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My favorite is being told I can't store stuff I need on some enterprise storage solution because it is running out of space, when I know in my head a couple more terabytes of storage costs way less than the amount of effort that went into discussing it by all parties involved, and there's no effort to help me find an alternative. So it goes into a different bucket, like S3, which is what we were trying to avoid (for various on-premise benefits) in the first place.

If you're business never takes off, it won't matter where you are incorporated. Get some decent advice for a professional you trust. When you start making mad stacks of cash, let the profits from your business pay for the super duper advice on a tax strategy that makes the most sense for your business.

About 10 years ago I decided to become a one person tax expert, read a NOLO press book on incorporating, and found what I thought was a clever solution to optimizing taxes in the most favorable manner. About a year later, my accountant told me two things... 1. "I've never actually seen a client choose this tax structure" 2. "You picked the worst possible taxation vehicle for your business, which is hard to do on purpose!"

Other than some superficial syntax similarities, I find Elixir to be nothing like Ruby. Pattern matching, immutability, OTP, and the actor model feel like building blocks from a whole different universe.

If you're put on a PIP, and you want to leave, you can use that as leverage to get some severance. Call it a resignation bonus. Getting a month or three of pay is money in your pocket, plus time to line up something better. An imperfect solution to an imperfect situation. Managing steps to PIP-can (methodically fire) a worker is taxing for everyone, and liability exposure. It may make financial sense for the company to cut its losses, paying a small certain liability to prevent a larger one.

> A FOB somewhere near Lashkargah

My Google-fu thinks FOB is short for Forward Operating Base.

At a certain point, it becomes hard to market yourself in a way that maps to what people understand.

Imagine having a toothpick, saw, wine opener, knife, and other various tools. Now put them all into the very first Swiss Army Knife and try explaining that to someone. Who are you going to explain it to? A carpenter who needs full size professional tools won't need that, but maybe a soldier in the Swiss Army looking for handy tools to cart around in the field would!

Figuring out who needs your services is the first challenge. Maybe high availability systems and full stack web development intersects where people need a front end that ties into a reliable backend (querying a database, visualizing a system, real time analysys, etc.) That's your target customer.

Does your target customer have a name for full stack plus high availability already? To make something up, let's call it Full StackOps. Sell them your Full StackOps wizardry. If target customer has a different name for Full StackOps, you'll have to try to figure out how to tailor your message per customer. If there's no name, try making one up!

Or just generate referral for yourself, so anytime customers need a Full StackOps-like person, their first thought is to call you.

I had errors with Homebrew and Go this week. In both cases, it was an issue with Websense (also known as Forcepoint). Might your issue be related to that?

Figure out the intersection of what you want to do, and what you can do, and emphasize that. So, for an experienced technical founder at a successful company, think about...

- this job for which I'm applying, what do they REALLY need, and which 3 to 5 bullet points capture my competence and accomplishment in this area

- how is this company like mine, and how can I communicate the similarities to my experience working w/ others, building a certain type of product, applying domain expertise, etc.

- what story will I tell if/when they ask, "So do why do you want a job when you've been your own boss for so long?" Maybe something like "You know, what I really like to do is make an impact doing X, and that's something I get to do in any position with responsibilities A, B, and C."

And my generic resume writing advice is... try writing your resume without adjectives. It forces you to focus on highlighting what you've really done. Let your awesomeness sell itself. Calling yourself awesome doesn't do much for you.

I never thought I'd suggest using a short URL on a prescription.

(fake) bitly . com /grandapas-chemo-meds

What are your top 2 or 3 fav productive boosts in PyCharm? I've tried RubyMine for Ruby, and I didn't like it so I went back to Sublime.