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This article goes into a lot more detail. It looks like it was just two lines of code. But apparently the codebase actually had backdoors already present. His employer, MSLA doesn't come out looking good. After winning a few lotteries Eddie actually reported the security hole and suggested a fix. It was ignored.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/investigations/...

I think the original title, Iowa man convicted of lottery rigging scheme granted parole, works better.

He was a software engineer who worked on rng software for state lotteries. And he was charged with installing code on lottery computers to predict winning numbers. It sounds like a legitimate conviction to me.

I use OpenPilot, which is third party L2 driver assistance sw/hw. I started looking into it after getting into an accident on the freeway. It's amazing for highway driving. You do still have to pay attention, but long trips are much more relaxing. You don't have to do anything besides pay attention while you are staying in the same lane, and driving is much smoother with it.

Watters is not a reasonable journalist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Watters#Controversies.

> From experience inside a major retail chain at the national level, this is the story of retail theft in general.

I thought it was common at some places, like Target, to track but not report shoplifting until it qualified for a felony. Then once the shoplifter had stolen enough to be charged for a felony they were prosecuted.

I'm just a senior IC, and not at FAANG. But my employer does recruit from FAANG. 0%-20% sounds low for dev work, but the basic description looks somewhat familiar. We don't have project managers, and not all teams have product managers, so seniority can get you more of that work, and less dev work. I don't think ICs do managerial people management if you don't include mentoring. And I do know one or two directors who still code a lot. Maybe some FAANGS have senior positions with more IC dev work.

Same. As an IC I like ownership. I'd be fine with most of that list assuming it was related to something I owned. I may not specifically like some task, but I'm fine doing it if it's because I'm the person responsible for something.

The biggest issue I would have with that list is the description of the scrum setup, and being directly assigned tickets. I find it more engaging if I'm given or find bigger problems to solve, completing individual tickets isn't as interesting.

Yeah, I'm at a startup that's rapidly growing, and is adding more process. I don't feel like it's overmanaged, I don't generally need to pull in my manager or skip. But I can imagine giving a similar response, the major difference is that the team I'm on doesn't really have official processes set up.

The main problem is that the team has a lot of work to do. So simple tasks might take awhile if they aren't high priority. If I got significant push back, I'd talk to my manager or skip. Because doing it sooner would mean pushing back other high priority requests.

What would have Trump done if the certification was delayed? He certainly wouldn't have made a public statement that Joe Biden won a fair election and would be president on Jan 20. He's still claiming the election was stolen.

Disagree, I think we are in an extremely dangerous situation. One party tried to stage a coup, and is still claiming the election was stolen. Just because the coupe failed doesn't mean we're safe. Polls show widespread distrust about American elections, and a significant portion of the Republican party believes Trump should be president.

The coup was pathetic, but what would have happened if the riot had delayed the presidential election being certified?

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry helped cause the American civil war two years later. He and most of his raiders were quickly caught and executed. But the trial turned Brown into a martyr in the north and motivated the South to form the Confederacy.

I think Brown's raid was a moral action, and the Jan 6th coup was an attack on American democracy. I'm not very confident that the justice system will hold the planners accountable, or that it just did short term damage to our democracy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/09/15/poll-...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/24/republicans-...

https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-poll-republicans-lose-trus...

Also, lockups are common. But not every company has a lockup.

+1. That's one of the first things I look for if I need to refactor something. I want tests to exist to verify refactoring doesn't change functionality.

I disagree when talking about public companies. If you are vesting 1MM/yr in equity then you can turn that into cash. The stock price will change, but that just means your comp changes. You may not be able to get that matched, but you would still see a pay cut leaving for another job.

And if you are vesting RSUs you are paying tax on FMV at vest.

300/hr annualizes to 600k. And just because he was making 1MM/yr doesn't mean that's market rate. In 2017 Apple stock was in the 30s. Most of his comp was coming from equity. And Leon started instamentor.

There's guides out for evaluating startup equity. Here's a couple. https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation https://manual.withcompound.com/manual-company-equity/unders...

I don't agree you should assume equity as worthless. Especially for larger vc funded startups. But equity can get complicated, and it's possible for a company to have an exit and for you to lose money. But the majority of early stage start ups will fail.

