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I'm making plans to meet with a tax accountant, but anyone have some basic opinions on W2 vs 1099 and the kinds of things I should consider before choosing one or the other?
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I'm making plans to meet with a tax accountant, but anyone have some basic opinions on W2 vs 1099 and the kinds of things I should consider before choosing one or the other?
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Jun 23, 2015 21:28
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Agreed. 1099 makes sense in very few situations, go with W2 if you can. If you want to share specifics about your situation, we can offer better advice. edit: I'd also make sure if you go down the 1099 route you truly qualify as an independent contractor http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employed/Independent-Contractor-Defined skipdogg fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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Jun 23, 2015 21:53
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There's about a 20% pay difference and that's what's got me wondering.
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Jun 23, 2015 22:16
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Feel less dumb by the day especially when the ccie helping me with an issue was also confused.
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Jun 23, 2015 22:34
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Zero VGS posted:Sometimes I wonder what it'd look like if I tried to get my TS renewed... had a TS before, and I have no debt or arrest record, and don't drink or do drugs whatsoever, but I've got a gay Chinese national boyfriend. I've found you can have a lot that "looks bad" but if you're up front and proving that you're honest and that you strive to mitigate the setbacks honestly it's all good. They want to weed out people who lie and try to bury mistakes, not for golden boys. e: the chinese national boyfriend might make things tough though, from an IT perspective.
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Jun 23, 2015 22:36
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They main goal for Security Clearances is make drat sure you have some sense of loyalty and you can't be blackmailed or bribed.
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Jun 23, 2015 22:44
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:There's about a 20% pay difference and that's what's got me wondering.
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Jun 23, 2015 22:45
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Tab8715 posted:They main goal for Security Clearances is make drat sure you have some sense of loyalty and you can't be blackmailed or bribed. Most spillage is due to sheer ignorance.
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Jun 23, 2015 22:49
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OhDearGodNo posted:Most spillage is due to sheer ignorance. I thought the biggest leak aside from Snowden was the guy that attempted to defect to Russia and demanded payment in rubies.
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Jun 23, 2015 23:04
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adorai posted:You have to pay all your own payroll taxes as a 1099. It will work out to net the same, with all the headaches of being a business instead of an employee. You'll actually pay slightly more since your employer isn't covering a percentage of it. Also as a W2 you'll probably get your health insurance subsidized and of course vacation and sick time. My 1099 rate is actually ~160-200% of what my hourly rate would be as a W2 depending on how much I don't want to do the job.
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Jun 23, 2015 23:11
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Tab8715 posted:I thought the biggest leak aside from Snowden was the guy that attempted to defect to Russia and demanded payment in rubies. Yeah, but Snowden is the gift from hell that keeps on giving.
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Anyone here a heavy Chef user? Learning it is my self-assigned homework for my new job. Not looking for the what/why; I've used SaltStack daily the last 2 years, and Puppet before that. I just haven't had occasion to even touch Chef until now, and new company is all aboard that train. It has kind of an intimidating ecosystem of tools compared to the other config management offerings. The fact that half the tools are named after dumb memes (berkshelf, ohai, etc) doesn't help. Also, Ruby  Mostly looking for a linkdump of any tutorials or resources you've found useful  I'm currently just going through the official docs, which seem pretty good.
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Jun 24, 2015 03:49
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Zero VGS posted:Sometimes I wonder what it'd look like if I tried to get my TS renewed... had a TS before, and I have no debt or arrest record, and don't drink or do drugs whatsoever, but I've got a gay Chinese national boyfriend. Honestly, if you read through some of the DoD security clearance decisions found here: http://www.dod.gov/dodgc/doha/industrial/2015.html I think you'll find they are a lot more lenient than you expect, especially if you are completely open and honest about whatever situation you think might put your clearance in jeopardy. I had a Secret clearance years ago and when someone from the FBI came out to interview me they were much more interested in some job I had (rage) quit than the foreign nationals I listed as having relationships with.
