thruhiker

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I have this exact build of MacBook Air and in day to day use browsing the web, doing some light coding, and connecting to Kubernetes clusters hosted in the cloud, I don't really notice. There is definitely some disk swapping occurring but you don't really notice it in small amounts due to how fast the SSDs are.

Would I recommend the 8GB of RAM to someone who wants to use it as their primary development machine or for heavy photo editing, absolutely not. Would I say it's OK for casual use, yes.

Do I think Apple is being stingy considering their incremental cost for an extra 4GB or 8GB of RAM in the base model would be tiny, yes.

Comment · 2 years ago

I always thought the sums people were paying for MBAs was absolutely outrageous. In tech I feel like MBAs can actually work against you and can be perceived as a red flag. I knew someone a decade ago who paid I believe $120k to Duke Fuqua for a mostly online MBA that also required travel to multiple international destinations. This was a person in their late 20s.

Comment · 4 years ago

Battery preconditioning for DC fast charging is available on some CCS cars as well and is getting more common. Sometimes it's manually trigger-able and sometimes it's integrated into navigation.

Comment · 4 years ago

This is so hot it’s cool.

Dieter Bohn departs The Verge bound for Google theverge.com

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Second Canadian AWS Region – Canada West (Calgary) aws.amazon.com

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Comment · 5 years ago

I believe founders will own a percentage of the company outright as recorded in the cap table.

Comment · 5 years ago

Exercising NSOs generates taxable income on the difference between the exercise price and the Fair Market Value (FMV) as determined by the current 409A valuation.

Exercising ISOs does not generate taxable income nor immediate capital gains when the option is exercised, but you will generate capital gains in the future on the difference between the sold price and the strike price when you sell your exercised options. If you are higher income, which is common if you work for a startup on the product and engineering teams, the difference between the strike price and the FMV when exercising the option counts towards AMT calculations.

It's common to pay AMT when exercising ISOs but you do generate AMT credits that can be used in future tax years when your taxable income and capital gains are below the threshold for triggering AMT.