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Most full-time American nomads claim the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion via the physical presence test, which would make anything on US soil a non-starter for them.

I'm willing to bet this is influenced more by SLAs and Slack's lawyers than marketing speak.

If you're unsure whether you should be investing or not I created a simple questionnaire to help (based on the /r/personalfinance flow chart):

https://shouldibuystock.com

I am not an SRE, but in my years of working with them as a developer the unifying trait seems to be the ability to answer all requests with one of the following:

1. "Not now."

2. "No."

3. "Hell no."

4. "Are you insane? Go away."

(this is sarcasm, it's supposed to be funny, I love you SREs)

I do consulting for non-technical founders of software companies. This is an incredibly common question. A lot of ink has been spilled over it, including my own ( https://jeremyphelps.com/blog/how-to-interview-a-freelance-d... )

Generally speaking you want to focus on more than raw technical skill. It's far more important that you align on expectations, values, etc. than it is to hire the world's greatest developer.

Most importantly: pay them to work on a small project before tackling your MVP. You don't want to get involved with someone on a big project only to find out the person is difficult to work with.

All of the suggestions in this thread are good, but there are others. I spent a couple years working on this at messagecontrol.com to build an enterprise email tracker blocker, and I'm sure they have continued to enhance it since I left.

I spent over a year building a company that tried to fix meetings. It’s not enough of a burning problem for companies and we pivoted away. Happy to share more insights; email is in my profile.

C/C++ is most common. Good luck getting their attention if you didn’t go to MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc.

Many other products are good at helping you discover companies, which is great! However, what they usually end up doing is funneling you directly to the job application and leaving you on your own.

What our product does is take your anonymized profile, present it to companies, and ask them if they're interested. If they are, you may then decline, ask questions directly while staying anonymous, or opt in to a conversation with them without even filling out an application.

We've fixed this. Thanks for the bug report!

Hi all, OP here.

We were interviewing developers for a project and kept hearing how much they hated looking for a new job. We dug into why and it was usually because they couldn't find companies with the culture and work environment they wanted. They either had to invest a ton of time into research or trust a recruiter.

Our tool is different because it matches you with companies who have the culture and work environment you want. And, it skips the black hole that is the modern job application by having companies pitch you.

Privacy is very important to us and we built this so that you have complete control of when you share your personal info. You can anonymously ask interested engineering teams questions before you share anything.

Feedback requested: 1. Would you use this? 2. What are we missing when it comes to culture and dev environment?

Hiring developers when you're a small or medium size company is really hard. Nobody knows you exist and if they do there's no way you can compete with FAANG compensation.

So what can you do? You show off what makes you different, whether it's cool technology, family friendliness, remote work, etc.

It's a demo profile, not a real company :)

Recruiters told you those roles don't exist because recruiters are compensated on a percentage of your salary. Lower salary, lower fee, but it takes the same amount of work to fill the role. So why should they bother with part-time when there are loads of full-time roles to chase?

However, remote part-time does exist! If you're a frontend developer looking to fill a few extra hours on contract feel free to reach out - my email is in my profile.

ughhh now I lost the game too why would you do that

I’m quite happy with my Anker noise cancelling headphones. They were ~$50.

I haven’t tried the Bose ones that are the consensus best, but somehow I doubt they’re 6x better.

Non-obnoxious text ads in the emails people receive. Mostly it's just a passion project, though.

Looking for a collaborator for my side project https://findkismet.com

Coincidentally, the app itself could be used to find a cofounder. It's how I met mine.

Of course everyone hates them, but if you're going to operate in the EU you're stuck with 'em.

SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote

Looking for part-time frontend developer to do pixel pushing for our Angular 2/Bootstrap app and web site.

Questions, applications, etc. to jeremy@shepherd.com, please.

Hi all, OP here.

Inspired by Cal Newport’s book “Deep Work”, our app crunches 12 months of calendar data and shows you how much time you have for deep work and shallow work, how much of your life is spent in meetings, and compares you to the average inside your company and globally.

Example report here: https://app.shepherd.com/personal-report/sample/pages/my-wor...

Why did we build this? We loved Cal Newport’s book ‘Deep Work’ and we wanted to try to estimate how much time people have for deep work, shallow work, and meetings. Plus show how they compare to other makers/managers inside their company and globally.

How does it work? We do a read only connection to your calendar API and crunch 12 months of data and summarize the results for you.

What do we use the anonymized data for? Your data is never sold or shared. We use the anonymized data to show job seekers what a typical day is like for an engineer at different companies. We are hoping to ship that feature after we get enough data in a few weeks.

Happy to answer any questions you might have!

I've been happy with Lively. I was able to sign up quickly and they made transferring my existing HSA over really easy.

Here's my referral code if you want to give it a shot:

https://secure.livelyme.com/referral/invite/?referrersOwnerI...

> interns start pushing to prod

hey everybody, I spotted the problem! I'll keep an eye on my mailbox for the giant consulting fee that I assume is enroute.

I'm getting "Sorry, something went wrong there. Try again".

A few years ago my neighborhood did one better and replaced two parking spaces with a parklet: http://moss-design.com/chicagos-first-parklet-in-andersonvil...

People > cars, always.

You have to block loading of ALL external resources. Smarter trackers will try to load much more than just images.

They are! Now people who don't fill out their profiles only get matched with other people who haven't filled theirs out. Of course in theory you could still get someone that pastes in lorem ipsum or something, but I haven't seen that happen yet.

There are intervening steps between meeting someone and deciding to work long-term with them.

My cofounder and I didn't know each other at the outset we worked together for 6 months before deciding to commit full time and draw up paperwork, etc.

In addition to this thread, those looking to network with other HNers should check out Kismet: https://findkismet.com

Disclaimer: I created it and that's how I found my cofounder.

I've hired a decent number of engineers for a few different companies, so I'll take a stab at this based on what I've seen.

- Fixed costs for hiring for PT and FT are the same, but the company gets more output for FT, so they focus on that

- Similarly, external recruiters who take a % of salary get paid much less for the same amount of work, so you're not worth it to them

- Fragile processes require lots of interaction. Having someone unavailable slows down the team

- PT employees are perceived as less committed. Enough ink has been spilled about companies wanting dedicated people, so I'll leave that one alone