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by akavi 7y ago
Yale started you off with scheme back in 2012. Not sure if they still do, however.
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by akavi 7y ago
I'm confused. Looking at pictures of the Infiniti q50 [0], it definitely has the kink, as I understand it. In fact, an even more "assertive" version, to my eyes. [0]: https://www.infinitiusa.com/content/da
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by akavi 7y ago
The former, but as the sibling comment says, if you're in this situation a your own CPA is a very worthwhile investment.
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by akavi 7y ago
Both the 50 M$ valuation rule and the 5 year clock start time apply when the stock is exercised. Note, however, that the "valuation" from a QSBS perspective is usually significantly less than the PR valuation you hear when a start
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by akavi 7y ago
Stock market seems to think it was a good deal for FB; share price jumped ~1.3% on the news.
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by akavi 7y ago
Airtable has blocks for c) and exposes an API for d) Not sure what you specifically want for b)
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by akavi 7y ago
You assume he's optimizing for money.
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by akavi 7y ago
Any FAANG would happily pay him a 7 figure salary if he was interested.
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by akavi 7y ago
You're right, my point is that a saving-focused FAANG engineer (SFFE) likely has a better risk-adjusted path to wealth as a "worker" than the "ownership" path described by 'gringoDan. An SFFE who was similarly
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by akavi 7y ago
> you must build ownership in something You can do this by buying index funds, too. That's sorta the whole idea. > He is richer than 99% of FAANG engineers Would he be richer than 99% of FAANG engineers who lived the same lifesty
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by akavi 7y ago
Most engineers in tech will have the majority of their net worth growth come from returns to capital and imputed rent as they approach retirement age. Does that mean they shift from "worker" to "capitalist" over the cour
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by akavi 7y ago
Perl was already dying by the time 6 came around. Python was on the upswing when Python 3 came around.
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by akavi 7y ago
I mean, I've written at most a couple dozen in my 7 years as a professional programmer (usually tight loops for perf), so sheer unfamiliarity is a big factor. But yeah, syntax (what order the arguments go in) and off-by-one issues are
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by akavi 7y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, that’s always awkward Not sure how you deal with that with for loops either. Increment the iteration var in the body of the loop? (Seems scary to me, but like I said, I’ve got terrible intuition with them)
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by akavi 7y ago
“#zip”? Or maybe I’m misunderstanding the use case?
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by akavi 7y ago
Full-stack, spent most of my time on the backend in ruby or scala.
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by akavi 7y ago
As someone who was introduced to programming via map/filter/reduce, for loops are incredibly more complicated. I don’t think I’ve ever written one correctly on first try.
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by akavi 7y ago
Nope, American single family home zoning is really that out of control. Even San Francisco (inarguably an area that should be densely urban) bans duplexes (or denser) in over 30% of the city's residential areas.
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by akavi 7y ago
No, they can't. At least not in a type-safe way.
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by akavi 7y ago
For anyone else who was confused: "enums" is what Rust calls sum types.
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by akavi 7y ago
I imagine you just wouldn't apply as a transfer student. Texas has a program called TAMS where you take your 11th and 12th grade classes at the University of North Texas. While some students "transfer" at the end (I think to
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by akavi 7y ago
The law would have to specifically carve in consideration of in-kind benefits for that to happen, and I see no reason to do so. Why would it?
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by akavi 7y ago
How will auctions be gamed?
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by akavi 7y ago
I'm a little confused. As far as I can tell, the time between publicizing the S-1 to IPO seems to be 28 or 29 days for 99% of companies. This was true for Uber, Lyft, Pinterest, and PagerDuty, plus the 3 companies I spot checked on N
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by akavi 8y ago
Not to mention early employees
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by akavi 8y ago
Google's terminal is L5, which would be around ~340 k$/yr. I do think patio's overstating things by saying 450 k$/yr.
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by akavi 8y ago
The article seems to be omitting an important piece of data: Are people who make more money less happy/equally happy/more happy than people who make less? It implies by its framing that they're less happy, but that's n
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by akavi 8y ago
> unless you're liquidating immediately after you receive a grant then you're adding another variable into the mix of things that need to go right. Why aren't you liquidating immediately after you receive a grant? Why wo
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by akavi 8y ago
I feel like we need an amendment for the inverse of bills of attainders: Just like it's unconstitutional to pass laws that solely hurt a single individual/company, it should be illegal to pass laws solely to benefit a single indiv
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by akavi 8y ago
I've saved about half of my income since I started working (6.5 years now), in part because I'm financially paranoid. Beyond the security cushion, it's pretty nice generally. I've taken a couple months off every time I q

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