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He says that you eventually want to own three suits. Once you start wearing suits for different occasions, it's pretty obvious, at least IMHO.

A black suit is good for formal use. Church-business, meetings with executives etc. You're conveying the message that you're dead-serious. A charcoal suit works well, also, as mentioned in another comment.

A lighter suit, maybe grey with a very light pattern, no color, goes well for anything non-dead-serious. The message is that you respect and take whomever you're with seriously. Lower level meetings, fancy restaurants, conferences. A black suit don't go well here, because the situation just isn't dead serious.

The third suit is for when you're used to wearing suits and like it (if you don't like it, don't go there) - something more playful, something like a color pin-stripe is popular. Generally not for business-use, but for going out. If you show up at a post-conference cocktail reception in a suit like that it says "let's enjoy ourselves" and shows another side of you.
>White socks are for sports. Only.

White socks are a lot more versatile than that, unless the scope of "sports" is so broad as to include hikes, walking in the park or even having a barbecue. Wearing dress socks with sneakers is just odd.
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You're assuming that jQuery isn't fast. In my opinion, especially with something like JavaScript, one of the main reasons one builds upon a library is that the library's functions are faster than one could make independently.

jQuery is concerned with speed as far as I'm aware; I see benchmarks for it somewhat often, anyway, and I know it's used at a lot of big sites who are also very concerned with speed and load time and therefore has had a lot of iteration and testing with what methods work best.

Of course, if Facebook tested jQuery and found it too slow for their needs, that's all fine and good, but somehow I doubt they have. If there is a specific function that's too slow, there's no reason you can't improve or rewrite that function specifically and keep the rest of the benefits of the library.

I just doubt that Facebook came up with something faster out of the blue. In some cases, it is true that highly-optimized and specific code is necessary to get maximal performance. Those cases are relatively few, I think, and usually involve code much lower level than JavaScript. In the case of JS, the code should be optimized to perform optimally across all of the major JS VMs. This sounds to me like something that jQuery's authors would have familiarity with, as they spend all day working on that.

jQuery is not an abstraction or extra layer of cruft to bog things down, jQuery is a general-purpose library. It's not like an ORM or a dynamic language that adds a whole new abstraction that didn't exist before. Yes, ORMs and/or dynamic languages are slower, but they're slower because they obscure a major functional piece that still has to be performed (mapping onto the appropriate SQL dialect and memory management, respectively) by the computer. In this case, yes, a human could usually make a better choice than a computer if that human was adequately informed.

jQuery is not like that. jQuery is not an abstraction, it doesn't abstract away any major task that the computer has assumed for you. It's just a fast library of commonly-used functions and building blocks. It's frequently tested against new browser releases for compatibility and speed. It's frequently optimized and improved upon. There is a huge community out there on tap for support and there are a lot of plugins for it. It's open-source and easy to modify if your case requires it. There are lots of other people from other places that are making important and great changes to that base at no cost whatsoever to you or your company, changes that you can apply just by installing the new version (in backward-compatible releases, naturally) and magically enjoying this speed boost that some other guy provided your website.

I don't see any reason not to use a good open-source JavaScript library. We've used jQuery in this example, but I'm sure it's applicable to many others. I don't understand any business reason why Facebook would want to write something completely from scratch when there are these many frameworks already available. The only reason that I can see why this would be implemented in this way is either developer indulgence or developer ignorance.
I have always thought that those truly secure in themselves find it easy to live and let live. Those with doubts seem (have?) to go overboard to enforce their world view on others. Maybe it lessens their insecurity, maybe they're trying to remove temptations on themselves, ...

And Apple's just a business. Getting points with (potential) customers is all well and good until there's a noticeable impact on the bottom line for doing so. Nobility's gotta pay the bills, too.
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Dilemma:
1)	The people who have "passion for everything" do not know about this trait of theirs.
2)	The people who have "passion for nothing" do not agree to it.
3)	The people who have "passion for one thing" have fear of going berserk.

Those who understand all these points are the fourth category people.
Google Adsense - What CTR / eCPM did you get for Jan 10?
Hi Everyone,

I'm a long time reader, but only just registered.

I did a month trial of Adsense on our backfill and wondered if anyone would be up for comparing stats?

