I am a new hire at a large private company that is undergoing some rapid growth.  I hope to stay with this company for at least the next few years.  At my hire, I was offered stock options equivalent to one year's salary--fully vested after five years--and the first batch of those is now available for purchase.  Please forgive any incorrect vocabulary or lack of pertinent details, but that brings me to my question:  I am fairly financially illiterate.  I have looked up what "stock options" and "vesting" and so forth mean, and I more or less understand it, but I have no idea whether it's a good idea or not.  I understand there are no guarantees with the stock market, but I'm wondering if anyone can tell me things I should consider when making this decision.  My company is growing and I believe the stock is currently increasing in value.  Our company is very large and I believe in its business model, which seems poised to do very well.  I suppose we're technically a startup, but we have 8000 employees and locations across the world.  Not sure which of this is pertinent but:   I am married, and we have a combined income of approximately 200K. We live in the US We have the majority of our $450K mortgage outstanding (we've owned our home for just two years). We have approximately 35K in credit card debt which we are rapidly paying down. We have about 100K in student loan debt (mostly my husband's) which we know we will be paying down for quite a while.
Background: I am currently employed by a start-up that, so far, is doing really well. As part of my contract, I have stock options that will come available on a typical vesting schedule. A quarter of my options are set to vest later this year. Also, the company is not public yet, and it may be several years before it is public / I could sell my shares of the company.  My question is, is there any reason I should exercise them as soon as they vest? As far as I know they don't expire as long as I work at my company (if I leave for any reason, then I only have 3 months to exercise).  I don't foresee leaving any-time soon, and if I did, I would have 3 months to make a final decision.  Is there any disadvantage to just letting the option stay an option for a while?
Run cURL commands from Windows console Is there a way to install cURL in windows in order to run cURL commands from the command prompt? What is the correct way to completely remove an application? I've searched the net for such information and found different command lines, like these ones:  sudo apt-get remove application sudo apt-get remove application*  sudo apt-get remove --purge application sudo apt-get remove --purge application*  sudo apt-get purge application sudo apt-get purge application*   So, what is the correct way? Is it necessary to use that "*"?  After that, I also found these commands:  sudo updatedb sudo locate application sudo rm -rf (file/folder name) OED says:     doobie: a marijuana cigarette    Origin unknown. A relationship with dobby has been suggested.    dobby/dobbie: A silly old man, a dotard, a booby. Dialectal.      First citations:    1967   J. B. Williams Narcotics &amp; Hallucinogenics. Dubbe, Negro slang for a marijuana roach.    1982   A. Maupin Further Tales of City 95,  I smoke a doobie at lunch.   But I just chanced upon  in Yahoo Answers (don't laugh! :) where someone posted:     "It's obvious that Shaggy's a , I'm sure he's been feeding Scoob a bit of his hash and whatnot."    Scoob = , cartoon "pet" dog of constantly-hungry hippie/village idiot Shaggy (from 1969)   I'm not entirely convinced that 1967 dubbe was necessarily a significant factor in the appearance of  since around 1970 (the hippie era, some might say).  So I'd like to know whether it's credible to claim the usage arose (primarily?) through association with the TV show (specifically, the two characters therein closely associated with marijuana). MathJax does not work on question title on Android app Although, the question is displayed correctly with MathJax when opened.   App Version: 1.0.85 Device Manufacturer: Spreadtrum Device Model: Celkon A35K   OS Version: 4.4.2 (eng.root.20140613.225402) I've tried everything I can think of. Resetting the router, changing the channel number and band.   The internet connection is fine, and then just hangs for a minute or 2, then returns to normal.   The wifi icon remains connected, and I have the latest 10.10.4 update installed. At first I thought it was a DNS bug with Yosemite, and have played with the settings such as changing DNS provider, changing the IPV6 to IPV4 only etc.  