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well it is important, that the digitized version can be traced back to the original.

You should have someone audit the source prior to open sourcing it

Jet brains license, Viscosity, Sublime, Lastpass, Little Snitch

It’s mixed. Existing Google products have become worse. The other problem I think is they don’t seem to persist with their new consumer products to see them mature, Allo, Inbox, hangouts to mention a few. I do like their cloud offerings, Spanner, Bigtable to mention a few.

Focus on runtime performance (however you want to measure it), saving $ will be an automatic side effect. For example, how did Google incentivize to do cluster compute on commodity hardware.

That is very true. Engineers at bigger/richer companies typically have better hardware to program with, desktop and mobile apps built by them usually drag on slower hardware. This forces users to upgrade. Seems like a racket :)

Depends where you’re coming from. You are potentially late if the company is beyond Series A. If the company is big and ready to IPO you will get a better idea of the valuation for your RSU grant (I recommend against options at this stage as it can be a monetary burden for you at this stage, and you can get stuck with them if the IPO doesn’t perform per expectations).

Do your research on potential market cap with comparables. You should compare your Total comp. with a public company. Look at levels.fyi as an example.

what other providers did you look at other than fastmail. Is there a TOS that might lead fast mail to lock one out?

Take ownership of your data. Was always thinking of looking at perkeep https://perkeep.org/ maybe if is time

+1 for note taking. OneNote or Dropbox paper. Something that you can organize by topic and easily searchable. Although I'm not too impressed with the search quality of OneNote

Do what makes you happy. For me I built a queuing system. Someone asked me why?. I said because I could. Have fun

I would look to my network as the primary option to look for jobs.

The Google type of questions is a pain, Companies are beginning to realize that.

Just Curious: How has your experience with Toptal or Facet been, and how long have you been doing this (since the Pandemic)?

Startups in Africa are beginning to get traction. Nigeria for example is a growing tech hub

https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/africa/

https://www.benjamindada.com/nigerian-startups-to-look-out-f...

Google's approach to killing projects is hurtful. I wonder what their product strategy actually is?

Wonder why this is addressed at a city level and not that of a state

I took a year off ended about a month back. I was tired and burnt out. This is the second time I've taken time off. I didn't plan as much I had some high level goals, spend some time traveling, volunteering, work on open source projects.

The first month I felt guilty leaving a paycheck. I really didn't travel much due to the pandemic. I did contribute to OSS and volunteer teaching high school students CS. It definitely got lonely, I think due to the pandemic, but I would say my break time was fair.

Most big companies find it easy to acquire. Building new innovative products from scratch in a big company is very difficult. They're just not setup that way

> Oculus is a failure.

I wouldn't call it a failure. A failed product is one which the company has shelved and never to see again, no rebranding nothing. Like zune in msft for example.

I think fb is continuing to invest to figure out the right market fit

You have a point.

I think comments > 10 especially nested ones are discussions benefitting mostly the folks in the discussion. Its difficult to get a summary out it.

I like to think about nested comments as joining an hour long class in the last 10 minutes.

> Thankfully our database is a managed database from DigitalOcean, which means that DigitalOcean automatically do backups once a day. Do cloud providers provide a smaller window for backup. Are there better ways to reduce the backup window here for DBs? Would love to understand any techniques folks use to minimize the backup window?

Reference please

What's the criteria to get a google account banned?

Join a FAANG company in London, and transfer over to the US

Is it this? Reading the new yorker article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16232898

If someone put you in a lead position it's their responsibility to see you grow into that position.

I've seen great engineers be terrible people managers and vice versa.

Also, you should also have the option to become an IC again.

I think your company failed you

I was feeling miserable.at a previous company. Lots of oncall. Poor choices in engineering. Lack of management support. I asked a friend on how to deal with this? He told me to check-in on my mood a week later if it doesn't change quit. I quit after a week. BEST decision, half the team evaporated in six months. I took six months off cleared my head, joined a better place. Your health is number 1 that's it.

If your company goes IPO, tax becomes an issue only when you start dumping your stocks. Also depends if you have got options vs RSUs etc... Lots of caveats.

You question is general and has no focus, so you should get a tax and financial advisors to help your specific case. Remember spend $ to make $$ :). Talk to someone trusted on this

> I'd like to use it as more of a tool to solve problems that I find interesting

A lot of companies work on tools to solve problems. My suggestion is to join a company try it for a couple of years and experience it first hand. This would give you enough experience to start your own company and work on your ideas.

What is choice C?

The last choice is not a choice is to let incompetence and delay take its toll

Some problems that can have tech solutions is to improve access and collating to information. Note there is a lot of fragmentation in quality of information across US counties.

- polling station locations in a county

- expected waiting times

- ballot box posting locations

- ballot box deadlines

- voter registration deadlines

- initiatives in a county