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> And yes, more risk deserves more reward, why is that even controversial?

I think the argument is that the current reward to an early employee is a joke compared to the risk their taking, given the other job options available to them.

So its not that the founder shouldn't be rewarded fairly for their risk, but that early employees are not. Thus the answer to this thread is just that being an EE isn't worth it.

I think that makes sense, an EE should end up making more money then a non EE for the same effort/time. Otherwise, why would you risk ending up making less in case the startup fails?

So say a startup has 10% chance of success. On failure, the EE loses 200K compared to non EE jobs. That's a 9 in 10 chance of making 200k less, so maybe the 1 in 10 chance should give at least a 9 time payout, where the EE would end up making 1800k in case startup succeeds.

Otherwise, you'd be crazy to accept an EE job, unless you just can't find any other non EE work.
I agree. There is a culture that founders are special but everyone else is replaceable which makes it self-fulfilling. If a founder leaves, it's bad and VCs won't invest in the startup - However, if a top engineer leaves, no big deal, they're only an engineer...

For me personally, I have a really bad perception of incubators, venture capitalists and big tech corporations. It's all a zero sum game to increase concentration of wealth in the hands of the few but there is little meritocracy behind it.

In a high traction startup, founders are often the dumbest people in the company but they get treated like they're genius visionaries. I've even heard really smart colleagues/engineers say stuff like "A good CEO needs to be enthusiastic and shouldn't be too smart" - For me this sentence means that we've accepted that the system is not a meritocracy but we've found a way to rationalize it.
On the other hand, this is the first time I've ever thought "Huh, that feels like too much for a book" (with the exception of textbooks), and I think part of the usual charge-more thinking is that if nobody is unhappy with the price, it's too low.

It's also certainly the case that me understanding GraphQL better will easily save my employer much more than $90 of my time, so I might try to expense it and see what happens....
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About ten years ago, when I was working at Loomis, we accepted damaged banknotes as long as you had two thirds of the banknote.
The very popular Gnutella/DC TTH algorithm was distinguishing between Merkle tree and leaf nodes for security/correctness in circa 2000, so it's not clear why Bitcoin (2009) left it out.
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That's the beauty of having a completely unique Firstname Lastname. The downside is that my entire life is easily accessible on the interwebs. My high school baseball scores from 15 years ago are on the third page of google.
that's their choice and there's no moral judgement needed

Sure. And when you hear VC backed companies whining that hiring is soooooo hard, now you know why.
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If you have complicated assets prior to the marriage, like RSUs, you may want to hire a lawyer simply because RSUs are tricky beasts even if you're not getting married.

But otherwise, the Nolo Prenuptial guide is sufficient for most marriages and is in fact the guide that judges in SoCal will recommend.
> Which is why I'm saying they should be offered a deal that investors would accept.

> Demanding everyone pay market rate is just unrealistic.

But they're the same thing! If investors would accept it, then you could just as easily have the investors buy the equity, and then pay the employee with it.

So if it's totally unrealistic that founders would actually pay market, how could it be realistic that they'd offer equivalent equity?

> First ad I clicked on from Angel List front page:

> https://angel.co/everlane/jobs

> $130k salary and 0.01% equity.

That's not an early-stage startup, that's a company with >200 employees and a valuation in the hundreds of millions.
Might be the reason you should just do it regardless.
What are some of the "Meta" things for a web programmer (backend in dotnet) who is also interested in systems programming?
Quoting from https://medium.com/we-distribute/faces-of-the-federation-chr...

> Aardwolf, Bridgy Fed, distbin.com, dokieli, Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Kroeg, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Numaverse, PeerTube, places.pub, Pubstrate, Smilodon, tags.pub, Pleroma, Pump.io, and Rustodon are all either implementors of or are currently implementing ActivityPub.

In addition to those, https://pixelfed.org/ is in the process of implementing federation with AP.
LinkedIn may be looking like a decent acquisition right now, but my god it feel awfully old to use, and I'm not sure how long the first-mover advantage will mitigate these shortcomings. Performance-wise, LinkedIn seems a step slower than not just Facebook or Twitter but even products from younger companies. The website is not very responsive, especially when displaying more than a few screenfuls of content, and the mobile apps are equally bad and lack any kind of smoothness.
Vanity domains can make you stand out from a crowd too! You can book domains like "backend.guru" for maximum HR impact
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It helps to understand the benefits of the procedure to understand why folks would undertake the risk... I had correction at -6 diopters, which is equivalent to about 20/500 vision. My near vision uncorrected was bad enough that the focal distance was closer than the distance needed to resolve 3D vision. This means that to read my phone without correction, I had to close one eye and hold it in front of my face. Further, I was developing an astigmatism, which results in double vision, even when optically corrected (glasses can fix this, contacts do so poorly).

