Are backup stored to Glacier is my house-burned-down archive for about $5/mo. It may cost a lot to get out, but at that point our family pictures and movies are gone anyway, so it would be worth the cost.
Why doesn’t anyone ever ask why people are expected to work an extra 10 hours for free? This assumes that 40hrs/wk is standard, but that doesn’t seem unreasonable.
The chances of you building something worth suing is probably small, so don’t worry about it for now. You’re probably better off spending time choosing the color of your new Ferrari (paid for by your new startup) than worrying about how someone is going to sue you.
This is definitely useful but why are we still using instance variables in Views vs parameters? Missing instance variables don’t throw errors so they are easy to miss.
At $250k/year, you’ll be paying 24% Federal tax (up to about $325k, at which point it goes to 32%), so AWS would net you about $32k/year more (excluding state tax) for 250 to 500 hours more per year (5-10 hours/week * 50). That works out to between $128 and $64 per hour. If you take into account the 401k difference, these numbers might drop even lower.
The Oracle job seems like a nonstarter since you’ll have to pay the self-employed tax (really just the 7.5% that your current job pays for you) plus benefits (which can be very expensive). It doesn’t seem like a financial step up.
I’ve been a consultant for years because my spouse has a great job with benefits. I’ve been able to save up to $50k/year in a solo-401k and take of lots of time to spend with the kids (coaching, day trips, vacations). This freedom has been the MAJOR benefit of consulting, but again my spouse provided the safety net.
What I haven’t mentioned is the tech stack. If you are in a dead end job, then you should definitely consider a change - if your position is eliminated (and it’s probably more likely than you expect), what could you do next? A sideways move now into a better career path could pay off in terms of safety (as in you could easily get another job). Being comfortable now could make life more difficult later.
You’ll obviously need to weigh these options yourself, but the best opinion I’ve heard so far is to seek out a transfer within Microsoft that might give you the tech challenge/ experience without the uncomfortable changes the other jobs would require.
This essentially is a clickbait article with dubious examples. At least for the DRY example, the problem isn’t DRYing up the code but premature optimization where the problem wasn’t understood sufficiently to come up with a good design.