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greenspamon Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad

Is there a reverse app? I want to control my iphone apps from my mac since typing on iphone is painful and the iphone touchscreen keyboard seems to be less accurate and more laggy over time. And iPhone Mirroring feature is laggy for me for some reason.

greenspamon Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

"opportunity to become middle (and middling) managers" or assistant middle managers or assistant to the middle managers

greenspamon Free stuff makes us irrational

I thought the article would be about something like when you get $100 free chip, you are much more likely to gamble and lose it; or when someone win a lottery, they would quickly spent the money compared to if they had earned the money with hard work.

BTW, behavior economics people like DAN ARIELY in this article got bad reputation after being found fabricating data on the research about honesty https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1190568472

greenspamon Free stuff makes us irrational

I wake up every morning in a bed that’s too small, drive my daughter to a school that’s too expensive, and then I go to work to a job for which I get paid too little. But on Pretzel Day… well, I like Pretzel Day

greenspamon My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder

I started to read your blog since the time you encountered a disastrous event with tinypilot hardware (something like a floor or fire). I really appreciate your recording and sharing of your experience and growth. Good luck to your book and look forward to your news.

greenspamon After my dad died, we found the love letters

Very touching writing. Reminds me of Brokeback Mountain.

greenspamon GuitarPie: Electric Guitar Fretboard Pie Menus

Cool! And your last name is Fender.

greenspamon A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

Imagine back in the days when calculators were just invented. An 8 year old kid might have the similar complain: “my classmate finished a 4 digits number multiplication problem in 5 seconds which generally took 1mins.” People might say, in the long term, the kid who cheated would be less proficient in arithmetic, which turned out to be true. But when you think about it, it seems not the end of the world when most high schooler in US cannot do complicated arithmetic quickly and accurately without a calculator.

greenspamon Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser

Thank you so much!

greenspamon Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser

Finally a good tool to view HN in terminal. Thank you! Where can I find the keyboard shortcuts? I can move with vim key binding, but can go back.

greenspamon A Review of the Personal Humanoid Robots

I don't buy the argument because the world around us is build for human, we'd better build humanoid robots. Robots with belted wheels or 4 legs can handle stairs, ramps, uneven terrains well, easily and fast. Installing a couple of robot arms on it, you have much more robust robots. Spending so much effort just to solve the moving and balancing is a waste of money and talent.

greenspamon Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

It's not those companies. There is a typo in the original post. 3/15 is before 185 days.

greenspamon Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

Thank you!

greenspamon Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

The best case is to not pay the taxes upfront. Say the company wants me to pay 50% tax in cash and then give me 100% of my vested RSU; I want 50% of my vested RSU without needing to pay taxes.

Yes, we are contacting lawyers.

Thanks for your attention!

greenspamon Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

Thank you! We are definitely contacting lawyers.

greenspamon Ask HN: Former Employees' RSUs at Risk After Startup's IPO

Thank you so much!

greenspamon Ask HN: Former Employees' RSUs at Risk After Startup's IPO

If on that day, the market price is higher than my estimation, they would inform me and give me 1 day time to pay the difference. If the market price is lower, then I'll have to go through the tax return process with IRS.

greenspamon Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

True that the company needs to follow regulations. But they could do "net exercise", or "sell to cover". Instead they choose "pay cash or forfeit" path.

greenspamon Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

I commented with a correction. March 15, 2025 is 140 days from the IPO day. This is before the lockup periods ends and they require us to estimate our tax, based on the fair market value of that date, with the following formula, and pay cash, otherwise the vested RSU will be canceled:

Number of vested RSUs * the estimated fair market value of the stock at the settlement date * the appliable highest marginal federal, state, local income tax rate and employment tax rate.

Even if no one pump up the stock price, the amount of cash needed in such a short notice, is unbearable, which will make most ex-employees to give up their shares.

greenspamon Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

Right. Instead of the IPO date, or the end of the lockup date, they chose 3/15 as the date to settle the vested RSU. And require us to estimate our tax, based on the fair market value of that future date, with this formula, and pay cash, otherwise the vested RSU will be canceled:

Number of vested RSUs * the estimated fair market value of the stock at the settlement date * the appliable highest marginal federal, state, local income tax rate and employment tax rate.

In theory if someone pump up the stock price for that date, we are screwed. Even if no one pump up the stock price, the amount of cash needed in such a short notice, is unbearable, which will make most ex-employees to give up their shares.

greenspamon Ask HN: Former Employees' RSUs at Risk After Startup's IPO

@jameskuang correction: March 15, 2025 is 140 days from the IPO day. This is before the lockup periods ends and is used to determine the fair market value of the stock that taxes are calculated. If the stock drops dramatically between March 15th and the end of the lockup period, ex-employees could lose money (more cash tax is paid than the value the stock can be sold).

greenspamon Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

Hope to see some folks with similar experience, like former employees from Uber, to share their stories.

greenspamon Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparently)

Why not nix on Debian? So you have the benefit of both.

greenspamon Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket

Nice article. I just put it to my to-read list.

greenspamon Show HN: Roastedby.ai – Talk some trash, have some fun

So sad. >Hello there. I'm here to roast you.

>>I’m black >Oh, my bad. I forgot that racist jokes are not allowed here. Let's keep it clean, shall we?

>>I’m Asian >Well, hello there! I didn't realize I was battling against a ninja. Are you sure you're ready for this fight, because I don't want to trigger your karate chop reflexes.

>>I’m white >Ah, the classic case of mayonnaise on bread. Aren't you getting bored of your plain vanilla life?

greenspamon Write thin to write fast

Typora

greenspamon How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xoskJPDbXR0

Reminds me of Jimmy

greenspamon How great is the great firewall? Measuring China’s DNS censorship [pdf]

Did you even open the pdf? This research is done by citizen lab.

greenspamon How great is the great firewall? Measuring China’s DNS censorship [pdf]

So, what's the conclusion? How great? If there is a censorship/surveillance competition, who will win, GFW or NSA?

greenspamon Thunderbird 2020 Financial Report

Can someone recommend a thunderbird alternative on Linux that supports Microsoft Exchanges account? My company uses Exchange without imap. I can connect with apple mail on Mac, but yet need to find a mail client on linux. Thanks!