I got PRK in Vancouver, BC for less than $2K USD. Recovery took about 5 days to functional vision, and maybe 1-2 months for complete recovery. It is a world of difference. I wake up and can see the world immediately. I can go hiking/camping without gear that requires a sanitary environment just to wake up and go to sleep. Cheap sunglasses work. I can participate in sport with no notice or prep. I can swim without eye protection. My day-to-day experience is dramatically improved.

If you don't perceive the benefits, LASIK/PRK may not be for you. For some people, though, life with glasses or contacts is a noticeable burden, and correction can provide measurable upside. In these cases, it can be well worth the perceived risk.
I work at a fully remote company and live with my spouse on Manhattan (the upper west side to be precise). I take walks through Central Park everyday and frequently work at a few of the different public libraries.

I love living in a place with so many people, great museums, and great restaurants. It’s very walkable and I love the subways. I meet many interesting people at coffee shops and in the park.

The taxes are a high but overall it is cheaper than I expected.
I agree with the pretty charts, and the bikes. But, there is another reason Copenhageners ride bikes and not think of cars. Cars are prohibitively expensive with the 150% tax on them here in Denmark.

If you live somewhere other ham Copenhagen like I do, that becomes a shitty and obscene example of social government gone wrong. I can buy a shitty polluting old car for the cost of a good car elsewhere, and that's all most working people can afford.

So, yeah. It makes good PR for the Copenhagen and the country, but at the cost of people who live outside the city.
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Beyond "I work at one", there's not much I'm willing to share, but suffice to say that when the majority of the people who work at these companies are saying something, perhaps they have reason to believe it is true.

There are also past threads on reddit and hacker news which include anecdata that points to such compensation being reasonably common, but again that requires believing anonymous internet people.
No need for comics. This is literally the documentation for the .PLY mesh format:

"The way out of this morass of formats is to create a single file format that is both flexible enough to anticipate future needs and that is simple enough so as not to drive away potential users."

and now it really is just one more format to have to deal with.
There are also suburbs across the bay that are cheaper.
Sure!

Our implementation is a little bit naive - it doesn't "clean out" or see which resources are being used.

On the frontend:

There's a script that globs all `.graphql` files and compiles them into a list of {query, variables}. This probably could be made better if it was a webpack plugin that compiles this on build time. This was a Friday project so our time was pretty limited. This was honestly good enough since it caught a shitload of bad queries =).

Query contains the graphql query. Variables contains test arguments.

It saves them into a gigantic file (example: https://gist.github.com/maktouch/074339517a8da5128d62869356b...)

On the GQL server:

We take that file, we parse it, and we loop it and pass it thru the validate function (https://graphql.org/graphql-js/validation/#validate)

(truncated example: https://gist.github.com/maktouch/e1a2955dfcca42541a41665a361...)

Ops:

Frontend and GraphQL are its own Docker image. We build both in parallel. When both succeeds (in building and running their own tests), there's an extra build step that runs this specific test. It does it by taking the gql-queries.json file from the frontend container, adding it to the GraphQL image, and running the validate command.

You can do this by doing multi-stage builds in Docker (https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-bu...). We don't push the resulting image - it's just there for testing.
I suppose, what you do depends on the kids’age.
During the day, you don’t really - have to - give them anything else other than water...
I squeeze orange juice myself a few times/month. If I buy ready-made juice it’s always without added sugar, and I dilute it with water 1:1 when I pour it in their cups.
Yeah when I see stuff like this I'm reminded of this relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/925/
That is assuming they themselves do not dread the task. Sometimes even a professional can't do it because the thing is just so big.

From coding perspective, there is a point where rewriting is better than refactoring. Then you get to piecemeal attack the rewrite with the same resources allocated to refactoring, which rarely is possible.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I find The War of Art very relevant, and let me explain how it helped me. The book is about the struggle of doing things that one cares about: writer's block and the like. It puts in very clear (if metaphorical) detail the nature of this inner struggle (what the author calls Resistance), has some description of the many pitfalls, and gives a bunch of tricks for beating it. Mostly, if you find you relate to the description of Resistance in the book, then framing the struggle in the way the author does can be inspirational. I have read the book two times so far, and each time it has helped me for a little while at least — until the demon of Resistance conquers me again. (Maybe the trick is to just read it every few months…)
> A confounding factor with real prisons is that (hopefully) most of the prisoners have antisocial tendencies which led to their incarceration and guards are under credible threat of violence from both parties.

