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Re:When a Bug Saved the Company on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @08:42AM (#45025752)
Click on the comment’s timestamp. The “comment thread view” (don’t know what to call it) has a link to favorite it.
Re:The Open Guide to Equity Compensation on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:02AM (#43681418)
> Why would you have to stay with the company after you vest?

I'm assuming they are referring to someone that _did not_ exercise their options and is leaving.

[you might already know the following based on the rest of your comment, but thought i'd add it]

With options, vesting is only half of the story; you need to exercise the options which converts them to shares. ISO options (what you get as an employee) have a PTEP (Post-Termination Exercise Period) that gives you 90 days from voluntary leave (maybe varies?) to decide whether or not you'll exercise. If you don't exercise, you forfeit them.

I believe the longer PTEPs that you hear about (5-10 years) do some ISO->NSO conversion which changes the tax situation, but at least gives you flexibility & wait for some liquidity event before committing the cash.

Re:Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:18AM (#42623241)
Sounds similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number (in case you hadn't seen it before).
Re:A Lost X-Files Song on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:03AM (#38569849)
Yup. For better or worse, "Home" _almost always_ gets a "Jump to Next Episode."
Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails on Friday April 07, 2023 @03:26PM (#35485924)
Order as I remember it: Github initially used pjax, https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax, (maybe "invented" by defunkt?) which I believe was the precursor to turbolinks, https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks, which was the precursor to Hotwire.
Re:Stripe Faces $3.5B Tax Bill as Employees' Shares Expire on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @10:38PM (#35078063)
I'm not super familiar with this aspect, so this could be totally off-base: because this is sort of "out-of-band" income, it might factor into what you should be paying, but you won't be penalized for it; you didn't know exactly what the estimated income was (i don't believe you have to get a 3921 immediately upon exercise) so you can't necessarily estimate the taxes owed. This could be totally wrong? Also, I think there's a lookback period of a year that you can base your estimated taxes on.

All of this to say, I think what you're saying is a much more precise way of saying what I was trying to get at. :)

Re:Stripe Faces $3.5B Tax Bill as Employees' Shares Expire on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @09:32PM (#35077704)
> Sure, but options don't expire while you are an employee.

ISOs (not totally sure about NSOs) have a 10 year expiration from grant date[0].

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.422-2

Re:Stripe Faces $3.5B Tax Bill as Employees' Shares Expire on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @09:16PM (#35077597)
As far as I'm aware, yes. I believe the IRS would much rather get money than no money.

Note: I'm about to try this myself (though far less massive).

Re:Stripe Faces $3.5B Tax Bill as Employees' Shares Expire on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @09:12PM (#35077570)
If they are ISOs, tax won't be due _upon_ exercise but will show up on that years tax return. Usually the AMT will hit you (if the exercise was worth it), and you'll owe the following year.

This is a slightly longer way of saying I'm not totally sure how what you're saying invalidates what valzam said: as far as the IRS is concerned, you did realize gains (you got something of value), just not on anything "liquid," hence AMT. Perhaps they (IRS) use different terms, but that's basically what's happening.

Anecdotal, but: Head over to https://streeteasy.com/ & do some searches with whatever you deem to be "affordable," then compare between the various "building types" in their filtering.

It's been a little while since I've done this–I, at least temporarily, gave up the idea of buying something in the city–but I noticed similar trends to keerthiko. Similar to when I was actually looking at places with a broker.

Re:Palantir’s SPAC Bets Backfire on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:12PM (#34085788)
I think you're thinking of

> Microsoft buys near 4% stake in London Stock Exchange https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33952824

That was not my read from OP.

I took it to mean that they realize that most of this advice is not universally good/not applicable everywhere, but that single point is.

Re:A legal dispute that will test the limits of fair use on Sunday October 02, 2022 @07:13AM (#33054897)
Reading this reminded me of the Kind of Bloop album cover dispute (Miles Davis photo “pixelized”): https://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/
Re:The Raw Truth About Lox (2003) on Saturday October 01, 2022 @03:11PM (#33049131)
I don’t believe they were referring to how it’s served but how it’s prepared.

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/hot-smoked-cold-smoked-fish...

Re:NYC releases PSA for what to do in case of nuclear attack on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @05:53PM (#32089229)
There is _a little_ more, although, not much more specific :x

> Evacuation from a nuclear explosion or radioactive > contamination > > If there is a nuclear explosion, hide behind cover and > evacuate to an underground facility or strong building. > An explosive called a “dirty bomb” will cause radioactive > contamination of the area. Follow the instructions of the > authorities and consult a physician.

They probably can't get online to tweet. /s
Re:Cold Showers on Saturday June 18, 2022 @04:09PM (#31793365)
Re:Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance on Monday June 13, 2022 @09:19AM (#31725143)
Moxie is a who. Probably referencing this blogpost, https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html.
Re:My macOS keyboard shortcuts on Friday April 01, 2022 @10:30AM (#30878407)
> focus/create/destroy space without animation

I'm amazed by how painful I find this.

I can't disable SIP on my work laptop which means I'm forced to "sit through" the macOS animations as I switch between desktops. Feel like I've wasted hours of my life watching desktops fade-in/-out.

kagi.com has a "sign-up for beta" link. Didn't take long before I received an invite (week or two?).
Re:Technicolor Tokyo on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @10:42AM (#30843169)
I saw this article pop up the other day which goes fairly deep on the importance of RAW: https://lux.camera/understanding-proraw/. This is focused on iPhone photography, but there's plenty of other detail in there, especially the first half or so.
Re:Htmlq: like jq, but for html on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @11:29AM (#28446021)
My hunch is that this is a typo and it should read "extract bits OF content."
Re:My Tungsten Cube (2019) on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:38PM (#28321940)
I accidentally dropped my tungsten carbide wedding band on my kitchen tile floor. Now, I have 4 shattered pieces of tungsten carbide sitting in a box on my desk.
Re:Reading Manpages Like a Pro (2018) on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:20AM (#25315651)
I agree, this is very frustrating. My “workaround” is to search for ` -f`, that is, two spaces in front of the flag.

Doesn’t always work but _usually_ gets me closer. Hope this helps disabling the feces.

Re:TailwindCSS v2.0 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:01PM (#25141721)
I believe they're referring to https://github.com/FullHuman/purgecss.
Re:Dementia on the Retreat in the U.S. and Europe on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:11PM (#24087358)
You can check out some of the references on the wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesi...

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