ncavig

This is a side project of mine combining two passions; sports and technology. http://madness.io/bracketology Tempo-free stats offers a better way to compare two teams without using traditional averages (such as points per game). For those of you interested in the tech, the stack includes MySQL, Couchbase, Redis, and a front-end stack of Rails and Foundation framework.

There are some json endpoints as well in case any of you want to use the map-reduced stat data and hack away eg: http://madness.io/matchup/dae/vs/oad/1395332100.json and http://madness.io/players/1772.json I can expose more too if interested, just comment and let me know.

I'm a young developer in mid 20's and make decent money. I am no economic or market wiz and don't have any outstanding loans or credit owed. I have a nice liquid backup that I'm comfortable with. Now where should I be putting my money?!

More info: I contribute max to my company's 401k to maximize my matching, the startup I was a part of was bought by aforementioned company so I get payouts quarterly, and my investment strategies so far have been centralized around the stock market, mostly in index funds.

Advice appreciated!

Edit: My main goal is to have generalized advice, so it doesn't just pertain to me, but to a wider audience, especially young developers who have excess income each month and want to be smart about preserving and growing their net worth intelligently.

What advice do you all have to someone who actually works for a company that supports SOPA but doesn't support it themselves?

I'm curious to what the industry standard is for having knowledge and expertise in a specific area of technology that a company has interest in doing, in terms of price and structuring a type of deal.

For example, let's say you specialize in search semantic parsing and a particular startup wants to enter in to an area that could benefit from this. They reach out to you and want to talk about risks, costs, issues, and scope of said project. Since there's no actual work being done other than transfer of knowledge, how can you benefit from offering yourself up to help them answer those questions?