Is it just me or does this article feel like something written together in one hour, based on information that one easily could find in 15 minutes, just to serve as a platform for selling their templates? I've come to expect a higher standard from hacker news frontpage.
How to find a remote job
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Re: How to find a remote job
#92How does an submission from someone who prefere to write clickbait headlines with an blogpost with nothing new or special get so many upvotes?
It is written by Blake Moore who roams the world and works as a growth hacker. With emphasis on "growth hacker." Source the about author.
Maybe Hacker News have been (growth) hacked?
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was completely uncalled for.
Not really if a manager is going to list demands they expect from their subordinates the least they can do is ensure they understand the difference between similar sounding words.
I know several extremely intelligent people that have trouble writing.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great question. I still run all my taxes as if I'm based in the UK, even though I travel and work remotely. I am taxed as an independent contractor. I'm considering setting up as an Estonian e-resident soon though ( https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/ ) to change where I pay my taxes. In terms of working while in other countries, it's a grey area for sure. I was travelling extensively in Asia last…
> I'm considering setting up as an Estonian e-resident soon though ( https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/ ) to change where I pay my taxes. Talk to a solicitor before you do this unless you want HMRC to come a knocking. Estonian eResidency is not actual residency, and it won't change the country you're resident in for personal tax purposes. You could set up a company in Estonia, but if you're an in…
The way its done here in Europe (don't know about USA) is to have most of your spending billed to the company as an expense. You take very little to no money out of the company.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Six months to land the right job holds for any job or field, remote or not. There's a lot of jobs available, but along with that you need to be picky - it can take some time to find a competitive, ideal option.
I don't think 6 months is a typical developer job search, and that has nothing to do with being picky. Almost everyone worth working for is hiring constantly. Hence it's relatively straightforward to run a bunch of interview processes in parallel while still being quite picky about the offer you accept. In most cases, it's highly unlikely that a better option will materialize with additional time (in 99% of cases, it…
Maybe I'm just a bad developer but it does take me 6 months to find any kind of pay/benefits bump.
And no, it isn't easy to do it in parallel because I'm almost always employed so my bandwidth is about one interview a month.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really if a manager is going to list demands they expect from their subordinates the least they can do is ensure they understand the difference between similar sounding words.
I know several extremely intelligent people that have trouble writing.
Fair enough.
"It always comes down to trust - how can I make sure that if I work with you, you're going to commit code that I won't have to do a ton of cleanup on?" - This is what I have the issue with - it's generally the difficult clients who won't trust you and have a general arrogance where they believe they are generally entitled to judge before you have written a single line of code. If you are going to have this attitude, try not to get hurt feelings when someone points out your shortcomings.
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#97Join toptal.
I don't get the down votes, nor the negativity in other threads about TopTal. Working for TopTal for a while now and it has been great. I can better rates elsewhere but I notice that clients are really expecting you to be good so the jobs are more interesting and/or you get more freedom. Also no hassle, every 2 weeks a payment. It's cheaper to hire me directly while I would still be getting paid more but I guess a lo…
I always got the impression (maybe mistakenly) that TopTal was basically like a temp job service for tech workers. Essentially I have been under the impression that one would not be able to work for TopTal while holding down a different job, but at the same time with TopTal you would never have guaranteed work and that their rate of pay would be only in line with what a developer would get at a regular day job except being paid hourly rather than salaried, thus effectively enabling TopTal to pay below market prices.
I'm not saying any of this is fact. I'm asking for clarification since you have first hand experience.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great question. I still run all my taxes as if I'm based in the UK, even though I travel and work remotely. I am taxed as an independent contractor. I'm considering setting up as an Estonian e-resident soon though ( https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/ ) to change where I pay my taxes. In terms of working while in other countries, it's a grey area for sure. I was travelling extensively in Asia last…
> I'm considering setting up as an Estonian e-resident soon though ( https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/ ) to change where I pay my taxes. Talk to a solicitor before you do this unless you want HMRC to come a knocking. Estonian eResidency is not actual residency, and it won't change the country you're resident in for personal tax purposes. You could set up a company in Estonia, but if you're an in…
Yep I understand that. The idea with e-residency is you cover your business expenses pretty much exclusively the company card you acquire when you establish your company in Estonia. This covers travel and accommodation primarily.
Everything else I must pay tax on as usual though HMRC. Any cash I want in my UK bank account for example is tax-deductable.
Re: How to find a remote job
#99My two bits: Contribute to some open-source projects. Great way to get noticed.
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#100Here's a question I'm trying to understand: if I intend to travel while working, where do I say I'm "from"? How do taxes work? Suppose that I have an apartment in some country, not necessarily my country of citizenship, and I will sublet it while I travel. I suppose, to freelance, one needs to create a "company", but where is that company based? Does it need to have an address? If I am a citizen of one country, a res…
Countries usually specify at what point you owe them money.
You can live in Tijuana, Mexico and commute to San Diego, California every day and won't owe anything to the IRS (as long as you are not a citizen or permanent resident). Now, getting your employer to pay you without withholding US taxes is another story, not many employers have experience with this. Not sure if you are supposed to file for a tax return at the end of the year but you still would owe the Mexican government taxes.