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by toocool 9y ago
Thanks for your detailed explanation. It’s so horrible. I wonder how long it will take for the US system to realize what a big mistake mistreating highly trained stem workers is. Best of luck.
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by toocool 9y ago
Would love to hear more details about this too (same comment as the one I left in the parent message).
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by toocool 9y ago
Heart breaking story, really (from a heavy Kubernetes user btw). Would you mind giving more details about what happened exactly? Why did you have to go back? What was the reason why they didn't renew your visa (I'm assuming it&#x2
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by toocool 9y ago
I took on a project in Java (web backend project) a few months ago, first Java experience, I was excited. After a couple months, the gratuitous (or what felt like gratuitous to me at least) verbosity of the language and all sort of abstract
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by toocool 9y ago
Thank you Sir/Ma'am, much appreciated.
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Ask HN: New tax plan and AMT?
3 points by toocool 9y ago|2 comments
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by toocool 9y ago
I personally know sales folks in large enterprises (say Cisco) who do a lot of travelling and are able to get base salaries of ~250k and commissions of ~400-500k a year, on top of essentially life time personal unlimited travelling due to m
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by toocool 9y ago
Haha I hope you're not being serious. If I had to estimate the probability of Google ever blocking my account over my life time I'd say 0.01%, whereas the probability of someone successfully attacking my mail server/dns recor
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by toocool 9y ago
Oh wow that would be really bad (not catastrophic since again I could recover Google with backup codes and from there email recovery for the other accounts). I heard good things about Authy but I've been a bit cautious to add yet anoth
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by toocool 9y ago
Thanks for your reply. Yes, with Lastpass you can export all your data to a csv that is generated at runtime using your master password. Although, to be honest, why would I need that? Assuming every important service in that list has some s
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by toocool 9y ago
Thanks for your reply. That is a possibility, I might be naive but I consider it on the very unlikely side. What I would imagine in that case is that I would reset the important other accounts such as the bank ones by showing up in some phy
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Ask HN: Please critique my personal digital security strategy
12 points by toocool 9y ago|21 comments
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Ask HN: Working at Facebook. First hand experience?
6 points by toocool 9y ago|4 comments
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by toocool 9y ago
Your logic makes sense. I have to point out though, that in reasonably "high quality" startups, what I've seen is: - Absolutely 1X liquidation preference - strike price between 0.1X and 0,3X the preferred - No accelerated ves
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by toocool 9y ago
> A minor quibble: if you consider options/equity as part of employee compensation, then I see nothing special about preferred shareholders than means they 'need to recoup the money they invested', any more than employees
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by toocool 9y ago
Good points. Two considerations: First: Is it correct to assume that in normal conditions you should run away from any company with shady liquidation preferences? I've been in a few "high quality" startups, and in most cases
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by toocool 9y ago
Why would this post be flagged? I'm humbly looking for an explanation.
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by toocool 9y ago
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15107117 No house, all liquid.
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by toocool 9y ago
It's really not that much if you look at the other responses. Anyway, the answer is linearly saving ~50% of income, I hope I'll get some sort of liquidity event from some stock options I have, but I'm not banking on it.
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by toocool 9y ago
Very nice! Did you get there through normal income and aggressive savings, or had some liquidity event from startups?
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by toocool 9y ago
Impressive! Bitcoin, business or inheritance if I might ask? :)
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by toocool 9y ago
I was right there at 24 :)
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by toocool 9y ago
Always use percentages with respect of the fully diluted number of stocks (preferred + common), absolute numbers are worthless. In my current company: - I joined as a senior software engineer among the first 3 employees (seed round) and got
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by toocool 9y ago
Agreed. In my case the side project was preparing 4 months to interview at the big 4 companies, and I interviewed with 3 of them and luckily got 3 offers :)
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by toocool 9y ago
Not necessarily. If you would otherwise earn X in a fulfilling job but by resting and vesting in an unfulfilling environment you make 3X because of the vested equity, it might make sense to stay a few years in the latter and try to not comp
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Ask HN: Desire to be the dumbest guy in the room?
18 points by toocool 9y ago|18 comments
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by toocool 9y ago
I'm thinking about this. However, how unreasonable it really is to stay at a tech company for less than 8+ years? All my acquaintances in Silicon Valley, especially the most talented ones, never had a gig that lasted more than 2-3 year
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by toocool 9y ago
Dumb luck and sheer stupidity, I joined because the idea was cool, the founders were friends and I wasn't aware at that time how much big companies pay. It was my first startup experience, was working in a slow enterprise environment b
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by toocool 9y ago
I am honestly 50/50 on this. I don't want to live a miserable life, but if by "getting bored" for 4 years I can gain financial freedom by a huge margin, it's something worth considering (and that's what I'
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Ask HN: Startup vs. big company (equity at stake)
4 points by toocool 9y ago|9 comments

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