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And you somehow doubt that to be true, or what is your point?
"better" is always subjective, and it's never even been close to my expectations. I don't think most people who've told me "oh, has gotten a lot better in the last year" even know what the problems are that keep some people away. I think it's largely PR parroting, and a way to seem marginally 'with it' re: linux. "hey yeah, I know ubuntu had some issues in the past, but you should really try it now - it's a lot bette…
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd think so. Read up on W-8BEN if you don't believe me. I've been on the receiving end of this for doing a tech review of a book for a major US tech publisher. The amount of paperwork required on my end to satisfy the IRS meant I just gave up and effectively told the publisher to keep the money. (I did it for fun/experience anyway - tech reviewing books isn't a way to make a living.)
You'd think so. Read up on W-8BEN if you don't believe me You proved my point: Foreign persons are subject to U.S. income includes: tax at a 30% rate on income they receive from U.S. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/iw8ben.pdf The burden is on the foreign person, not the US company. The US company can pay you as a contractor and not withhold any tax (just as they could with a US citizen 1099 contractor). The foreign co…
The burden is indeed on the foreign person to fill out the W8-BEN etc. and pay any taxes due. However, as the withholding agent[1], the US company is liable for any unpaid taxes. So in practice, until the contractor proves to the company that they've sorted the situation, the company will need to withhold that portion of the payment as they may have to pay it to the IRS.
In any case, the whole thing is a pretty arduous procedure in international comparison.
[1] http://www.irs.gov/publications/p515/ar02.html#en_US_2013_pu...
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
"better" is always subjective, and it's never even been close to my expectations. I don't think most people who've told me "oh, has gotten a lot better in the last year" even know what the problems are that keep some people away. I think it's largely PR parroting, and a way to seem marginally 'with it' re: linux. "hey yeah, I know ubuntu had some issues in the past, but you should really try it now - it's a lot bette…
Linux desktop, CentOS, SuSE, Fedora, Ubuntu all have worked fine for me the past 15 years. I have fewer problems than when I have to do something on/with Windows. So either all my machines and all my experiences were really lucky or your post is an elegant troll.
We weren't comparing Linux and Windows. I also agree that Linux wins hands-down in that particular matchup (unless you want to game...). The question for me is OSX vs Linux, and for me, OSX is WAY easier, and I get most of the deliciousness of Linux on the command line.
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Do you think there is an opportunity here, to create a job board that _requires_ salary information?
I noticed AngelList is doing some cool things here. From their jobs page: Browse Secretly · No Middlemen · See Salary Upfront
Except many of the salaries listed are such a large range they're practically useless. $75-150k, 0.1-10% equity. WTF?
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#165I'm not a professional developer but I would be very interested even in low-salary junior developer job in Ruby. But most jobs posting I see require excellent knowledge of virtually every technology out there . I wonder how many developers are excellent at: * UNIX admin (setting up sql + nginx + unicorn on BSD/Linux) Rails/JS/CSS3/HTML5 * TDD * Excellent Closure and/or Scala * Virtualisatin/scaling/concurrency (put a…
My favorite is this one from FogCreek...
Incredible coding skills. Your friends and coworkers describe you as an "animal."
...A little intimidating ain't it? Not sure what an animal developer truly is.
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#166Too bad there are many 'remote but inside the US' jobs posted. Anyone got a clue why that is?
Probably to ensure a good overlap, timezone-wise. http://jobmote.com usually tags those with 'US-only' or similar.
How does this site work?
I see no search field. And jobs have no contact field.
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#167a track record of getting stuff done I wonder how one can prove to have a track record of getting stuff done. If we exclude hobby projects / open source contributions, I have no idea how I could show any kind of track record. I'm not allowed to talk about the projects I do at work, for example, and I don't have time or motivation for hobby projects after work.
That's the same Catch-22 situation I'm in. I'm trying to find work and eveyrwhere I look it's "We want to look at your Github profile and open source contribution!" Fuck. I don't have any of those because I mostly code at work and if I do stuff at home it's very unprofessional and only for personal use. I don't have time to contribute to open source and frankly I don't even want to but that doesn't make me less of a…
Agreed - I can't show my full time job stuff and my at home stuff is for a little side money to pay my bills and not open source. I don't want to just throw random stuff up there.
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#168I've been reading their primary job board for a long time, and looking at this site I realized that I do miss seeing the cities listed.
It may seem paradoxical but I did like to know at a glance where the company was located, among other reasons for the fact that it communicates the likely salary (if they're in a small city and I'm in a large one, for example).
Otherwise it looks good (if top-heavy) and it's always nice to see remote opportunities.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux desktop, CentOS, SuSE, Fedora, Ubuntu all have worked fine for me the past 15 years. I have fewer problems than when I have to do something on/with Windows. So either all my machines and all my experiences were really lucky or your post is an elegant troll.
We weren't comparing Linux and Windows. I also agree that Linux wins hands-down in that particular matchup (unless you want to game...). The question for me is OSX vs Linux, and for me, OSX is WAY easier, and I get most of the deliciousness of Linux on the command line.
A lot of people do prefer OSX. Between OSX and Windows, I'd choose OSX in a heartbeat because cygwin wasn't so great when I tried it a while back.
I did try OSX for a while, and wanted to like it because I can get it for free at work, but I'm so used to Linux that OSX quirks really annoyed me. Things like package management being an aftermarket hack, pain trying to get functional RAID10, Apple changing core functionality between releases breaking my setup, etc. For me, Linux is WAY easier. :-)
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#170Thanks for this job board, very interesting.