Driving me nuts. Has anyone had a similar problem? I've checked the surroundings with wifi scanners and have chosen the best channel available.     One thing I have noticed, it seems a lot more reliable on 5GHz as opposed to 2.4Ghz It seems to affect my Macbook Pro Retina 13in Early 2015 a lot more than the other devices on the network. I'm using a Virginmedia  1. A question about causality and Quantum Field Theory from improper Lorentz transformation The left-nav is great - I like it, users who don't can disable it. Perfect world. Now it's stickied it's always there too, which is really useful.  When I'm navigating in areas not directly linked to in the left nav and have scrolled down, I often want to re-use the other navigation. This means scrolling up. Which is fine, of course it's how websites work.  However, if the left-nav had a "Top" link which took the user to the very top of the page it would be great for getting back to specific contextual menus and things that are not linked to in the left-nav.  For example, if I'm viewing questions on a specific tag and I've scrolled down, I sometimes want to get back up to the top to remove a tag, or change from "Latest" to "Featured" etc. Although clicking the "Questions" link in the left-nav takes me back to the top, it removes the tag(s) I was searching with.  There are other use cases where this would be useful, like long questions and answers (Etc). So I think a "Top" link in the left nav would be very useful.    I think this is different to the  as it doesn't mention the left-nav, and my question is suggesting this idea because we have a good place to put it and it'll be a useful addition to the left-nav. Has anyone successfully embedded their  on a WordPress.com-hosted blog?  The free hosted version of  (not )  from all posts before publishing. So they to strip out just about anything I can add to embed my Stack Overflow flair.  Note: I'll be switching to a paid, hosted site in the future (fixing the problem), but I'm looking for a quick, short-term solution. What are the consequences of "copying" a data set for OLS? Proofs of consistency for two formal systems Do there exist two formal systems, $F_1$ and $F_2$, such that $F_1$ proves $F_2$ is consistent and $F_2$ proves $F_1$ is consistent?  Would these proofs bypass Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem?  By "consistent", I mean the formal system does not prove $X$ and NOT $X$. What is so bad about singletons? I have already seen a proof of this statement here on stackexchange but I would like someone to verify whether "my proof" is correct and also if you could point out issues with the writing style. thanks in advance!  Statement. $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ is an integral domain $\Leftrightarrow$ $p$ is prime.  Proof.$(\Rightarrow)$ Suppose $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ is an integral domain. Assume (by way of contradiction) that $n$ is not prime. Then $n=ab$ for some $a,b\in \mathbb{Z}$ where $1&lt;a$ and $b&lt;n$, meaning $ab\equiv 0\pmod n$. This is a contradiction since $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ is assumed to be an integral domain and therefore does not contain any zero divisors. Therefore $p$ must be prime.  $(\Leftarrow)$ Assume $p$ is prime. Then $a$ does not divide $n$ for any $1&lt;a&lt;n$ where $a\in \mathbb{Z}_{p}$. Thus $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ does not contain any zero divisors and is therefore an integral domain. When a ball is thrown onto a wall, the ball exerts a force onto the wall. According to Newton's Third Law, the wall will exert an equal and opposite force to the ball. Thus, how would the ball be able to bounce back? Shouldn't it just slide down the wall? Do spell targets know they were targeted? Assuming a target of a Pathfinder spell did not see/hear/notice a caster casting the spell, do they know/feel they were targeted?  Is it relevant if the spell worked or not, if a save was involved (either successful nor not)? Does it depend on the spell?  