The 401(k) has weird vesting of matching funds. But, other than that, that seems spot on.
As for health care, that kind of already exists. What you are describing is the ACA. Without that, you have situations where people with cancer get fired, and then lose their insurance, and then cannot get more insurance cause the form will ask "do you have cancer" and deny you.
The difference between health car and car/auto/etc. is that everyone know what good health is. You're paying to get back to zero. With housing or autos, you're paying for luxury.
I'm no expert, but I'm not sure why total wild hog population is a useful number to determine how thick game is. Wouldn't Hog Density per Square Mile work better, since people tend to cover the same number of square miles per hour not the same number of states per hour when they hunt?
Cord fraying is a real problem, including (and especially) adapters. Also, all headphones just got $1.50 more expensive (and needs to be ordered 2 days in advance). And wears the charging port. And blocks my ability to charge and play at the same time (which seems useful as at the same time.)
Fair enough. By that methodology the top 50 YouTube channels* is about equal to the viewership of broadcast TV.
* Two caveats. First, that assumes that people watch at most one of the top 50 channels, as the TV numbers have duplicates who channel surf between them removed. That seems unlikely as a lot of channels crosspromote. Second, that's, again, global viewing for YouTube and US for broadcast. So, if we assume US TV is as popular as other countries that have internet access, it would add another 1.9 billion to TV viewers.
Audiophiles? A cheap pair of corded headphones is around $5 and I don't need to charge them or worry about power at all. I don't like having extra things that need charging.
I say this as someone who jumped hard onto bluetooth, but then realized the damn cord was more convenient.
Hey grandpa, YouTube stars have bigger audiences than prime time TV or the network news.
Except, they don't. Top 50 channels average 4 million views. Broadcast TV networks average 27 million. I mean, sure it beats out Fox News (barely), but cable is always lower in viewership.
Oh, and YouTube's numbers are worldwide, the TV numbers are in the US. So, you know, any given person is far more likely to have seen broadcast TV than a Youtube star recently
If you were a millennial you might know Node coders who compile C to Webassembly
First, bullshit. I know people who use node.js. And I know people who use C. Do you perhaps mean C++? Or Rust? Because the only people who use C are working on embedded systems or legacy systems.
Second, Python has prewritten libraries to bring in. Node.js, not so many (yet, eventually maybe). Your confusing "can use as a glue language among things I write" and "can use as a glue language among things I write and preexisting libraries." The same reason that "inline C" in PHP doesn't fulfill the need.
Third, I would definitely hesitate to invest much in Webassembly at this point. My guess is another year or two it's going to be associated with some security risk that leads to it being turned off by default (ala ActiveX or Flash)
Since transmission over the last mile is the expensive part, why not just check the received stream's bps? You can assume that they're not going to upsample it and pay more just for the last mile.
Unlike JS, PHP or Perl, I actually know people who make C libraries and hook them into Python. It's a great way to do small, high-level things that tie together many components quickly.
IronPython sounded great. It used the same.NET virtual machine as C#, F#, etc. So it was designed for interoperability with other MS languages. It's great if your team is already using C# and you want to write python to integrate various modules (like if you had a bunch of C libraries and wanted to use regular python.)
The guy in charge of the project got let go like a decade ago and now it's OSS on GitHub.
I'm not trying to figure out how you justify being worth 10k. I'm trying to figure out why you charged them anything beyond your salary if you gave them 3 months notice. Like, I would feel if I gave 2 weeks notice that an exit interview was a reasonable task to assign me in the 80 remaining hours we had on my previously negotiated salary.
On the other hand, if they called up after two months and wanted help, I can see calculating a rate.
Huh, it's unlikely in 5 yeas they'll remember much, but if they do its because they had to take over your project with no handoff or something and are pissed at you. Because screwing the company normally means they make up for it by abusing the coworkers you left behind more.
I like T-mobile, I hate Sprint and I don't give a shit about 5G. Like, seriously am fine with 4G. It's not worth Sprint eating T-Mobile (since their management will wind up on top.)
I'm not sure what from those lists you linked were unimaginable 20 years ago. In fact, I'm not sure which ones didn't exist 20 years ago. Except some of the stupid pop-culture things (e.g. crab fishing reality shows).
Opportunity was launched in 15 years ago, so if they planned/built for 5 years before launch, it's over 20. And that's only the record holder. We've been landing rover-like things for 48 years.
There are some things I think could qualify, but not many, and none you brought up.
Was this in your two-week period after you announced you quit? Or after you were gone? Cause, I can see quitting on the spot and getting 10k to hand off my projects, but that seems incredibly dickish. On the other hand, if they called you after a month...
I know someone who kept in contact with the CEO in a similar situation. It worked out great for them - they got like 2 months salary as a lump sum, decided to take a quick beach vacation to a beach, and came back to to the legal reformation complete with new solid investors and the same job for more money.
Well, first, it sounds like he did this during his two weeks. So, not free. Second, people there, ex-coworkers, know he did it. Which means when one of them moves on, and then needs a new coworker, they'll recommend him. Which leads to more money in an indirect way. Third, what does it cost him to explain why he was leaving and how they can fix it?
I'm not going to be an ass just cause someone else is an ass. Giving notice is a pretty reasonable thing, and I want people to think "reasonable and professional" when they think of my name.
I suppose I should make sure that the next contract I sign includes a mandatory 2-week-salary if I give notice.
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The 401(k) has weird vesting of matching funds. But, other than that, that seems spot on.
As for health care, that kind of already exists. What you are describing is the ACA. Without that, you have situations where people with cancer get fired, and then lose their insurance, and then cannot get more insurance cause the form will ask "do you have cancer" and deny you.
