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Re:Unlicense Yourself: Set Your Code Free on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @11:03PM (#1051878)

I've always appreciated the blessing in SQLite:

Instead of a license, the SQLite source code offers a blessing:

" May you do good and not evil

May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others

May you share freely, never taking more than you give. "

http://www.sqlite.org/different.html

Re:Everything Paul Buchheit has bought from Amazon in the last 3 years on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:17AM (#1031982)

Recommend start at '156.' and scroll upwards.

Re:Sign the petition to save Mysql on Monday December 28, 2009 @10:29PM (#1019994)

Please, fix the wording "would a fundamental conflict". A missing verb perhaps.

> I, the Undersigned, use MySQL professionally and believe that Oracle, if it acquired Sun's MySQL, would a fundamental conflict of interests between MySQL...

Re:The Economic History of The Wizard of Oz on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @01:12AM (#521235)

what are the chances that the gold/silver parallels AND the Dark Side of the Moon synchronicity are both coincidence? Part of the joke maybe. If you haven't done the "start dark side on the nth lion roar of wizard of oz" experiment, I recommend it.

Re:FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee Vivek Kundra on Thursday March 12, 2009 @11:28AM (#513548)

looks like they were after someone else.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dc/2009/03/breaking_dc_tech...

Ask HN: buying options in a privately-held company

Posted by jdanndc on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @01:56PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I work at a privately-held, reasonably successful health tech company. An early employee, who recently left, called me with a proposal. He has more vested shares than he can afford to buy, and they expire in two weeks. He wanted to come up with a way for someone left at the company to buy these shares _with_ him. To simplify matters, let's say the options are priced at one dollar and that...

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