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Sounds like you're on the fence about leaving, first step is decide if you want to leave or not. Then plan how to exit and retain some value in the equity (if it's worth it). Be op…

Unfortunately most EVs are way heavier and cause more wear on roads, so we'd be paying an even higher green tax to reduce emissions and fossil fuel usage.

I wonder if the POS companies take a share of the tip as part of the total transactions flowing through their systems. Then they'd be incentivized to show the tip screen by default…

I've seen the Wolf in a few companies and they are given some special treatment for sure. The corporate equivalent of the babe and the sports car. Years ago, one of them had a Macb…

Agree this is a key skill and necessary archetype in large orgs. But I'd call this person The Wolf (named after the Harvey Keitel's character in Pulp Fiction.

On small, focused code bases, yes. Anything built in the last 5 years or so can probably be made to work with .NET core and on a non-windows machine. On large monolithic .NET codeb…

Yeah the big downside is the exponential explosion in e-waste with all the LCDs that went obsolete within a few years, with no real resale market since everyone is one click away f…

Manufacturing costs and margins on LED-LCDs were far better for manufacturers and likely what killed Plasma. Exploiting this aggressively helped Samsung win market share and become…

I played with RedwoodJS over the holidays and there is a lot to like. However it does paper over a lot of complex things with fairly leaky abstractions currently. Expect to have to…

Yup, definitely industries (like web3/crypto/defi) where this can be done in the short term, but it still constitutes a lot of risk for the long term. Even if you are getting $1M i…

I have 3 machines: 1 work MBP, 1 personal MBP, and a windows desktop for gaming. I tried several solutions but recently purchased a LevelOne Tech KVM. Best solution I've found thus…

Unless you're in the upper levels of management (VP equivalent or higher) at FAANG, it's difficult to get this salary at a market rate. For the vast majority of mere mortals, you n…

If you've primarily worked on B2B/enterprise software where the company makes a lot of money with a smaller user base, try working in consumer software where the company makes a lo…

DevTools companies usually have to move to a model where they're starting to pull in Enterprise accounts with licensing priced in the $40K-$100K/year range. The $30/month subscript…

I think this misses the mark on the fact that we now have an aging population in the USA, and an aging population has different needs when it comes to raising families that the urb…

It's unclear if hydrogen had serious R&D problems, or just the go to market approach for hydrogen cars was flawed. Hydrogen needed a Tesla-like company to strip away everything tha…

Probably butter isn't as common where you're from, but ghee is. Ghee really made butter more viable by increasing it's shelf life, and was a bit of a technological achievement of f…

It's unfortunate, but walkouts and other employee activism around social justice can achieve the opposite effect. The marginalized leave because they don't feel heard, and potentia…

React will fail under a few possible conditions: * Browser tech evolves to not need it (WebASM and similar tech becomes mainstream) * Browsers and the open web fail in favor of som…

I've had both monthly and quarterly vesting at both startups and big companies. No rhyme or reason for why either one since the companies were in different sectors/segments. Probab…

10 bucks says you could meet some of these folks on the street and you'd think they were European.

Just so you know, Middle Eastern folks from Lebanon and Egypt fall under the race of "White" in the US census. Source: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-census-middle-east-no.…

I think it's better to segment in terms of percentiles. Biles, Musk, and Phelps are in the top 1% of their professions. They stand out a lot. The folks in the top 10% are often way…

There's nothing stopping you from buying it with financing, and then immediately paying it off before you incur too many interest charges. My parents do that with every car purchas…

It really depends on the financing rate. At below 3.0%, it doesn't make sense to put too much cash into a depreciating asset like a car when your money could be put toward other in…