Site profile:
Sports publishing
UK (90%+)
120x600 sky scraper image ads

For the month we got an eCPM of £0.20 ($0.31 US), from a 0.33% CTR.

I'd be interested to see how the rest of you get on with Adsense in Jan........

On the face of it, I think that's a low eCPM for the CTR.
However this restriction is reported to go way beyond what Google prohibits.
If you think linux equals total control, try Gnome :) (not a jab, I love gnome particularly because it doesn't have the settings-everywhere model)

My gut instinct says "beautiful GUI", but that comes with the big IF it satisfies all I want to do with it.
the problem is not "government"; the problem is "power". it is power that is being abused. whether that power comes through the government, or through other means is largely irrelevant.

i wish americans would understand this. that they don't means that abuses of power are treated in two completely different ways here. if it's the government, it's bad. if it's anything else (which typically means a private company) then it's "you shouldn't expect anything else you naive fool".
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Summary: scale sales and marketing team with no repeatable sales model.

Personal experience: learned same lesson using other people's money. CEO hired 15 marketing and 10 sales people without a working product. Burn millions of dollar. Fired everyone after 3 years. 1 marketing and 1 sales left.
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Not that abnormal, I think the same thing.

However this is consistent with a whole lot of what Lincoln did during the Civil War, call it "truth in advertising".
That's because the deeper you go, the closer you get to Hell, which everybody knows is at the exact center of the Earth:
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A few years ago I saw David Byrne do a great presentation entitled "I ♥ PowerPoint". I don't think his slides are available online (at least not that I can find), but one of the high points was when he borrowed some slides from this: http://www.artofoffice.com/PowerPoint/The-PowerPoint-Antholo...
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I get the feeling that Eric doesn't always remember he's in PR and that no prizes are awarded for arguing with the company's critics.

He should really stick to simple, upbeat, sympathetic messages. To be honest I'm surprised he didn't learn that after his last privacy debacle.
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Depends. Makes 1.5 million of random internet visitors more impact than 15 thousand of quite enthusiastic listeners? Well. I don't think so :o)
How far along is the company? What's your current status, do you need the money? How much do you believe in the product? What % of the workload is going to fall on you, and how much do they need your skillset? How do their resources look (money, time, etc)?

There's a lot of things you'll need to explain before being able to get a good response. i.e. If the product is from scratch and there are little resources, there's no reason you shouldn't get close to or even founders equity, but if they already have a product with traction it's a completely different story.
Have they done any work before? If not, getting the same share seems fair enough.
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I think you're better off just using Git.
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If two of you are doing coding, what are the two other guys doing? What kind of value are they adding? Negotiate the equity based on the value you think you add.

I wouldn't even consider joining that kind of startup, I think 4 people is not manageable if everyone is working just for equity.
He's not very good as the public face of Google, is he?

Especially as his privacy blind spot corresponds to the one PR topic that has the ability to genuinely harm Google.

I wonder why the geek-friendly faces of Sergey and Larry don't appear more often and why someone doesn't persuade Eric to stay in his lair, errr, office a bit more.
Why would TC want to spend the money on a datacenter, staffing, bandwidth

I don't think they should/would do that. They are nowhere near large enough in traffic volume to justify that. But they SHOULD have more direct control over the servers that run their blog so that WHEN something happens (again, I never claimed that maintaining your own server made you immune) they can directly control the outcome.
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The level of outrage being directed at google over this seems to be far greater than that directed at facebook when they made a lot of their users' information public by default.
It's not just overweight that's the problem. I'm normally a bit overweight. This is offset by being somewhat stronger than average in build - a t-shirt that fits snuggle around my chest but falls quite wide around the waist will hide a lot of my excess weight. But these are generally pretty hard to find.

The bigger problem is trousers - generally it doesn't matter how fit I am, the size of my thighs (muscle again, played rugby from a young age) will stop any trousers from fitting me properly. Anything that fits around the thighs is guaranteed to be several inches too big around the waist (no, a belt doesn't solve this all the time: ruins cut and comfort).

The problem is as much with the attitudes & economics of high street fashion as it is with you. I don't get as frustrated and depressed shopping when I'm in better shape physically but it's still a very unpleasant experience - and that's without even thinking about style.

