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So... Why didn't you just take the money? I'm confused. Like you said, you could have sent your kids to college, but instead you chose to deny them that?
by Avalaxy 10y ago
So... Why didn't you just take the money? I'm confused. Like you said, you could have sent your kids to college, but instead you chose to deny them that?
- Scaevolus 10y agoI'm kind of stunned, too. > software developers are as a demographic cohort terrible at negotiating - tptacek https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7612100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7612100 His wife sounds justifiably annoyed. Google isn't a charity, $20-50k means far more to you than it does to them.
- opendomain 10y agoWhen I founded OpenDomain, I wanted to create my own project where I "paid it forward". If I sold a domain, I felt I would be selling out the original idea. I know google can afford it - but I did not know it was Google when the broker called me. If i sold it to a squatter, then we would not have the service of Schema.org today