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Ask HN: How to split equity with a slightly later co-founder?
I worked on a side project from Aug-Feb of 2020-2021, when I decided it could actually become a product that I'd like to release and, depending on reception, quit my job to grow into a business. Since Feb, I've productionized the codebase, set up infrastructure, created pitch decks, business plans, and feature specs for the upcoming beta. I've written about 100k lines of code, which are split between data processing pipelines and a front-end web app. The first addressable market is seasonal (Sep-Feb), which is why I haven't launched yet.

I can't make the target closed beta release date alone and asked if my friend would help out. I told him we should come up with an equity split (even if it feels premature) that's favorable to both of us. It'll vest over 4 years with a 1 year cliff that kicks off when we get seed funding, when we both go full-time on it. He, being unfamiliar with startup investing and equity splits, told me to come to him with a split.

I'm struggling to do that. If I were to do the whole thing on my own, I wouldn't be able to launch by my target date without cutting significant features but I do have the skillset to do it. He has no background in the business side of things.

So, we're looking at a co-founder who:

- Will be working part-time (same as me) until seed funding

- Has a similar programming skillset (but more experience in production web app dev)

- No business background

- Coming into a project where the idea and release are mapped out, and 100k lines of code are written.

- FAANG background (same as me)

I want him to be motivated in case the beta goes well, but a 50/50 or 60/40 split seems unfair. To complicate it even more, the beta should be revenue-generating from day one, but of course who knows how well it'll perform. Could be a few hundred in revenue (10+ users), could be tens of thousands (200+ users).

I'm considering an 85/15 split with a 50/50 revenue split after expenses. Am I totally wrong?
I would definitely quit a job that required a 2 hour commute. That doesn't mean I want to work from home, it means I want to work somewhere a sane distance away.
"How can we know people are working if we can't physically see they are sitting in their chair".
The biggest one in this is the 10 hours per week of commute, which if anything actually is a lower estimate of the "all in" time commuting takes.

In a normal job that's 25% of your time that's flatly uncompensated, who would opt for that.
Were you alive during the cold war? That's what I think this is. A kind of cold war against a terrestrial foe, in this case one with superior technology.
Sometimes a bug on the lens also looks like magic.
Uh. I stopped at the Shuttle example. It was expensive because it was a bad design (or a good design meeting bad requirements)
If you live in a car-centric city without walkable and bikeable streets nor great public transit and force car-dependence that is what you get.

There are plenty of non-car-centric expensive cities that one can travel across in less than an hour.
The ESP32 has IRAM, which you can write to and execute from.
Moderna started ramping up back in August [0], two and a half months after they'd dosed the first stage 1 trial participant [1]. I'm just really not convinced that their scaling up was that bad that they could have done it six months faster. There are real bottlenecks involved, and some extremely specialized equipment. Not to mention that even in WW2, the United States' new naval shipyards took something like 9 months of ramping up before they launched their first ship.

[0]: https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
[1]: https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
They don't count on being "outside of wartime" when they need them.

Also, for the big powers, it's really always wartime. Some times are just colder than others.
Weird stuff. I guess the webdev took a screenshot from some other website and it included the arrows...

You wrote "lightbox" and I read "mapbox", I thought someone implemented an image carousel by adding photos instead of map tiles in a Google Maps-esque UI (like this but with unconnected pictures: https://www.nightcity.io)
That is why I added the part about having such a short commute.
The videos have been explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le7Fqbsrrm8

The pentagon released them because they were getting sick of FOIA requests from the mob of people the To The Stars folks have been rallying.

GAO is currently reviewing the contracts granted to those folks as well.
I've never worked for Symmetricom but if you're interested in timekeeping be sure to check out the excellent Time-Nuts mailing list.[1]

[1] http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
Hyundai Kona EV is a good choice, as is the VW ID.4.

There's snow here too and I do just fine with a Hyundai Ioniq.

Also: fast charging at home is completely useless. A 22kW AC charger (which is around 7-11kW actual for most EVs) will charge pretty much any car from 0-100 overnight.

Just a normal plug with 2kW is enough unless you come home with an empty battery every day.
Arizona lawsuit shows Google’s efforts to collect location, obfuscate settings
Interesting. I'm not in NYC, so I haven't seen this. Upstate so far it just seems vaccination status is only affecting masking requirements and no one is actually checking.
They pass interviews and accept full remote jobs. I've seen it happen. Some people moved to smaller cities at the start of the pandemic, so they have literally zero incentive to come back; they are even taking pay cuts if needed.
> but it also requires to schedule pretty much any interaction.

This is another positive.

> So any gossip or informal catch up, or sharing real “corporate incorrect” opinion is out of the door (if you work for any large organisation).

I'm not sure what "corporate incorrect" means here, but gossip is generally a net negative in the workplace that tends to build cliques and factions that often manifest in a bigger problem.