Most people say "go tailored" with all the obvious expense and silliness of asking for tailored jeans etc. Buying and adjusting is more realistic if you or someone you know can sew or wants to learn (or maybe affordable professionally). But again, sadly, many high street clothes don't have sufficient build quality or extra material (at least one tailor refused me on that basis).

Always seemed to me that there is a business opportunity for providing web-ordered clothes. If the fittings were better than a single number, and were consistent, it would be a great service from the consumer point of view. Perhaps difficult to get started from the business one though, before the volume is large enough/process easy enough?
I think this is mainly aimed at enterprise users where subversion is still very relevant.
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Web design is definitely very much less straightforward than print design. Having an understanding of typography, graphic design, layout, etc. is sufficient to get by in print design (more or less). In web design there are so many bizarre quirks of the trade that those fundamentals just aren't enough. The depth of knowledge required just to make a simple bordered box with rounded edges on the web is insane to the point of being kafkaesque, especially if you have to make it look pixel perfect in every single popular browser (including IE6).
Yeah, in most areas the law dislikes "self-help" as it is termed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help_%28law%29).

There's US case law on this particular area; I vaguely remember that it's not totally opposed to the idea but in general it is.
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Don't pretend America is the worst nation in the world. A lot of people want to go there because it's better than where they came from.

Try complaining against the state in an industrialized nation like China.
I think this is very realistic.

No salary is a big no go for me. This is something I could only do with close friends that I have known for years.

Think about it this way: If those 3 guys really believe somehow in their project, they should be able to find some money to give you as a minimal salary.

If they expect you to take a high risk (not getting any money) they should give you a high reward if everything goes well.
To pay someone means that you take the risk that she does not produce any value, but you win the most if she does.
Describing the arbiter's role as being to "decide who's the master" is an over-simplification. It's there to achieve quorum without which conflicting updates can occur.
bs. GOOG is business, not personal -- inherently no privacy.

Along with the running-up fanfare of "privacy settings", GOOG knows exactly what it is doing.

And the title just emphasizes cynicism: It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
I think people expect/ed better from Google
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You should get "a lot", but unless they're just beginning and you're very close to effectively being a partner rather than an employee, the same or very close isn't realistic.

Be sure to do your due diligence on their character.
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No, he's not a good public face is you are want to hear him tell you what you want to hear. He is an excellent public face if you want him to tell you want really went down. It's refreshing and encouraging. No company should have to play to the lowest common denominator.
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I think "Grey's law" is actually more relevant in most cases:

"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

Sometimes motivations matter, sometimes motivations are irrelevant because the damage is the same regardless of intentions.
It doesn't have to be an either/or. I've been very happy with git-svn as my svn client. It's not git-like, it's actually git.
Two things:

1) When your company motto is "Don't be evil" people tend to hold you to a higher standard.

2) Facebook was a place where you'd put stuff that at least some other people would see. Google, particularly search, is a place where some of the things you'd type you wouldn't want anyone to see.
You will be bargaining. Ask for a big share to begin with, possibly more than a quarter of the equity.
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Yes absolutely - Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Subversion is for everyone, of course it's not. However the next release will see considerable improvement for all Subversion users. Who knows, some Git users might even come back ;)
Maybe unrelated, I just want to point out that what I don't like about Disqus is not it's speed, but that the whole display of their stuff is very cluttered.
What computer/tech stuff will you be sharing as nostalgic 40 years from now
Here they open, some 6 seconds after the "Please wait . . . loading file.".
What does OOP have to do with it? Not all libraries in javascript have to be OOP.
3 founders, only 1 of which a technical person?

Don't waste your time.
They sure have some excellent scanners over there..
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I have played with Gnome config files a couple times and never quite appreciated their organization. With all due respect (I never contributed a single line of code to Gnome) I think that keeping config in lots of human-friendly formats such as yaml is a better solution than grouping stuff in XML files.

It's not nearly as bad a solution than the Windows Registry, but it's not perfect either and has some good chances it's not a step in the right direction.
Following almost any woman's advice is a step ahead for techies.
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From the beginning, Apple's said 'No Porn'.

That was never rescinded, they just eased the acceptance a bit as people poked and prodded the boundaries. People were looking to make a quick buck by skirting the rules.

