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And when they give you their feedback, listen. They may only tell you once.

Yes; for people participating in an employee stock purchase program, it is called a Disqualifying Disposition. It puts you in the short-term capital gains bracket (with about 15% higher tax).

However, it's still a VERY good idea to do if you plan on holding stock.

I know stories of several people who were exercised options on 7 figures of stock, only to see the price collapse before they were able to sell. The taxes they owed because of that eclipsed their net worth several times over.

Agreed. His argument is essentially that you can't meet deadlines with Scrum, because you must always be in a 'shippable' state at the end of each sprint.

I'd argue that if you can't meet deadlines with scrum, there's no way you'd meet them without it. His definition of 'shippable' is very narrow--like you said, just because it doesn't meet console certifications doesn't mean that it's not "doing scrum".

I wouldn't put the app I've got after the first dev sprint on the app store, either. It's not done.

I wouldn't... I would live like a miser for 2-3 years and retire to do whatever I wanted. Maybe 4 if I felt like travelling the world for a decade. :)

On the contrary: in a world filled with a cacophony of malicious and intentionally misleading statements, the silence caused by the criminalization of lies seems welcome.

And Ebay was the first mover in the online auction space. I'm sure we can cherrypick counterexamples all day, but in general the first mover enjoys an advantage those that come after do not.

Agreed.

Just apply the usual headline rule: If the title is a question, the answer is "No."

5+ days for Fidelity

MtGox should absolutely have known about this issue. Everyone building anything related to BTC should know not to make assumptions about the protocol, and to treat every input as hostile.

You'd think they'd have at least one guy dedicated to nothing but breaking their software. They make my salary every day with transaction fees (well, maybe until recently) so you can't say they're unable to afford it.

Edit: Rereading this, it sounds more accusatory than I intended. I think your clarification was perfect, but at the same time that MtGox is at fault.

Is there any interest in a Chrome plugin that would passively report anonymized download speed for things like YouTube or Amazon? I can imagine that kind of info would be useful.

Yeah, I was confused about this too. They hook up your github then...don't even use it?

In regard to working on side projects:

> Just ask. The worst they can say is "No."

And that's where I have to ask: what do you do when they say no? I followed this advice a year back or so and it essentially put the brakes on any serious side-projects. I work for a big company that you've absolutely heard of.