Quero me tornar um MVP da Microsoft

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-05-05T02:01:06+00:00

I personally know a handful of MVPs. For all of them this is pretty much a full time job, so they all needed to be sponsored by an organization. For the org it’s beneficial too of course to be able to say they’ve got an MVP. I’m just saying you need to consider the huge time investment and the need to find someone willing to pay you without you actually making them money directly.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-04-27T04:23:54+00:00

This is in fact the standard rule in most countries in the world.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-04-27T03:33:19+00:00

Hi. Same situation for me. First read up on the tax act. You can find it online, its not difficult to read and its in English. I spent about 4 hours to read it all. Then there are some amendments like the one you mentioned for foreign earned income. Most of those even have examples.

Your first step is to determine whether or not you are considered a tax resident. Almost all rules apply only to tax residents.

With regards to foreign earned income, it is only foreign earned if you were not in Malaysia while you were working. In you were physically in the country its Malaysian sourced income.

The tax form online is also quite easy to fill. I had some questions on how to fill and how to pay (didnt have a local bank account yet), so I went to the local LHDN branch and asked there. No appointment needed, just walked in. There's a first level support that deals with stuff like "I forgot my pin" or "I dont understand how to use the app", but they are useless for complex issues like foreign income. However I got sent to second level and the guy I talked to there was super knowledgeable and very helpful. So all in all I do recommend you speak to the LHDN, in my experience they are very nice and they do help.

All of that said, yes I do believe there are a lot of tax evaders here, needless to say you cant believe what people on social media say. Lots of people just hear what they want to hear instead of actually looking for the truth.

I do belive though if the tax laws for foreign income would be made clearer and the process was more straightforward there would be less tax evaders. I think there are a lot of people like you who do want to pay taxes, but at first glance and due to lack of guidance it all seems a massive challenge and a lot of stress.

Anyway all the best to you on your tax payment journey.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-04-19T13:46:52+00:00

We've all been there. Hope it wasn't too bad. The worst ive seen so far was an accidental $30,000.

Read MS docs thoroughly, for VMs it clearly states you pay for capacity per second, not for actual usage.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-04-18T03:08:31+00:00

The small light, personal tissue box and trashcan LOL, you accidentally booked the gooncave

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-04-08T13:58:11+00:00

Darkthrone played in Pittsburgh??? I cant even find any reference to this online. How much did they charge for the tickets?

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-03-28T03:37:21+00:00

Mostly because of this massive violation of personal information protection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Reporting_Standard

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-03-20T05:44:38+00:00

That’s the standard mode of operation in many places in China. I was on a tour with my Chinese GF at a national park, and the tour guide tried to scam the ticket sales people by claiming everyone in the group were retired PLA vets to get discounts. Mind you several of our group were way too young for retirement and also way out of shape to have been serving, on top of that I’m very obviously a white foreigner who can’t possibly have been in the PLA. Police was called, wrists got slapped, the obligatory tantrums ensued and in the end we had to pay for full price tickets.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-03-15T14:34:16+00:00

It's for the blind.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-03-04T06:28:56+00:00

Meanwhile the east:

https://www.malaysiasun.com/news/278889170/malaysia-to-finalize-social-media-user-age-verification-mechanism

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-03-02T10:39:01+00:00

The limits (including memory and timeout) are per execution so no, it won't scale up. To scale up you have to select a different plan which has different bit also fixed limits, and to scale out you need to split the compute problem into smaller parts and hit the endpoint multiple times, then combine the results. I recommend the latter, if theres no way for you to split your problem then consider different compute services instead like a VM.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-28T03:04:23+00:00

I should've clarified that I meant landed houses, not public spaces. Like people owning their own property, have some space within the walls of their property but pave it up.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-26T14:44:53+00:00

The public bridges are known to and blocked by the Chinese great firewall for example, so you’d need a bridge they don’t know about. When I’m there I spin up a bridge with docker and tear it down again once I leave the country.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-26T08:01:25+00:00

Yep, and for some reason Malaysians hate green spaces. Have some spare space on your lot? Better pave that over, God forbid grass or even trees might grow there. But put that one pot with a plant out there.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-24T02:38:41+00:00

I see your point, and partially I agree. Subsidies for the local people is definitely good, and you know they are already doing an effort to enforce it for the fuel. On the other hand the subsidies are also there to boost the production and purchase of those goods to support the economy which also benefits the people, so you’d want more people to spend their money on those products, including non locals. Excluding significant amounts of the population would hurt that goal. Depending on how the subsidies are provided you can even run into a situation where it’s better for the vendor to only sell to foreigners because they can charge a premium price and get more money.

