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I see a few places where bitcoin is accepted as donation. How is that taxed if/when spent?

This.

Also, I'm curious: how do you look for remote positions?

Thank you for writing a detailed guide about your best practices. It is a long-term struggle to convince managers that good remote work environment can be done (and good for both their budget and their employees well-being), and such stories definitely help this effort.

I think it is much better that he made it clear where he places his bets. If you have kids and over 40, it is very likely that a slower paced, bootstrapped business growth model will suite your lifestyle better anyway.

I think E2 is regarded as entrepreneur visa. It requires investment coming into the US though...

Having worked with offshore teams and being in the role of an offshore team, I completely agree.

If someone is looking for an offshore team, follow this approach: look for a outstanding, talented person. A single person, who you can develop trust with, and ask him about his core team and colleagues. If they are for your liking, go with them as the offshore team: they may not have all the people at the time of the discussions, but usually they are able to build a team in a short time.

That way, they are really committed to your project, and you won't be just another client that has some meetings with them.

Working with offshore teams is no different than working with <anything new that you haven't done before>. You need to learn it. It is not the same as working with an in-house team. Different tradeoffs, gotchas and benefits.

I'm on H1B too with H4 spouse. My alternative is just to go back to Europe, and live there - and considering several factors, it may not be that different from the US (in terms of overall better vs. worse).

Green card is not a work permit, it is a residency status. People focus on the work part, but with choosing the green card, one is choosing between the US and the rest of the world for a very long time.

First of all, it requires you to reside in the US, permanently (hence the official name). You don't move home for longer periods (e.g. years), as getting back in the US is not automatic. I understand that the US sees entering in the US as privilege, but these people usually help the US economy, and not burden it, so there is that.

Second, it really limits your options. Suppose you decide to go outside of the US in just a few years after the green card, giving it up, and suddenly, for the rest of your life, whenever you enter in the US, you need to tell you life's story to the immigration officer and why you have applied for immigration status and what happened with it.

And if you have connections, properties or investments in Europe, you will be always in limbo whether the European bank will decline business with you based on your US tax status.

Going for a green card is a no-brainer for everyone who is going for US citizenship. Everyone else, take a better look on it, before you go for it.

Both. Also, I have sometimes a doc edited on google docs, then copied over to local file and formatted in asciidoc. After that we put it back to the google doc in asciidoc markup, and subsequent comparison and merging becomes a way lot simpler.

For me it is easier to version-control and review changes in asciidoc than in docbook.

I've tried to use Markdown for very simple formatting (to have two consecutive paragraph have a wrapper style, e.g. to have a note style) - and failed. I've tried various parsers, wrote my code hacks (also called: extensions), regex replacers whatnot, just to conclude, that even if I am able to do that, the live preview will suck.

Fast-forward today: I've started to use Asciidoc with the Atom editor and its Asciidoc live preview. I'm using asciidoctor to generate docbook, and xslt to get it formatted in the way I want. I feel productive to write the content, and I can control every aspect of the output, in the very specific way I see fit.

A simple blog post with a bunch of paragraphs and bold styles may not be worth it, but anything more complex will favor asciidoc.

I have seen both academics, small and large corporations. I think startups are the worst, but other than that, the rest is pretty much the same. Of course if you are only in one or the other, it may seem that your particular situation is the worst...

> (iii) difficulty maintaining work-life balance if you want to be successful

This is pretty much the same everywhere.

Is it a large or small company? How long have you been there? Are you looking only at the base salary part? (e.g. for the reference my total compensation is almost double than my base salary)...

I'm not sure about the data source, but my query on my situation seems to be accurate (base salary was roughly matching).

Taking cash and spending it doesn't provide you success on its own. I am all for the mom and pop companies, but in this case Uber provides a way better service. People are choosing it not because Uber has spent its money, rather because it provides a great service for their customer's money.

While this is true for many, not necessarily for all, and I'd definitely call bullshit if you try to generalize it. It boils down to personal goals.

Let's assume I want to build a real-world helicopter. I don't work in that industry, nevertheless, I earn something reasonable, and I am happy with it. Money may not be a prime motivator for my everyday job, but any 'above-the-minimum-happiness' money contributes to my long-term plan of building a real-world helicopter. And having such a long-term goal, in addition with the money that helps me to achieve that will increase my happiness way more than I've had been just with the job and less money.

Having more money without a goal is not a motivator. Getting more money to achieve an already established goal is.

Good to know, thanks for the update! I'll take a look on it soon.

While I agree with this, and matches some of my experience, I'd like to collect more data point. Anyone willing to share such stories?

That is a really cool project, and seems to be much easier to set up as any of the competitors (I'm looking at you, gitlab).

A Google Analytics tracking of the events would be just fine for this goal.

You'll find this a fascinating read: http://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/

Tim O'Reilly made an interview with Frank Herbert on how he created his universe, and describes the huge effort that went into it. Worth to read. Unfortunately they don't print it anymore, but hey, at least it is available online.

Context: I'm using Dart for app development for two years now.

> Not all language features can be represented in JavaScript.

I could not name one (except the dart:io stuff, which is not supported in the JS world). Could you please elaborate?

> Besides, all the languages that compile to JavaScript just add complexity layers to the already complex model of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

I've found the same, but Dart is a surprising exception. If you are not using any fancy framework (e.g. Angular.Dart), you will be just fine with the close-to-the-browser approach of the language and APIs.

Maybe offtopic, but what do you think about the economics of plug-in hybrid cars (like the Chevy Volt)?

Last time I've checked you can set what LinkedIn will post about your activities e.g. you can probably disable announcing your new connections etc.

You are saying balance, but what you mean is agreement over values. The nasty thing is, people just can't agree on anything, especially on values.

I'm wondering, at what point will the EU demand that Santa Claus shall forget what he knows about us?

(Referring to the song: "He's making a list, Checking it twice; Gonna find out who's naughty or nice.")

I think that an over-the-top video helps to get more reach, helps to introduce more people to a song. There are many songs with similar qualities, but if yours reach a wider audience, you will dominate the sales (and award) charts.

Put it another way: it doesn't matter if your song is good for many people, if you can't reach them, nobody will know about you.

yay! these look really great!