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But this person wants to leave, and presumably he/she only has 90 days after leaving to exercise.
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Have you heard of www.browserstack.com ? Easy way to test different platforms without VMs.
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People/companies that use more fossil fuels.
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Redfin is pretty different from Zillow, since they directly sell homes. So they will have better/faster listings directly from the MLS. But they only have listings for the regions where they sell homes, so they have nothing for most o
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Yale does have a comparable program. http://admissions.yale.edu/financial-aid Families don't have to pay if they make less than 65k. Stanford's program is similar. Their 125k threshold is for not paying tuition,
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Sql.js is awesome. It powers sqlteaching.com (on the client side), and the whole site took about 50 hours of work between my wife and I. Most of that time was on the curriculum.
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Actually, employer contributions do not count towards the $18k maximum per year in contributions. This is the specific advantage of having a 401k match in the first place, as it allows employees to have more tax deferred savings than other
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Hired | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Software developers, data scientists, and product managers Hired has done a great job in bringing efficiency and transparency to the job hunting process. Top developers, data scientists, PMs, and sal
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Samasource has its own sales team. It's not designed for tiny self-serve projects, but it completes projects for larger organizations, including quality assurance. Source: Used to work at Samasource.
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The cost of exercising does increase after a big jump in valuation because you have to pay AMT tax on the unrealized capital gains.
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Indeed did raise money: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/indeed
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Well then they were poor at marketing that. I remember seeing the site and thinking it was so stupid, until my friend pointed out that it could be used to rent out bedrooms, and then it made complete sense for me.
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The "crazy" thing was being a marketplace for sleeping on literal airbeds. I think VCs would have understood the potential better if they were sparebedroom.com instead of airbnb.com.
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How much does Captain401 cost for employers?
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Here's Google on Glassdoor, for "Senior Software Engineer". http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engin... About 250k in total comp . A lot of it is in stock grants, but those are comp
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Stripe is an example of a company that prided itself on a manager-less structure, but then converted to having management.
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edX is a nonprofit, and they also charge for certificates. https://www.edx.org/verified-certificate There are labor costs involved in grading assignments and "making sure that you're the one taking the class"
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So Senior Software Engineers at Google make about 250k in total compensation. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engin... Now, 250k isn't 350k, but 350k is the high end of Senior Software Engin
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No, the worst is calling SF "San Fran". :(
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Khan Academy is using SQLite (because there is a JavaScript version of it)
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Hi mswen, Unfortunately, I don't know of interactive tutorials that cover the things you mentioned. The Khan Academy tutorial and SQL Bolt seem to have a few topics not covered by SQL Teaching, so that is a start! (Mainly, write quer
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Hi tsumnia, Thanks for the feedback! One nice thing about SQL Teaching is that it is completely client-side . This is possible because somebody compiled SQLite to JavaScript: https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/
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This is great! I created http://sqlteaching.com , so it's wonderful to see Khan Academy's take. If anyone from KA would like to chat with me about SQL tutorials or anything else in general, feel free to reach out- rhc
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One of the big "problems" with learning at college is the sequential nature of Computer Science. You have to take CS1 your first semester, then CS2 your second semester, and then you finally have the prerequisites to take multiple
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Some companies tell applicants to bring a computer with them to their interview, so they can use whatever they are most comfortable with.
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Have you guys considered A/B testing different parts of the new design to figure out which parts of the new design are more effective?
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The fee is a percentage of your assets: https://www.vanguardcharitable.org/individuals/fees_and_expe... It starts at .6% per year, and decreases when the account size is huge.
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Thanks for letting me know! Someone created a pull request to fix this, and I have pushed the change live.
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Thanks for the heads up. I actually use Sql.js (SQLite in JavaScript), so there is currently no server-side component of the website.
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Thanks for the feedback! SQL Teaching is designed for non-technical people that want to learn the basics of data analysis. Just learning SELECT with WHERE clauses and basic joins get them pretty far. The Github repo is: https://
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