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by danssig 15y ago
He personally said that. It was mentioned in this thread. EDIT: Ah correction, he says "this is less than I would have been paid". It's the top comment.
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by danssig 15y ago
After the demonstrations that money not in-hand is likely to evaporate before you can get it, is that still the case? Personally I ignore equity completely when deciding if a position is well paid or not. Equity is like a lottery ticket
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by danssig 15y ago
Typical to what? What is offered? I'm not sure why we're even still talking about what is offered since it should be clear by now that early employees won't be getting that anyway.
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by danssig 15y ago
>whereas as first engineer you are merely in a similar position to before you took the job Not at all. An Engineer can only have one job at a time so they most likely quit one to get this one. Now they have nothing, no income at all.
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by danssig 15y ago
A lot of people in this sub-thread don't buy that return codes are inferior, but they really are. The issue is that the low level code can detect the error and knows some strategies that could be done about it but it's only the high leve
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by danssig 15y ago
Nice. Your comment makes it clear you don't understand any evolutionary theory, but you still feel ok judging people based on your ignorance.
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by danssig 15y ago
Also keep in mind it may not have "worked for him". He made $200k less than he would have using the traditional route. Who knows how long it will take to make that additional $200k from this offering (if he ever will) and I'm skeptical ab
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by danssig 15y ago
> to incur those fees, you've won the business game and you deserve the profits. I really despise this mentality. In that case Madoff "deserves" the profits of his actions because he found a lot of really rich suckers.
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by danssig 15y ago
Ack, accidental downvote. Sorry about that, I'd take it back if I could.
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by danssig 15y ago
Total nonsense. The good developers in Philippines or India don't work for $30k-$50k/year any more than we do. They earn close to our rate in country or relocate to Europe/the US.
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by danssig 15y ago
I wish it were so but just look in this thread. It seems to actually be dominated by workers talking like CEO's (i.e. "engineers should be getting less because of the following 10 intangible nonsensical reasons...").
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by danssig 15y ago
>when people who are also not present would do the same thing for 30k/yr? Because the people who are as good as I am also cost 150k/yr. Salary depends on market value, not what it costs you to live. Just because a rockstar in India ca
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by danssig 15y ago
I'm surprised it's only 15%. But really, nearly all big companies don't care about this at all. If they need something fast they'll buy it. Everything internal is just about cost, consistency, and predictability.
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by danssig 15y ago
>Merchants aren't the product Of course they are! Have you ever actually seen a credit card commercial? What do they talk about? The color of their cards? How people feel when using them? No, the focus on what companies will accept
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by danssig 15y ago
>Users will learn how to use the apps they want, and they'll think about those apps as tasks, each with discrete ways of doing things. e.g. opening a car door is different than opening a fridge door is different from opening a closet do
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by danssig 15y ago
Apple isn't doing any "malicious" things if you're talking about "lock down", app store and so on (the lawsuits are a separate issue). And Google has done it's share of things; claiming to be for net neutrality but not really being when the
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by danssig 15y ago
Well Google earns, what, $1.1 million per employee?
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by danssig 15y ago
I really hate that motto since it's so good at blinding otherwise intelligent people. It has nothing to do with anything. Google's polices aren't "good" and Apple's aren't "evil". They're both engaging in trade offs. Apple can make sure
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by danssig 15y ago
I've personally suspected for a long time that advertising was in for a huge disruption. Either people will realize they're not getting the value they think they are or some company will realize that 10% of what Google makes is still a ton
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by danssig 15y ago
Citation needed on pretty much all of that. The future is open source? Please. Wasn't that myth debunked last decade?
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by danssig 15y ago
It's founders or BS.
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by danssig 15y ago
No way, they're much worse than lottery tickets. They're lottery tickets that even if you do win, some jerk can come along and make your winning ticket worth nothing after the fact.
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by danssig 15y ago
>A comment below tickled my interest and I did some quick googling. You should be downvoted to hell for this stupid comment. You did "some quick googling" and now feel qualified to talk over people who were actually there? This kind o
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by danssig 15y ago
I'm personally not convinced that most people do buy Android over iOS. People buy e.g. Samsung over iPhone but that's very different. I suspect that if the Windows gains traction we'll see them start heavilty eating into Android's marke
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by danssig 15y ago
Once we have automated cars why would anyone own one? Cars are the biggest waste of money we have right now. On a house you spend more but you have the potential to get it back or even make a profit. Not so with a car, it's just loss and
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by danssig 15y ago
Uh, what? A company with even worse customer support could clean up here?
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by danssig 15y ago
This is why Apple is right to not talk about specs. It doesn't matter what your specs are if your actual device is slower.
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by danssig 15y ago
Do you think games will ever take advantage of this on OSX to start giving Apple an edge? Right now I still have to have a Windows machine if I want to do any gaming.
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by danssig 15y ago
>Android is clearly succeeding despite the lack of UI refinement I'm not sure Android is clearly succeeding. Samsung, etc. are succeeding. If they switch to a superior OS (Windows?) but keep similar pricing I suspect only a very sma
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by danssig 15y ago
And who would these "America's Job Creators" be? The banks? I don't suppose you can provide any kind of non-Fox news citation for this nonsense?

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