I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
As if ESPP weren’t problematic enough (“here, your personal financial position isn’t strongly enough invested in your employer; invest some more money!”), the IRS will soon start applying payroll taxes to ESPP gains.
Some light reading on Mars colonization economics for the lunch hour.
Apple releases the eMac.
A nice move to get back into the education market, but I also suspect that
Apple didn’t want to waste its investment in its 17″ flat-face CRT
manufacturing process. The same situation inspired SONY’s eVilla, a flat-face
CRT-based internet appliance that crashed and burned hideously.
It seems the eMac has something else in common with
the eVilla, as well:
Weight: 50 pounds (22.7kg)