I suppose we could look at jails, then. They'd mostly be full of people still presumed innocent, and most of those who are guilty aren't guilty of a violent offense. If you just wait a while, you can find out which of those presumed innocent people people were found not guilty. It'd be interesting to see how the guards treated those people.
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Apollo has been in the lead for a while—it currently has 125k weekly downloads on npm, vs Relay's 20k.

You can use the new render prop API instead of the HOC API if you don't like wrapping.

The data fetching itself is separate from the view layer—it's all done by Apollo. From a maintenance perspective, listing data needs is great to have in the view layer, colocated with the components that use them.

You can manually fetch data via GraphQL and put in Redux, but there are a ton of benefits to having a library like Apollo manage the store for you. Automatic normalization, querying from either store or server (or both), optimistic mutation updates, etc.
Frankly, the early employees often build more of the company and its success than the founders do.

They should be rewarded proportionate to the growth they create and catalyze.
For a staff engineer, I'd say even $150k is very low. Even for an H1B, I'd guess $200k/year at least in additional pay beyond the base salary.
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Yes, I'm eliding a lot of complexity, in that you can't just take the equity and sell it to the bank or to your VCs. However, you as a founder have some control over how much you raise and at what valuation. So the fact that you can't make that decision at the time of hiring is certainly true, but you are making those decisions when you decide to raise a round (or not).

That's why I restricted my final remark to companies that have taken funding. Of course there are a lot more moving parts than I let on, but if a company has taken funding and would rather keep their funding than their equity, then it makes sense to think carefully about why that is before buying that equity with, potentially, years of your irreplaceable life.
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I'm looking at a Google internal self reported income form. Large majority make less than 400k.

There's more l3 & l4 employees that. L5. And way less l6/l7 than l5.

Also Uber and Airbnb don't offer liquid rsu. Nobody knows their ipo price and ipo valuation.
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You can then move to a flyover state in the mid-west, and buy a palace for the $100,000/year you were stashing away.
My family is from Europe. I've never been there. Grown up in America my whole life. Is it possible to have family living in a country you are not from? Yes..
Exactly this. This is an interminable stupid loop.

1. People want their own house, 2 cars, ....

2. So they work more, to earn more.

3. In some cases you need to study more, to get better job.

4. Women also get involved in this shitty loop.

5. Getting loans are easier now. However housing supply is not sufficient. So prices go higher.

6. People end up working/studying more, because they need even more money now.

7. They end up having 1 child.

8. Now, since government wants more workers (1 child is not sustainable), they have to bring immigrants.

9. It is getting dangerous now. Corporations lobby politicians, to keep minimum wages at a very low level.

10. Ambitious immigrants are ready to work like a horse. (Don't feel offended, I'm also an immigrant)

11. Corporations bully current employees to work more, since if you don't work more, there is an immigrant out there to replace you.

12. People have to work even more to satisfy their employers.

13. Go to 1.
I highly doubt people are using non standard stroke orders, unless they are very young or it isn't their first language. However, this scheme probably won't work for cursive, which is how people actually write.
> Suppose my startup is current worth $100m.

Then you're way beyond the stage any of this conversation is about... But let's say you said a smaller number.

> Well, no. I can definitely offer them that 0.5% since I control the equity,

... no you can't. You can grant equity out of the option pool, which you defined in collaboration with your investors. If you want to grow the pool you're going to have to talk to them first. You don't have free reign to dilute the investors away at will.

> but I can't just go to a VC and tell them "hey, here's 0.5% of my shares, now give me their fair value worth of $500k".

Well sure, not on a daily basis. You have to raise a round of funding, obviously. Hopefully you don't do that too often, but when you do, you make sure to raise enough to pay your employees a fair salary until the next round.

If you can't raise a round of funding, then your stock is worth nothing and the employee should consider it to be worth nothing.

> Ever been close to a startup raising money from VCs?

I have raised money from VCs.
Most people just wouldn't do a bikini wax given the options above. So maybe not the best advice for getting dreaded things done.
> But they're the same thing! If investors would accept it, then you could just as easily have the investors buy the equity, and then pay the employee with it.

See my [response to inimino](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17291045). It's absolutely not the case that if I have $100m worth of stock according to some valuation, I can just go out and sell any amount of that for what you'd expect based on the valuation.

VCs are the only ones who are generally ready to buy this sort of equity, and raising money from them is a long difficult process, and I can't just decide I'm going to sell 0.5%, get $500k, and pay that to a new employee.

Finding a non-VC to buy your equity is very difficult too.

