logical42

From my understanding the pay for newly minted law schools grads for 'big law' (i.e. Associate positions for big firms) are all approx. 160k (this includes bonus). There is one firm, as I understand it, that pays more (wachtell) which pays 160 base + 160 bonus, but on a yearly basis the number of spots for that firm is in the single digits, I think.

This is incorrect actually. Pay for lawyers forms a bimodal distribution, where graduates from the top ten law schools tend to occupy most of the high end of the distribution while everyone else tends to fall in the lower end.

Mining bitcoin.

I believe he wanted to try it later in his life (with adoptees) but his wife talked him out of it..

I could literally watch that movie over and over and over..

Would this mean that it would be okay to swim to the beach?

Is it just me or does it make less sense to blame a group of people for having jobs well-paying enough for them to afford living in San Francisco than to blame city zoning laws which have rather unreasonably constrained the supply of rented units and driven prices to what they are now?

Try having a crippled mechanic for a father and maybe you'll reconsider whether having a dentist-dad is a privilege.

'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.'

- Inigo Montoya

Otherwise known as the 1000-1 split.

I can't wait to see it :) thanks for sharing this with us!

In my opinion, that guy is a true hacker.

Disclosure: I am long bitcoin and have no plans to initiate any positions within the next 48 hours.

Of the number of comparisons drawn here, I'm rather surprised that this hasn't been compared to ember.

I actually feel like it is misleading. I would expect each bar to represent an item of a similar type. But, in this case, it doesn't.

does the bar chart (http://s3.amazonaws.com/pix-media/blog/424/ad_cost.png) irritate any one else here? I feel like it's a rather biased data visualization, it seems patently unfair to compare the finale of breaking bad with the average of a network. If anything, it should be contrasted with the finales of each of those network or possibly replaced with a figure representing the average cost of an ad on AMC.

notorious != popular

The garden of forking paths comes to mind.

Great analogy!

100k-ish stock vesting over 4 years is pretty standard among the big SV companies for new grads. It can be a lot more though if you're not a new graduate.

If we figure that the engineer count scales linearly to the user count (which I don't actually think is true), then you've just justified twitter having 2,600 engineers. That is, if Instagram had 13 engineers for 1 million users. (they likely had less engineers but more users though).

I think you might be underestimating the task of scaling an app to a quarter of a billion users.

I've always just considered programming to be applied philosophy.. insofar as philosophy is just the study of logic and reasoning.

How about Google? Or maybe Apple?

QwA

Nice try NSA.

I guess that's why there's a difference between the spirit and the letter of the law.

Pp

I'd downvote this if I could.

"You can't be neutral on a moving train."

- Howard Zinn