Another vote for Golden Moon here. I have been using them for about 2 years now. Good tea at reasonable prices. Plus when you buy the bigger sizes (once you find the flavors you like in the starter kit) the leftover tins work for random storage containers.
Just a fantastic read. I am amazed that they were able to build all this stuff by hand whereas millions was spent by US and Russians for similar setups. Also, I couldn't imagine being watched by the KGB back in the day. It must have been no fun to walk around at night.
Interesting, it looks like prices are cheaper at the iBookStore than the direct purchases of the eBook from the O'Reilly store (not I only checked 3 books, but all were $2 to $3 cheaper). I wonder if this is just an initial sale or if it will stay that way.
Also, I love the jab about not being able to provide updates, so if you pay only $4.95 more, you can get lifetime updates. Sounds like the SlapChop guy should be doing an infomercial.
Yes, I believe they are engaged now (can't find a confirmation link though).
Also, I think a lot of people need to remember the movie only goes through 2005-ish when they got their 1,000,000th member and Sean Parker was forced out after the cocaine bust (which I gotta believe did not happen in the same day like the movie portrayed). This movie does not touch anything about current day Facebook and all the recent privacy issues or anything. It focuses on the ramp up and all the hurdles Zuck crossed to get there (regardless of whether he created those hurdles for himself or not).
Even if it did, would it matter? It is $2500 per transaction. I am sure it would only take 2 or 3 transactions for him to sell $100M worth of shares since there are so many people hot on being in at the floor (what they think is the floor) of the IPO which will inevitably happen just like it did with Google.
I am not a lawyer, but I think this idea sounds the most reasonable. As a side effort in case they do not like the proposal as drafted, you could maybe give them 2% (or some other number) of equity in any new entity you create to run with the idea with them giving up all rights at that point. It is a small amount of equity in the "new" business and the signed contract prevents them from coming back years from now and asking each for their 33%.
I agree, a very hateful thread when the guy was just thanking the community for the help and ideas/motivation they gave him.
With that said, I think I agree with the less hateful comments that Google bought the programmers behind the startup, not the product itself (though that was a bonus). Kind of like PG and others focus on the founders themselves as much if not more than their current product idea.
My gut feeling is they keep building because otherwise they go out of business. If they can open a development and slowly build a few houses (and get them sold) then they can continue to build out the development.
Based on those pictures and your comment, I would prefer that Florida re-issue licenses to contractors to continue building on sites that were half built before money ran out. This minimizes the continued over-development and keeps small communities from being stuck with a large HOA bill for the entire community when only 1/4 of the houses are sold.
I am not positive myself, but I believe that Greenplum and/or Netteza are built on top of Postgres (highly customized) DB engines to ensure their transactional integrity across their clustered servers.
Not only that, you would be amazed at how many people who have done something wrong end up with a guilty conscience and just tell the truth. Especially if there was something wrong going on here and the FBI hangs the "first to tell me what happened won't be prosecuted".