> That's not an early-stage startup, that's a company with >200 employees and a valuation in the hundreds of millions.

Like I said, it's the first random ad I clicked. Last I looked at Angel List, there were tons of startups offering 0.01-0.05% equity.

Also, notice they're offering this 0.01% with a maximum salary of 130k in SF who is skilled with "Python, Java, Scala, Ruby on Rails, React.js":

https://angel.co/everlane/jobs/306986-software-engineer

That's way below market.

> That's not an early-stage startup, that's a company with >200 employees and a valuation in the hundreds of millions.

Do you have any idea how many startups were worth >100m at one point or another on paper, and ended up with an exit where nobody but the VCs made any money due to stock preference? One down round is enough to effectively wipe out most of the rank-and-file equity in these scenarios.
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With small kids, I suggest the following:

Look for a place with good schools. A good place to start is small towns with land grant universities, like Manhattan, KS which was an awesome experience years ago when I lived there.

I also like being reasonably close to a good airport.

Make a list of stores, eateries and similar that you like. A town doesn't necessarily need all your favorites, but you should check that it has enough to be comfortable for you.

For a time, I very much wanted to live in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is 90 minutes from Denver, one of the busiest airports in North America. I never made it there and happy with where I'm at, but I think it's got a lot going for it.
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Discussions about why comments are downvoted are useful to understand the group mentality of the site, and sometimes the post is just factually wrong, badly composed, or has another negative quality that would be similarly evaluated by multiple readers. Maybe the author mistyped something.

If the only feedback is a bundle of downvotes, it makes sense to ask for more detail. The site is better off when contributors understand what comments the community considers valuable. Sometimes the meta-discussion even leads to a good, but downvoted, comment recovering.
CC non-commercial isn't open source.
Apple and Amazon could end up choosing Raleigh for their HQ2. So maybe that'll soon change.
Because net neutrality is about the behaviors of internet service providers, and web sites are not internet service providers.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality

(Follow the link in the first sentence to see the definition of "Internet Service Provider".)
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I was referring to the ongoing perception of malware issues even after the fact, but you're absolutely right. Guess I should have been clearer but it's too late to edit now.

As for the perception, I think it's going to be like those Red Cross donuts and it'll be very hard to live down.
Totally agree. Sprinkle in some row level security and you've got an app server with data isolated at the DB level, and get the power of SQL for building out endpoints. Compared to this graphql feels a little like engineering theatre.
Shotgun marriage. They did not wanted 16 years old to marry to 17 years old sweathearth and have birth as 17 years. Men were supposed to be able to feed familly already at the time of marriage.
> It's to the point where one can safely assume that any psych paper (but especially social psych) is garbage until such time as it's been replicated a time or two.

Good, because it is probable that what we should assume this for any science[1].

[1]: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...
There are a variety of private jet subscription offerings popping up, including Surfair: https://www.surfair.com/us/membership-pricing/ That one is only $2k/month for unlimited trips between a few locations in California. I don't know how restrictive their scheduling options are, though (i.e., could you actually commute daily with the service?).
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Sufficiently expensive that when I consider Silicon Valley jobs in my future, I also consider getting a pilot license and commuting by plane from the central valley.
Working at a startup and I feel you a 100%. Won’t name the startup but it seems we’re doing better after CEO-founder left.
I dunno how possible this is legally, but one thing YC could do is create a pool of equity of all the startups in a batch which employees could be granted options in.

Investors diversify, and founders own a disproportionate share of their companies (because they take the largest risks, but even so), but early employees are locked in for years with no chance to diversify.

So a shared pool would let early employees diversify their (time) investment.
After your startup and Google experience, you were hired as an SWE1? Also, curious if the experience of the startup or subsequent integration was perhaps more valuable than the opportunity cost.
> See my [response to inimino](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17291045).

Yes I responded there.

> That's way below market.

I agree the salary looks lame but none of this conversation is about companies at that stage.

Equity packages in percentage terms are obviously going to be much smaller for later-stage companies, since there is much less risk baked into them. 0.01% of a company valued at $200m is equivalent to 1% of a company valued at $2m.
While transitioning away from Redux, we actually fetched Data via GraphQL and put it in stores.

Honestly, it was a pain, but it's because we abused Redux.

We progressed by doing the HOC and bypassing Redux but it still was a pain, because HOC.

We're now at a stage where we updated Apollo versions, and started converting to the Query components. It feels and work a lot better.

When we started, we thought the same thing -- keeping data fetching separate from the view layer if possible. We realised that it didn't make that much sense. Keeping everything in React components is a lot more maintainable and easier to comprehend.
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