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offtop5··on Ask HN: Visa Required on Work at a Startup?
I would go ahead and apply anyway. The problem is many small companies don't want to sponsor visas. You'll never know unless you try though. Bigger companies tend to be much more open to this though.

Your English is fine by the way, the great thing about this language is it's fairly flexible. Unless someone just wants to be mean they're not going to pick apart your grammar.

offtop5··on Unreal Engine 5 enters Early Access
I'm a bit vague on what this is, is this apart of UE5 ? Is it a side project ?

My main problem with UE is C++, I don't want to even try to download files or read json in a blueprint.

offtop5··on Ask HN: Would you introduce someone to programing
Great, that's what I sent him
offtop5··on Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
I absolutely love seeing history from different perspectives.

The White Silk Dress is an amazing Vietnamese War movie.

offtop5··on Ask HN: Would you introduce someone to programing
Ended up sending him this,

https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/responsive-web-design/#ba...

Ideally this is a good foundation

offtop5··on Paperlike 253: The First 25.3 inch E-ink Monitor
2k isn't bad tbh. I imagine at scale it could come down to 1500$ which is very reasonable.

I would pay 3k if it had a switch to turn into a normal monitor

offtop5··on Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
Then you could just implement your own client. There are already dozens of not hundreds of FTP clients for any device you could imagine, if you don't like the ux take an open source one and clean it up a bit.
offtop5··on Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
Any reason FTP doesn't work ? I imagine you could run an FTP server on a Raspberry Pi
offtop5··on Ask HN: Those who have taken extended time off, any advice?
Thanks ! Just brought the book .
offtop5··on Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES
I had the same reaction too.

Why would I go though all this for 500 euro a year.

Why doesn't OP deploy this as a service for 15$ a month ?

offtop5··on FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps
TBH I'm very skeptical this is usable for a business. Auto generating good code is very very hard
offtop5··on Ask HN: Those who have taken extended time off, any advice?
I'm in the process of establishing a US based LLC.

I figure clients would pay the LLC and then the LLC pays me.

> I've done that for a few years with an even bigger difference between income and expenses :) I'm set to quit working for money this year (see post history for more on that).

Awesome ! I don't have to really work for the rest of the year , but I want to save as much as I can so I can take a good long vacation. If working from overseas doesn't work out I could still live without work for a solid year or so.

Any other tips to share ?

offtop5··on Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua
Amazing, I purchased it to show support and I love this. The music is cool too, this will be the game I play while waiting for Unity builds ! Please port to Android/IOS !
offtop5··on Ask HN: Those who have taken extended time off, any advice?
Great, how do you file taxes though . That's my main concern, I assume most American employers will be weirded out if you put down a foreign address.

Do you contract Corp To Corp ?

The absolute dream would be to live off 2 or 3k a month , but still pull down 10k or so from a remote job. I want to retire early.

offtop5··on An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring Improvements
I wouldn't imagine postgres is really much harder than MySQL.

Both are a degree more difficult than NoSQL. The main issue is maintaining schema's

offtop5··on Ask HN: Those who have taken extended time off, any advice?
What if I pick a fast internet county like South Korea ?

I'd also know what's the best thing to do tax wise, I'm working on getting a nomad visa, does Corp to Corp work , should I create an LLC ?

offtop5··on FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps
I mean, they can always grandfather in us early adopters.

It's for a hobby $70 is a bit hard to justify.

offtop5··on FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps
Anyway you can come down to maybe 30$.

Anything over $50 becomes a line item in my budget, I can't justify spending $50 a month in the hobbyist space. It's a great idea, I just don't think I can really afford it.

offtop5··on FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps
I was very interested up until I saw the pricing. $70 a month is way too much.

A big issue here is just how easy flutter is, I'd rather invest 20 hours once to build it using Dart, then to pay $800 a year.

offtop5··on Ask HN: Those who have taken extended time off, any advice?
Any experience working remote there. I imagine if you can earn a six-figure salary as a digital nomad but keep your monthly expenses to less than $1,500 you'd be able to retire within a decade.

I've seen the rat race to the top, but aside from taking some shallow pride in making a lot of money I don't really see the point.

offtop5··on Ask HN: Those who have taken extended time off, any advice?
If I can figure out a way to make a decent income I'll do at a year or so.
offtop5··on Ask HN: Those who have taken extended time off, any advice?
I'm also planning on doing this. I fervently want to live in another country for at least a few months.

I could probably stop working for about 6 months if I pick a cheap country.

offtop5··on Voice2json: Offline speech and intent recognition on Linux
Fantastic.

Might use this with a Raspberry pi to set up some projects around the house. Is it possible to buy higher quality voice data ?

offtop5··on Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges
>These are not the same jobs. You took a junior position and in 3 years were promoted once, or maybe twice, into more senior position(s).

Nope, I switched to a new company. You can't really expect a company to take care of you

offtop5··on Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges
I'd imagine companies wouldn't want to do that, because you could come up with an argument that you're being discriminated against.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

offtop5··on Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges
I'm actually not a fan of this law. My first salary position was for job which advertised a range of something like 80 to 90k a year. The highest I had made previously was $10 an hour, the CEO of the company was a nice guy who brought me in for an interview anyway.

I took an offer at 40K or so, and within 3 years I was at 100k. With laws like this in play I'm not sure if that would still be legal. A lot of these ideas sound great on paper, but in reality you've completely eliminated any room to negotiate salaries downward in case an applicant isn't all that experienced.

I imagine what's going to happen is you'll see companies become much stricter with documentable requirements. Such as a bachelor's degree, which I also lacked back then. Saying please I need a job, I'll take 50% less since I don't have a bachelor's will open up companies to lawsuits

offtop5··on Best Buy is selling a PC with a discrete Intel graphics card inside
Great news, it's going to take a while but having more competitors in the GPU space is always a good thing
offtop5··on The Average Cost of Owning a Car in the US
Good article, I will say that there's a massive amount of variance depending on the individual.

There's no real way to calculate opportunity cost if you decide to drive an older car and it randomly breaks down on you. Many car owners just decide that they're going to buy a new car when they're current one starts giving them too much trouble. This may even include a car they're making payments on, so you have an entire segment of the population spending $700 to $1,000 a month on driving, even if they're only making like 80k a year.

Buying a nice car is the easiest way to stay poor.

offtop5··on Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speaking English
>. Or, if you're in Los Angeles and white, ride the bus from Santa Monica to DTLA on any given weekend and just listen to people talk: that's English just as sure as mine is, but I get maybe half.

Eh.

It's nothing more than repetition for the most part, along with certain parts of speech being implied. If your trying to overhear someone else's conversation you'll miss key points of context.

Having been to London , and South Central LA , I can't imagine any scenario where people from these places couldn't communicate with each other. A few words are definitely going to be different.

offtop5··on Ask HN: What tools did you use to create the server for your multiplayer game?
1.) It seems to be largely Windows-only. I prefer to develop on Mac or Linux.

It's primarily used with Unity and you can develop for Unity on a Mac. It is C# though.

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