Jobmote is another resource for remote positions: http://jobmote.com/.
I currently work 100% remote from the midwest and couldn't be happier doing so.
We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals
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#182Not for those old dogs called project managers... like me.
Isn't that part of the point?
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#183I'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.
Well, one programming teacher I had said that i was like a hunting dog, because I would stick with a problem until I've solved it, If I had incredible coding skills I would probably apply
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#184This is a more general comment about job postings in general - Why are salary ranges so seldom listed. If you look at a lot of leading job boards even the company name isn't listed (recruiters). Isn't salary a basic piece of information that every job listing should have?
Use Angelist. They list ranges etc: https://angel.co/jobs
I used Angelist to find a job once. Salary said $110-120k. Interviewed. Offered the job on the spot.
"Since we're just going into another fundraising round the most we can offer is $80k."
Didn't take that job.
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#185I've been searching for a remote job for the last few months. This site comes in really handy. Listing remote jobs isn't new (for example, Authentic Jobs has a clear call-to-action to filter them), but focusing on them is interesting. What I've learned so far is that a remote job is not exactly what I thought it was. Considering the mostly globalized state of the web (and even the internet), I thought "remote" meant…
We're trying to build a work space and community for people who do true remote work in Seattle. We hope this model spreads:
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#186Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals
#187Earlier 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 user for 15 years, Debian/Ubuntu exclusively for the past 7 or so. IMO, it's without question that the Desktop experience is better every year, now to a point where it just works 99.9% of the time (in my experience, anyway). Haven't had a any problems with sound or multiple monitors in a while (using both Nvidia and ATI video cards). Of course people will and should use whatever they want. I have to touch Windo…
Not annoyed by the question, more bemused. Every few months as I meet new people, I routinely get a linux fan telling me how awesome everything is on desktop linux. It's the same enthusiastic fanboyism that drew me in in 99/2000. When ubuntu came out, the "everything just works" mantra was pushed heavily in the circles I was in, but... everything didn't work. The fact that you had a nice installer - great. My wireless cards still didn't work well. Sound drivers were a problem. Etc. I've posted most of it before.
Sort of like movies I guess - people pushing their favorite actors who were in some remake of something from 20 years ago. The actors are OK, but I'm not becoming a crazed fan over that stuff; life's too short.
As for linux - it's on all the servers I manage, and I can run virtual machines of what I need from linux, mac or windows when required. It's just not my cup of tea for desktop/laptops, and probably won't be for a long time (again). The macbook "just works" far in excess of any hype from the ubuntu crowd (again, thinking back to 8-10 years ago - "it just works!")
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
And here's another fine example: You love Macs, open source software and tools, and cringe when you hear the words .NET
You love open source software, but not enough to use an open source OS
Isn't this true of a huge number of people, given the state of Desktop Linux?
Additionally, many people can't afford to give up having commercial support for their OS as a target for software products (Adobe's in particular, in my experience).
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 arduo…
Yes, but most industrialized countries are parties to a tax treaty, right? So Table 2 would apply, I think.
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p515/ar02.html#en_US_2013_pu...
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#190Earlier 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.
nothing trolling about it.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120003
2011 people having problems with multiple apps trying to use audio at the same time. This is one of the things that drove me away from desktop linux in 2008. 3 years later it still isn't a solved problem. My gut tells me that in 2013, it's still not a solved problem.
I've no doubt that some people get it to work for their use cases OK. But the fact that it was, even 2 years ago, enough of a problem that people still encountered it... architecturally, that's a symptom of something really broken.
I'm not really interested in learning the ins and outs of modprobe and kernel driver recompiles to try to get sound working as I expect it to - it works the way I expect it to on my macbook, which leaves me time to do other more important stuff.