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It's interesting to consider!

And it seems like this got a lot of points, but no one knows what to say constructively about it.

Perhaps moving from a magic situation of a context moving between the server and the client (which is an awesome thought for a pipe dream) to an actual example with GHCJS or so might spawn a larger reaction or movement.
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What you're describing is called "restricted stock" (not to be confused with "restricted stock units", which are entirely different). The idea is that you actually buy the shares upfront at the current 409(a) (legal) valuation, but the company has a right to buy them back if you leave. Founders usually get their shares this way, because at the time of founding the valuation is essentially zero. Early employees may take this route too, but usually the company switches over to options after a funding round forces a non-negligible valuation. Some companies (like mine, at least so far) continue to let new employees choose.

The amount you would pay for restricted stock is exactly the same as what would otherwise be your strike price for stock options, assuming the same number of shares.

For an employee, the major down side of choosing restricted stock (assuming non-negligible valuation) is that if the company fails and the stock ends up being worth nothing, you don't get that money back. Whereas with stock options, you have more time to find out if the stock will be worth anything before you buy into it.

The up side is possible tax advantages, but of course I cannot give tax advice.

(All this is information I've learned while being the founder of sandstorm.io; I am not an expert in these things.)

PS. Don't forget to file your 83(b). (Any time you say "restricted stock" to a startup founder, they will instinctively reply with "Don't forget to file your 83(b)".)
Maintainability of code and number of available skilled developers would seem like a reason for not choosing Scala. A small team of highly skilled and motivated developers on a new project would seem like a good reason. Note I've done Java dev but only have a bit of Scala knowledge.
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This advice could be risky. If they assign stock to you and you exercise it and there is any different between the current value and your strike price, that can be exactly what triggers the AMT.

If you exercise and sell at the same time, you will pay short-term income taxes, but without any AMT to worry about.
I think it's more along the lines of "the old way we used to value and award options/equity isn't very compelling for employees these days. We need to think of better ways to give employees ownership."

That's a real problem for people trying to start a company without a lot of cash. If it's to be useful as compensation, equity should be valuable, but it's not because the payout is so uncertain and so far away. Throw in terms that leave multiple opportunities to kiss the whole payoff goodbye just because of life (or worse yet, get screwed over by the IRS), and it's no wonder employees don't particularly value equity.

Typical option agreements are not terribly effective, so you may as well just pay cash unless there is a better way to distribute ownership in today's environment.

It's not a simple problem to solve. Saying "give more equity" doesn't really do it if the problem is that the likelihood of seeing a payout is too small. And making the payout more certain is not easy.
This is nice, but I really wonder why they don't focus on more important things. For example this issue I opened over a year ago, asking them to use end-to-end encryption by default and for group chats: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/issues/156

Probably because features are more important than security, sigh.
This is correct. But most of the time if you ask you can get it.
The original hype was when they were in closed beta, which was way more than a year ago. Internet Archive[0] indicates they started promoting it as early as January 2013.

Things do move fast, but hype doesn't move that fast. The reason I'm cautious is that they were extremely hyped before being able to deliver any actual code developers could use and that in the time since the original announcement, well, all of the past two and a half years happened (e.g. React).

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130715000000*/http://famo.us

EDIT: Here's the January 2013 beta marketing website: https://web.archive.org/web/20130110063331/http://famo.us/
It might be nice if one could specify a background image using a url maybe?

Hmm, but then that wouldn't allow one to specify the link to other information about the meme (the copy).

Maybe if another website could host a json file, which contains a link to the main image?

And then one could make a bitly or similar link to the url of the json file? or maybe a base64 encoding or something?

So that one could link to http://memegen.link/external/gsU563KE3gb/_ which could yield

{
"direct": {
"visible": "http://example.com/happycat/_.jpg",
"masked": "http://example.com/_djcmbnidk.jpg"
},
"_comment":"tbh I didn't really understand the markdown attribute so I am ommitting it here
}

or something like that, so that one could then link to

http://memegen.link/external/gsU563KE3gb/hello/world.jpg to get something that looked like

http://memeifier.com/HELLO/WORLD/http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photo... ?

(or, alternatively , using

http://memegen.link/external/gsU563KE3gb/THE_TRICKSTER_GOD_T...

to get something that looks like

http://memeifier.com/THE_TRICKSTER_GOD_THEUTH_CAME_TO_US_AGA... )

or, hmm,

ok nvm idk how this would actually be best done.

