lordbusiness

This varies.

Big companies that are incorporated in many countries will just employ you in the most relevant country (including your own).

Smaller companies can't do this (overhead, financial burden, regulation, blah blah blah), so they just hire you as an independent contractor. You get paid by whatever arrangement, and file your taxes accordingly. They pay an invoice file their taxes accordingly.

You're most likely looking in the wrong place. The usual customary recruiting channels are setup to be usual and customary.

You need to find the remote job boards. Oh, and networking, networking, networking.

I couldn't agree more. Expansionist policies at the expense of the incumbent population are less and less accepted.

It's difficult to be convinced of this assertion when we have ongoing wars, but broadly speaking we are evolving to talk it out as opposed to fight it out.

My hat is off to the author of this piece; what a beautifully written fair evaluation of two technologies.

Kudos.

Heh - maybe you're right, and I wish the world were as you describe. :-)

There is however a deeper underlying issue; decorum is important and communities that exhibit genuine 'niceness' are nice. Communities that allow, or worse, overlook dark behaviour degenerate.

Flagging and down voting is one part of the solution, but when the nastiness reaches a level that the nice people start to disengage and go elsewhere, it's clear to me that we need another element of control. Perhaps algorithmically detecting repeat offenders? Perhaps more granularity with down votes?

There's are differences between a down vote because one disagrees with the author, and a down vote because one believes the author is ill-informed and spreading misinformation, and a down vote because the author is being downright juvenile.

A number of hits on the third case against a given author on multiple comments could conceivably constitute an automatic warning and / or banning system.

I don't want people to be unable to express their views, but when the mean-spirited people who contribute nothing but nonsense start to represent a large percentage of a community, it's reasonable to see if anything can be done.

Do you realize that comments like this are what is breaking the community here at HN?

Are you aware that people like you are destroying something that was once brilliant?

HN is going through an Eternal September.

I had an aw shucks moment too! api.predictthesky.org doesn't resolve, and there is nothing on the API GitHub repo. The landing page says 2013 so I'm wondering if this got abandoned. Would have been really neat to play with.

OS: Mac OS X (But likely switching to Ubuntu soon)

Hardware: Retina MacBook Pro (But XPS 13 Dev Edition will be next)

Tools: Atom, Git, whatever toolkits necessary for my current working language.

Edit: formatting and typo

If ever there was proof that "someone out there has the same idea as you" is true, this is it; I've been conceiving an open to audit public, free CA for the past couple of weeks.

It looks like my dream is coming true!

+1 vote for a relational alternative. I am a fan of NoSQL, and I am a fan of Mongo, but I'd love to have the power of Meteor with a relational backend too.