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RSUs in a highly liquid publicly traded company are pretty close to cash

Yeah, I did try that, but performance was lacking. Java, if you stick with primitives and use a C-like programming style (miniminal objects) was pretty close to C performance when …

I ran into the need for this recently, except for a program written in Java... I really wish the JVM had a 128 bit data type (or at least a muldiv function, in which muldiv(a, b, c…

Startup employees which took a pay cut in exchange for equity are going to be the biggest losers. At least VCs and private equity have some level of protection against a decline in…

While there are trends, work culture varies from company to company, and I'm sure you'll find a company in either city with a work culture you will be happy with. The more pressing…

Did you have to take a salary cut when you moved to VA? (e.g.: so your salary would be more in line with VA norms than silicon valley norms?) That is the big problem with telecommu…

How is that different from the Visian ICL which has been available since 1996?

That is good to know. Do you have any recommendations for a more mature version of grpc (cross-platform communication with a high speed encoding)? Thrift?

That's what I did. And dating here is definately easier than (random medium sized American city). Of course, that might just come from being in a large metropolitan city. Silicon V…

People ask me why I, a software developer, don't move to Silicon Valley where salaries are high and venture capital is easy to get. The skewed male/female ratio of Silicon Valley i…

In addition to being CEO, one of his many other accomplishments was that he was the main programmer for Earthbound, a game close to my heart. A death like this always tragic, but t…

You stand on the left in escalators in Australia, which was confusing at first, as you stand on the right in escalators in the UK, even though both countries are left-hand-drive.

The protocol is documented - https://github.com/grpc/grpc-common/blob/master/PROTOCOL-HTT... However, you still need the FAQ to figure out that browser transport isn't supported

Grpc doesn't work over the browser. This is stated explicitly in the FAQ. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/grpc-io/5Ic8MKgltwY

From what I can see, the only way they differentiate themselves from their well established competitors is by not charging commissions. Yet I don't see how their costs of running a…

Sure, you can prove it is complex by measuring cyclomatic complexity. But, the harder part is to prove that complexity matters. (I don't think it does myself). Have you considered …

It is actually quite common in Canada for small companies to IPO with total market caps of just tens of millions of dollars. Canada doesn't have nearly as many private company inve…

What happens in a market downturn and people suddenly holding private shares worth a lot less than what they paid for? Then, you have lawsuits from these holders claiming they didn…