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Jun 24, 2015 04:00
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Docjowles posted:Anyone here a heavy Chef user? Learning it is my self-assigned homework for my new job. Not looking for the what/why; I've used SaltStack daily the last 2 years, and Puppet before that. I just haven't had occasion to even touch Chef until now, and new company is all aboard that train. It has kind of an intimidating ecosystem of tools compared to the other config management offerings. The fact that half the tools are named after dumb memes (berkshelf, ohai, etc) doesn't help. Also, Ruby Pychef saved me. I can't stand ruby.
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Jun 24, 2015 04:13
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Zero VGS posted:Sometimes I wonder what it'd look like if I tried to get my TS renewed... had a TS before, and I have no debt or arrest record, and don't drink or do drugs whatsoever, but I've got a gay Chinese national boyfriend. Debt, arrests, and drug use are all pretty much non-issues so long as you disclose it all. But hooooooly poo poo, if you spend more than two minutes per year talking to a foreign national then things get way more complicated.
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Jun 24, 2015 04:23
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Sirotan posted:Honestly, if you read through some of the DoD security clearance decisions found here: http://www.dod.gov/dodgc/doha/industrial/2015.html I think you'll find they are a lot more lenient than you expect, especially if you are completely open and honest about whatever situation you think might put your clearance in jeopardy. I had a Secret clearance years ago and when someone from the FBI came out to interview me they were much more interested in some job I had (rage) quit than the foreign nationals I listed as having relationships with. If I recall correctly, there were some pretty nasty people who were given clearances, but they apparently we're forthcoming about their problems so it wasn't an issue. There are some interesting folks on this list quote:Applicant engaged in a long-distance extramarital affair with a friends wife for more than 20 years. However, the Department of Defense is aware of the affair because Applicant listed it on his Questionnaire for National Security Positions; the affair is over; and Applicant told his wife about the affair. Clearance is granted.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:If I recall correctly, there were some pretty nasty people who were given clearances, but they apparently we're forthcoming about their problems so it wasn't an issue. I don't want to empty quote so I am including these words before posting 
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Jun 24, 2015 05:17
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Daylen Drazzi posted:Yeah, but Snowden is the gift from hell that keeps on giving. I'm not too familiar with that, could you go into further detail?
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Jun 24, 2015 05:52
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Docjowles posted:Anyone here a heavy Chef user? Learning it is my self-assigned homework for my new job. Not looking for the what/why; I've used SaltStack daily the last 2 years, and Puppet before that. I just haven't had occasion to even touch Chef until now, and new company is all aboard that train. It has kind of an intimidating ecosystem of tools compared to the other config management offerings. The fact that half the tools are named after dumb memes (berkshelf, ohai, etc) doesn't help. Also, Ruby Really, it's just those two tools that have dumb names, and Berkshelf is being phased out anyway in favor of Policyfiles soon. Pretty much everything else is some dumb pun on cooking. Ruby's a good language for things that don't need to be especially performant, though there are a few language gotchas that Chef itself introduces (Mash). The Chef ecosystem is intimidating, but it's a really flexible and powerful tool (though I do wish it had orchestration capabilities closer to Salt or Ansible). The community cookbooks are in fairly wide use compared to what you see in other places, so you have patterns like wrapper cookbooks that are foreign to people who are used to writing their own CM code. A good overview of the different kinds of cookbooks you'll run across are early Jamie Winsor's The Berkshelf Vision talk from ChefConf 2014. The key tools you should understand in order to have a reasonable workflow:
Beyond that, it's mostly just keeping in mind that all your cookbooks are versioned. You'll need to work a little bit to find a versioning flow that works well for you and your team if you collaborate on cookbooks often. A CM tool is a CM tool, for the most part. Find community cookbooks, and read them. The quickest way to pick up a language or complex tool is to read production-ready things other people have written in it. If all else fails, drop me a line. Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Jun 24, 2015 |
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Jun 24, 2015 06:46
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Internet Explorer posted:Also if you ever buy cage nuts on their own they usually come with at least one of the tools. I'm surprised so many people in the thread haven't used them. Guess that's virtualization for you. We have loads of baremetal at work, but I don't need to touch it fortunately. I leave that to our Datacenter Ops team so I can concentrate on what the gently caress, Puppet.
