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The last few years I've copied december's entries to the end of the newfile and left it there until Februaryish, so the rss feed generator script hassomething to work with. (I stopped reading Melonpool when the guy blanked hisarchives. I checked in two or three days before the switch, and then checkedin after and I'd missed a couple days of comics... which were now gone. Neverlooked back. This isn't particularly relevant, it just annoyed me.)
This year I've typed just under 900,000 characters in this file, all byhand, in vi. That's a lot. It also means checking my blog involves downloadingmost of a megabyte, which is silly. I should split it up into months orsomething, which will make permanent URLs even stranger to do. Hmmm...
Mostly offline today. Went to a nice party atElze's house (Fade and Mark weren't upfor it so I went by myself), and may have wound upon the Armadillocon concom as a result. That would be a nice alternativeto Stu and myself launching a new con: find an existing con that's wellestablished but a bit tired, and inflict much new programming upon it.I don't have to meddle with hotel contract negotiation and such that way.Besides, we'd just be competing with them otherwise (this year's Armadilloconcon chair ran the art show at Linucon) and that's counterproductive.
So yesterday, I told paychex the exact amount of money that was in Impactaccount, and the portion of that Mark and I each earned, and that my mainconcern was not bouncing a check. Today, they want to deduct $253.50 morefrom the account than I told them was in it. This did not seem to raise anyred flags on their end.
If somebody could have said to me yesterday "Employer payroll taxes getadded to the amount devoted to payroll, so you need to reserve X percentfor that", then I could have just done the math for them. Somehow, my desireto have this happen was not apparent to the lady I talked to, nor to hermanager, despite the various ways I tried to ask the question.
Busy all day. The phone just would not stop ringing. Mark calledseveral times (some of them about Paychex), Stu called (oops, late to meethim for lunch), my sister called (wants me to buy her a house, but in a goodway), I called my grandparents to thank them for the Red Lobster gift cardFade and I used for dinner, the series of phone calls from Eric was becausehe had to debug a problem with the gpsd test suite hanging on Ubuntu 8.10,which eventually turned out to be that gcc 4.3 is miscompiling Python 2.5...Eventually my cell phone battery died from all the calls.
Three hours later, I've learned how to implement the greatest commondenominator algorithm in shell script using Eucilid's algorithm, and I'monly about halfway through. (This would be easier if I either had any ideawhat the kernel used these numbers for, or if the perl generating themdidn't suck quite so badly.)
Mark and I went down to Paychex during his lunch break and set uppayroll service for the new company. I think we did it right, but there'ssome legal thing where they're not allowed to tell us how much to payourselves, but isn't having them do all this funky math and witholding mostof the reason to go with them in the first place?
This wasn't helped by the fact the nice lady who walked me through it(after Mark had to go back to work, his last day at his old job isn'tuntil Wednesday) clearly didn't understand the math either. I was worriedthat the amount paychex charges to do a payroll (a little over $50 per setof paychecks, not bad) had to come from somewhere, so how did I set asidemoney for it without either A) leaving so much money in the corporate bankaccount that it stops being a pass-through and corporate taxes kick in,B) bouncing a check. I can't just go "we billed $1000 to the client, thecheck cleared, now devote $1000 to payroll", because the company has topay _paychex_.
The tricky bit is that in addition to needing to reserve some moneyfor non-payroll expenses (like paychex's fee), there's a whole set ofpayroll-ish taxes that the feds decided employees shouldn't see, so theyfeel like they're paying less tax. For example, social security tax isactually 12%: 6% from the employee and 6% from the employer. It's apparentlysome kind of zen thing: "this tax is money it costs your employer to payyou, and it's a percentage of your pay, but it's not a tax witheld from yourpay because we say it isn't". Right. My objection is it makes it hard forme to do the math to figure out what goes where.
So if I say "devote $1000 to payroll", does that mean the employer-sidetaxes get deducted from that first, and then what's left gets the normalwitholding? Or does that mean "actually devote $1060 to payroll, becausethose employer side taxes are on _top_ of what you've budgeted for payroll,due to the way the feds want to pretend that this is somehow different fromany other income tax". If I say "devote all the money, minux paychex' fee,to payroll", do we wind up needing _more_ money?
