hdmoore

The pre-IPO bids for Facebook at SecondMarket were substantially higher than the original IPO (first-day trading price), less than a week before private trading was halted. Even the private market has no idea what non-public shares are worth. IMO, ask for an increase in salary, or tie the value of the stock to a conditional bonus payout. Keep in mind that even if the company goes public and the stock does well, you probably won't be able to sell for 12-18 months due to lockups, so the IPO price is less relevant to your compensation than the long-term stock price. If you are smart (and have the cash), a 83(b) election can be hugely beneficial for your taxes... unless the price at which you do the election is far above the eventual market price of the stock, in which case you are out quite a bit of money.

Edit: If the company truly feels that their stock can be substituted for salary, then it shouldn't have more than a 12-month cliff for vesting.

Peter Gutmann's "Engineering Security" book is an excellent treatise on trust and currently free: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf

A beautiful demonstration by people who like macs and don't understand geometry or economics.

Metasploit Framework rolls out new banners: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/5047

This is an excellent example of using a parser as a language. Whether it has any legs depends on whether it beats existing tools on some front (sed, perl, ruby, etc). The concurrent angle is interesting, but I have found a multi-process approach to stream data to be more efficient than most concurrent single-process implementations. For example, with DAP (https://github.com/rapid7/dap), we found that GNU Parallel + Ruby MRI was more effective than a concurrent language such as Go.

Thanks for the suggestions! Great background music.

For the mid-afternoon slump, I dig Dave Snelgrove's bass tracks: https://soundcloud.com/davidsnelgrove

Overwerk, Orbital, and similar electronic/ambient artists are my zen-mode gotos. 9:00am after writing code until 4:00am? It better have screeching electric guitar and heavy bass. Industrial is a great way to wake up.