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Came in today to find my chair completely missing. Checked the whole office, not a trace. Professional
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Tab8715 posted:I'm not too familiar with that, could you go into further detail? Snowden was a contractor working for the NSA in Hawaii and had a TS clearance. Managed to download a bunch of highly classified documents and then ran for it to Russia. Every now and then he releases a bunch of the documents to remind the world that he's still alive and still has lots of embarrassing material on the US government, such as our global surveillance programs and the cooperation of telecommunication companies in spying on everyone.
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Daylen Drazzi posted:Snowden was a contractor working for the NSA in Hawaii and had a TS clearance. Managed to download a bunch of highly classified documents and then ran for it to Russia. Every now and then he releases a bunch of the documents to remind the world that he's still alive and still has lots of embarrassing material on the US government, such as our global surveillance programs and the cooperation of telecommunication companies in spying on everyone. I'm going to nitpick this. He went to hong kong first, and only ended up in Russia after seeking asylum in several other places and having it fall through. He has no sympathies with Russia and should not be portrayed as such. All the material he gathered was handed over to a group of reporters during their first meeting. Any materials being released today come from this dump, as the reporters sort through it, redact any identifying information, and form a coherent story out of the bits. Snowden is not involved with this process, and no longer has any of the materials. His only current activities are interviews. If you wish to condemn him for his actions, that's fine, but please make sure they are actions he actually undertook, and not propaganda.
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EoRaptor posted:and not propaganda. Ironic, because the trickle-down of information from Greenwald and Snowden seems like exactly that. I wouldn't be surprised if the scope of the program is much much larger than what these leaks are allowing
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Jun 24, 2015 14:30
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Daylen Drazzi posted:Snowden was a contractor working for the NSA in Hawaii and had a TS clearance. Managed to download a bunch of highly classified documents and then ran for it to Russia. Every now and then he releases a bunch of the documents to remind the world that he's still alive and still has lots of embarrassing material on the US government, such as our global surveillance programs and the cooperation of telecommunication companies in spying on everyone. To be fair the US stranded him in Russia, maybe intentionally to let the good old red scare discredit him.
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Daylen Drazzi posted:Snowden was a contractor working for the NSA in Hawaii and had a TS clearance. Managed to download a bunch of highly classified documents and then ran for it to Russia. Every now and then he releases a bunch of the documents to remind the world that he's still alive and still has lots of embarrassing material on the US government, such as our global surveillance programs and the cooperation of telecommunication companies in spying on everyone. Hang on now, that's not accurate - Snowden gave the data he took to Greenwald and a couple other journalists, and they have been releasing things from that data dump as they continue going through it. Specifically done this way to ensure that the info is released in a responsible manner vs something like wiki leaks dumping all kinds of info without regard to any consequences. Snowden isn't releasing poo poo and claims to no longer have any of the data itself.
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Vulture Culture posted:awesome stuff Thanks! TestKitchen and ServerSpec being a first-class citizen is one thing I do actually look forward to. Especially coming from Salt where the devs appear to give zero fucks about testability of your CM code. Until very recently the CLI tools didn't even return proper exit codes when something failed. Let alone providing an actual test framework. I expect versioning will also be a welcome change once I get used to it.
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How does someone gently caress up a reinstall, using the proper recovery disks from the manufacturer? A coworker gave me a computer that he had been 'working on'. He said he tried a refresh but couldn't boot into windows, it was a black screen. And that it was. Would show the windows logo and the screen would just go off. So I go into Safe mode, see the computer is squeaky clean, and see the new drivers downloaded. I go to try to do something basic (Can't remember now), and the service is off. Check the services manager, and nothing is on. Checked msconfig, everything had been turned off. All of it. I laughed, got an System Builder WIn7 CD and reinstalled from scratch again. I can only assume he put on the wrong video driver, hosed it up and tried "troubleshooting".
