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This is a big reason why I talk compensation up front during initial conversations. I'm not sinking hours of time into an interview process only to find out they're only offering less than half of what I'm expecting. Plenty of recruiters say no they don't discuss this up front at which point I'm fine not continuing the conversation.

Its interesting to me that you bring up 9/11 since that was my first thought as well. I remember that time as a surreal haze of watching the news with a near constant "is this real and happening?" thoughts running through my head. I recall the feeling of waking up and how things felt normal again until the realization of the current state of the world washed over me. It took a long time until things felt "normal" again which is crazy considering the wars that were happening and the waste of life that the events led to.

I haven't really had that experience until the last few months. Its just as surreal now as it was then.

> Part of the problem was - no kidding - I needed a new glasses prescription.

Huh, what did the glasses have to do with it? Old prescription making it hard to read text for long periods of time?

Many now have an anchor directly to the recipe. I try to book mark those so I don't have to read about the author pontificating on the changing of the seasons or how an ingredient in the dish reminds them of childhood for the 800th time.

That's not really that different from a signing bonus. Just rebranded for a catchy headline

I'm not sure about Chucks. I originally thought the same but the last pair I had developed holes in the top and the soles wore out in less than a year. I don't think I put a ton of miles on them. I'm guessing they sacrificed quality for profit somewhere along the line.

For RSUs typically the amount vested is taxed as income. Often the broker sells shares to cover this and withholds the money for taxes. At that point your basis is the value of the stock on the day it vested. As always, be sure to check with your accountant/tax professional for your own situation.

If I recall, the flak wasn't around handing off the package. The flack was for the lack of due diligence in picking a new maintainer. The same risks are present for sure but at least the process is taking place in the open.

Do you have some examples of good ones? I tend to agree with the parent but would like to see examples of the contrary.

Vanguard just launched VEIGX https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/overview/... as their environmental, social, and governance index fund.

I think the take aways still stand. Our US team doesn't have a central office, we're spread out across the US timezones but there is still a large overlap when we are working so its easier to synchronize when we need to.

It's the lack of overlapping schedules, not office space that is the sticking point.

What countries are you interviewing with? I'm in the US and on a remote team. We have a counterpart team based out of Bangalore.

The biggest challenge for us is simply the time zone difference. There is nearly very little time where the US team's working hours and the India team's working hours overlap. The only way to have face-to-face time is if people from one country start work really early and one country stay working rather late.

This means that something like a code review can be delayed a long time. If two team members are working at the same time, the review might take an hour or two. If the review is between India/US team members the same review can take 3-4 days in the best case: (1. code, 2. review, 3. address review, 4. approve)

So really we're looking for projects for the teams that can be done independently with as little cross-country review as possible but this is tricky for our project's current state of development.

I guess the takeaways would be: Look for roles in countries that have working hours with overlap with your own. A remote team doesn't necessarily mean any timezone

Look for roles with larger companies. If a large company does remote, it's probably more likely that they would have a team with similar hours to your own.

There is the music21 python project from MIT http://web.mit.edu/music21/

It's been awhile since I've used it but it worked well and could generate and analyze music in the classical Western tradition.

I used it in a project to generate midi music in the style of specific composers based on Markov chains. Sadly I don't have the source anymore otherwise I'd link you to it.