Assuredly there are other non-company channels to do those things, but the question is ... why?
It is more like solving a problem once rather than creating 27 different, incompatible solutions for the same problem. I don't see how the problem should get harder to solve, just because you apply the solution to 500M instead of 20M people. After all, it is mostly software.
> The problem is that on microcontrollers everything is compiled, linked, and deployed together using really old-fashioned tools.

Not necessarily. There are modern and pleasant workflows using Rust.

This article is somewhat general. Ie, what is his intended use case? What is he building? Part of the beauty of embedded programming is you can avoid the complications of abstractions like virtual machines and operating systems, and the performance penalties that accompany them.
Depends on how much you curb it. Just a little and it delays things. Do it enough and it will end sooner. Vaccines are the best way to do the latter, the US is close to the end and could be done with the pandemic if just a "few" million more got their vaccine.

Even the "just a little" delay is a good thing though. It gives doctors time to find better treatments.
They also don’t allow you to collect welfare unless you and your kids have received your vaccinations (Australia).
Nope, history is eradicated by bots.

Google bought dejanews, the historical usenet archive. They made it accessible via google groups. Now braindamaged bots are closing these archives. If google cannot fullfill their dejanews buyout promises they should hand it over to entities which are capable hosting these archives.

Not a single major newsgreoup like comp.lang.* may be closed by bots!
Boil=and-bite only provides cushion between teeth. Sleep apnea mouth guards are designed to thrust the jaw forward, so as to mechanically assist in keeping the airway open. They're so very different in effect and structure that if you feel you're benefiting from a boil-and-bite, you've almost certainly mis-attributed something somewhere.
How did you deprogram? This seems like it would actually be broadly relevant to habit change, so as a non smoker I’d be interested to know more.
The DNS Camel (2018)
> A response article to this would be: “Just learn to use a computer”.

A rephrasing of his problem would be: "I'm too busy to learn how to become more efficient with a computer," and I've heard this excuse for 27 years now.

Classic case: At one company, I rewrote an engineering program that my dad had written years earlier as a command-line program in BASIC. The operator would have to use note cards and go through a whole series of menus to make it do its thing, like "A... 1... C... 3... 5..." I rewrote it in Visual Basic, and made the whole function take no more than 3 clicks, usually just 1. I came back later, and noticed the operator was still using my dad's program, and I asked why. He said my program was "too complicated." I started to protest, but knew it was futile. Other people were loving it, so I just dropped it.

I've never found a good way to redirect people who are defensive about learning new ways to use a computer to think about things differently. If anyone has had luck here, I'd love to hear about it.
Developer information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...

I'm excited about top-level await and PerformanceEventTiming
Hitting 7 figures on a one person services business isn't impossible just difficult. I feel like the article nailed most of the key elements, primarily he has a limit to the number of clients period, which means there is a capped revenue based on his fee structure. That really isn't a big deal though, let's say he stays at the $50k/MRR and lives a modest but comfortable life. He's making ~600k a year on expenses that are minimal. He can easily work that for 10 years and build up a few million dollars in the bank.

This is the reason I think the swing big or don't try mentality is wrong. Sure, swing big, but winding up with (or intentionally building) a "life style" business that is profitable is a great way to go.

My only disagreement with this persons methodology is he is screwed if he gets hurt, sick etc. So he's not really building so much a business as he is a personal limited income stream. If he wants to take 2 months off for vacation to recharge he can't do that easily, if he wants to do something else his income is dead. Even in most life style businesses you would build the business to survive you not being there since that is how you can keep growing and expanding yourself.
Even in this case you need to take care of the action of rotations on points near the poles, don't you? (I don't remember, it's been a long time since I did such calculations).

But yes, otherwise I agree with you.
> Ironic that this sentiment is expressed on HN, a centrally controlled site with strict rules around what can and cannot be said.

I say this on my own website, on other sites, and here too - it's not an exclusive thing. This isn't the gotcha you seem to think it is.

> you rail against Instagram's no nudity policy, something that almost all people agree that the site is better off without.

Citation needed. This is your opinion, not fact. There are many thousands of fine art photographers who can't share the majority of their work on IG, and hobbyists who have lost their entire accounts and audience simply because Facebook's censors can't tell a male nipple from a female one. Many people into fetish clothing and jewelry design can't even post non-nude images showcasing their products. There isn't the wide consensus you imagine.

> And yet, have you tried posting nudity on HN? Let us know if it stays up. HN's control over topics that can be discussed is so firm that even potentially interesting threads like...

I actually wrote and operate a little hobby site that exists solely to detect and highlight stories upvoted by HN's readership and marked as off topic (and hidden) by HN's administrators: https://orangesite.sneak.cloud

People should be able to decide for themselves what they see and read, including delegating that authority. HN, for example, has the "showdead" preference option for opting in to seeing comments marked dead by the mods.

