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Are you an Aussie for tax purposes?

If so, I'd personally default to Australia and worry about the rest after having some success.

If not, I'd go Delaware.

Usually by the Reasonable Person Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person.

It can be pretty subjective, but it often gets clarified with enough common law precedent (which can be amended with a new law if it becomes abused/unfair/odd).

This is super impressive!

Is there a common open source library (Python, JS, whatever) that implements something like this?

Yes. I wouldn't "work" for a company that didn't provide me with hardware.

I'm assuming you're using "work" to mean an employee-employer relationship.

If you want me to provide my own hardware, I'm a contractor and will not lock in to an exclusive relationship with your company and charge a significant premium.

You've given us a few paragraphs about the situation. No one here can tell you if he was attempting to disrespect you.

I'll note that you've called this person a friend in your post, so it's likely you know them pretty well. Instead of asking strangers on the internet with only a very reduced understanding of your relationship dynamic and past conversations, why not have a chat with your friend and ask them directly?

If you're considering this person as your cofounder, you're going to need a strong communication foundation. Getting offended by a perceived lack of respect (which could be valid, but it doesn't sound like you're sure they meant offence since you're asking the question here) is not a good place to start any business relationship.

It’s not really the specific employees making that call. Being a “principle engineer” is the job title in the contract.

Just a note, but you can’t delete a comment if it receives a child comment.

although to be fair sociopathy is essentially just another form of stupidity

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by this?

Awesome to hear!

How do you handle this? Do you store the SQLite file somewhere like s3 or just in memory?

How does this work for such high traffic sites?

Appreciate the link! You've given me a fun project for the Easter break.

Beeper looks pretty awesome!

Sorry to hijack the thread, but from the above link:

Yes, iMessage works even on Android, Windows and Linux!

How could this be sustainable long-term? I've hacked together tools to forward iMessage content before and it's very unappealing.

I suspect they must be using a makeshift solution. I hope it works (and would sign up if there was a way on the landing page), but this seems like building on sand.

I somehow stumbled across this over the weekend.

There's a React component library (with a deployed storybook):

* https://github.com/trussworks/react-uswds

* https://trussworks.github.io/react-uswds/?path=/story/compon...

I think my company has been treating it too much like the latter.

I think that's very common.

Swap out some with most. Glad I'm not in an office.

I did something similar. Searching for verify and verification are good for those cases where you signed up with a Gmail email.

You can also navigate to Settings > Security > Signing in with Google to see everywhere that you've used Google Sign in (oAuth).

Sup anon,

I'm from the same area and work in the same niche.

If you have passable React skills and any past experience, you should be employable now.

I wouldn't bother with the todo app. It's too generic on a resume to gauge anything relevant (since more tutorials are copy/paste and don't show any major problem solving).

Just start applying on Seek. There are tons of short term gigs that will take anyone. That's a great place to start.

Portfolios (i.e deployed personal projects) are huge here. This differs a lot from SV where they seem to have less bearing to get you in the door. The main point of note is that the projects need to be unique in some way.

And if it gets too much, “sorry I gotta call my boss” is a believable excuse to get out of anything you find awkward or if you’ve had enough. Knowing you have that parachute might make it easier.

Unless this is true, I don't think that's a great idea.

Don't be pathetic and lie. Be honest. What's wrong with saying "Sorry $NEW_PERSON, I have to go. It was great to meet you."

If you're interested in the negative effects of "white lies" I'd recommend picking up Lying by Sam Harris.

I'm not disagreeing with that at all.

My issue is with this absolute claim:

There is no societal problem for which "just move away" is a solution.

That's just untrue and useless to claim. It doesn't help the conversation. Moving away can be a solution to a lot of problems. It might not be feasible in all cases, but it would still solve the problem at hand.

I'm not advocating for this at all. That doesn't change the fact it's a solution.

I don't agree with the person you're replying to, but this is a bizarre take:

There is no societal problem for which "just move away" is a solution.

Why make such an absolute?

Here are a collection of societal problems where "just move away" would be a great solution (some are dumb, but I think they're still valid):

* The local community has pushed towards street art in local parks. You strongly dislike street art.

* Your neighbours like to get drunk (in a non-violent way) every night. They're not overly noisy, but they have gross yards and you have a level of concern that the drunks will eventually make a terrible choice that impacts you (such as drunk driving into your bedroom).

* Lack of kids. You have a family of 4 and the local neighbourhood is filled with retired professionals with no kids. You want to live somewhere that enables your kids to socialise.

