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Two questions?

Are you in the USA?

Are you getting a true commission, as in a percentage of the sale or contract value or are you just getting a bonus / referral / finder's fee?

Commissions are not normal for consultants at consulting shops or services companies, at least in the States. Sometimes it is possible to strike a one off deal with a sales team to get a bonus, but definitely not a commission.

Have both been a consultant and sold consulting services, now I'm at a product company doing presales. At consulting shops it's normal for consultants to get a straight salary and then a bonus for hitting a certain billable hour % or total hours for some period (like monthly, quarterly, etc).

There are these things called SPIFFs, basically a bonus for doing something specific, such as demoing a certain product, installing a product with a new feature, etc that consultants sometimes can qualify for. But again, straight commission is not normal. If you find a place that does, it might be a good place to stay!

Unless, they give you a quota then guess what... you aren't a consultant, you are an SE.

I assume you are a consultant at this new place? Relationships are how sales are won. These other people saying it is fishy are not giving you objective advice, this is absolutely normal. Have you never asked someone else for an introduction, reference, or info about to another person or company? This is the same thing.

Depending on how it was communicated to you and that person's personality may have made it seem like a requirement, which it is not. But it is probably a good idea to help for several reasons:

It helps the company increase sales which means they stay alive.

Improves the likelyhood of you having a project.

You, hopefully, are working for a company that has a product(s) which solves business needs, so you would be helping both your contact's company and yours.

It improves your relationship with your original contact and the sales team.

Gives you an opportunity to try some light sales skills, something you may be interested in the future.

I am southern and raised to always be respectful and refuse to sell my soul. With that, you should never feel required to do an introduction or push a product/service when that is not your job or you do not feel it is appropriate. Somes sales people may not like this, but fuck them and their boats.

Feel free to reach out if you want to chat more. I have been working on a sales engineer book which includes information similar to these situations. I'll share it when done.

Good luck!
Yep, happened to me.
Strangely it was a client side thing, only kicking me out of group chats I had opened. I could read messages through the notifications if I didn't open the chat directly.
(Some, usually the loudest) are greedy to a fault and would bet their own mother (hyperbole, but you get the point) for six figures.
Change increases the odds of bugs.
IMO Ruby on Rails is one of the most successful uses of clever DSLs and metaprogramming. It probably created a few billion $ in value by enabling application developers to iterate quickly and skip template code that took 1000s of lines of Java. Learn how to do it in Ruby and you can make some libraries that do useful stuff for people who might definitely use it. It’s not the hippest language anymore but it has its niche.
How should your ISP know? Diffserv might help, but I doubt some shitty application will set them.
I can read Google groups just fine in incognito mode.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/golang-nuts

It's a matter of what the settings are on the group (the group admins get to decide visibility settings).
Oh love it! I’m always unsure if it’s ok to ask a question via issues.
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The playbook for Equity compensation has changed dramatically in the last 20 years in drastic favor of the founders.

During the dotcom days, the number of shares that were given out was very generous. I know secretaries that made enough from IPOs in the late 90s that they could retire and buy a vineyard. Meanwhile I was a relatively early employee at a YC startup that had a successful exit. The founders made 8 figures and I made about 80k over 4 years. I would have made 10x more at a FANG with a regular comp package.
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> It is irresponsible and manipulative. IMO, for a company to say, "we're giving you X shares worth Y dollars now and it might go up way more than that."

That’s why it’s illegal to tell an employee (or any potential investor) that their X shares are worth $Y. You must give a 409a valuation or some other evidence to supplant the valuation, and you must clearly state what percentage the share represents (or disclose total number of shares). Misleading and false financial claims are fraud.
A project, a project. Almost any project. Build it to throw away when you've completed it.

Any project you begin will turn out to have a stumbling block where you can't move forwards because you are deficient in your knowledge.

Now spend some time on Software manuals, Google, the forums online and learn what is necessary to remove that deficiency in your knowledge.

Fixing that deficiency, and therefore being able to move onwards with the project means you have learned something.

Keep moving past the all of the stumbling blocks and eventually you will complete that project.

"But, throw it away?"

Yes. Now throw it away. And now rewrite it using all those hindsights of all the new knowledge you now have on hand. You will now know many shortcuts, algorithms, methods, etc. that will make better code than you had before.

That is how I learned programming.
Yeah its a good concept and I would love an easy, secure way to sell items however they are quoting $965 USD for my Nikon Z6 which is out-of box new and retails for $1,996.95 USD. That's pretty hard to swallow. For that I'll put in the time to sell it locally, meet and try in person, cash only.
That's right. I fixed it. I forgot to set it up after adding the web version. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Feedback welcome! I'm sure I'm missing loads of Rust patterns and idioms...
Fair point. I wasn't sure what LEO stands for (I guess low earth orbit satellites). Wireless competition is tough as well, because you have to purchase spectrum from the gov't.

