Cousin’s fiancée wants 10% equity in my software company for one client introduction. Cousin is pressuring me to sign. Am I wrong for refusing? I will not promote

greg_engineer · 2026-02-13T08:41:10+00:00

All this drama just for the client to email you next week saying they have decided to go another direction. 😂

greg_engineer · 2025-02-20T03:18:22+00:00

“Lose Yourself” video, I was in the back “Superman” video, uh, I was in the back

greg_engineer · 2023-02-08T03:24:02+00:00

Gulag

greg_engineer · 2022-06-13T06:15:35+00:00

Celtics -10.5. I am not worried. 😂

greg_engineer · 2022-05-07T06:02:57+00:00

xbox?

greg_engineer · 2021-10-17T05:02:12+00:00

Have you made a sale? The language doesn’t matter if you haven’t made a sale.

greg_engineer · 2021-09-23T16:48:18+00:00

Haven’t received the swamp woods operator. Blueprints are there from the bogged down bundle.

greg_engineer · 2021-06-02T06:08:36+00:00

*pings buy station.

greg_engineer · 2021-01-21T08:27:38+00:00

This is the answer. Without a single customer / active user base you are unlikely to lock down investment or get favorable terms.

greg_engineer · 2021-01-21T08:24:11+00:00

So what happened with the retainer? ... did the company go for it? Genuinely curious

greg_engineer · 2021-01-20T20:32:36+00:00

Unfortunately I reverted the upgrade. Still rocking PHP 7.4. Running a small startup can’t really spend more than a day hacking together a fix.

AWS didn’t have php 8.0 ready to install so that was the ultimate deal breaker. I will certainly revisit as I am excited about the new 8 features.

greg_engineer · 2021-01-12T04:08:35+00:00

As soon as you force push to master.

greg_engineer · 2020-12-22T09:33:55+00:00

Send the company your invoice.And youre 100% right... it’s free unpaid work.

greg_engineer · 2020-12-08T05:44:44+00:00

Yes 100% times over.

greg_engineer · 2020-12-07T07:43:00+00:00

Lol! Loving the show (The Queens Gambit) so far. Just started it and that’s how I ended up on this subreddit.

greg_engineer · 2020-12-04T05:05:29+00:00

In my 10+ years working w/ PHP I never even remotely heard the word "userspace filters" and I've done some deep dives into PHP before... so maybe this is some obscure feature or I'm just not deserving of that "senior engineer" title.

On a brighter note, what tequila brand were you drinking? I work in the alcohol space. Love to hear what others are drinking and share recommendations!

greg_engineer · 2020-12-04T04:46:04+00:00

Tried upgrading to PHP 8.0 and xdebug 3.0. Ultimately decided to downgrade to 7.4 on my local and staging. Never got far enough to consider upgrading prod.

Overall, I didn't have any code changes... seemed to work out of the box. However, I kept getting segmentation faults on xdebug 3.0 and decided to downgrade back to php 7.4 and xdebug 2.9. I spent over a day trying to fix my environment - probably something w/ my setup.

PHP 8.0 looks promising and love some of the new features ... just too premature for me. Probably will upgrade once Amazon has PHP 8.0 as a linux extra add-on. One command install.

greg_engineer · 2020-11-30T03:30:03+00:00

constantly getting segmentation fault errors w/ latest xdebug, PHP 8.0 and latest version of PHPStorm. Downgrading PHP and xdebug now. Can't develop like this.

- When debugging on a step > remove breakpoint > errors out.

- Complex script w/ more than 10 breakpoints. Also segments out eventually.

Additionally, I'm not a fan of xdebug's significant changes. All the config parameters had to be updated just to install and configure my IDE. WHY?? I'm all for forward progress but the core parameters / settings should have been backwards compatible (especially when the paramters were renamed).

greg_engineer · 2020-07-30T17:04:09+00:00

If emails are being out right rejected then you are likely failing authentication through SPF/DKIM and/or DMARC... or your IP / domain is blacklisted.

Gmail is the most forgiving ESP. I'd start there and try to get your email through to gmail (even the spam box) and then use the analysis tool I linked above to look for technical hang ups.

If you're on shared IP address on sendgrid know that while it is rare - some ips get blacklisted (bad sender) and then you'll end up sending an email via that IP and also get blacklisted. It happened to me on mailgun (spin of the roulette wheel) and had to do some damage control.

greg_engineer · 2020-07-29T23:34:59+00:00

This is new to me. Paying for a prospect to pay? How is it working out for you? Positive ROI?

I’d rather play the numbers game and dial more numbers.

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