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Sorry about that :-(


http://www.greaterfool.ca/2010/08/24/market-update-6 (Granted, Garth Turner is extreme, but he does not make things up.)


With the robustness of modern ECUs I'm surprised that these signals are not checked before being evaluated. Even my Arduino is capable of doing that.


Deception online. Tricking people into providing their personal information and reselling that information to third parties.


Cyclists that disobey the rules of the road, but complain when motorists don't follow the rules of the road really bother me. (I am a cyclist.)


I agree everyone needs to obey the rules of the road... But the situation is such that when a cyclist disobeys rules, it never causes the automobile driver to die. Whereas when a giant SUV disobeys the rules, it can kill a cyclist.

Disclaimer: I live in Florida. State with the highest cyclist death rates.


Except when a disobedient cyclist causes the auto to swerve and hit another car head-on.


Same goes for "alot" instead of "a lot".


Turns out he has a rant about this very issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8


From my own experience this is _exactly_ what happens. Only they intelligently manipulated my shareholder agreement in a way that I had to actually buy the options, no paper transfer, I needed cold, hard cash. Having very little money at the time (being between jobs) I was unable to do so, which meant that I forfeited my options. Probably for the best anyway, because buying them didn't guarantee a buyout, only the option of one. I would have been out $5000, just waiting for the day to be bought out, which would probably never come.

Lesson learned: read things very carefully, confusing language is intended to be confusing. I basically gave away two years of my career to kool-aid equity. Just be really careful, and if you don't fully understand something ask someone who does understand. If you can't get a direct answer, leave. Don't waist your time; you're being gamed.


Wait.. in the most typical case you are granted the option, not an option on a option. Thus if you actually exercise the option your not receiving the option of cashing out, your receiving very real shares in the company.

Was that not the case in your situation? I've seen some incredibly poor option deals (NQO options that exercised to non-registered shares spring to mind), but never the scenario you described.


Can't seem to get the demo to work on the latest WebKit nightly build:

TypeError: Result of expression 'a.Pi' [undefined] is not a function.


Haven't been able to make it work in Chromium either (launching it in webgl/no sandbox mode).

Has anybody sucessfully ran the demos?


It worked for me with chromium-bin-5.0.308.0_p37385 on 64-bit Gentoo.

The one thing I had to do (besides launching it as 'chromium-bin --no-sandbox --enable-webgl', as you mentioned) was to create a symbolic link from /usr/lib/libGL.so to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 .


The improved email and routing are huge! Not to mention bundler for gems, I can't help but be a bit excited :-)


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