* Wayne, your long term neighbour, is using meth. He's managing his addiction very well, but he openly shoots up in the shed with his roller door open. You don't like seeing needle drug users shooting rock.

I don't disagree that useEffect is a great extraction overall. But the mental load to understand it vs. explicit lifecycle methods is significantly worse.

The ability to subscribe is indeed amazing (this was much more verbose in class components).

Agree 100%. The migration from componentDidMount, componentDidUpdate, etc to useEffect was a major regression in terms of readability.

The return function in useEffect vs. componentWillUnmount is just terrible. This is always a bizarre topic for juniors.

I'm considering something similar (although probably not as large of a lump sum). I want to spend a year~ as a bartender.

I see the /s, but you're right. Those are literally non-scam uses of crypto.

I don't know if it was the intent, but I read your entire article twice.

Overall, point 2 is the most interesting/troubling. I'm glad to have read it.

However, point 9 is beyond ridiculous. You claim that Protonmail devs don't use Protonmail. That's an interesting claim.

I was expecting a quote from devs making this claim.

Instead, it links to an article and uses the fact that Protonmail devs don't have an explicit @protonmail.com email address on GitHub as evidence (of the 13 devs inspected, the most common case is not having an email address public).

The article even makes this snarky remark when the dev is using Protonmail with a custom domain: 'Does not use Protonmail.com (No pride in “@protonmail.com”)'.

That's a very weak point to make compared to the seriousness of your other claims.

I spent a few years laser focused on web property arbitrage in my spare time.

This is my general advice:

* The deals at the lower end (a budget of $2500 is in that segment) are often trash. You'll need to spend an insane amount of time vetting those deals. And most will be niche products with either no route to profit or a severe decline.

* The best deals are the really poorly built PHP SAAS applications run by an old tech-oriented person that has zero marketing experience (one of my best flips was an awful codeigniter tool related to pets.. I literally only added Adsense, cleaned up the copy, and slightly improved the loadspeed, then sold it for a 2x profit).

* If it's a prior flip (e.g the current owner is not the original creator), turn around and find something else. Sometimes they are fantastic, but it's usually a terrible idea.

* Flippa is the Amazon <2015 of web property purchases (in terms of product quality). The best deals are usually in forums, Reddit, or even locally if you know a lot of devs.

I know that I used a very permissive license and that the project can be forked and modified by anyone but this is a theft more than a fork.

You used probably the most permissive license available (MIT). However, it does look like Parrot is not attributing Gravity anywhere in their repo (which is the only requirement of MIT).

If I was in your situation, I'd open a pull request with an attribution in the README.

The only people to who can afford to go to school to broaden their education without a clear job benefit are those born rich.

I respectfully disagree.

I've spent an enormous amount of time inside universities (as both a student and employed as an engineer). The vast majority of students have no clear job benefit at the end of their degree.

Most students are studying something with no obvious job correlation. The largest schools at most second/third rung universities in the western world are humanities (which I'm not knocking, but the employment rate for these degrees into related roles is abysmal).

Honestly, it's really sad to see. I've spoken with countless third year humanities/law students that are completely lost and have no idea what to do as graduation approaches (about 20% of law graduates at my last uni went on to practice law). Oh, and they're crippled with debt (in both Australia and the US).

In my experience, the worse off the student, the more likely they were to study something with poor career outcomes (one of the worst offenders was the bachelor of business, which was a popular choice for students hoping to escape the lower/middle class but had atrocious outcomes). I chalked this up to fewer educated role models when they were growing up.

HN is fairly skewed towards tech. The tech-related courses (CS, EE, etc) have great employment prospects, but they're the outlier.

What is the next step that needs to be done so our employees can be secure without a company issued laptop?

If the data is important, it should be on a work device.

I was in the interested cohort of long-term remote workers before COVID.

One company I worked at attempted a hybrid remote experiment. It was awful at every level.

Having half a business in-person and the other half remote creates a massive rift between the "real" employees and the cogs (yes, it's company dependant and some business has probably made this strategy thrive, but it takes a lot of work).

Eventually, in-office was mandated. I quit a few months later.

I watched this partly unfold recently. Luckily, this company decided to scrap the office outright and now the entire company is distributed across the country (and a little international).

I would not accept partial remote as an engineer.

Don't do it.

Create a dedicated work Apple ID.

I see no benefit but there's a clear risk.