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In the case of a crash, "typical" companies do not re-grant equity. Look at your typical big tech company, did they regrant equity? All of tech is down -- few tech companies have g…

"In a statement, Mr. Rukstales said he regretted his participation, saying he exercised “extremely poor judgement” in following others into the Capitol..." He regrets getting caugh…

Very interesting - some US examples that come to mind are Chime, Current, and Petal, all sporting the same modern "sleek" design. Was the Robinhood debit card the first mainstream …

Glad it worked out for them! I left NYC recently because my lease ended - most people I knew in the city also left and are living with their parents for the time being (I'm in my e…

Not sure if this is what you meant, but I'd correct it to "what is allowed to be said" is probably 5-10 years behind certain spheres of thought. Reuters certainly wouldn't want to …

No problem. What different roles did you do? I'm a software engineer (new grad), and have been thinking of switching roles to learn more, i.e sales engineering. How did you make th…

Curious about your experiences as an early developer myself, any way to contact you?

Fintech / HFT firms are known to be the highest paying for SWE, even higher than FAANG companies. I routinely get LinkedIn messages and emails for companies like Citadel, Two Sigma…

Creation happens naturally when you care about something very much, and try to optimize. I was raised on my mother's delicious cooking, and have traveled extensively to Asia. One p…

After graduating with a CS degree ~few years ago, I've been working as a software engineer at one of the Big N tech companies. I've slowly realized that I've gotten less interested…

Been working for a year in NYC after college - I also see people "amusing ourselves to death" on the weekends. We are used to jumping through hoops all our lives, and once we're ad…

The craziest thing about this is that if Jeff didn't conduct all his (illegal) business on his work laptop, he may never have been caught. And, the only reason HR decided to look a…

Good observation in the comments: You were rich because you discovered that you could eat little but peanut butter sandwiches and eggs and still be content. Others, despite having …

It sounds like a break from work life would be immensely helpful. Here's another alternative that I'd recommend. You didn't mention taking any breaks / vacation during this period.…

The emails were "sitting plaintext in an exposed database." Major things wrong: unencrypted email addresses + private messages, leaving the database without a password, database wa…