How do you keep the cost down?

I wish tools like this would account for equity.

Base salary in the Bay area has never been particularly high compared to comparable cities, but in my admittedly anecdotal experience, The Bay Area has the highest equity compensation of anywhere in the US.

Equity should only count as a lottery ticket unless the company has IPO'ed and there is a place for the employee to actually value and sell those shares.

One could argue that if a company has had a public offering, they probably aren't at the low end of this pay scale anyway, but that's more speculative.

I mean...a really, really good lottery ticket which has a much higher chance of paying out than your standard powerball ticket. It's true that there is variance in your pay if it's partially made up of equity but it's clearly not worth nothing, which is how I would evaluate a lottery ticket in practicality.

It's more like a lottery ticket where a VC can come in and say sorry you now have 0.001 lottery tickets and if you hit a jackpot, I get the first $50M of it before we split the rest of the pot.

Hard to compare apples to apples with equity. Some equity is worth close to nothing, others (RSU) are pretty much just like cash. Many places give a little equity every year, others only your first few years, then you don't get any anymore (so does that equity count in your "total" or not?), for others it's totally random and variable.

But is the equity actually worth anything?

Like 30% or more of my comp is equity (autosold the instant I get it). I make more in equity alone than I would in total if I was back at my hometown.

established companies (FAANG) come as RSUs that vest monthly or quarterly. so yeah, real money.

You can only sell once a quarter though!

So? Just budget the proceeds. If you need a bit of extra help not spending it all at once it's not that hard to set up an automatic transfer on a monthly interval with a bank. Just set it up for {Proceeds} / 3 for three transfers.

That's only a Google thing. At Microsoft, for example, you can sell all the time.

There's no trading windows for insiders?

not if you enroll in auto-sell. mine vest and sell monthly.

Yea, by the time I left Google, I was making about 50% of my gross pay in equity, and this equity was basically as liquid as cash (the difference being the volatility).

What is this based upon? Do tech companies give different equity if you e.g. Work out of the boulder office? I've been looking for an excuse to move to CO.

Agreed. 30-40% of my total comp is equity and bonus and I've got friends with higher at big papa G and the likes.

agreed; more than half my compensation comes in the form of RSUs and bonuses.

Oh wow it's increasing fast. When I started Soft Eng in 2008 it was like $5000. At graduation it was $6500. This is nuts.

Actually chat heads works on stock Android! Not sure the exact wizardry that went into implementing it, but it's very impressive to use.

probably like explained here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8073803/android-multi-tou...

but imho, given they already downgraded the behavior in 4.0, this is really looking like a security hole that might be closed in a next Android release.

...Do you have an APK?

If you don't want friends of friends seeing stuff, why don't you just set your privacy to friend's only?

You can't control your friends' privacy settings. If they tag you in something and have their own privacy settings wide open, anyone will be able to see it.

From what I recall you can stop friends from tagging you in photos on FB.

You can make tag approval mandatory, but people can still tag you and you will be bombarded with spam about that tag until you remove it.

This doesn't actually help since your friends control a lot of your privacy. Remember when Mark's sister's photo ended up on Twitter? She had her privacy set to friend's only... It also doesn't prevent friends from tagging you in photos or signing you in places.

She tagged her sister and her sister's friend tweeted it. Not the same.

I'd like to clarify one thing. The "native" Android app that was tested, isn't actually native. Native newsfeed shipped in Facebook for Android 2.0, but 1.9.2 was used in the comparison. Thus, the comparison was between two html5 implementations of newsfeed. That said, I'd love to see a side by side video with Facebook for Android 2.0.

give the comparison a try. fastbook (the sencha html5 facebook app) is here fb.html5isready.com.

What effect this will have on HTTPS (and therefore all HTTP 2.0) handshake latency?

Are you working on Skydrive support?

APMs are definitely a clique while they work for Google, but after they leave they are just a network of friends and contacts. I think this article is overplaying their loyalty to Marissa. Nobody I've ever met thought Yahoo would be a good place to work and I doubt that will change much in the near future.

If you have a moment, I'd love to know what you dislike about Google Images for iPad. I worked on the product when I was an intern at Google. I'm sorry it's causing you frustration :(

#1 hate is I can't open images or pages in new tabs, if I tap and hold on the outer thumb I just get the option to save that thumb, if I tap and hold on the link in the preview I get nothing at all. That makes browsing multiple images painful.

#2 is to view the meta data that's "free" on normal GI you have to click through to the preview and start downloading it and other images at a larger size. Images has lots of shitty, spammy websites gaming the results as well as poor versions of images available elsewhere larger, seeing that info was always useful to me.

Thanks for the feedback! Both of your grievances are legitimate issues. The reason why we didn't support those use cases on iPad is because they are power user features.

Pro tip: If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you can view the desktop site by hitting "Classic". Happy Googling :)

When I scroll to the bottom of the page on my iPad, Google _conveniently_ loads more images. It's like a cruel joke.

On my Android 2.3 phone with stock browser, when I tap an image, the image _below_ it gets highlighted, even though the correct image is opened - horribly confusing.

Also when an image is being viewed, you can't swipe to go to the previous/next image. I believe this works on the iPhone.