HN strikes a good balance, and lets people opt in or out of comment moderation. Facebook and Google do not.
How far into algebra do you need to get to understand "Rotations of 3-dimensional real space form the topological group SO(3)"? I kinda understand that norm-1 quaternions map to rotations in 3D space somehow but I can't prove it myself. What kind of curriculum do I need to follow to really grasp this?
I used to write C++ for food. I sometimes get nostalgic, and think I want to regain my C++ chops. Then I see something like this.

Life is too long to write C++ for a living.
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This is a small excerpt from a draft blog post I am currently writing:

- Python forces the `py` affix in words: scrapy, scapy, rpyc

- Python does wordplay on standard library modules' names: pickle => dill

- Emacs and Julia append the file extension to the end of the name: restclient.el, HTTP.jl, JSON.jl

- Emacs does wordplay on the package the extension is based on: git => magit

These are the ones I was most familiar with. If the replies to your comment provide more insights, I may be able to extend that part of the blog post :)
Indeed, though my recollection of Feynman's most pertinent criticism is that he suspected that the probability of failure of the thousands of individual components - probabilities that are all very small numbers - were picked with one eye on how they moved the overall risk. He felt that the analysis, which should have been bottom-up (and nominally was) was actually conducted in a top-down manner.

The space shuttle program demonstrated that if your analysis overlooks just one scenario (such as a rigid O-ring or ice on the bipod ramp), the risks can be much greater than you calculate.
Agreed! I had an hour-long one way commute too and it's been great. My work day went from 11 hours to 9 at most. I have more time to cook, I can get up later of earlier, I can do laundry, dishwasher etc...

My company wants to go 2 days home and 3 days office. I've said I'd do it the other way around.

I do miss my colleagues as well, but two days a week should be enough to garner most weekly advantages of being in the same place.

And it's not just convenience, either. 2 days in office would open up immense possibilities for me regarding housing, I can live in a cheaper home outside the big city and still commute less than 10 hours a week.
Neither new variants and boosters are reasons for revokation as both are better served by information about the vaccine administered and a timestamp.
36 is an old man?
Are you being facetious?
Here's my theory:

The aliens do have advanced technology such that they could remain hidden from us, but choose to appear to us in patterns consistent with human mythological sightings -- fleeting/mysterious/ambiguous/infrequently -- due to their own inscrutable alien social norms.

That is, they are friendly, and this is the strange way they show it...

I think it's so as not to "rudely" impinge too strongly on our sense of reality. Especially our place within the universe, since we believe we are at the top.

(just having fun with this)
Server BMCs provide power consumption timelines, which are measured in real time by the PSUs themselves. Also processors can assess their power consumption and report it to the OS and to the platform.

Querying and recording these as time series provides very nice insights over time.
How do I get the old style of tabs back? I need every vertical pixel I can get.
This is a blanket, unsupported statement. It isn't persuasive.

> ignores the tech ...

Not true. He doesn't ignore the technology of Bitcoin.

> because he doesn’t understand it

Please show evidence of this. You are not "in his/her/their head", nor is it likely that you've had a conversation where you can assess. It is more likely that Pinboard disagrees with you largely because of value differences.
This seems like the perfect case for differentiation. There's a lot of arguing over the merits of working remotely vs. working in person as if one is universally better.

Just have some companies work entirely remotely, and some work entirely in person, and have employees choose their employer based on that just like how they choose their employer based on headquarters location etc. now.
Auxl has a modular design, which can make chaining requests more intuitive. It’s also native, which still matters to many.
What would you do differently with the norm function?
I know plenty of people, myself included, who consider most of what you described as a blessing.

Not having to have "how are the kids?" conversations and instead being able to play a video game or watch a TV show during some down time is worth every bit of company gossip I'm missing.
CPAP isn't anywhere near as awful as people make it out to be. I suspect many of these "CPAP sucks" stories come from people who (for whatever reason) are given a cheap, shitty mask and a cheap, shitty & loud machine. Masks used to be really bulky and unpleasant. Machines used to be pretty loud. These days, machines are nearly whisper quiet and masks come in more varieties than I care to list. I mean sure, there is an adjustment period. And sure, given a choice, I'd rather not have to wear one. But as far as annoyances go, it's pretty minimal.

If you're ever put on CPAP, take your time (and dime) looking for a mask that feels right for you. If your doctor/insurer/whatever only covers shitty ones, then pay for it out of pocket (or try to work out a deal). There's a ~100% chance the first mask you try won't be right for you.