Maybe not all wireless technologies ??? I am not an expert on wireless.

Still wired internet has advantages over the other technologies (stability and latency), so I am merely suggesting an effective way to compete on wired internet can help significantly (its path of least resistance from a technology standpoint, but not from a political standpoint)
Wikipedia may not be up to date, but it says that Comcast has full peering except for Tata/AS6453. For US-based stuff, and I'm not an expert here so please feel free to correct me, isn't that "close enough" for this discussion?
Okay. I understand now that the problem is to reduce the amount of complexity. And thank you for the compliment!
Is there any blog/news website that has this? I'm interested, but details would be great
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Okta and Mulesoft are also very far up (Mulesoft until acquired), and Stitchfix is up a little bit.
It's more like they gloss over the impact of oil while talk about all the good they do. "Mass disinformation" is an overstatement because while you're seeing selection bias, at least the first few videos weren't untrue.
Exactly. These things are more often a force multiplier than an equalizer.
>All of the world's scientists are lying or exaggerating

That itself is an exaggeration. Most of the world's scientists have nothing to do with climate science.
I concede that privacy is less clear cut than fraud. But even fraud can be ambiguous. As in the recent thread about Amazon.

Anyway, it's my impression that ISPs already log some traffic metadata, given that I read about requests from police etc. And of course there are capabilities under CALEA.

And it's understandable that they'd like to earn some money from it, just as Google etc (and my bloody credit providers) do.

Selling and shipping stuff obviously requires information about customers, such as names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. But why should they get to monetize that information, in ways that don't benefit me? That's arguably as clear a distinction as ISPs being unable to monetize by traffic metadata.

I agree that it's more complicated for services that require browsing and location history. But I suspect that much more processing could be done locally. And where that was unworkable, information could be firewalled from other business units.

And even about ISPs without meaningful competition, customers can always use VPN services. That's become quite common in many places.

My ISP gets nothing from me except which VPN service I use, and throughput vs time. And that VPN service gets nothing from me except which VPN services I use through it. And so on until the last VPN service, unless I'm using Tor.

Also, the availability of privacy-respecting alternatives doesn't protect people who are too clueless to use them.
Your post captures my feelings and experience perfectly. I will never trade cash compensation for ISOs again. It sucks because I'd rather be working for small companies, but I'll be God Damned if I'm going to get some asshole rich off of my hard work.
Thanks for your feedback! At this point of time, we are currently only operating in the Australia, UK markets for property acquisitions. We will be adding on more markets down the road - stay tuned!
Interesting, having worked with github orgs for since this was released, I never actually knew this existed.
It actually look pretty cool, sad that it didn't get much traction.
But "it was pre-opened" and "parts are missing" are not the same complaint, so there's still a bigger problem here.
They can tell right now. T-Mobile gives free data usage for video and music streaming, for instance.

You can either do traffic pattern analysis or just base it on what IPs they are connecting to.
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> But it only works if we've made efforts to fix our own carbon emitting economies

Climate denialism in developed countries has many forms. Some of them include:

1. It's not happening

2. It's happening but it's natural

3. It's happening and it's because of human activity but it'll cost too much to fix it.

4. We could fix it but we'd be outcompeted by everyone else who doesn't. So let's not.

Tariffs and sanctions are to address #4. Rich countries absolutely must fix their economies, no question about it.
Why is that a problem that needs fixing? Serious question
So, how do I join discussions beta?
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They could share infrastructure, as electricity providers do.
Can you offer any details on the tax consequences of offering ISOs versus restricted stock? While there has been a ton of discussion of tax consequences for employees, the corporate incentives are less clear and yet understanding them is probably key for progress here.
Much as pointing out potential conflicts is always helpful, it's worth noting that most companies won't dive into a market unless upside exists.

In this case, looks like JPM is betting that the world will get a hold of itself, which would make this product a bit more... productive.
Thanks for the pedantic hair-splitting. I'll update my comment to say "all of the world's climate scientists". But it's not a stretch to say "most scientists in general". I'd wager > 50% of academics, of any discipline, agree it's happening and we need to act.
But that causes employees to lose a powerful tool they have: ability to invest future earnings in the company and recall their future investment (by quitting) if things don't work out.
If we introduce a carbon tax, militaries would have an economic incentive to reduce carbon, just like everyone else.
In the developing world, this is a non existent argument. Most people are dependent on the government in some capacity. In India, the government is the largest employer and the welfare state is firmly entrenched in the system.
One thing nice about Google Groups is that you can largely use it to its fullest extent from email.
“I stopped paying all the premiums on my car insurance! You wouldn’t believe the savings! Why hasn’t everyone figured out this hack?

