
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by ukoki 4y ago
If you want a much more highly available open source Heroku, there is Cloud Foundry which is used as the basis for a few public PaaS like IBM Bluemix and SAP Cloud Platform. The smallest HA set up is about 50 VMs though, and it's compl
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For anyone else looking for access: This particular article is the web version of the excellent daily Money Stuff newsletter by Matt Levine which you can subscribe to for free https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newslette
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In the UK there is a statutory minimum of 21 days holiday. If you quit or are fired from a company with an unlimited PTO policy and haven’t yet used your statutory minimum (calculated pro rata) you will be paid for those extra days in your
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..Or just use landlord as the default unisex term. Like we are starting to do with 'actor'.
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> so I can only surmise that the cost savings to business by underpaying staff are even more enormous. I think this is what is going on. "Switch jobs to increase income" _is_ the folk wisdom, but not enough people actually &quo

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