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by seanc 16y ago
I do agree that the certification process for those important professions plays an important part in ensuring public safety. I offered my comment as a path to feeling a bit better about seeing other people who share one's credentials witho
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by seanc 16y ago
I don't have a PhD but I do have a black belt, which shares some characteristics. Specifically, I see people from time to time who I feel perhaps did not work as hard for their rank as I did for mine. The lesson I've learned in the end is d
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by seanc 16y ago
Often in these situations the buying company will still put some money in for employee retention bonuses. So employees may not get a huge windfall up front, but they often get at least something, spread out over a year or two.
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by seanc 16y ago
(disclaimer: I'm straight but I suffered from the nerd bullying from ages 5 to 14) So, not to dump on this idea, but I heard this again and again when I was a kid. It didn't really help me feel better. My position was "That's fine, but li
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by seanc 16y ago
I've been through this a few times. Three times the startup went under before exit, and the options wound up being pure fiction. Once I left the company with some vested options, bought them for about 500 bucks, and then got washed out in
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by seanc 16y ago
No, it's a private company, and part of the ownership contract will prevent you from selling your shares to people outside the company. You might even be precluded from selling them period. That's why most people don't buy until the compa
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by seanc 16y ago
At this stage you're beyond rules of thumb and down to evaluating each deal on a case by case basis, factoring in everything from interest rates to how long you think you'll be in that particular place.
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by seanc 16y ago
This only makes sense if you place a high value on mobility. Many people value putting down roots and committing to a city or neighborhood. This often comes from having many tangled connections to other people. My life isn't just about me
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by seanc 16y ago
Actually, I think the phrase comes from the Neal Stephenson novel 'Cryptonomicon'. Two of the characters imply that it is the amount of money that allows you to (when necessary) say "fuck you" to The Man, and go do something else with your
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by seanc 16y ago
Companies come and go but your family is with you for life.
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by seanc 16y ago
Right now you're in the trenches. Once your youngest is out of diapers you start climbing out of the trenches and your life gets some more balance. But all this bonding time you're putting in now will pay off. Hang in there.
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by seanc 16y ago
Ah. Sorry, that one escaped my filters.
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by seanc 16y ago
> I won't even begin to go into trying to understand what the hell people from Canada are saying Huh? Except for Newfoundlanders, anglophone Canadians usually have very understantable accents. Who have you been talking to?
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by seanc 16y ago
Links please? I have not read these studies and would like to.
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by seanc 16y ago
For all we know, they've got custom hardware which uses that chip! Maybe that's how they get such fast write speeds.
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by seanc 16y ago
There is also a worry about the diminishing utility of money. If the really big exits are dominating the figures, then that will make the odds of your startup "solving the money problem" seem larger than they really are. But for a back-of-e
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by seanc 16y ago
I've also been in a somewhat similar situation a few times at startups that were circling the drain, waiting to die. Some people goofed off. Some drove themselves crazy with stress about the future. Others went off and learned new things.
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by seanc 16y ago
Allow me to recommend "Hello World, Computer Programming for Kids" http://www.manning.com/sande/ Full disclosure, I know the author, and helped out a bit with the book.
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by seanc 17y ago
"I would end up burned for witchcraft." Nah, Kurzweil would have come to your rescue. ;)
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by seanc 17y ago
I really don't like the idea of a new boss micromanaging my exit. It's none of his business. If we've agreed on a start date and he doesn't trust me to show up on time, that means he doesn't trust me to live up to my commitments. What oth
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by seanc 17y ago
For many people, time management is really relationship management. I read that on a blog somewhere. A lot of grown ups, most things we do, we do for other people, in one way or another. So when we pick a thing off of the to do list, we a
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by seanc 17y ago
Okay, off topic, but true story... My wife was at this direct sales party for kitchen stuff. Fancy spices, stuff like that. The sales lady was pitching 'Low sodium salt'. My wife and a few of other other science geeks in the crowd almost
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by seanc 17y ago
The reason I forbid my children to use words like "fuck" and "shit" is not that I want them to seem innocent, but because these words are ill-mannered and contribute nothing to communication. For me that's not why. I don't let my seven y
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by seanc 17y ago
Yes, lying is always terrible. However, when I read that phrase I think about leaders who inspire a team to achieve better quality. Better design, better user experience, and so on. Lots of people respond well to that kind of atmosphere.
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by seanc 17y ago
Early in my career my wife and I were very aggressive savers. We lived a fair bit below our means. The day after my first layoff we sat down to look at what the new budget would look like. The first thing to go was all of our investment a
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by seanc 17y ago
Well, the voter doesn't have a second ballot. In a well run system, ballots are very secure, one per voter, observed into the booth, out of the booth, and into the box. In the scenario I described the voter takes the money and turns in a s
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by seanc 17y ago
Well, a vote buyer can do this under current systems as well. However, it's a little more tricky than that, because a voter could snap the photo, and then spoil the ballot, and the buyer would never know. That's why ballots are filled out
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by seanc 17y ago
I liked listening to a marketing executive own up to serious mistakes that were a part of the companys failure. Seems like too often when startups go under business and engineering point fingers at each other and nobody learns anything.
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by seanc 17y ago
Jane Jacobs has brilliant essay on this topic; the difference between educating and providing credentials. Dark Age Ahead, ISBN-10: 0679313109
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by seanc 17y ago
The CEGEP system in Quebec is quite good. 3 years High School , 2 years CEGEP (sort of like community college), and then 3 years university for a bachelors. Foreign students like I was do a year 0 (they really call it that, at least at Mc

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