I was an intern at Netscape in 1998 and I'm really glad to have been there to witness a bit of the history. The first staff meeting I attended was announcing layoffs, two weeks later they announced the open source initiative, then two months later the launch of Mozilla.org.
Code Rush touches on all the work that went into making the code buildable by folks outside, but one thing they omitted probably surprises no one: the sheer amount of profanity that had to be scrubbed from the source code before it was released. Some genius assembled a page of the choicest examples (much of it directed at Microsoft) and handed out hundreds of photocopies at the launch party.
I remember one of those announcement meetings (forget which one now) was held in an odd location : some place upstairs in downtown Sunnyvale, and happened to coincide with some big news release in the Lewinsky scandal which mostly buried our news in the cycle.
If you're an accredited investor and willing to make it $25k instead of $10k, this is totally available right now on CrowdStreet and similar sites (although CS is the clear front-runner in quality and quantity of offerings).
Sponsors looking to raise equity to purchase a property pay a fee to list their projects on the site, CS does some amount of due diligence on both sponsor and project, and when you invest you're buying an equity stake in the entity that will actually purchase the property.
If you want "safeguards for bad times" you'll have to do your due diligence and dial your risk tolerances appropriately.
Related option for those who are less focused on the JSON API and instead want to make their datasets public and queryable: data.world added SQL support a little while back, joining the original SPARQL. One big advantage there is that folks can write queries that join your datasets to other open datasets on data.world.
I had the same thought, but then I reminded myself that there have been several years between 2011 and today. She's married now (for less than a year), not when the events described take place.
Broadway Technology | Development, Consulting, Other Tech Roles | Austin, London, New York and Waterloo | ONSITE, FULL TIME, VISA
Broadway Technology develops high-performance distributed trading systems for leading financial institutions. Primary development languages are C++ (especially for latency-sensitive components), Python, and C#.
It's a little concerning that we're 5 months into 2017 and they're still touting syndicate returns as of EOY 2015.
"The unrealized IRR for all 2013 syndicate investments was over 46%, as of Dec 31 2015. This would be in the upper top quartile of 2013 VC and PE funds."
Broadway Technology | Development, Consulting, Other Tech Roles | Austin, London, New York and Waterloo | ONSITE, FULL TIME, VISA
Broadway Technology develops high-performance distributed trading systems for leading financial institutions. Primary development languages are C++ (especially for latency-sensitive components), Python, and C#. Compensation and benefits are competitive, including the non-financial side: https://www.broadwaytechnology.com/careers#life-at-broadway
Sadly your commission on that million dollar house is actually $45k -- Redfin cuts their seller's agent commission in half (3% becomes 1.5%) but the other half goes to the buyer's agent, so you pay 4.5% rather than 6%.
Code Rush touches on all the work that went into making the code buildable by folks outside, but one thing they omitted probably surprises no one: the sheer amount of profanity that had to be scrubbed from the source code before it was released. Some genius assembled a page of the choicest examples (much of it directed at Microsoft) and handed out hundreds of photocopies at the launch party.
Hell of a first job in tech.