I gotta be honest, I don’t find it particularly hard to read. I like how it makes it feel like there is “depth” to the screen, and when I focus on the top layer (eg Notification Center) the background falls away.
I can personally see how others would find it hard to read, just really doesn’t bother me. I can imagine being unconvinced that anyone really finds it to be that bad, and thinking it’s just HN contrarians being annoying, as usual.
7 hours later, still down. Glad my business doesn’t depend on it; like a payment processor or other core piece of infrastructure going down, I’m guessing there are a lot of fires being put out.
Plenty of (non-VC backed) startups raise some money and then sell privately; it’s often the case that preference does not cause the common stock value to drop below the most recent 409a in these cases.
(In my experience, the 409a is on the order of 20% of the most recent raise, and preference is not more than 50%, in my area. And obviously you hope to sell for more than the last raise!).
I tried to read up on this DSP thing and was immediately lost. How do I know if I need to comply? What does compliance look like? The FAQ is 100+ questions long!
It feels likely that it could apply to any company that draws the current administration’s ire.
I agree it’s very reasonable to imagine that legal departments across tech are worrying, and might consider shutting down — especially if they are already losing money.
Indeed, I recently was asked to sign an NDA to view an off market home; the seller was (apparently) a local business owner and didn’t want folks thinking the business might close — in many industries confidence in long term staying power is critical.
A degree is worth almost $1MM in lifetime earnings (for men). So yes, compared to no degree. A more fine-grained analysis seems difficult, and one could imagine the conclusion is dominated by which specific schools and specific degrees you are comparing.
“Penny testing” is common in the real world, and isn’t limited to verifying bank accounts. It’s more broadly used to describe testing with very small amounts in production. That’s my experience anyway, working with various payments processors and BaaSes.
Having extensive experience running billions of dollars through Stripe, this is not accurate. Production is always different, except for the simplest cases.
A lot of people that are in tech because it’s a good job got pressured to make it their life. They reasonably pushed back, but the upshot was those of us that are passionate about programming as a hobby got pressured to not do it for fun.
Both things are unreasonable. You shouldn’t have to program for fun to get a job. You can be good at it as a profession only. You also should be allowed to love it as a vocation or avocation. That doesn’t make you a sucker.
I can personally see how others would find it hard to read, just really doesn’t bother me. I can imagine being unconvinced that anyone really finds it to be that bad, and thinking it’s just HN contrarians being annoying, as usual.