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Post by bitL »

DogLover_ wrote: post #434
mixmastamyk wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do so many people think this? Conditioning via plutocracy?

I am not in the US but where I am from the contract usually says you are not allowed to work for another employer unless approved by your current employee. All the stories of overemployed get me kinda envious because I would never dare to try it myself.

In your jurisdiction (Europe?) you are likely fine doing it legally if you are a consultant/contractor (i.e. responsible for all taxes/insurances yourself) but not as an employee. So if you find two remote jobs in the US, you are good.

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Post by Joeboy »

rockemsockem wrote: post #454
Joeboy wrote: post #444

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Perhaps I'm being simple minded, but the id of the passed object within the function is the same as the id of the object outside the function, no? My mental model is that an object's id in python is basically an address / pointer. So, how come it's the same inside the function as outside, if it's not pass by reference?

You're correct that the id is the same inside and outside the function, but when you modify the passed in argument the id changes because you're setting the value of the parameter, not what it's referencing. In C it'd be like changing the value of a pointer in a function instead of the value referenced by a pointer in a function. Here's an example to include the id differences and the fact that a does not take on the…

Until the second line of your function (in the first example), it's pass by reference, no? It stops behaving like pass-by-reference because you then reuse the name 'd' to create a new object, which has a different id and lives at a different address.

At least, this seems like a coherent mental model of what's happening, to me.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by sgt101 »

sgc wrote: post #370
sgt101 wrote: post #359

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Not OP but similar level of experience. I had the leet code once, interviewing for Meta. I didn't prepare because I thought that it was pointless, but I was curious about what it would be like to do it. So, I went through with it and to my shock and awe I managed to do it. The feedback was that I didn't ace it but I did more than well enough for the interviewer. I didn't get the job though. The last step was a really…

Was that conversation socially, ideologically, or technically uncomfortable?

Ideologically and socially.

I can only describe it as creepy.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by lnsru »

fxtentacle wrote: post #362
single_identity wrote: post #256

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> so I'd expect an effective tax rate of around 15%. That 100k€ gross will turn into 85k€ after taxes. Your calculus is far far from reality so your further reasoning is therefore flawed from the very start. 4-4.5k EUR is probably more realistic. Moreover, property prices around EU are generally speaking anywhere from 3k EUR to 15k EUR per sqm. For a 100sqm home that's 300k EUR for the cheapest one, 700-800k EUR as a…

https://www.steuerklassen.com/kinderfreibetrag/rechner/ with 100k€ income and 2 Kinderfreibetrag and no further deductions comes out at 18k€ taxes which is 18%. So to reach the 15% I predicted you only need 3k€ in additional deductible expenses like trash, cleaning, gardening, daycare, etc.

Dude(?), you’re seriously mixing things up. It’s not Switzerland and there are no 18% taxes in Germany. Stop spreading all this nonsense. Calculation for Bavaria with 2 kids, 100k and Steuerklasse 3. Every month: Brutto. 8.333,33 € Netto 5.581,90 €

There is shitton mandatory insurances and payments. Income tax alone does not really matter. Rundfunkgebühr is very real tax and can’t be avoided.

Edit: sorry, I am rude. But downplaying all the so called insurances, that must be paid from salary is not nice. They must be paid in full and can’t be avoided. I would love to decide about my retirement by myself instead of funding current retirees.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by sys_64738 »

Arubis wrote: post #140

If you're having trouble finding new work, know that the turn of the year is _always_ slow, every year. Hiring tends to pick up mid- to late January.

It is when I've dealt with hiring but my last position I got two offers back in Christmas time 2018. Go figure.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by OliverGilan »

token8791 wrote: post #442

I feel everyone who's in a bad place now, uncertain about the future. My approach has been often to take a mixed-risk approach, and it seems to work out well. First, no debt. Second, long-cash. After working for about ten years in relatively low paying roles I have something like a runway of about 25 years - that is I would not need to take on any job for 25 years while keeping mostly my current standard of living (p…

This falls apart when you want to get married and have kids? It’s certainly possible to find a frugal partner but kids still cost a lot of money in general

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by yamtaddle »

SoftTalker wrote: post #386
ryandrake wrote: post #338

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We need your professor to coach interview candidates. On the "interviewer" side of the table, I can't tell you the number of times I've asked a question that should produce a quick, simple answer, and instead got a 5-10 minute stream-of-consciousness word salad out of the candidate. Or a huge run-on sentence this-and-that-and-this-and-also-that-oh-and-this... without coming up for air. It's so common, I must assume t…

I think it's more likely a nervous candidate who may not be comfortable or experienced in conversation, as many introverted tech type people seem to be. I don't think it's being taught; it's more likely the result of the candidate not having had interview coaching at all.

Yeah, nerves plus the big question-mark of not knowing what the interviewer's actually looking for. One interviewer's perfect answer will be another's "red flag" (see this very thread, where directly and correctly answering the asked question apparently got you put in the "meh" bucket).

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by ghostoftiber »

mekster wrote: post #375
ghostoftiber wrote: post #25

I feel like this should be a "Who's hiring" thread. But anyway - we're always hiring if you're into small consulting companies. We mostly do AWS, Azure, and not a lot of GCP (sad because I like GCP), and it's almost 100% K8s. You will have to be able to get a CKA, CKAD, or CKS at some point. Need to be in the US. Send resumes to Josh@BoxBoat.Com

How many valid inquiries do you get by posting in non "Who's hiring" thread?

As of this afternoon, seven.

When I post in a who's hiring thread... actually I don't like to post in a who's hiring thread because I end up with way too many conversations.

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by rockemsockem »

Joeboy wrote: post #462
rockemsockem wrote: post #454

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're correct that the id is the same inside and outside the function, but when you modify the passed in argument the id changes because you're setting the value of the parameter, not what it's referencing. In C it'd be like changing the value of a pointer in a function instead of the value referenced by a pointer in a function. Here's an example to include the id differences and the fact that a does not take on the…

Until the second line of your function (in the first example), it's pass by reference, no? It stops behaving like pass-by-reference because you then reuse the name 'd' to create a new object, which has a different id and lives at a different address. At least, this seems like a coherent mental model of what's happening, to me.

I'm not re-using the name 'd', I'm assigning to the already-existing parameter d. Which if d was indeed a reference would result in the variable passed to the function being changed.

In explaining this I decided to check the Python docs and learned a new piece of terminology "pass by assignment", which is how Python explains its variable passing scheme: https://docs.python.org/3/faq/programming.html#how-do-i-writ...

Re: Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

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Post by aerovistae »

UncleOxidant wrote: post #457
parentheses wrote: post #332

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Ageism is often conflated with higher compensation expectations.

I'm in my late 50s. When I hear about the salaries that much younger folks are pulling down in the FAANG companies I'm generally pretty shocked - I've never made anything close to that and don't have any expectations to. My expenses are way lower than most of the younger folks in tech because my house is paid off (will be in about a month), we drive 20 year old cars and we're quite frugal. For most of the past decade…

I wouldn't say so....90k is low for someone with a lot of experience. New grads expect more than that.
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