Edit/addendum: the article talks about loud snoring. That's true for many, but definitely not all. You can have sleep apnea without snoring.
...not to mention massive code size increase, for wifi/bt driver. And that driver is likely to come as an inscrutable binary blob.
Or circuit Python. I’m sure there are others too.
Have you tried having an injured foreigner spell words, maybe foreign, in the exact same situation? Yeah
Working Remote: A Survivor’s Guide
Considering what I see DevOps eng team at my company working on the most, I would point you to learn as much as you can about Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and other container and “infra as code” (IaC) tech stacks. Then take those skills and combine with the cloud cert knowledge you have and design some reproducible infrastructure definitions with AWS services (something small to start like having a server in a compute instance communicating with a relational DB over a private network connection). That task alone will likely bring you down some rabbit holes like working with and designing VPCs. I would also suggest looking at A Cloud Guru for getting certs beyond just the entry level which kind of touches on everything without going deep into anything. From what I see, the DevOps people I work with are quickly becoming more “CloudOps” but maybe I’m being biased towards what I see day in and day out so always take the advice of a random internet stranger with less than a grain of salt.
You're just objectively wrong. To the extent that _anyone_ cares about Usenet for actual discussion purposes, there are lots of other providers you can choose from.

Same, obviously, goes for e-mail.
Its hard to come up with arguments for working from office when you can save 2 hours of commute. Time alone is huge.

With that standard 8h work 8h personal time 8h sleep. Commute eats up 1/4 of your personal time.
A problem for whom? Unionisation is a net positive for everyone not interested in profit; a good union ensures good working environments which improve efficiency (amount achieved per time spent), and it reduces worker exploitation (e.g. fairer compensation for labour).

How do you arrange something like that behind your boss's back if you can only communicate with your colleagues via corporate-approved communication channels?
I miss the office for..

- Social chatter.

- Making friends with old employees who I didn't know, and connecting with new employees.

- Work Life separation (balance).

- Sense of belonging.. team outing, weekday after hours beer.

- Intra company sports and games, and then teaming up with office colleagues to play inter company tournaments.

- (Not me but others) Meeting potential dates

- Office facilities for breakfast, lunch.
They want to build that familial model where you live and die for your teammates and wfh hampers that because you aren't forced to trauma bond with a bunch of strangers. Facebook/Google learned early on that building campuses that look and act like colleges increased worker retention and productivity because they built their whole lives around the company. Shopping, Doctors, Recreation all happened on campus. All your new friends were made on campus after they forced relocation.
> but it also requires to schedule pretty much any interaction.

That's a small price I'm willing to pay.

> So any gossip or informal catch up, or sharing real “corporate incorrect” opinion is out of the door (if you work for any large organisation).

Just speaking personally, any company I've worked at where gossip/whispering/staff looking over their shoulders and feel the need complain/etc. were important factors was not an environment I wanted to be a part of anyway.
Millions of Americans could face eviction as housing protection expires in June
Trust is the issue that needs to be resolved with swapping batteries. I'd compare it to a parachute, would you use a parachute packed by some rando you met on the street?

If I go in to swap a battery, what guarantee do I have that the previous user didn't drive it into a rock and puncture a cell? Can I be sure they didn't leave malware in the battery's software?

If all these checks are being done at the swap station, will it still be cost-effective?

Also: Modern EVs use chargers up to 350kW and have 400-500km range. A 15-20 minute break every 500km shouldn't be a dealbreaker for anyone.
It really depends on your needs. Overkill microcontrollers aren't that expensive anymore. It's probably faster to prototype something with micropython than C. And I say that as a very proficient C developer.

On the other hand, C isn't hard to learn, since the language is so small. What's harder is to learn its pitfalls and the parts that are actually implementation-specific, and not specified.

I'd argue that learning some assembly (enough for a few toy projects) is more useful to understand the system. C is required if you want to make the most out of the hardware, at least for now.
May these laws never be passed.
While I agree with the general sentiment I'd prefer an extra full day off in stead of working 4-6 hours a day for 5 days.
Can someone familiar with the subject speak on the state of the TrustZone in this chip?
There are non-tracking ad networks that will analyze the content of the page and insert relevant ads.
I agree with you about this distinction being important, but I come at it from a different angle - I don't mind if most apps operate in the background as they need, with preemptive scheduling like Android. But I really, Really mind if I don't have a rock solid way to quickly and easily kill an app (and all related tasks/processes/async jobs/etc).

1. There are times I want to make sure an app is not running (think zoom/hangouts with video access), or a work app that records location

2. The single best way to fix a problem, any problem, is still 'turn it off and back on again'.

I don't want to kill the current activity and hope that the background jobs stop at some point in the nearish future with absolutely no feedback or insight. I want "killall <root app process>" then give the app 5ish seconds to cleanup and if it's still around "killall -9 <root app process>".
I think it's not that uncommon in the US
The few times I've accidentally called emergency services, my Android phone asks me first if I want to allow the phone app to access my location...

It would've been more logical to automatically share it, to be honest...