Well, yes. This is like saying you're screwed if you pull a perfect bank heist and then spraypaint on the wall "My name is jrdn and I robbed this bank. My social security number is 123-45-6789 and I live at 123 Elm St."
Tor should still do a just fine job of protecting your anonymity if you don't, you know, shout out who you are.
I have always wanted to do this, but my group is in open plan space and I think the noise would be a bit much. Maybe one day I can find some more people who'd like this and we can snag an office.
I used to hand write notes, or use emacs org-mode. I now believe that my notes are in many cases substituting for poor procedures or documentation. As such I've given up entirely keeping my own notes and instead I fix the procedures or documentation.
I mean, fundamentally notes are things that are sufficiently important to know that you write them down for future reference. If you need it written down, then others probably do too, in which case the fact that it's in my notebook is useless to them. Therefore I even put my "personal" notes into my own page on the wiki so at least they're searchable. Usually they stay there until I find or create a better place to incorporate it into the rest of the docs.
I had so many professors that just read me the powerpoints. I would literally miss nothing from the lecture if I just downloaded the slides after every class, but no, attendance was mandatory. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to know that I'm still paying off an education I could've gotten most of by reading a few pages of bullet points every week.
Yup. It's also really kinda entertaining how offended founders get when you ask for more money instead when you're employee #53 and they offer a number of options but refuse to disclose what % of the pool that is.
I really, really want to be able to lose some history sometimes. Like if someone checks in sensitive user data by accident. Rolling it back is insufficient, I want that expunged. Maybe git doesn't do it perfectly, but it has reason to do it.
It's fairly unlikely the startup you're in is really going to explode. I mean sure it happens and if you're holding a big pile of options when you hit a billion dollar IPO, that is going to be a good day for you.
For most startups though, you get a fraction of a percent of a common or option pool which will perhaps accrue some value later on if the company doesn't fail utterly.
So before you count any options as money in the bank, you need to know a whole bunch of stuff (and I am totally an amateur at this but I've done startup rides once or twice. I am, shockingly, not filthy rich from my piles of options.)
1) What percent of what pool do you have options to?
The number of options you have is irrelevant, since the size of the pool is a number which is more-or-less randomly chosen when the company is founded. 5000 options sounds like a lot until you find out the option pool has 25 million shares and is 10% of the company.
2) The strike price of the option, that is what your option will cost to buy after it vests. Having 10,000 options to buy at $5/option is not really that great if they're only worth $3.
3) Remember your options can be diluted at basically any time. The company runs out of option pool and wants to grant some to new employees? That'll dilute your options. Or if the company raises more investment. Etc. The answer to point 1 and 2 is changing all the time (well, hopefully not that often!)
4) Since options are common stock, they're paid out last. Investors (usually) get preferred stock. So for example, investors hold $50 million worth of preferred stock and the company sells for $51 million. The investors take their cut first, and people holding common stock get paid out of the remaining $1 million.
Anyway, just a random option rant. Probably inaccurate in all sorts of ways. All that said, I do love doing the startup thing. It's just so much fun! I aim for that, rather than some possible future value my options my get me.
That sounds about right to me, or just barely on the low side of right.
Asking for a raise is something you can consider, but I'm not really going to say if it's a good or bad thing to do. If your job has changed and you've taken on more responsibility, that's a good way to stand up for yourself and ask for more money. On the other hand, doing it persistently might make your employers think you're unhappy and likely to jump ship. Then they'll be more interested in replacing you than developing you.
Anyway, in this industry you generally start earning more through changing jobs, not getting raises/promotions within a job. Ride your job while you learn, and see if you can get some more money out of them in the meantime. Once you've grown to the point you're ready for something new, then that's when you can really expect to try and make a play for something bigger.
At two years of experience & a new job, I'd probably try and get around $75k or so. Depends a bit on what sort of company you're working for (startups tend to pay less, for example) so at a larger company you might be able to swing something more like 80.
eshell interfaces pretty well with tramp (well, not over FTP obviously, but ssh) so if you're editing a file over tramp and start eshell, it'll be in the directory of the file on the remote host. you can also use tramp-y paths in eshell:
No, she didn't. The Internet hate machine went out of control as it has a tendency to do. The fact that gaooened afterwards, however, doesn't make her initial reaction to name and shame these guys more acceptable.