Why no, I haven’t had an accident...why do you ask?”
a cardiologist brings little resource to my life if i can’t bring him in on a 100 mile horse drawn carriage ride to my estate before dawn to treat me before i get ready to teleport to my underground laboratory in new michigan for work in the morning.
Depends. AMT losses (from ISO exercise spreads and subsequent collapse) are separate and can't offset normal capital gains. That's what caused tons of pain for folks during the first bubble burst.
This looks like the perfect mechanism to help us disambiguate code-related items from discussion items. We could say something like "Close this issue and link it to a new discussion"... Will give this a hard look when it's available on our org account.
That works great today, but it stifles innovation. If I roll out a new real-time service my users suffer shitty delayed service, until I get big enough to force them to prioritize me.
Squeal-ite. Because SQL is "squeal", like the pig.

PostgreSQL is pronounced "post-gres". You absolutely never pronounce the "QL".
Maybe I just don't have enough experience, but I use classes in Javascript and TypeScript, as well as constructors, and they look virtually identical to me. What am I missing here?
Early stage, yes. Top late stage (unicorns) tend to win (depending on your risk aversion).
Could just be a reshipper (or whatever they're called) address which then goes to the actual address out of the country?
Like your positive characterization of millions of peoples' economic misfortune wasnt cheap and childish? Reading your insensitive comment probably ruined a few Greeks' day. I think you can handle a little Hellenic criticism.
Well, I'd say the opposite... Here you'd be making more money.
A "culture" of founders making a ton of money for my work is not a culture I would consider good.
Correct - this allows you to get QSBS treatment on your stock - a huge tax win.

The better startups will even loan employees "money" to exercise.
So they can start tracking your browsing and selling it to marketers.
Yep, and from information theory standpoint, wireless will never have anywhere near the same capacity as wired because of inherently worse channel characteristics (loss, dispersion, and interference)
It only reaches 'evil' when you hit a certain threshold.

Google (ha) has a better definition: profoundly immoral and wicked
Absolutely. Squealer for short.
I didn't mean to put them on pedestals; I really did mean "to a fault". Usually it's a fault. What I'm saying is that they don't mess around when it comes to their own self-interest. So if even they are worried about this, we all should be.
Most users of this extension install it because it nullifies some forms of browser tracking, not because it makes URLs prettier.

I've shared instructions for inspecting the source code of a Firefox add-on elsewhere in this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22388603

WebExtensions like Neat URL continue to work even if you don't update it. You only have to inspect the extension code once (no developer mode needed) if you are skeptical, and you don't have to update it if you don't want to.
It could make it easier, but it takes a lot more effort and time for the “less well off” to expose “those in power” and be taken seriously enough to bring about change...that’s assuming they’re not harmed in the process of doing so. If information about those in power could solve problems of corruption and other evils, many problems we see today wouldn’t linger on for decades.
Pretty sure that has nothing to do with net neutrality. They were doing that anyway.

Net neutrality and the move to "Internet everything" is an apocalyptic combination for ISPs, who are accustomed to selling overpriced cable bundles. If all your entertainment is on Netflix, they can't charge you $100/month for a TV package. With net neutrality gone, they can move that tax to Netflix instead.
You can't. Any more than you can prevent people from insulting you in meatspace.

What you can do is ignore them, and all of the child commentary.
My favorite in this category was an old Macintosh extension named, I think, "Minitaur". Everytime you restarted the machine, it shaved off a single pixel of screen space, replacing it with black. So your screen got imperceptibly smaller over time until eventually you realized something was really not right.
Agreed on later stage; disagree on need to be that high level. High growth companies are actually better for lower leveled engineers as they can grow faster.
Yes, they are. The footage isn’t being shared with strangers as part of their job, however.
I do this too, but split between 5 weeks in the summer for PNW alpine climbing and 5 weeks in the winter for desert stuff in the SW, plus normal vacation for long weekend climbing trips and the obligatory holidays.

If I had children, taking the summer off with them seems great - it's a shame their vacation policy isn't flexible...
Alright, what is YC BF anyways?
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But the reason we have our way of lives and all these billions of lives is because of our highly effective utilisation of fossil fuels. And with those fuels humans manage to live civilised and comfortable lives in conditions ranging from temperate to tropical.

In all seriousness, if you assume the next 200 years looks anything like the last 200 years there is no forecast of the future that doesn't include billions of lives being lost and changes to people's way of life. But climate change doesn't need to be invoked; just the ongoing rise in population and the depletion of fossil fuels.

