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ciro_langoneon New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary

"Saving time" during the interview process doesn't make sense if you're going to spend the next X years being UNDERpaid at your job.

If we assume that your time has some amount of value, you are always better off withholding your desired salary.

If you want to see whether or not they're going to be a potential employer, ask them for a ballpark of what they're willing to pay. But there is no reason for telling them free information.

ciro_langoneon New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary

This is true - there's a time value included in this. If you can't take off work, or have a family/obligations and need to transition immediately, you may not be able to afford to withhold this information.

ciro_langoneon New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary

No, there isn't, unless you're okay with short-selling yourself.

If you share and your amount is > the employers, you have no job. Bad situation. If you share and your amount is < the employers, you'll be underpaid. Bad situation. If you share and your amount = the employers, you may have a job, but you'll never know if you left money on the table because you offered first. Bad situation.

If you offer the number first, the employer becomes the customer - and the customer is always right. If you wait for them to make you an offer, they have to make an offer that is compelling, in the same way sales people go above-and-beyond to close their deal.

Literally the only way sharing your salary first is advantageous is if you need a job immediately. If you can wait, it's best to hold onto your number. If they cared so much about "saving time" they would have put the salary range in the posting - the reason they don't is because it's disadvantageous to do so!

ciro_langoneon Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico devastation

This could be partially true. CA, MA, and a few other states have laws protecting against this kind of liability, but it's still probably a best practice against major liability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology

ciro_langoneon Show HN: BillBuddy – Automated Invoice Processing

Hi there!

I'm very interested in learning more about this project! Would I be able to email you at frits@progresso-ict.nl (from the website), or is there a different way you'd prefer to take questions? This is super impressive, well done!

ciro_langoneon Ask HN: Lispers: Which dialect of Lisp do you use and why?

What is is about scheme that allows the 18k LOC to be condensed to 7k LOC? I assume there was some culling of excess code, but that's a dramatic improvement.

ciro_langoneon Ask HN: Lispers: Which dialect of Lisp do you use and why?

This is a really interesting perspective. Do you have any advice for someone looking to get into LISP? Ways to learn, how to learn, etc?

ciro_langoneon Top 10 books for CTO's full of advice, inspiration and laughs

Hm... a cynical statement, made in a sweeping, generalized manner without any sort of statistical evidence or scientific backing.

Looks like we found the MBA (:

ciro_langoneon What Goldman Is Telling Big Money Clients About Bitcoin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

Bonds have value because we assign a dollar value to them. The dollar value itself is fiat currency. The bonds do not value to dollar, the dollar values the bond.

ciro_langoneon Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

This is awesome! You should keep up with this - maybe develop a curriculum and host it all in one place one day?

ciro_langoneon The man who wrote the book on password management regrets the error

Are the little devices that change the PIN or passphrase every 30 seconds the most secure way to lock access? It seems like having to have the right code at the right time was more secure than having the right code at anytime, but I wasn't sure why they weren't rolled out en mass. Is this not the best method of security?

ciro_langoneon Launch HN: Sunu (YC S17) – Sonar wristband helping blind people navigate

Hey! This is super cool, and I wish you the best.

I don't know where you're based out of, but in Washington, D.C. is a school called Gallaudet University which you may want to reach out to. They are a school that that provides education for the hard of hearing, and I feel like they may be the most open to new technologies like this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallaudet_University