The point of signing up with somebody like paychex is to NOT HAVE TOCARE about this. We tell them how much money we have, they do thewitholding and cut paychecks. This "we can't tell you how much to payyourselves" legal thing kind of throws a wrench in that.
About the third time through this I still didn't feel like I understoodthe nice lady's numbers, and on closer examination I noticed she hadsubtracted our personal income tax witholding from the amount of money I'dbilled the client, but never added it back to the amount that was going tobe debited from the Impact bank account. (I think she'd added the specialmagic "employers pay this on your behalf with money they somehow wouldn'totherwise give to you, so it somehow doesn't cost you anything" tax back, butnot Mark's and my individual witholding amounts.) So I got _really_ confused:the amount they were taking for taxes in the pay period was less than mypersonal federal income tax liability, according to her own numbers. Yeah,that's not going to work.
I recognize that their office is understaffed for theholidays, and we walked in without an appointment, and I think I got asaleslady trying to walk me through numbers someone else had given her,because the normal people weren't there. Also, she wasn't doing the finalnumbers, this was just to answer the "how much do we pay ourselves" questionso she could submit that number to the accountants in the morning. But inorder to answer that question, I had to understand how this differed from"we each earned $X dollars, please do the witholding and cut us checks forwhat's left".
Pointing out that her total tax witholding was less than I personally owedgot her to call in her manager, who pointed out that our first mistake wasthinking that the amount we decided to devote to payroll and the amount webilled upstream had anything to do with each other. I was worried aboutfilling in hourly rate times hours worked on a timecard, and he went nah,you just say how much you want to devote to payroll. So I gave him numbersthat paid Mark his full amount and left enough of the money I'd earned inthere to cover Paychex fees for the next few months.
And now I'm wondering if the "magic employer taxes" will be taken out ofthose numbers, or added _to_ them. Because I didn't leave enough to coverthose taxes, just paychex fees. (If the corporation makes more than $1000profit at the end of the year, it gets hit with its own taxes. So I can'tjust leave spare money in the company and give it to myself later, or itgets taxed twice. Paychex is actually being nice trying to cut us checkson two days notice, and no appointment, with most of their people still onholiday.)
Darn it. My first perl removal patch is not a complete solution. Backwhen I wrote it, I was pretty sure there was no way to enter an arbitraryHZ value in any of the config files, so pregenerating all the used valueswas sufficient. But it turns out that the arm OMAP and AT91 architecturesallow you to enter an arbitrary range. (The help text warns that lotsof values won't _work_, and never says _why_ you want to set HZ to thesestrange values in an age of tickless kernels, but nevertheless... It offersconfig options that my patch would turn into a build break if you set themstupidly.)
I posted a message to the FWL mailing list about this with more analysisand detail, but I can't link to the archive because it's asking for a loginto view the archives. I poked mark to fix it, but he was up all night lastnight and is unlikely to be conscious again before morning, whe he has togo to work.
The 2.6.28 merge window is open, and I'm coming up with a third perlremoval patch. Tomorrow, I post the series to linux-kernel andlinux-embedded. And it'll probably get ignored by the embedded community yetagain.
Historically, the kernel developers have been sensitive to environmentaldependencies. The kernel developers ship prebuilt lex and yacc output filesso "make oldconfig" doesn't require those to be installed. The need for ncurseswas trimmed out of kconfig variants other than menuconfig, so you don't needncurses to "make oldconfig" either. The "make headers_install" functionalitydoesn't require an external unifdef, they merged the tool into the kernel andbuild their own version as part of the process.
I need better noise cancelling headphones. I'm hanging out in the dobiemall food court, where all the food places are closed for the holidays.When I arrived, the only person here was a girl working the movie theatrecounter at the far end. After I sat down, some guy came and sat on the wallnext to me and started talking on his cell phone. After he went away (becausethe small child with him repeated "I'm hungry" over and over for severalminutes until he gave up on the call), some guy sat down next to me, and twoother people came up to talk to him. Ok, fine. This place has about 200chairs, and is maybe 100 yards across, and is otherwise entirely empty.So I go over to the other end, and before I even manage to sit down, the movietheatre girl's boyfriend comes up and they start talking. (And now a thirdguy's shown up.)
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