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Ferguson writes, "During the public offering, the underwriters forced Jobs to distribute about 15 percent of the stock among key employees, because nobody would have invested otherwise...but many were shut out entirely, including some who had spent many years creating the technology."

Jobs wiped out the original Pixar engineers' stock options by selling the company, "Old Pixar", to "New Pixar", which he had created specifically for this purpose. It was a mere formality to him as he was the controlling shareholder in Old Pixar, just signing some papers. "As part of the reorganization, Jobs exercised a clause in the employee stock option agreements that allowed him to buy back their options at the original strike price, which was a pittance." *

[Charles Ferguson, High Stakes, No Prisoners pp 98-99]

If your kid is vaccinated already, then what is the worry? They are immune; right? So your concern is primarily ideological.

Mashups are fine and I support them, fwiw. But putting 'her' in front of the charging bull is a deliberate attempt to change the meaning of his art. It is the attempt of a second rate artist to ride the coat tails of a superior artist. She gets instant notoriety for her work by, not so coincidentally, trashing somebody elses.

The 'little girl statue' is the artistic equivalent of painting a black mustache on the Mona Lisa with a marker. Pure artistic vandalism.

O/T I guess...Does Google have plans for FPGA instances preferably with design tools (for $.70 an hour :) !)?

Why are you posting anonymously? [EDIT: no, I don't go around clicking on profile links so some SJWs can accuse me of stalking.]

London was destroyed by mass immigration thanks to Blair wanting to rub our faces in diversity.

A young British soldier is butchered in the street with his head sawn off in front of everybody and you're complaining about your rent.

"White privilege." Fixed it for you.

because the virginal cubicle denizens of Silicon Valley daren't ask the question themselves.

Here's a nice use case example of using fpga to speed up an algorithm in a camera versus implementing in firmware.

http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=FPGA_Development_in_E...

This wiki is a great resource for setting up a fpga tool chain on Xilinx.

Not racists.

They need to be mocked and embarrased and ignored. Unfortunately, they have the pernicious effect of turning political disagreement into quasi-crimes through their witch-hunt mentality.

Yes. Be aware of the source, viz, $PLC exposed...and it ain't pretty to look at...)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/king-fearmongers_7145...

"Critics have charged that the way the SPLC counts hate groups renders its impressive tallies essentially meaningless. One of the most vocal critics is Laird Wilcox, a self-described political liberal in Olathe, Kansas, who has been tracking radical-fringe organizations on both the left and the right for five decades, amassing an enormous documentary archive that is now housed at the library of the University of Kansas. According to Wilcox, many of the organizations on the SPLC’s expansive list “may be two guys and a post-office box,” while others might not exist at all. “Their lists of hate groups never have addresses that can be checked,” Wilcox said in a telephone interview. “I’ve had police departments across the country calling me and saying we can’t find this group [on the SPLC’s list]. All they can find is a post-office box, so I have to tell them that I don’t know whether they even exist.” In a self-published book, The Watchdogs, he criticized the SPLC for having “misleadingly padded” its list of white-supremacy organizations. In particular, Wilcox faulted the SPLC for maintaining that three men accused of killing a police officer in Cortez, Colorado, in 1998 had belonged to a supposedly racist and anti-Semitic militia group called the Four Corners Patriots for whose existence no evidence ever emerged. “People have tried to track down these groups, but they couldn’t find them,” Wilcox said."

the gender neutral pronoun is now officially "she"

maybe check out Cal Newport's blog http://calnewport.com/blog/ and/or his book "So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love" for a sense of perspective on finding a job you love. His philosophy, to paraphrase inartfully, is that we've been fed a load of bunkum about passion being the be and end all of a career; that passion actually comes after the fact of putting in the grunt work of becoming successful.

Well, a lot more could be said...

The point is not to mistake boredom, lack of passion, burn out for hating your current career. There may be legitimate reasons for hating it of course.