Also an Idaho resident. I, too, am very grateful this got struck down. Just like I was glad when same-sex marriage was legalized with Butch being so against it. I absolutely love Idaho, but I very much dislike our Governor. Unfortunately he rarely does what the people want, and only makes decisions based on his own beliefs and sponsors, as you mentioned.
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I too am a young father, my daughter is almost 10 months old. Last week I just recently left the startup I was a part of. I was getting paid an alright salary for it being an early startup who had raised funding or launched yet. I made it a point to make sure I didn't stay late at the office unless it was an absolutely necessity. So I didn't have the extreme hours to deal with, but rather the uncertainty... Not knowing if your next paycheck is going to be one of your lasts or not is not a way I want to live. Having a family to provide for is a bigger and much more important job than grinding out code for a startup that has the potential to be big.
Because of the uncertainty and risks that come with working in a startup, I pursued other options. I ended up talking with a smaller software development agency here that has the startup atmosphere in the office (doesnt feel like some corporate job). They are very well off and there is very little chance of them failing or running out of work. The increased salary and full benefits were easily enough for me to leave the startup where I had a slightly less salary, but 20% equity. The 20% equity definitely had the potential to have some huge payoffs, but I wouldn't see those for atleast 5 years, and I much rather have guaranteed stability now rather than hoping for it to come later.
Wow. Thank you for this. This is insight that I never ever would have thought of because of my lack of dealing with this sort of situation. Obviously profit sharing and equity make a huge difference. If I stay with this startup I will absolutely make sure I get equity and rather than profit sharing.
I have a family already. I am married with an 8 month old daughter and plan on having one more child. Thats what is really making me consider going with the more established company.
With that said though, I did somewhat fall into this startup, they offered my a job, it seemed promising, I do see a bright future for it and I do see it succeeding. But I'm not sure I want to wait it out and take the risk just yet.
I have lots of experience building something myself, and I do enjoy that. But thinking back to my college days I also really really enjoyed working on another team with other developers, which is something I have not done since college. Thats what was appealing to me about startups, was the environment and being surrounded by other developers. I now realize thats not the case until a startup becomes somewhat successful and has funding to make something like that happen.
Congrats. This is exactly how responsible disclosure is supposed to work. You spend valuable time looking for holes and when you find one they fix it quickly and compensate you for your trouble.
Were you able to do this all with the dummy accounts that Facebook provides for the Bug Bounty program or did any steps require a genuine account? Just curious as I always wonder whether there are bugs that affect genuine accounts and not dummy accounts or vice-versa.
He'd probably be better off staying where he is and courting customers in the US and UK. The combination of a low cost of living and a metropolitan income (or as close as possible) is a splendid combination.
Given the seriousness, I would hope it is in the five figures (Facebook don't go into details about rewards, but a comparable exploit for a Google Account would net you at least $10k).
I will definitely be using this! I was just about to code my own for a project I'm working on. The ability to put the fields in columns would be great. An example would be to allow some to have two separate text fields, like First Name & Last Name, on the same line.
Depending on your graphics card, a few dollars a week sounds about right. A mid-range graphics card (eg: a 2GB 6970, $300) has a MH/s of about 400, as far as I know the top range consumer graphics cards (about $1000) top out at around 1200MH/s, which is 1/4th of what the Jalapeno has. A 6970 would probably generate about $8/week at present, but the power costs will dwarf that so it's not really worth it, unless you're not paying the power bill.
The major problem is right now mining profitability is dropping fast and is going to drop even faster as all these custom built miners ship, you might be able to make a few dollars a week at the moment with your graphics card but once all these custom built miners start to ship (and there's tens of thousands of pre-orders) it'll become pennies. You've missed the boat on mining profitability with consumer hardware and anyone looking at custom built miners is going to be losing money too unless the value of Bitcoin sky rockets.
I've been watching blockchain.info the past few weeks, and the estimated ROI has dropped from -30% to -50% in the course of about 2 weeks. A few months ago it was positive.
I'm assuming blockchain's estimates are based on standard hardware.
Most GPU miners have moved from bitcoin to litecoin or feathercoin as they use scrypt hashing instead of SHA256 so are resistant to ASIC hardware. Mining these currencies usually offer an extra 30-50% over mining bitcoin directly and can be sold for bitcoin or USD on various exchanges.
As an example for a $300 ATI 7950 card that generates ~600kH/s scrypt you will generate $1.33 per day in litecoins vs ~450MH/s with SHA256 which currently generates $1.01 per day in bitcoin.
With the onslaught of ASIC hardware coming though it's not clear what's going to happen with GPU mining. As more people move to the other currencies they will become less profitable to mine and could get to the point where they cost more in electricity than they generate in profit. Definitely bitcoin mining will be at that point by the end of the year for people without ASIC hardware.
CPU mining is pretty much pointless now. And unless you're not paying for power GPU mining is pretty much a wash. Assuming an ATI 5870 uses 200W, and can do 400MH/s (which looking online seems about correct), you can expect to generate about .01 BTC/day, which is about $1 at current rates. You'd be looking at profitability if your marginal power costs are less than $0.20/kWh. And that's not factoring in the cost of the graphics card.
For comparison, 2 USB asic miner erupters will hash at about 650MH/s, and use about 3W.
So in short, if you already have a fast graphics card and don't have to pay for power, it might be worth mining.
I was mining with a medium-low grade GPU for about 6 weeks. I ended up with 0.3 BTC which is about $30 right now. If you had a $250 Radeon you could probably have done better at the time, but this was just at the beginning of the ASIC invasion so it's probably harder now.
Based on a ATI Radeon 5870, which is an older but not "Whoa, what are you thinking!?" graphics card running on an active miner, I produce about 0.01 BTC per day. At the current exchange rates, that's...about a dollar a day.