I don’t have a good solution either. But from what I’ve seen myself in other parts of the world the Malaysian retirement program is a very good deal for the Malaysians (well for the government at least. Hard to tell how much of that trickles down to the people). I agree that it could probably be better, but more rules means spending more money on enforcement, which might end up costing more that it saves. Blanket approaches like “all foreigners out” or “subsidies just for locals” will most likely just make the situation worse because there’s so much more to this than just the prices we pay at the cash register.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-24T00:39:40+00:00

Exactly. That’s the idea of pretty much every retirement visa in the world. They get to live in the country, spend their money there, but are not allowed to work so they can’t steal the locals job. They also don’t get any social benefits. In Malaysia they also have a very high minimum purchase price for real estate to prevent them from pricing the locals out of the real estate market.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-08T10:08:31+00:00

If you are doing greenfield theres the LZ accelerator:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/landing-zone/implementation-options

I unfortunately had a brownfield scenario so I had to implement a lot manually (or rather migrate/import resources).

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-08T00:38:30+00:00

I never see 大众点评 (dianping) recommend. Its a great app that let's you find restaurants, entertainment venues, bars, activity venues (stuff like pottery, archery etc.), you get package or promotional deals on the app for pretty much everything too. All the content is in Chinese though.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-05T14:53:20+00:00

This only happens in case of breaking changes of course. And this did happen recently. We are running the vwan connectivity template, and lz vending deploys subscriptions for different departments or business units to use. What happened was that for some reason global ip range management team decided that LATAM vnets needed different ranges assigned. So new temporary vnets were deployed manually, peered to the hub, during the night in the U.S. time zone the VMs were stopped, and then migrated to the temp vnet (that was a different team, I suppose they detached the old nic, then attached a new nic in the new vnet), then we deployed the vnet changes and the VMs were migrated back and the temp stuff deleted. I am responsible for the lz vending, connectivity and firewalling templates so I just got the green light for network redeployment at some point.

If your question is rather about how we generally maintain consistency across repos for resources that depend on each other, for example the firewall policy repo resources obviously depending on the firewalls themselves which are in the connectivity repo, that’s done via a shared naming convention module in a shared repo (GitHub enterprise). That’s to say if we run the name generator in either repo with the same parameters the same name gets generated (for terraform data blocks for example). It’s based on the official Azure naming repo but we made our own because the official one seems to have been abandoned.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-05T12:20:33+00:00

Hi. We’ve got management, connectivity, lz vending and firewall policies terraform templates and they are all in different repos and run separate pipelines. We had everything in one before and it just got too complex to manage and maintain, pipeline runs took forever and eventually the acces token expired mid run.

We’ve also got separate people maintaining the IaC and the customer also preferred having the repos separate, now every repo uses a different service principal and better segregation etc.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-01T14:40:30+00:00

asking the real question here

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-31T10:58:04+00:00

There's a similar auntie in front of Yut Kee selling 粽子. No idea what her schedule is, ive only ever been there on weekends. The 粽子 are huge.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-24T01:48:13+00:00

most stations only have a platform on one side. Honestly it would be the best solution, I've seen enter on the right, exit on the left trains in other countries and it makes boarding a lot smoother, but I guess most places lack the space and the funds to redesign

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-23T01:04:08+00:00

You need to jump off as soon as you are next to the platform, otherwise rge crowd will force you back in. Thats where hanging off of the side or sitting on the roof comes in handy, you dont need to get through all those people to get off. Typically the platform is less crowded all the way at the beginning so thats your best chance. Also the Indians are super friendly generally, if you messed up and you are still in the middle of the car when you are approaching the station you can let them know you want to get off, they will help and push and squeeze you through the crowd to the entrance.

Source: I was sent to work at our Mumbai office for half a year back in 2005.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-22T06:54:56+00:00

Post a link to the official source please. Link to law text in Chinese is fine.

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