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Hi All,<p>I have built a few websites using various CMSs like Drupal and Joomla. Now I want to learn building something from scratch.<p>I am PhD in Electrical Engineering and can do basic programming in several programming/scripting languages including C, Matlab, Perl/Shell scripts etc.<p>Given my background what would be a good stack to learn for me ? Is it Python + Javascript or node.js or ruby on rails or something else ? Pardon my ignorance if I am just throwing some random names out there ?

I am considering joining a startup and would appreciate if someone could tell me if I am getting a good deal in terms of stock options.

First a bit of back ground: The start up is related to my PhD research area and gives me a chance to build up on my back ground as opposed to a standard industry job. So, I am considering this seriously.

The company has 1 million stock outstanding with a stock value of ~60$ per share at a recent valuation. The CEO is the majority stock holder in the company ~60%.

I am being offered around 7500 stock options with the strike price at the fair market value (~60$/share). Since the strike price is so high, it basically makes it impossible for me to exercise the options without selling the stock at the same time (when the stock is vested).

Is the strike price for the options normally equal to the current market value or is it usually a discounted price ?

Thanks !

It's pretty simple: I want the google search results on my name to be clean and I don't want your lousy profile profile page as the top most link for my name (I am not very famous, you see :) ).

It has happened so many times: I am curious about a certain product, say rate-my-shoes.com, sign up on their website and with in a few weeks, they are the 3rd or 4th result in Google when I look up my name, saying "Rate Seshadri's shoes here!".

Then I have to go back and look for some advanced setting where I disable search engine listing of my profile, or even delete the account completely if I don't find the option to disable my public profile or don't like the product enough.

So, please, please don't make my profile available to search engines by default or at least ask me if I want to do so !

Hi,

We are group of people working full time at different companies on H1-B visas. We want to apply for YCombinator, but our plan is to continue working part-time on the start-up idea till it gets some real traction.

Is it possible to apply for YCombinator with only part-time commitment from the founders ?

Thanks, Sesh