Example: A cleric casts detect evil through a door. What do the NPCs on the other side know now? The following MWE compiles (for me)  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=newest} \usetikzlibrary{external} \tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/externalized/]   \begin{document} \begin{figure}     \centering     \begin{tikzpicture}          \begin{axis}  %           \addplot3[surf,mesh/rows=129,mesh/cols=129,mesh/ordering=y varies] table[x=X,y=Y,z=psi] {figures/data/LidDrivenCavity/Lid_SPIKE_128x128_Re1000_psi.dat};              \addplot3[contour gnuplot,mesh/rows=129,mesh/cols=129,mesh/ordering=y varies] table[x=X,y=Y,z=psi] {figures/data/LidDrivenCavity/Lid_SPIKE_128x128_Re1000_psi.dat};          \end{axis}      \end{tikzpicture}     \caption{ciao} \end{figure} \end{document}   where the data file is . If I de-comment the first \addplot3 and comment the second one, then I get an error. The final part of the log file (the interesting one, I think) is  ===== 'mode=convert with system call': Invoking 'pdflatex -shell-escape -halt-o n-error -interaction=batchmode -jobname "figures/externalized/prova-figure0" "\ def\tikzexternalrealjob{prova}\input{prova}"' ======== \openout3 = `prova.auxlock'.  runsystem(pdflatex -shell-escape -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode -jobname  "figures/externalized/prova-figure0" "\def\tikzexternalrealjob{prova}\input{pr ova}")...executed.  \openout3 = `prova.auxlock'.   ./prova.tex:22: Package tikz Error: Sorry, the system call 'pdflatex -shell-esc ape -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode -jobname "figures/externalized/prova- figure0" "\def\tikzexternalrealjob{prova}\input{prova}"' did NOT result in a us able output file 'figures/externalized/prova-figure0' (expected one of .pdf:.jp g:.jpeg:.png:). Please verify that you have enabled system calls. For pdflatex,  this is 'pdflatex -shell-escape'. Sometimes it is also named 'write 18' or som ething like that. Or maybe the command simply failed? Error messages can be fou nd in 'figures/externalized/prova-figure0.log'. If you continue now, I'll try t o typeset the picture.  See the tikz package documentation for explanation. Type  H &lt;return&gt;  for immediate help.  ...                                                l.22    \end{tikzpicture}  ?  PGFPlots: reading {figures/data/LidDrivenCavity/Lid_SPIKE_128x128_Re1000_psi.da t} Runaway argument? {\pgfkeyssetvalue {/pgfplots/execute at begin plot visualization}{}\pgfkeyssetv alue \ETC. ./prova.tex:22: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=5000000]. &lt;argument&gt; ...5e-1],2Y7.753628e-3]}{2Y8.20894\ETC.  l.22    \end{tikzpicture}  If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.   Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:  20761 strings out of 493054  547383 string characters out of 6134761  5000001 words of memory out of 5000000  23958 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000  3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000  1141 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191  62i,4n,84p,728b,1519s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s ./prova.tex:22:  ==&gt; Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!   similar (or the same) error appears if externalization is not enabled/used.  My TeX distribution is TeX Live on Mac OS X 10.9.5 and I use TeXShop as editor.  Once I (partially) solved a  on Windows+MikTeX+TeXniccenter by modifying/adding options to the command executed when compile button is pressed. I say partially since I actually solved the problem for some data file. Then I experienced the same problem with larger datafile and/or different plots (I don't remember anymore) and didn't find a way out, no matter how much I extended the memory.  What should I do now? What command do I use to make everyone spawn at one place? because I am making a map and I don't know how to make everyone spawn at one place, the rule place. What is the reason Men play 5 sets & Women play 3 sets in a Grand Slam in Tennis? In the ATP &amp; WTA events, both Men &amp; Women tennis players play best of 3 sets. But when it comes to Grand Slams, the Men play 5 sets. At the risk of sounding a misogynist, I always believe the reason to be strength &amp; endurance. After all, a 5 set EPIC match lasts 5 hours while a 3 set EPIC last 3 hours.    Is that the only reason. Or am I a naive misogynist? Also was that the case since the history of Grand Slams or did Men play 3 sets before? Iterate a list as pair (current, next) in Python Why does the order in which libraries are linked sometimes cause errors in GCC? A function such that $f:\mathbb C \to \mathbb C$ such that $f(z)f(iz)=z^2$ satisfies $f(z)+f(-z)=0$.(MADHAVA-2020) Suppose $f$ is a function such that $f:\mathbb C \to \mathbb C$ such that $f(z)f(iz)=z^2$, then we have to show that $\forall z\in \mathbb C f(z)+f(-z)=0 $.   Actually I have solved this problem and have no doubt about it but actually this question came in MADHAVA-2020. So I posted it on this site.   I am not answering the question and inviting all users to answer it.  It is a nice problem.   I will answer it within a week, but I am letting everyone try.