This isn't a matter of Apple being dickish, this is a matter of folks taking known risks and getting whacked on the head for it.
Also, Facebook threw up a big window telling you to review the new settings, and it didn't allow you to do anything else on the site till you had checked the privacy settings.
Amazon also has the Amazon Marketplace, which allows third-parties to sell goods through the Amazon website. A third-party could just sell those Macmillan books. And there would be nothing Macmillan can do about it since certain jurisdictions protect the rights of third-parties to resell items, like books.

So a savvy Marketplace user would realize the potential of stocking Macmillan books and selling them through Amazon to cater exactly to those users who want them but can't get them through Amazon.

Amazon would be more limited on the digital front, since that's a much trickier area, legally.
I would hardly describe these as "excellent", most of them are tricks to improve memorization.

Learning is about more than just rote data storage and retrieval. To use Bloom's taxonomy learning extends beyond that to understanding, application, analysis, evaluation, and creation.

The best tip I can give for learning anything is to get your feet wet. Figure out some tiny project that takes a small amount of time and actually do it. There is a lot of knowledge you can learn from books but most people won't be able to contextualize that information without hands on experience, and hands on experience is where you will get the most of your learning, whether you're learning how to cook, or climb a mountain, or play a guitar, or code in Ruby.
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Goals vs plans in social media
I agree in principle, but that's not how society defines it. By popular definition, a terrorist is someone who commits atrocities for a cause that one does not agree with. If there was agreement, they'd be labeled a "freedom fighter" or something like that.
Thanks for your write-up.

Could you please use the long URLs in your posts the next time? Going through the notion of `tinying' your URLs costs you time (probably), and maket it harder for us to see where links go. HN does a good job of putting ellipses into long URLs.
I've read married women sabotage their husbands on this front.
1) Don't be evil doesn't mean don't make mistakes. Mistakes happen.
2) Despite the mistake, the features and protections were put in place to prevent the problems reported. His comment is right on the money. Maybe not what everyone wanted to hear, but what everyone wants to hear isn't always the truth.
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Thanks.

Works on FF, not on Chrome Dev Channel.
wouldn't the word "rapid" somehow make that different from regular learning?
Word processors may be a lost cause, but we're in the middle of an e-book war (apparently), surely someone is going to display standard epub books better than anyone else and steal that all important typography snob demographic?
As an employee, you don't work for no salary, period.

As a cofounder, you should get a significant share of the business (around the same % as the others have).
Anyone here still use SVN? Its been so long I barely remember how to spell it.
In other words:
Facebook knew it's average user were less than intelligent, and they had to force them to accept the privacy settings.
Google assumed it's average user cared about privacy, and so would investigate the matter themselves.
> Do not accept anything less than exactly what you want.

I agree.

> Settling for clothing is the worst thing you can do. The legs on the pants you just bought half an inch too long? Return them.

I disagree. In this case you can just go to the tailor and let them shorten the pants. (I do this regularly because I am too short to fit most regular pants, but I am also to cheap to get bespoke clothing (yet).) Shortening should not cost more than around 10 Euro. Other alterations are also possible.
That's awesome, but when you're Google and your entire business is based on people trusting you with their data you tell them whatever the hell will make them keep handing their data over.
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Others' files seem to be unaffected

http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/lennon.htm
Git is basically the epitome of why linux will never have significant marketshare on the desktop. Sure, Git is an amazing tool, but its usability is utterly horrific. And Git's most prominent users tend to be extremely sophisticated and intelligent software developers who are able to come to grips with these usability problems quite easily, so their response to those problems tends to be "get over it, git is great, use it anyway, it's not that big a deal, quit whining" which is no better than "let them eat cake".

When people use a computer they want usability, they want a GUI (where relevant), they don't want an ALTAIR front-panel with a bunch of inscrutable toggles and equally inscrutable lights. This is why Mercurial is so popular despite being so similar to Git. Until the Git team accept these problems as real problems and do something about them Git will be relegated to a niche tool and 10 or 20 years down the road when every dev is using DVCS it won't be Git it'll be Mercurial or SVN-DVCS or something new.
Eric Schmidt is painting a pretty grim picture, especially when considering his other views on privacy:

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines -- including Google -- do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities." - Eric Schmidt