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901.
by sk5t 8y ago
Here it's Quartz and its JDBC persistence baked into a Dropwizard application with a custom resource implementing job and trigger CRUD ops, and a Spring-based JobFactory for dependency injection stuff. Quartz has a few funny behaviors
902.
by sk5t 8y ago
You'd have to go back to the early-mid 90s for bulletproof printers that never complained and did not require (or even encourage) installation of horrible software. HP also made good oscilloscopes, gas chromatographs, and the like, bu
903.
by sk5t 8y ago
It seems like you mean ISO -> NSO (NQSO), not ISO -> RSU.
904.
by sk5t 8y ago
> strong water jets The aphorism concerns a river, not an industrial cutting machine.
905.
by sk5t 8y ago
Non-funded startups can start by accepting that 1% of squat isn't a lot.
906.
by sk5t 8y ago
Where do you suppose the money to refund the unvested early exercise, or to satisfy the put option, will come from if the firm goes belly-up? Wouldn't the granting of the put option confer some quantifiable (taxable) financial benefit
907.
by sk5t 8y ago
The paperwork shouldn't be crushing, but RSUs are not too appealing when the company stock is far from liquid. Grant 0.5% of a $10mm company--assuming no aggressive discount on common stock--pay something like $15K in tax with 83b ele
908.
by sk5t 8y ago
A really nice idea, although my sense is that companies in the $5-20mm paper valuation range fall into a sort of "valley of death" where the options are too expensive to exercise, RSUs would be laughably premature, and the odds of
909.
by sk5t 8y ago
83b is on grant, not vest. It can be used for options, but may not be a very good idea if the strike is appreciably greater than 0.
910.
by sk5t 8y ago
It seems unlikely that the proletariat will overthrow the government because that government has not curtailed their own ability to buy plastic goods, drive a car, or set the air conditioning at 65F.
911.
by sk5t 8y ago
If your friend exercised those options, it is possible your friend would be liable for income tax on the spread between 50k and 500k, or subject to AMT or to other tax consequences. This seems like quite a lot of capital to put at total ri
912.
by sk5t 8y ago
Who are these poor souls paying out bonuses and commissions on unrealized revenue?
913.
by sk5t 8y ago
Notes is itself pretty remarkable, but suffers from a peculiar UI + dysfunctional efforts from two sides in development (people who wish it was a RDBMS not a document database, and people who don't really have any business writing appl
914.
by sk5t 8y ago
Well, shucks, why not apply the exact same argument to health insurance as well? Or even auto insurance? While adverse selection is undeniably a tricky problem, the underlying raison d'etre is pooled risk, to help individuals and fami
915.
by sk5t 8y ago
This is true for health insurance; not so for life insurance.
916.
by sk5t 8y ago
Due to the expanding Sun / asteroid / supervolcano / superbug / something else? Do you think the universe cares about the inevitable, natural cessation of life on this planet?
917.
by sk5t 8y ago
Hmm, the blood was really in the streets around March 2009--e.g. folks thought BAC and C might go to zip.
918.
by sk5t 8y ago
Only $100k? That is much, much less than a big ol' intrusive SiteMinder or BMC project. In fact, it's so cheap as to cast serious doubt on the consultant's credibility. And I am already assuming this happened about 15 year
919.
by sk5t 8y ago
It's not enough for five years after little dilution.
920.
by sk5t 8y ago
If you can take your vested equity with you, and won't see your accounts declining month to month from habituation to a higher income, then sure. Otherwise it sounds like too unfavorable a trade.
921.
by sk5t 8y ago
Why do you feel you're too good for software development?
922.
by sk5t 8y ago
Tried 18.04 for an afternoon, it effected a wide variety of system freezes on my ancient i7 920 + GTX570, so, back to rock-solid Debian 9.
923.
by sk5t 8y ago
In fairness to sawdust, eating it would be a strongly memorable experience.
924.
by sk5t 8y ago
"Here are our books, we're losing money" is not part of the hiring pitch nor employee onboarding.
925.
by sk5t 8y ago
Not only is OITNB on Netflix, but it has, in the manner of all Jenji Kohan efforts, turned _quite awful_.
926.
by sk5t 8y ago
Agreed, lower valuations during a raise ought to reduce the risk of a crushing down-round and double-or-nothing gambling. If the deal could really be structured for straight common stock, no ratchet, no option pool shuffle, etc., this coul
927.
by sk5t 8y ago
Possibly--factors such as liquidation preferences > 1x, dividends due on change in control, and ordinary debt can still leave nothing for common.
928.
by sk5t 8y ago
Okay, however, bear in mind that selling to investors a riskier class of equity than is their custom, will likely meet with lower valuations. In business, lower risk = more money, and vice versa.
929.
by sk5t 8y ago
> explain dozens of time why they want to leave their current job Moreover, simply saying a thing aloud so many times can cause a person to believe it, even if that was not originally the case.
930.
by sk5t 8y ago
But why? Someone had to choose that default.

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