The difference between health car and car/auto/etc. is that everyone know what good health is. You're paying to get back to zero. With housing or autos, you're paying for luxury.
I'm no expert, but I'm not sure why total wild hog population is a useful number to determine how thick game is. Wouldn't Hog Density per Square Mile work better, since people tend to cover the same number of square miles per hour not the same number of states per hour when they hunt?
Cord fraying is a real problem, including (and especially) adapters. Also, all headphones just got $1.50 more expensive (and needs to be ordered 2 days in advance). And wears the charging port. And blocks my ability to charge and play at the same time (which seems useful as at the same time.)
Fair enough. By that methodology the top 50 YouTube channels* is about equal to the viewership of broadcast TV.
* Two caveats. First, that assumes that people watch at most one of the top 50 channels, as the TV numbers have duplicates who channel surf between them removed. That seems unlikely as a lot of channels crosspromote. Second, that's, again, global viewing for YouTube and US for broadcast. So, if we assume US TV is as popular as other countries that have internet access, it would add another 1.9 billion to TV viewers.
It's not a weird quality thing. It's that corded headphones are dirt cheap, ubiquitous and never need charging.
Audiophiles? A cheap pair of corded headphones is around $5 and I don't need to charge them or worry about power at all. I don't like having extra things that need charging.
I say this as someone who jumped hard onto bluetooth, but then realized the damn cord was more convenient.
Except, they don't. Top 50 channels average 4 million views. Broadcast TV networks average 27 million. I mean, sure it beats out Fox News (barely), but cable is always lower in viewership.
Oh, and YouTube's numbers are worldwide, the TV numbers are in the US. So, you know, any given person is far more likely to have seen broadcast TV than a Youtube star recently
You're talking about a US vs. Europe war. What the GP was talking about was, you know, fucking up poor countries. Like Europe likes to do. Or China.
First, bullshit. I know people who use node.js. And I know people who use C. Do you perhaps mean C++? Or Rust? Because the only people who use C are working on embedded systems or legacy systems.
Second, Python has prewritten libraries to bring in. Node.js, not so many (yet, eventually maybe). Your confusing "can use as a glue language among things I write" and "can use as a glue language among things I write and preexisting libraries." The same reason that "inline C" in PHP doesn't fulfill the need.
Third, I would definitely hesitate to invest much in Webassembly at this point. My guess is another year or two it's going to be associated with some security risk that leads to it being turned off by default (ala ActiveX or Flash)
Since transmission over the last mile is the expensive part, why not just check the received stream's bps? You can assume that they're not going to upsample it and pay more just for the last mile.
Unlike JS, PHP or Perl, I actually know people who make C libraries and hook them into Python. It's a great way to do small, high-level things that tie together many components quickly.
IronPython sounded great. It used the same .NET virtual machine as C#, F#, etc. So it was designed for interoperability with other MS languages. It's great if your team is already using C# and you want to write python to integrate various modules (like if you had a bunch of C libraries and wanted to use regular python.)
The guy in charge of the project got let go like a decade ago and now it's OSS on GitHub.
I'm not trying to figure out how you justify being worth 10k. I'm trying to figure out why you charged them anything beyond your salary if you gave them 3 months notice. Like, I would feel if I gave 2 weeks notice that an exit interview was a reasonable task to assign me in the 80 remaining hours we had on my previously negotiated salary.
On the other hand, if they called up after two months and wanted help, I can see calculating a rate.
Huh, it's unlikely in 5 yeas they'll remember much, but if they do its because they had to take over your project with no handoff or something and are pissed at you. Because screwing the company normally means they make up for it by abusing the coworkers you left behind more.
If you gave them three month notice, how did you justify charging them $10k for an exit interview? Did they not ask for those three months?
I like T-mobile, I hate Sprint and I don't give a shit about 5G. Like, seriously am fine with 4G. It's not worth Sprint eating T-Mobile (since their management will wind up on top.)
Owning that technology seems monumentally valuable.
I'm not sure what from those lists you linked were unimaginable 20 years ago. In fact, I'm not sure which ones didn't exist 20 years ago. Except some of the stupid pop-culture things (e.g. crab fishing reality shows).
Opportunity was launched in 15 years ago, so if they planned/built for 5 years before launch, it's over 20. And that's only the record holder. We've been landing rover-like things for 48 years.
There are some things I think could qualify, but not many, and none you brought up.
I thought everyone used browsers in fullscreen mode to avoid getClientRects fingerprinting.
Was this in your two-week period after you announced you quit? Or after you were gone? Cause, I can see quitting on the spot and getting 10k to hand off my projects, but that seems incredibly dickish. On the other hand, if they called you after a month...
No. A company has to give you a correct W2 by Jan 31st/Feb 1st or they face some serious penalties from the government.
Now, a valid error would probably be excused (transposition of digits, etc.) but a group of quitting employees all getting massive errors...
And no one there might go to a better company ever?
I know someone who kept in contact with the CEO in a similar situation. It worked out great for them - they got like 2 months salary as a lump sum, decided to take a quick beach vacation to a beach, and came back to to the legal reformation complete with new solid investors and the same job for more money.
Well, first, it sounds like he did this during his two weeks. So, not free. Second, people there, ex-coworkers, know he did it. Which means when one of them moves on, and then needs a new coworker, they'll recommend him. Which leads to more money in an indirect way. Third, what does it cost him to explain why he was leaving and how they can fix it?
I'm not going to be an ass just cause someone else is an ass. Giving notice is a pretty reasonable thing, and I want people to think "reasonable and professional" when they think of my name.
I suppose I should make sure that the next contract I sign includes a mandatory 2-week-salary if I give notice.