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by wayn3 10y ago
They are specific tools. A "klempner" would know all these words.
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by wayn3 10y ago
Hiring contractors is easy, but you can't retain them forever, or else the IRS will get bitchy about it. Or so I've heard.
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by wayn3 10y ago
> How many of them are overqualified for what they're doing and would jump if the market were paying more or if there were better opportunities? You can't say much about whether it's an employer's or employee's m
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by wayn3 10y ago
It sounds like you're trying to tell me that its more difficult to be perceived as a competent engineer than it is to actually be a competent engineer. If you're good at what you're doing but somehow suck at presenting yourse
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by wayn3 10y ago
Companies can usually not "just hire offshore". There are a bunch of legal and tax laws preventing them from doing so.
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by wayn3 10y ago
Mostly true. * Team camaraderie. You can make great connections as a consultant, but, as you say, there's always the awareness you are a hired gun. Employees on a tram pulling together to build something awesome? The bonding is strong.
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by wayn3 10y ago
Github certainly works. If you go that route, make sure you build things that can be deployed in reasonable time. Include your server configuration etc. A good github project that is meant for showing off your skills includes instructions o
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by wayn3 10y ago
So you either tell them that they're on the waiting list or you end up in the dysfunctional basket.
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by wayn3 10y ago
Yes. But people would do well to get over discrimination. (in the silicon valley software engineering job market. im not talking about minorities in poor neighborhoods having literally no chance of living the american dream. ok? thank you)
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by wayn3 10y ago
Upwork is cancer for this. Caters towards less skilled labor, like manual data entry. Nothing I'd work with. Toptal is great but you have to hustle them as well. If you decide to get on toptal, make it your first priority to make sure
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by wayn3 10y ago
I've played poker professionally, studied physics and mathematics, ran my own startup, etc. My resume is the opposite of a career. If you've got skills, just put yourself out there. Getting a contract is a whole lot easier than ge
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by wayn3 10y ago
If you know for sure when your gig ends, you take every "meeting" (emails, calls, however you acquire "leads"), discuss what they're looking for and let them know when you'll be available. Right now. Just be up
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by wayn3 10y ago
The market is in equilibrium. Physics and Math graduate unemployment rates are virtually zero, and practically all of us work in software. That a lot of CS graduates actually can't do the job may be a pity, but its not our problem. Qua
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by wayn3 10y ago
Triplebyte only works with YC companies and YC tells its startups in pretty clear terms that remote employees don't work for early stage startups so go figure.
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by wayn3 10y ago
Some people are more equal than others. Its just flipped directions. Deal with it. Be above this equality nonsense. People want to hire you or they do not. Nothing you can do about it.
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by wayn3 10y ago
Does that make you angry? They'll soon fail anyway. Some people don't internalize that this is a sellers market. There are orders of magnitude more open jobs out there than there are qualified people to fill them. You shouldn&#x27
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by wayn3 10y ago
The author was a consultant before. Its usually our job to deal with the circumstances and to actively change them. We are not "good employees". We call bullshit and we get to call bullshit. We are not hired to help our bosses ach
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by wayn3 10y ago
My opinion: If you do a phone screen with someone in a more or less 1on1 kind of setting and they can't tell you whether you passed that stage within an hour, their organization must be dysfunctional (they have the job of conducting th
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by wayn3 10y ago
If you aren't "actively looking" but would bite if "that special snowflake" came in, aren't you actively hiring? Maybe you're more like passively hiring, but I'd still consider them hiring.
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by wayn3 10y ago
Usually a flat fee plus forex. Insubstantial if you deal in thousands of dollars.
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by wayn3 10y ago
get a multi currency account from a singaporean bank.
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by wayn3 10y ago
Find a dad, or some uncle, or some person that is 50+ and always whines about this one thing at his job that has always been done this one way that is really annoying. Make that go away. Business problems are easy. You live in a bubble of s
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by wayn3 10y ago
Creating a SaaS that makes a couple grand a month is really easy. Extremely easy. The problem here is that you want a "cool" idea. SaaS is inherently uncool. Its the antithesis to something "cool" like an Oculus. SaaS is
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by wayn3 10y ago
Well, if you want to do freelance you're essentially a business that sells a high ticket item, which means: You're going to have to do sales of some kind. Outbound is faster. Proactively talk to people who need professional servic
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by wayn3 10y ago
This exists. Its a program called Maple and really sophisticated. Industry standard. Every physicist/mathematician has a license. It can perform all the standard operations on a lot of math objects that you have probably never even hea
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by wayn3 10y ago
"Naturally, it's not something you can earn any money out of" Says who? Ask any hedge fund manager how they beat the other funds to the exchange. Modded Linux Kernels (among many other reasons of course). Those guys are remun
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by wayn3 10y ago
please explain what a "thread of speech" is? which issue does this relate to?
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by wayn3 10y ago
you get what you pay for
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by wayn3 10y ago
Because they're wasting your time.
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by wayn3 10y ago
It took you NINE DAYS to review something that takes a minute to review. Do you not see how that may be an issue? It took you TWENTY ONE DAYS to review my challenge. Granted, it wasn't 5 weeks, but that's immaterial. A decent resp

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