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by carc 10y ago
They can't just take away equity that's vested to you. And any equity that hasn't vested isn't yours.
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by carc 10y ago
A person with some fixed 'value' X can be worth much higher to one company than some other company. In fact that is extremely common. Value is relative here so I completely disagree with your "a professional knows their value
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by carc 10y ago
I've heard the exact same argument from an anti-vaccer :)
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by carc 10y ago
Sometimes I think that the HN crowd is less prone to very non-scientific biases than the general public, or a place where I'm less likely to see people throwing around things that sound like facts that are mostly psuedo-science. Then t
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by carc 10y ago
Why is this being downvoted?
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by carc 10y ago
I am not in SV (but still on the West coast) and I know several software engineers making more than 200k/year. That includes stock grants, because it's ridiculous not to when the stock is in a public company and can be immediately
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by carc 10y ago
Not supporting OP but their question is not at all a dichotomy. The question wasn't should everything have a whimsical name or should nothing have a whimsical name. The question was basically just should everything have a whimsical nam
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by carc 10y ago
You can't have it both ways people - when a company strikes it rich people complain that the regular employees didn't get a big enough piece o the pie. When companies do poorly, people complain that the employees totally got screw
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by carc 11y ago
At the big 4 firm I was at, I can say positively that total partner compensation did not start out anywhere close to 1 million/year
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by carc 11y ago
"look, you make as much as we'll pay just-a-programmer, even an architect, here." Sorry but this line is almost always complete BS. Anyone that I know who has heard this line, gone out and gotten a (much better) offer somew
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by carc 11y ago
Anecdotal, but I am not exagerrating when I say about a quarter of the developers I'm friends with (i.e. hang out with outside of work) make substantially more than a new partner at a big firm. Source: They discussed their negotiations
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by carc 11y ago
You should try something new. Try a startup or perhaps just something smaller where you have to wear a lot of hats and be included in decision making and such. I can't relate to your experience at all
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by carc 11y ago
I've heard the PS VR is very lacking. Source: http://www.gizmag.com/best-vr-headset-gdc-2016/42377/
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by carc 11y ago
Actually, assuming you're not just maintaining a code base (i.e. you're mostly adding features or making something new), the cost of software development is typically an asset on the balance sheet
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by carc 11y ago
It doesn't help that the government is literally disallowed from funding any gun related medical research. My girlfriend does rural health related research and this fact always infuriates her - I never even knew this until she had expl
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by carc 11y ago
How is Microsoft extinguishing Skype? I've seen no such evidence personally
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by carc 11y ago
I'm having a hard time finding the "sleep phones" by any brand named Took that you referred to. Would you mind sharing a link to them?
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by carc 11y ago
I've never, ever in my life seen a rebranding or redesign that wasn't widely complained about. How can we differentiate between this kneejerk reaction that all humans seem to have to changes in a UI/design they are already fa
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by carc 11y ago
What's his snapchat name? Don't see it mentioned and failed to find it after spending 20 seconds of googling. Edit: Found it - it's justinkan (Guess I coulda guessed that)
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by carc 11y ago
You're right, I could've been more specific - they definitely need to sit somewhere if the destination phone isn't on the network or something, but they are deleted once viewed or some timeout has been reached. This of course
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by carc 11y ago
Stop pretending you know what you're talking about. Do you know how much money is saved by not keeping those pictures? Snapchat handles more pictures per day than facebook[0], which gets almost half a billion per day. I know a few snap
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by carc 11y ago
I find all the economic prodigies here entertaining. People who's day job is to predict this stuff can't even make good predictions. I guess I never knew that techies were better economists than the economists
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by carc 11y ago
There will never be a way to test everything in an automated fashion. For those you can either have your expensive software engineers to painstakingly run very scenario regarding a change, or have a less expensive QA person do this. I guess
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by carc 11y ago
"We’re unlikely to get answers from the government agencies who signed these contracts. To access Vigilant’s powerful online data systems, agencies agree not to disparage the company or even to talk to the press without the company’s p
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by carc 11y ago
Glad I'm not the only person who felt this frustration..
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by carc 11y ago
I've always felt the exact same way. I can rarely get through anything they send me because my natural reaction is to trust what I'm reading LESS when the writing is in that tone.
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by carc 11y ago
> Literally nobody is arguing for that. That's a humongous straw man, it's the same straw man pg used in his original article, and it's complete nonsense. "Reduce income inequality" does not mean eliminate all in
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by carc 11y ago
Startups aren't good because they create income inequality. Income inequality being possible is good because it provides the incentives for people to take risks and create startups. That isn't to say the current level of income in
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by carc 11y ago
I don't really see how this is controversial. Do you want to reward talented people who work hard? Do you want to incentivize people to do great things? You need to allow some level of income inequality. The extreme level of income ine
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by carc 11y ago
I don't either... assuming the author discloses the sources of funding. How can you rationalize away that part?

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