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Everyone in this thread should have already known or at least suspected that the stuff in the Snowden leaks was already taking place by both the US and every other major world power. Attribution is always difficult, but when, say, a connection between the US and Europe mysteriously suffers from BGP specific route siphoning that goes undiscovered for long periods of time, it's clearly not a bunch of Belarusian credit card thieves doing it. Bottom line: assume everything after the demarc is being vacuumed up by some sort of intelligence agency, US or otherwise. That includes dedicated lines. Use encryption, authentication and don't trust anything in your colo. psydude fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Jun 24, 2015 |
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Just being in this industry over the past 13 years was enough for me to know that the NSA poo poo was happening. Some of their methods are interesting, but I have at least forty clients that do some sort of monitoring/inspection of employee traffic/computer use, and it isn't too hard to do. Hell, schools have been doing this for a very long time.
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psydude posted:Everyone in this thread should have already known or at least suspected that the stuff in the Snowden leaks was already taking place by both the US and every other major world power. Attribution is always difficult, but when, say, a connection between the US and Europe mysteriously suffers from BGP specific route siphoning that goes undiscovered for long periods of time, it's clearly not a bunch of Belarusian credit card thieves doing it. The kind of people who are in this thread very likely did know or at least suspect, yeah. But the vast majority of people didn't. Your mom has never even heard the term BGP before but that didn't stop the world from soaking up all of the recipes she's ever emailed.
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Methanar posted:The kind of people who are in this thread very likely did know or at least suspect, yeah. But the vast majority of people didn't. Your mom has never even heard the term BGP before but that didn't stop the world from soaking up all of the recipes she's ever emailed. And there's a big difference between assuming something is true and having it actually documented.
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Can anyone recommend a good book on Docker? It's getting traction at work and I'd like to get in front of it, but I don't want to be stuck in front of a computer as I learn about it.
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Jun 24, 2015 19:53
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:And there's a big difference between assuming something is true and having it actually documented. This too. Whispers and conspiracies are pretty hard to act on.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Can anyone recommend a good book on Docker? It's getting traction at work and I'd like to get in front of it, but I don't want to be stuck in front of a computer as I learn about it. This is the only book on Docker I'm aware of. Haven't read it myself, but I hear good things. http://www.dockerbook.com/
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Methanar posted:The kind of people who are in this thread very likely did know or at least suspect, yeah. But the vast majority of people didn't. Your mom has never even heard the term BGP before but that didn't stop the world from soaking up all of the recipes she's ever emailed. I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm saying that anyone working in IT should have seen this coming. ECHELON had been disclosed for years prior to the Snowden leaks, and the AT&T lawsuit in 2006 over wiretapping in carrier hotels should have tipped off everyone to what was happening, or what was bound to happen eventually. So when Google and Facebook try to say "Gee, we didn't think they'd be tapping the lines between our datacenters!" I find it pretty hard to buy. And to your second point, assumptions are entirely what IT security (and general security) is based upon. If I permit anybody to SSH to the outside interface of a firewall, there's a reasonable assumption that someone will try to do so. If I have traffic leaving the physical site, even over a dedicated line, and traveling across a geographic distance, there's the potential that someone could tap it. It's less likely than a user downloading a piece of malware, but it's not like setting up encryption between sites is difficult. Remember, this wasn't a whisper nor a conspiracy: it was publicly known that domestic and foreign intelligence agencies were attempting stuff like this back in the 80s and 90s.
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Looking for a recommendation on a simple free remote process monitor for windows. I basically want to be alerted if a particular process on 4 remote machines is either killed or stops using CPU time.
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Jun 24, 2015 21:34
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How terrible of a person would I be if I created a word document containing the goatman for all these Indian recruiters that send me jobs in random states besides the one I am in.
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An Exploration of Regression-Based Data Mining Techniques Using Super Computation An extremely fast computer would theoretically allow you to do some very scary things with statistics. There is a real number of factors that would let you completely describe someone socially, mentally, whatever. The paper estimates that a supercomputer in the year 2008 would take about 100 years to crack a 40-factor model.
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