I don't really mean to be asking "hey, can someone do this" so much as a "hey, would this be an interesting thing for someone to do?".

I like the json that this website uses. Cool website. Yes. I like it.
TCV and Accel are smart investors but this on its face sounds like a terrible idea. Outsiders are typically clueless about why something is working.

However, it it ends up working out, I can see the model getting a lot of future consideration.
Your comment reminds me how the Catholic Church treated the Bible during the Middle Ages (environmentalism runs so parallel to religion it's uncanny).

The clergy would not let lay people read the Bible themselves, claiming there are "poorly-informed responses you get when people attempt to read the scripture for themselves with little to no understanding of the theology behind it."

"Just trust us," they said, "we will interpret it for you and tell you how to live accordingly."
I don't have any experience with Telegram. Can anyone share how it compares with Slack?
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Being experienced engineers is helpful. Whether or not you're "much more involved" than recruiters probably depends on the recruiter, but running multiple interviews internally with coaches is definitely a worthwhile service.

Most experienced recruiters can rip apart a resume and are usually willing to help make changes (specifically when it's for their own client). I've seen recruiters that claim ownership of the resume they modify for their candidates, which seems tacky.

I understand that you will recommend companies that you don't work with, although your business model has all the same incentives that the traditional contingency recruiting model has.

You have two ways of making money.
1 - Getting paid when a candidate accepts a job at your client (standard contingency model).
2 - 20% (of difference) paid by candidate for negotiation

You can recommend candidates to companies you don't work with, and you can make money off these deals by providing a negotiation service.

I respect that you are trying to provide a superior service to what most recruiters are providing. It's a sad state for the recruiting industry when companies are reluctant to even use the term "recruiting". I'm as critical of the recruiting industry as anyone, so I do wish you well.
If you live on less than you make, you can indeed become quite rich.

It might not be your definition of "rich" depending on how you grew up.
Indeed. Your points here make things even more complicated. :)
Giving out stock can be far from free..
Do you have any testimonials from engineers who have been placed with help from Jobstart?
Hey Zach, Creator of InterviewBit here, we are doing something similar, however relatively less human powered, would love to hear your thoughts about what we are doing at InterviewBit.com

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BT as in British Telecom?
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I'm not sure if that's true. Pick Spain:

Madrid and all surrounding cities (Toledo, etc.) are a big shade of red. Barcelona and in fact the entire densely populated Mediterranean coast (Valencia, etc.) is also lipstick-red. Sure, let's look at the Basque Country. Also red.

The only blue I see is in the mostly rural Extremadura, Leon, etc. (close to Portugal).

So even if pop. decreased, not everyone moved from e.g. Madrid to Germany. Many people moved to smaller cities or rural areas, so if you just see the map without pop densities it looks that way.
Definitely check out https://github.com/balderdashy/activity-overlord-2-preview
Your quote from the Federal Reserve directly supports my statement; it just quantifies that ~10% negative equity + a liquidity shock is a good predictor of default. Put another way, I was suggesting that there is hysteresis in the response to negative equity. That said, my statement would have been much less confusing if I had explicitly acknowledged the connection. Perhaps, "Negative equity doesn't immediately trigger a distressed mortgage, or..."

Furthermore, my central claim -- that the total fraction of houses with negative equity is a poor predictor of default risk -- is unaffected either way. It would be more useful to know the distribution of negative equity for those houses, or summary statistics like the mean or median negative equity. (If we knew that the median negative equity were 10%, then we could predict that about half of the 16.9% of all properties that are upside down are at risk of default if they experience a liquidity shock.)
When the stock is assigned to you then there should be no difference between the current value and your strike price. That would be very unusual. That is why I was saying that waiting until you vest might not be a good idea because by then you might have an AMT issue.

I agree that exercising and selling can be a good strategy but we're (mostly) talking about private companies here where that may not be an option due to a lack of liquidity.
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I agree that the Xilinx tools are not so easy to use, but I feel that they are far from painful.

I am amazed with the functionality of the free version of ISE (both in simulation and floor plan design). I have used this software to prototype and implement a 3rd order pipelined sigma-delta modulator on a FPGA, and several simple CPLD projects which didn't require simulation.

The simulator is far from crippled. I was able to read input from a binary test vector file into the simulator, run it though the model, and save the output to file. I found this very useful during development to compare the VHDL implementation with the prototype I had written in C.
I second that notion. It comes down to priorities and right now bots > security.
If Google has determined that they need the best employees, they have to pay high salaries.

