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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 tried it, except for this one gap.

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) = ab/c, but the intermediate ab result can exceed 64 bits.

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 valuation from their preferred shares/liquidation preferences. It won't protect them against bankruptcy, but it is a lot better than nothing.

Employee's generally don't have that type of protection, and the liquidation preferences also decrease the value of the common shares after a down round. So even with a relatively modest decline in overall valuations, a lot of employees are going to end up with worthless options/shares after a down round.

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 question is which of these two cities do you want to live in?

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 telecommuting for me - it seems hard to find companies which are willing to pay silicon valley level salaries to people living outside silicon valley, and if you take a pay cut, the savings in rent diminishes drastically.

I suppose it is different when you start in silicon valley and move elsewhere while staying in the same company, rather than just starting out elsewhere. But that is still an concern since your salary gets reset if you ever change companies without moving back to silicon valley.

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 Valley might be the same - I've never lived there - but the male/female ratios indicate the odds aren't in my favor.

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 is the reason. As an Asian-American male, I have a hard enough time getting a date. Going to the valley seems like the odds would be double stacked against me.

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 the death of a fellow programmer makes it feel closer to home.

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 brokerage would be lower than their competitors, and they don't seem to have any revenue streams their competitors don't also have. So how will they eventually be profitable? Discount brokerage isn't an especially profitable industry to begin with

Competing on price alone doesn't seem like a good strategy to creating a valuable company.

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 that maybe it doesn't matter? Is his code well tested, easily maintainable, ships with few bugs, and is produced on time? If so, who cares about complexity?

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 investors as the USA, so companies (especially resource based companies) just go public when they are small in order to raise money.

All these small company IPOs are on a separate exchange (the TSX Venture exchange), and if the company gets big enough, they 'graduate' to the main exchange. This works because the regulatory overhead of being public is a lot less in Canada on the TSX Venture exchange - No Sarbanes Oxley!

London has something similar with the AIM.

I think it is a better system than the US model, because it allows anyone to invest in the small companies, not just venture capitalists or people who participate in specialist schemes to buy private company shares.

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't understand the risks of what they were investing in (e.g.: no financials statements, etc) and these schemes will start coming under the same regulatory scrutiny as public companies.