matmann2001

If you don't mind me asking, how will that cut affect you? Can you afford it or will you have to make sacrifices? Is there something you're doing in response, like seeking new job opportunities?

Can someone translate this from tactical to English?

I think I recall early Windows phone OS doing that as well.

Perhaps, the "what" is less important than the "who" or the "how". Maybe any statement made by a member of a political campaign or anyone paid by a political campaign should be considered political advertisement.

I feel like they aren't even trying with the categorization.

Every payday, I get an email notification from Mint asking if I recently made a large purchase, in the amount of my paycheck.

Why even bother having a transaction categorization system, if it can't tell the difference between a deposit and a withdrawal?

This is my main gripe. How do I actually combat the BS once I've detected it?

After all the lobbying they did in my city to get a helmet law exemption and then to get the city to install designated scooter parking and no-go zones...

I meant that short term gains tax applies post-vesting. I'll try to make that clearer. Of course, you're right in that selling immediately incurs no additional tax, as you'd be paying short term gains tax on essentially $0.

RSUs are a decent way of aligning company success with employee success. But there's plenty of pitfalls with RSUs too.

1) From an investment risk perspective, your personal livelihood is already significantly tied to the company because you rely on the company for a salary. Holding a significant chunk (relative to your total investments) of stock in your company as well adds to that risk.

2) Unless you're a C-suite exec, your actions will likely have no direct impact on the stock price. And obviously, insider trading is illegal. That means holding your own company's stock has no fundamental advantage over holding stock of a company you don't work for. If that's the case, you're better off picking stocks based on actual performance and eliminate the personal bias.

3) You can sell your RSUs once they vest in order to diversify, but you have to wait a year after vesting or short term gains tax will apply to any gains post-vesting. So, it might be advantageous to wait a year if you don't plan to sell immediately upon vesting. Also, with some companies, a portion of your shares will be surrendered back to the company to cover income tax on the shares.

4) From a tax filing perspective, RSUs and ESPPs can be a PITA. In my experience, tax software and general tax filing services often don't know how to correctly record the cost basis, which means you end up getting taxed twice if you don't know what you're doing.

5) When cash is tight, companies might lean more heavily on RSU-based compensation if they can't afford raises or cash bonuses. You need to make sure your company is giving you what you need.

6) The golden handcuff effect. You want to leave for a better job, but you've got a nice chunk of RSUs that haven't vested yet and could be worth quite a bit in just a couple more years. Is that new job worth the opportunity cost of giving up those shares? For companies that award RSUs as part of yearly performance reviews, you're pretty much always going to have some RSUs that are 3 years out from vesting. It's just difficult weighing the potential value of RSUs vs a new job's salary/benefits and whatever reasons you wanted to jump ship in the first place. It's very personal math and ultimately you have to determine an answer for yourself.

I've actually seen this before where a board would run all night with no problems but as soon as someone was sitting next to it in a pneumatic office chair, it crashed.

Drove everyone mad until someone figured out it was the chair itself.

It's great for business, in the short term. And that's all that really matters to shareholders.

You gotta be shitting me...

The fact that I lingered longer on a post doesn't indicate the polarity of my interest, just the magnitude at best.

All for projects in this space, but you're going to generate so much confusion naming it the same thing as Eli Bendersky's pycparser (which you even acknowledge the existence of in your Similar Projects section).

The alternate capitalization makes no difference to a search engine.

"...we take end-to-end responsibility for the security of our hardware and software"

Remember that Apple said this.

Around the time of the Equifax breach, there was a discussion here that put it succinctly. "Identity theft" is just a clever name for "fraud" that shifts the responsibility away from the bank.

> what superior and general logic should have been applied that would have avoided the cold war?

The logic that the entire population is stuck on this planet (then and now for the time being), and the resources/ideologies being fought over don't mean a thing if everyone is dead.

> The only issue is being forced to come up with the initial funds to make the challenge, which isn't too hard to do.

That fully depends on the person. Suppose I mined Bitcoin in college when it was still rather young and amassed a ton of BTC, but then lost my wallet at some point.

Many years later, BTC is worth a great deal more than when I was mining. Perhaps my wallet is now valued at tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars. Depending on my life scenario, I may not have that amount in liquid assets to put toward making the challenge.

> I'm not actually clear on what's incorrect about this logic

It's this same logic that gave us The Cold War.

>The most shocking angle of all, is how willing people are to build this technology - like, the cool factor overrides any moral or ethical issues

People tell themselves all sorts of things to justify this kind of cognitive dissonance. The predominant arguments I've seen are:

A) Technology isn't good/bad, it's how you use it. And fortunately for the engineers, the tech will be used far away by people they'll never meet and the details of which will remain classified. Out of sight, out of mind.

B) If we don't build it, someone else will. And we don't want this tech to fall into our enemy's hands first, do we? Best defense is a good offense.

I would recommend an optional flag to disable the output coloring, in the case where someone wants to pipe this to a file or other program.

Anyone have experience making an enclosure for something like this to use outdoors? Thinking of like a Stephenson screen with a built in solar panel for powering the Pi + Hat.

Hope you all remembered to short sesame seed futures.

Of course they did.

This is getting ridiculous. These guides to interviewing at specific companies are starting to sound like the video game cheat code books of old.

If the process is so nuanced that there's an entire industry around these types of guides (and Google even highly recommends you buy them!), then the process is fundamentally flawed.

But we already knew that, and as long as others are still playing the game, we are forced to play or miss out.

Did not see that coming.

Press Release: Qualcomm and Apple® today announced an agreement to dismiss all litigation between the two companies worldwide. The settlement includes a payment from Apple to Qualcomm. The companies also have reached a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1, 2019, including a two-year option to extend, and a multiyear chipset supply agreement.

Especially given the topic, I kept jumping around to see if it was intentional. Like maybe they would use these RE tools to exploit it.

Hey. In your C code, you write to memory beyond what you malloc'd. You malloc'd 9 bytes for 'pw', but later do "pw[9] = '\0'", which accesses the 10th byte, which doesn't belong to you.

I was one of these people.

In middle school, a teacher showed us how to make a pythagorean theorem program, and I immediately saw the potential. When asked if it were possible to make a quadratic equation program, the teacher told me it couldn't be done. I had one written by the following day's math class, and I was hooked.

By high school, I was writing actual graphical games for the TI. I even taught friends so they could help contribute.

If it weren't for that freedom to explore, I would never have even gotten into software. And while pursuing my degree, I came to realize that my friends and I had "invented" some core programming concepts, things like hashing and basic cryptography (so no one would steal our game assets).

I chalk it up to wanting an attractive title. The information is not actually secret in that the reader or writer is bound to keep the information secret. Rather, the knowledge was previously difficult (to some degree) to come by, and is now co-located, thus lifting the shroud of secrecy (by obscurity).