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limeyx··on Handcuffed to Uber
Thats cost me north of a few million before ...
limeyx··on Handcuffed to Uber
Yes but I believe you can (eventually) get the AMT difference back in offsets assuming there are later years when you are below the AMT limit. Fiendishly complicated and increasingly dumb though ...
limeyx··on Handcuffed to Uber
"Should you exercise an option, you will need to pay taxes on the spread (delta of strike price and current FMV, i.e. latest 409A valuation)."

This isn't really true with ISOs (hence the point of them). You may get an AMT gain which is ugly, but you don't owe regular taxes on the spread unlike Non-Quals where you would.

limeyx··on Rackspace Interview Process
just reading all that caused me to want to shoot myself honestly
limeyx··on The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science (2015)
Well said. Disgusting
limeyx··on Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones last year
one hundred pounds three schillings, two farthings and a sixpence
limeyx··on The engineer’s engineer: Computer industry luminaries salute Dave Cutler
They moved the entire graphics subsystem into kernel because it was "too slow" in user mode
limeyx··on Iceland put top finance executives behind bars, but fears of cronyism remain
Its only a free market until the rich people start losing money
limeyx··on A 120-Year Lease on Life Outlasts Apartment Heir (1995)
Yes but she was "only" 90 when he signed the lease :)
limeyx··on $50B transit proposal would boost light rail throughout Seattle region
Easy to say if the tracks don't go (almost literally) through your back yard as they do mine.
limeyx··on Microsoft meets with private equity over Yahoo deal
I'm sure they will find a way to pipe the deal through Ireland and offshore that profit
limeyx··on Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds with Schools Attached
Or maybe people who like roads, firefighters, police ....?
limeyx··on How we built Facebook Lite for every Android phone and network
Facebook is still the flakiest and crash-prone app on my phone bar none
limeyx··on Comcast gets big tax break that was designed for Google Fiber
The law could probably just discount the property tax based on number of customers signed up to the new service ...
limeyx··on How I fixed a bug in Atom
...and thats why Regexes should usually be avoided :)
limeyx··on The Origins of Trunk Based Development
Visual Studio 2015 has started on this road. I dont know if you get notified but you can see when the last change was, and in theory if changes are incoming.

No idea how well it works because it was really slow because it seems to come bundled with other features that require indexing of your entire project so I disabled it

limeyx··on Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform
And still does daily. Try having multiple email accounts and trying to use the GoogleDrive Web UI from more than one at once ... not bad for a ~$400+ BN company !
limeyx··on 90% of the billion dollar unicorn startups are in trouble
I highly doubt they have stopped. Just got smarter about how they do it
limeyx··on 90% of the billion dollar unicorn startups are in trouble
And I bet they'd truly like to divest some of it at the current prices :)
limeyx··on Clojure is for Type B personalities
I dont agree with this at all
limeyx··on I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
So ... why not just upload and additional 60GB / 0.05 and then download the entire 60GB which is now 5% of the total storage for free ?
limeyx··on Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Health Insurance
Those #s are insane
limeyx··on Ratings Agencies Still Coming Up Short, Years After Crisis
There is no one else :)
limeyx··on Why We Hire Great Developers, Not Great Mobile Developers
Still no. Security is hard. Harder than most other stuff
limeyx··on For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions
Thats not really the point as i see it though, its more one of fairness ... why should the richest of the rich get to basically make their own law and play by a different set of rules than the rest of us ?
limeyx··on Warning Signs You're About to Be Laid-Off
Definitely
limeyx··on Warning Signs You're About to Be Laid-Off
When you show up to work and there is a cardboard box on your desk and someone from HR loitering by (if your keycard even worked)
limeyx··on I analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages
I simply wont buy anything where the only option is "Contact us"
limeyx··on Software error releases up to 3,200 inmates early
Or perhaps he/she worked on the holiday time calculator code too :)
limeyx··on When a Unicorn Startup Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt
Excluding primary residence :)
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