You were underpaid from the start, and its perpetuated. Laughably so. Here's what my progression looked like

01-05 70-72K (I got a small raise in there) in San Diego
05-08 82K+equity in Seattle
08-10 90K+equity startup
10-12 90K-120K+equity at another startup (salaries went up from startup scale to full scale when we knew we'd be bought)
12-13 $75/hr contracting while on vacation then moving to Baltimore. I was underpaid here, should have asked for more but did it to move to Baltimore for personal reasons
13-14 120K+equity at a startup
14-15 172K+lots of equity at the company that bought the startup (expect over 300K/yr total probably around 350K. May be more after my performance review which is likely to be very good) in the Valley

Even if we assume you live somewhere far cheaper than the valley you were criminally underpaid to start and still underpaid now.

Because I've done it in Europe for years. This isn't a new mode of travel.

Flying is a pain in the ass. You need to go to an airport, get groped, wait an hour until you can board, sit in an uncomfortable seat, get fed a tiny drink if you're lucky when they want to feed it to you, use a bathroom that's tiny and uncomfortable, and wait for another 40 minutes for your luggage afterwards.

A train is just a much better experience. You can show up 2 minutes before departure, get on without a strip search, get a nice big seat, have a dining car, can get up and walk around at will, and just grab your luggage on the way out.

For a short (say 200 mile distance) its actually just as fast as flying when you figure in airport waits. For 400 its slower than an a plane, but a much less stressful experience. And with 180 mph bullet trains you can actually get to same coast cities in a reasonable time. I'd take one any day of the week over a plane for anything under 600 miles.

Welcome to most poker. 75-85% of hands you fold at a full table without putting any money in. Another big chunk you fold to a bet either pre or post flop. Most of your money in any session is won or lost in a few big hands.

ANd suburbs and rural areas still need all that- in fact they need more of it due to the larger geographical area. This means the per person cost is far more when spread out. That's *why* the cost are cheaper in urban areas, the same amount of capacity needs to be put in a far smaller area.

You'd drive me insane. I don't mind a quick drop by. It frees you up if you're blocked, allows for some human interaction, and if I'm too busy I'll just say no. Now put a meeting on my calendar and the 15-20 minutes before it is totally lost, as I avoid starting anything anticipating the meeting. Just come and talk to me.

Not to mention that unless you have a good rapport with your manager a 1:1 is a huge cause of stress. Its a "oh shit, what' the matter now" issue, especially if a non-regular one appears on my calendar.

You'd only need to do it once- an app in force stop state should not be restarted on reboot, as its inelligible to have a BOOT_COMPLETE receiver.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be improved, I was telling the OP how to fix his problem.

Force stop the app and it will be put into a state where it can't run services or receivers and will not use data.

I think internally they have such a tool and use it in testing all the time. I don't predict them exposing it any time soon. It was released by accident, but pulled very quickly. And their changes to permissions on the Play Store go the opposite way.

Its also all legal C++. Just because it doesn't use the advanced features doesn't mean it isn't C++. I'd argue that for something this simple its even better code this way.

1)Not necessarily. Something as simple as not enabling that code for a month after release would get it by reviews. They aren't reviewing source code, they're reviewing behaviors. Just like you don't speed when there's a cop right behind you you wouldn't connect when you're being watched

2)They ask for a lot of permissions because the permissions aren't fine grained enough, and because polsih requires it. For example I had an app that did sound effects when you tapped a key. The OEM requested that we turn off sounds when the user is in a call so they wouldn't play on the other end. This reasonable request required a new permission (CALL_STATE IIRC), which actually gave us much more info than we wanted (we got to find out when calls started, ended, and the connection number which we didn't need). But if you just looked at our permissions your reaction would be "why do you need to know who I'm calling"? We didn't there was just no way to request less info, we didn't even look at the number.

One of the big problems was that Google redesigned the play store to be less scary and show fewer permissions. One of those was that any app could request internet permission without it showing up. That was just wrong.

What we really need is the ability to turn on and off specific permissions by app. Perhaps with the ability to limit internet permission to certain IPs/URLs per app. That would solve most of the problem.

Your math is just wrong all over. You're using the wrong formulas and confusing yourself.

If your monthly payment is 1000 and you pay an extra 50, you take 50 off the principle. That means next year you pay 50*rate less in interest for all years in the future. Assuming you don't change the payments (and assuming fixed rate loans), this means for the same amount of monthly money you pay off 50*rate more each year. That's a savings of rate compounded annually. That's all the return you get.

No, its still only the interest rate percentage return. That's what compounding does. Of course compounding works on other investments too- you reinvest your profits, either there or elsewhere. So its not a magical advantage of paying off debt.

Of course there's trivial costs in a business. If you're worrying about the costs of pens and whether you can get them 10 cents cheaper, you're wasting your time. If you're worried about the cost savings of turning the thermostat from 70 to 71, you're wasting your time. If you're worried about the cost of something that is less than 1% of your budget, you're wasting your time- even if you reduce it to 0 you'd have saved more by focusing elsewhere. A good businessman realizes whats worth being concerned about and what you just have to live with. Nothing is 100% efficient in life.

If you aren't in a position where you can gamble 120 dollars a year on your business, you shouldn't have a business. There's a reason why royalty deals are considered bad decisions for small businesses.