Nice, thanks!

There are benefits and downsides for both parties.

I prefer one-time licenses on stuff I know I’m going to use forever, because I pay less overall. But I like subscription-model if I’m just going to try it out.

I’d be worried about not getting both prongs in at the same moment. Wrong angle could cause a delay before the circuit was complete, and it turns out electricity is pretty speedy.

It’s surprisingly common. I work for a large tech company, and this came up the other day - I don’t know a single person here that hasn’t had a similar agreement at every business they’ve ever worked for.

It might just be in the fine print, a lot of times it’s glossed over. Which makes it fun when you invent something…

This is good advice, but now that I’m salaried I have a hard time balancing work and life as it is. Frustrating that a wage that seemed so good at first is so hard to raise a family on, even though I feel like we rarely spend money on anything unnecessary. But after living through my father’s attempts (successful and…