dragon_king

A new year starts with a lot of hopes and dreams, and why not, there is usually some energy at this time of the year, and it's a good time to start new things or focus on bettering existing works/hobbies.

What do you want to spend time on in 2020, why and how much time are you going to allocate to it?

For those companies that have hired full time remote employees from outside of US, is there any specific legal/tax related processes? Do they need a US Tax ID? Is the process any different if you are paying them cash + equity?

I am helping a small-mid sized company build their data analytics/warehouse platform. The data sources are micro-services around business applications recording transactional data, and the analytics platform should support historical reporting/aggregations/ad-hoc querying capabilities with quick response times and ability for data science folks to play with raw data.

There has been a lot of churn/improvements in architecture and tools used in recent times. What would one use in 2018 or how would one navigate the plethora of choices that exists at each layer(data ingest, transformation, data lake, reporting db, business intelligence tool)?

Hey HN, I am doing some research on how developers spend their work time. Besides standups, meetings and ping pong, what percentage of the day does a developer spend coding, researching libraries/technologies, etc?

For example, I spent 70% of my time yesterday reading about a couple of message queues and trying to understand which one would be appropriate for my needs and spent the rest 30% playing creating a proof of concept on my laptop.