And if you want to get pedantic about it, the roads were actually built by a private, for-profit construction company that was contracted by some level of government. Those workers didn't show up and pour asphalt because they felt like it; they did it because they were paid to do it. In a capitalist society, even non-capitalist activities have to abide by the rules of capitalism.
D'oh, thanks for the correction! I knew about their caching mechanism, but failed to realize that it wouldn't prevent this sort of tracking pixel from working due to the pixel URL being unique (in most cases).
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These articles don't tell you about the 30-somethings that burned their life savings chasing an idea and not getting the same result. Ultimately, the narrative that success is directly the result of hustle isn't necessarily true.
As above. Once you are reasonably confident with Java you are less likely to have the kind of questions that SO can answer e.g. ones with a definitive answer not design/pattern related. The API's are often consistent and well documented. A lot of people coming from C++ / C# etc can easily transfer to Java. Also although they are a similar age JavaScript uptake for solving real problems is on the increase.

I'm novice to intermediate with Java and JavaScript and I find far more gotchas with JavaScript as evidenced in blogs, books etc e.g. The Good Parts (cf The Bad Parts...)
The part of this article that most interests me is that Virginia is a "one-party consent" state for audio recordings, meaning that only one party has to consent for the recording to be legal.

It seems like that's a law that's going to be more important as recording devices become ubiquitous. Will Virginia change to a "two-party consent" state, or will other states join Virginia? Or we just remain a landmass where recording others is allowed in some places but not other places?

How soon until we have an iWatch that's always streaming audio and video to a cloud server? (Dependent question: How much energy is used to record an image from a sensor, process, frame, and route over Wifi or Cell?)

Also, there's the moral question of recording another's audio without their consent. How do we decide (or re-decide) what the moral rules for recording should be?
Think that may be by design:

> The goal of these experiments were to see if LSTM could learn a fixed chord structure while in parallel learning elements of a varying melody structure. It was easier to stick with a basic melody. Note that every 12-bar segment is unique; however, because only one or two bars are changed at a time, you may have to listen for a while to hear differences. We are currently working on a much more interesting set of training melodies and chords
Assume we're talking about a senior developer and come up with math that reasonably gets #24 above 100 basis points. It's not impossible, but it's pretty tricky.

Remember, in a lot of companies, the founders are diluted way back below 10%.
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It's kind of cute watching the web optimize itself. In contrast, the stuff they pulled off in the 80s on an NES is like powerful, ancient magic.
Perhaps you should clarify apartment landlords, since many houses are owned by individual real estate investors who lease out the properties, and who have a different set of requirements when it comes to single-family dwellings.
Silly Microsoft, it's just called "Android", not "Android Phone".
Coming out of college, very few people can even conceptualize risk, randomness, and the possibility of a variety of outcomes. Pretty much the whole education system is based on a series of "If you take this action, you will be rewarded in this way" choices - if you complete your homework, it's 10% of your grade, if you bomb the midterm, it's 33% of your grade, your GPA is the average of all your classes, if you make a 3.0 GPA you can keep your scholarships and if you maintain a 3.5 for 2 semesters you make the dean's list. Get good grades and good SAT scores and you'll get into a good college and be set for life.

I've often wondered whether the best education that you could give youngsters would be a course that was probabilistically graded. If you work hard and ace the tests, it would increase the chance that you get a good grade - but your final grade also depends on things like the teacher's mood, the roll of a d20, the stock market performance on grading day, and whether the school gets a fat alumni donation that quarter. But I can imagine the public outcry if such a policy were enacted. Parents would sue the school, claiming that they've ruined their kids' chances for getting into a good college.
There was craziness like that during the first dot-com bubble. I remember a story of a dentist taking options as payment.
They have completely different goals, Telegram is a competitor to SMS/WhatsApp, not Slack/IRC.
England has forests, nature reserves, fjords elsewhere. That's why this region can be so dense?
Why would you want to build up everything? Where's the gain I wonder?
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It might be the same for other professions if the tools were able to be obtained without payment. You'd think that people who make their living producing software that must be paid for to pay them that they wouldn't begrudge someone who makes their professional life all that much easier. (I paid for Sublime Text)
It's worth remembering that most people who work in customer service have been around the block so many times they hate the people they have to deal with by default. Most folks I know who work in retail or the hospitality industry will openly state they hate you just for walking in the door.

