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  • You are not kidding. I have some experience with startup stock options and… it’s not pretty.

    Before anyone retorts with remarks about “phantom stock” and other similar offers, I want you to do some math.

    Figure out what the ‘strike price’ of that stock is likely to be when it matures, and calculate what the payout will be. Then figure out capital gains tax and subtract that. Divide what’s left over by the amount of unpaid overtime (hours in excess of 40 a week) you’re going to put in for the maturation window. Lastly, compare these figures to other testimonials in your field, and also, look up typical yearly bonus figures for more mature companies. You’re going to see that it’s not a lot of cash for the extra time, that it’s nowhere near your base pay rate, and more established companies are going to do a better job of compensating folks for less effort. You may even find that with a 996 grind-set, it might pay out less than taking a second job at retail.

    I can also warn you that if the company sells instead of going IPO, you may get a much smaller payout than all that. I was in a situation where they threw the advertised strike price in the trash, and negotiated a sale of everyone’s stock to the buying company for much, much less.


  • I’ve tried this. I also use a plethora of additional words, with different and more nuanced meaning, all in an effort to get the exact point across. Problem is: not everyone is rocking an extended vocabulary, so it basically doesn’t work most of the time.

    I’m trying to re-learn how to be more succinct instead. The key is to zero in on what matters to the audience, and carve out the part they need to hear.

    Less really is more.















  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    4 days ago

    NGL, heads of state challenging each other to exhibition boxing matches would be incredible. It would also radically alter who gets on the ballot for general elections, and we’d have to deal with concussed presidents and such. At the same time, the stakes would probably be state-level things (resources, borders, land, tariffs, embargos, sanctions, etc.), so everyone’s emotional state around a spectacle like that would be off the charts. People would riot after a loss.



  • Ideally? Zero. I’m sure some teams require “warnings as errors” as a compiler setting for all work to pass muster.

    In reality, there’s going to be odd corner-cases where some non-type-safe stuff is needed, which will make your compiler unhappy. I’ve seen this a bunch in 3rd party library headers, sadly. So it ultimately doesn’t matter how good my code is.

    There’s also a shedload of legacy things going on a lot of the time, like having to just let all warnings through because of the handful of places that will never be warning free. IMO its a way better practice to turn a warning off for a specific line.. Sad thing is, it’s newer than C++ itself and is implementation dependent, so it probably doesn’t get used as much.