Though the $120k offer seems much better. Could you negotiate equity or improve salary? 100k*.07 means they are giving you the option to buy 7k worth of equity a year. You are giving up 60k a year in lost salary to do that. So your equity would need to about 10x before you make up the lost salary.

Speeding is straightforward to determine, just check the speed limit and how fast you were going. Reckless driving is a judgement call. Going to far over the speed limit means you'll probably get a reckless driving ticket if caught. But speeding isn't necessary for a reckless driving charge.

It looks like court precedence is really important in some areas of tax law in determining what's ok. It's a problem if someone can take a really novel and beneficial reading of a policy and assume they won't have to defend it.

I think it's more like asking "Should Mr Y have been ticketed for reckless driving" if it's on a backcountry road without cops or speed limit signs. Not getting audited doesn't mean it was ethical.

I'm comfortable saying a tax loophole should be banned without saying it's users are criminals or either unethical. Asking if someone should be able to deduct their private jet is a political question to me, not a legal one.

But there are other instance where people are taking advantage of lack of enforcement. For instance conservation easements. There's an example of a mining developer who gave 6000 acres to a charitable trust in CA. An issue is the mining company didn't own the subsurface gas and mineral rights to the land. They weren't explicitly clear about that when donating, so the donation was probably overvalued.

https://www.kassounilaw.com/publications/the-uses-and-abuses...

> It's either illegal tax evasion or operating within the established legal framework

Is someone committing a crime by aggressively reducing their taxes if they don't get audited? Not paying taxes isn't a crime, but the IRS has been decreasing audits of the rich.

I don't think you can sustainably send out 20 high quality applications a day. I think you should send emails or cover letters about why you are interested, and would be a good fit.

Plus, finding opening where you are a good fit takes work, especially if you are a new grad.

> It sounds like the study points to the idea that "talk through your reasoning" is a bad interview approach.

That idea definitely makes sense to me. And I think some devs do definitely underperform in interviews.

Though I'm not sure if there's great alternatives. As an interviewer I feel that seeing someone work through a problem and debug issues gives useful information. I don't know if there's a better, less anxiety-producing way of testing those things.

I do think take homes can be really useful, but those have their own problems. Maybe leaving someone alone onsite to complete the problem would be an option. But I think leaving the discussion to the end would give less info about the candidate's communication skills.

How would you suggest helping a dev ask better questions? Explicitly giving them guidelines seems aggressive. Though sometimes I have a hard time understanding the problem, or what was attempted.

> Many were tired of being locked into a geography which did not make them happy.

Do you compete with Bay area FAANG salaries? It seems that part of the reason companies pay so much in Silicon Valley is because the cost of local labor is so high.

> Why are people so crazy about this drug?

It looks to be a combination of right wing political commentators and a fringe anti-vax group.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2021/08/30/no-iv... https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/14310404563648102...

Her former lawyers for a civil case did claim she couldn't pay them. Though I wouldn't be surprised if she has insurance policies that cover some of her legal fees. And her husband is rich.

> The problem with the so-called elite MBA schools is they are designed not for people with experience, but recruit those right out of undergrad with 0 business experience

I have no interest in an mba, but I was under the impression most elite programs expected significant work experience. At Harvard the 2023 has an average of 5 years work experience. https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile/Pages/defau...

That's my question. Taxes are higher and CA has prop 13, so the difference gets worse.

Maybe that offer is still available.

I'm ok with that. I'm still on an old data plan that throttles me after I got the limit for high speed data. But they don't hide that limit or my usage, and it's really cheap.

I don't want to pay for unlimited data, and I don't want to lose data after hitting a cap.

I don't do a ton of contract and I don't like CA taxes. But this seems slightly antagonistic. Hiring a CPA will make taxes easier, both of these can mainly be solved with more money.

Why are recruiters negotiating with you about whether or not 13% is a far increase for being in CA? To me it seems like the high end for comp in Silicon Valley is much higher than the high end for comp in Texas. And 10-20% salary adjustment for an internal move between a MCOL city and Silicon Valley seems normal.

I don't know your situation, but a 15% bump for working in CA sounds cheap in general.

That example does sound really bad.

But I would feel disengaged if everything was broken down to 1 point stories at the beginning of the sprint.