Professionalism be damned, whether you're a disgruntled barista or a disgruntled anaesthesiologist, everybody needs to be able to vent by ripping into their customers sometimes.
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Are you in SF? If so, we should grab coffee. Even if not, we should Skype.

My email is zach@jobstart.co!
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I'm not sure how it works, but the Giants contract is with Comcast SportsNet and 99% of the games are on their channel which is cable only.
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My thoughts on options are pretty much identical except I would say "worthless" no "worth less".

I would also add that with an option position you are most likely giving up a higher salary and the opportunity cost that comes with it.

An extra 30K each year invested at 5% in 5 years is worth more than 200K lump sum in 5 years (200K discounted at 5% for 5 years is $157K).

You also have to factor in the probability of an exit. I just multiply the probability by the expected future amount. So 10% chance of exit in 5 years with a predicted equity position of $1M I would only count it as $100K. Discount it for 5 years and it is even worse: $78K.

Of course you also have to factor in taxes. If you are already in a high bracket and in CA you are going to be paying 9.3 CA + 28 Fed + 6.2 FICA = 43.5%. So more salary is pretty much worth half as much. You might have to worry about AMT as well.

Of course with a capital gains, assuming you exercised more than a year ago (possibly earlier with ISO options) then you will be taxed at only 15%.

But you have also given up that cash and the associated opportunity cost. In effect, instead of a "free" lottery ticket taxed at 43.5% you now bought an expensive lottery ticket, for the option (hehe) of only being taxed at 15%.

I'm on my 3rd startup and have equity in all of them and have yet to see a single penny.

Honestly with tax brackets that high, and the chance of getting any equity so small, I'm more tempted to start a business on the side that can be taxed separately than try for a higher paying job.

The way I pick a company to work at now is more based on what kind of personal and career growth it will offer, and also how much I will like working there.
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If I remember right, Excel was released first for Mac
Q: Does it still count as "one-party consent" if the 'consenting' party isn't involved in (or, for that matter, even aware of) the conversation s/he is recording?

One-party consent certainly wouldn't apply if, for instance, your friend made a call using your telephone and you recorded the ensuing conversation. Does this situation differ simply because the patient was physically present?
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And the ten hottest years have been since 1997?
As someone who was a 1st employee at a small startup (who made the mistake of accepting 50% below salary for a few percentage points of equity), this rings very true to me.

However, my empathy goes out to early-stage (pre Series-A companies)...how do you get those engineers then if you, yourselves, have no money and know that equity doesn't pay the bills. Is it through revenue/profit sharing? Cause I would imagine if I wanted to start my own company, and I was looking for someone post-founders in a pre Series-A environment, I can't imagine my seed investments would give me enough cushion to hire near market rates.

Just playing devil's advocate here, but I wholeheartedly agree we need to compensate startup employees better.
A combination of the following:

- Cross-compilation (trivial in Go, less so in C)

- A chance to learn about the really dark, thorny corners of Git

And for what it's worth, source control is Git's intended use case, but people do use it for other purposes as well (like managing personal media collections across multiple devices[0]). Git has become a protocol or a platform in addition to a VCS[1].

But there aren't very many FOSS clean-room implementations of Git, at least not this far down the chain (packfiles). One of the best ways to discover hidden implementation issues or oversights in a spec or existing documentation is to try and reimplement it, which has the effect of strengthening the platform itself in the long run.

[0] e.g. https://git-annex.branchable.com/

[1] Bitcoin is a bit of a hot-button topic, but it's similar to bitcoin in this regard: the tool itself is intended for financial transactions, but people have already started to use it for all sorts of unrelated use cases.
> these disgruntled people need to be able to vent sometimes.

That's what the break room is for. But not when on the clock.
It's perhaps even more clear if you just work in sales rather than engineering for a tech company. Then you have predefined, measurable performance goals and are paid for meeting or exceeding for them each quarter.
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If you don't have a seat in the board room, you are at the mercy of the board as to whether your options retain any value.

It's very easy for the board to completely dilute you to nothingness, and having exercised, well, the attitude is "fuck you" because there is nothing more you can give the company.
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Some of the comments here are... aggressive.
A company whose equity outcome is wiped out by liquidation preferences is practically by definition not a "huge success".
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Guyane is considered part of France (so part of the EU), but the Falklands (and other overseas territories, there are a few) aren't part of the UK, or the EU.