COVID-19 is the current reminder that that there are much bigger risks out there than climate.
"Recall future investment" makes no sense. Isn't that just a fancy way of saying "not invest"?
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So that you never have to spend more than 2 days a row in the office. It keeps the stress build up low.
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It doesn’t matter if it’s better. It’s fundamentally impossible to get to there from here directly. You can’t do it politically or economically, and honestly, given how much of our economy is built on healthcare spending, it’s pretty stupid to try. But again, it doesn’t matter, you can’t do it in a democracy. Just like a carbon tax, if you make too much of the population hurt in the short term, they’ll just replace you with someone who won’t.

The public option is the only thing that has a snowballs chance in hell of working.
What I find quite disturbing in all these privacy invading technologies is that they’re often marketed as fantastic problem solvers whereas the reality is that they have many confounding factors that put the innocent at risk. Even DNA testing is unreliable unless a lot of care is taken in the entire process.

The problem I see is that lawmakers and law enforcement want these to be taken as the gospel truth when obtained and provided as evidence in a court of law, while the judges or juries are usually not competent enough to understand the nuances and question the “evidence” to the extent necessary to not sentence an innocent person.
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No, that's the threat model that most clients that require high security have (the machine is often nigh-infinitely cheaper than the data and access rights), and MS, surprise, explicitly insists (in difference to secure boot spec) that owner of the physical machine is, well, it's owner and can reinstall, resell, etc.
Well not quite. If a startup offers me $800k in equity over 4 years, I'm fully invested.

If it doubles in a year, I'm now earning $400k in equity a year for next 3 years rather than $200k. (I recall my investment)

If it dies after a year, I only lost $200k, not the entire $700k.
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You'd lose most of the NQSO's taxes on exercise of ISOs too if the proceeds are at all meaningful.
Google's perforce client wrapper was thousands of lines of bash for a long time. It was both amazing and terrible. It stood up to thousands of engineers and was easy to customize, if youbwerw good in bash. Fun times...
Broken now? Getting “this page failed to outline”
100% agree. People are totally delusional to think that there’s a snowball’s chance in hell of single payer happening from where we are. And given that healthcare is like a fifth of the economy, it’s completely reckless anyway! Plus, if nothing else, it’d never get through the Senate, and that’s unlikely to change for decades.

Public option, it’s by far the best path forward.
I admit to being blissfully ignorant regarding financial matters but isn't 50% less work while earning 33% less (as opposed to 50%) a good thing?
Sorely needed.
Tons of projects use issues for discussions/questions..or redirect to stackoverflow.

I wonder what will be the reduction in stackoverflow due to this ?

One request - have a global "discussions search" . Repos are interconnected to each other. I don't want to have to restrict my topic search to one repository's discussions
>You’d be carving out an exception for ~55% of homes.

I don’t think so. Your stats [1] are just for percent of all dwellings, many of those homes are owned by large corporations that then lease them out. If you limited it owning a single home, I think it would be significantly less, more like a 25% exemption by volume(probably less by value) this is backed up by [2] which says home ownership is around 56%. I’m fairly sure more individuals/families than you’d think own more than one home in the state.
But what if they just keep raising money at crazy valuations because it's easy to get and hoard?
>...Maybe I expect a chatbot, maybe I expect outsourced customer-service-farms...

It's usually a chatbot that handles the repetitive questions when they're worded properly, and when it can't, asks you to hold on a sec while it forwards the question to the customer-service-farm.
Free at the point of sale is what’s important. The fact that I know I theoretically pay for it with my taxes does nothing to curb abuse.
All this fuss should have been about lazy loading of resources. The leak is there
I'll be interested to see how Huawei responds. They already sell a lot of phones in China with no GApps so they must have their own ecosystem of sorts. That said, I suspect that whatever Huawei does will be just as bad (or worse?) for user privacy and control than what Google currently does.
"This somehow feels very sad and unfortunate, especially given the amazing handsets that Huawei puts out (P30 Pro). ..."

Well, it's all in the eyes of beholder, isn't it. Franky, as I see it, that P30 Pro won't have Google's crappy spyware installed is an absolute blessing (it saves those who don't want Google spying on them a great deal of trouble by not having to root the phone, which is now quite difficult given that Huawei has stopped handing out keys to unlock the bootloader).

[BTW, I don't like Huawei one iota as a company but from my experience from using its technology—both phones and other communications equipment—I have found that it works very well indeed. It's often the small attention to detail that counts and that makes all the difference: for example, the OTG port on many of Huawei's smartphones reads NTFS drives directly out of the box without any mucking about—most other phones do not (they're usually limited to FAT32 and exFAT), which is a damn pain! In the past, this feature has been so important to me that I've chosen Huawei over other brands specifically because of it.]