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oops!, I just realize I didn't reference the book. The example from above is not mine. It is a direct Quote from the book: "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
I don’t like the background. I thought it was nearly unreadable. Not worth talking about that, though.
Maybe you're already doing this, but you generally want to optimize the funnels from impression -> click -> landing-page -> some conversion event. Focus on one at a time. To get better click-through rates, ensure that you have tight integration in your ad groups between the keywords and the ad copy. If you're not using keywords people are searching for in the ad, it is much less likely to be clicked. Also try dynamic keyword insertion in the ad copy if you don't feel like breaking up your ad groups. It's a bit of work, but once you find a combination that is effective, it's a matter of continuing to test new keyword permutations and dropping the stinkers to laser-target your adwords campaigns for high ROI.

It is also generally a bad idea to include price in the ad copy. You want to give enough honest information about what you're selling to make an interested user click; it is the job of your landing page/web site to build value and sell, but test to see what works for you. Hope that helps, good luck.
I tried Facebook for a while. My CTR was lower than Google. I suspect this is because you're targeting impressions in a totally different manner. That being said, clicks are usually cheaper and conversions off my landing page were decent.

Another thing that bugged me about Facebook was that my Google Analytics numbers for visitors from FB never matched what FB was charging me. FB always showed roughly 1-5% more clicks than GA showed visitors.
Mecurial's MQ extension is basically git's index on steroids.

With a single MQ patch you basically have git's index. You can continually add things to the patch and then finalize it into a commit when ready.

With multiple patches you have multiple indexes which can be pushed and popped, reordered, folded together, finalized into commits, etc.

To be fair, MQ's user interface needs some work. It's far from perfect.
It might help is you tell us what you're trying to sell..
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Regular users? No. Gamers, Graphic Artists, People who work with anything involving large amounts of on screen data, yes.

None of these people should have to know how to use the CLI just to get two monitors working.

I had the same problem with dual monitors for the record.
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nice discussion. thanx for sharing my blog post here.

a few points of clarification. the teacher in question is a substitute teacher. not on staff. she's also the mother of a student there (pretty common at this school -- it's a charter school, earthier and crunchier than most).

the 3-day suspension rule is a bit extreme, I agree. but schools are very concerned about bullying and harassment online, so they're taking a hard stance. I can see why. there was another incident at this very school where one student started a facebook group with the title "XXX XXX is gay" (substitute a 7th grader's name for XXX XXX). he did it as a joke, but he got a 3-day suspension for it.

it's a real problem, and there aren't any easy solutions. saying "don't use facebook" isn't gonna work. the kids will use it, regardless. and at that age they really don't understand the implications.

cheers,

dt
(p.s. i don’t use spell check…deal with it)

No link. No further explanation. Nothing for me to distinguish this from laziness or irrationality.
1) It doesn't cost anything
2) It will run on almost any hardware

I'm sitting at my Arch laptop right now.
what language skills you are looking for?
And consider the time value of money - if the LTV is $50 over 2 years, you need to calculate the net present value of that cashflow to you in today's dollars (which will always be less than $50).
Off topc: does the multi-touch track pad work with Linux on your Mac?
If you find yourself needing to do these things at work, you need to find a new job. The relationship between you and your boss should be mutually beneficial. Skulking around at work having to hide things from your employer means you have the wrong job. Quit.
The Stanford Business videos here are among some of the best entrepreneurship media online. Do check out the rest.
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Just ignore them, and focus on your todo list. Assuming that your product solve a problem for your customers, most important is that you focus on just that now.
FB always showed roughly 1-5% more clicks than GA showed visitors.

People without javascript enabled, or people actively blocking GA?
iAd sounds too much like iPad, if true maybe they can name it iVertise, if it's available of course.
Why are we so fixated with getting 'the consumer' on Linux?

The only thing I can imagine is that more people using the software might increase the financial donations to FOSS organizations. I doubt it though.

In any case, if you can, please donate some money to any open source groups that you use regularly.
Hmm, I would have said that short-term branches with `rebase -i` are MQ on steroids. I always found MQ to be an odd beast, introducing a new set of commands that are far from orthogonal. Now that bookmarks are reasonably well-supported, albeit with somewhat surprising semantics and certain limitations (assuming you are used to git branches), I only use MQ as an analogue for `git stash`.
You shouldn't be down-voted to -4. Personally I think you're justified in taking lionhearted's as inflammatory and libelous. The claim that Hong Kong and the US are evidence for Britain's superiority is tenuous at best. The success or failure of all nations listed in lionhearted's arguments have a lot more to do with natural resources and geographic location than British rule.

I wonder if Britain had had the same natural resources and geographical vulnerability as your average African nation, would they have become a colonial power?
Well, it doesn't show that Git isn't better, it just shows that Bazaar isn't as bad as it seems on that site. Probably just because of updates to bzr since it was made.
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You should be able get to 3.00% plus CTR on Search network without a lot of work. If you have limited budget, turn off Content ads. It will gooble your budget, giving you little in return.

Concentrate on writing better ads. Keywords your bidding on should be in the ad. Create adgroups for like search terms. Have at least two or three different ads for each adgroup.

The landing page is just, if not more, important than the ad copy. Keywords should be in the Title, and meta description tags (Google ignore meta keywords), in a H1 headin, in the first sentence of the first paragraph, and another time or two on the page. If you want a good CTR, the landing page is your friend.
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I would try to find a book that balances managable and brain stretchy. _Calculus made easy_ was good for me at a certain level of understanding (yes algebra and geometry, no calculus). Try things at a library, and get recommendations, until you find one that turns you on. There's no penalty for trying a book and aborting after 1 page ;)
To be clear, I'm not saying the British Empire is the greatest thing ever. There were problems. But many regions had their most prosperous times under British rule, for the people on the bottom, and the middle class, and the wealthy.

I would like to see evidence of this. Take the most populous British colonies in a few continents: India, Nigeria, the United States and Ireland. How was British rule better than autonomy? You already dismissed Ireland and the U.S. as British "successes", so just focus on Nigeria and India. What figures do you have for literacy, education, life expectancy, and household income?
And if you don't like it, the Record extension ( http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RecordExtension ) does most of what Git people would want, although it doesn't yet have the ability to split a modification into modifications of smaller granularity.
What do you mean unbiased? He took the position that this is a genetic inborn condition. He just said that in effect "it turns out this is an inborn condition", without giving citing scientific research. (Well, I skimmed the article, and this is what I got. Maybe I missed a critical paragraph.)
Isn't he just saying SaaS?
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Are you in school? Get an independent study going with a professor on a topic she likes and you wouldn't mind learning. Emphasize that you want to get your training wheels for autodidactic math education.
That's exactly right. However, I should take into account the popularity of the different ones and put the most popular on top. This happens in a lot of cases, but not in this one, though doing so is on the list.
> Personally I think you're justified in taking lionhearted's as inflammatory and libelous.

Well, this is a bad thing for me to hear from you, because you're one of the commentors on here I admire and always look to read your point of view. You're usually saying some quite insightful stuff.

So let me ask if I may, how could I put forth the idea that colonialism isn't such a bad thing without being inflammatory and libelous? I know a lot of people hate it, are raised and taught in school that their country's revolution was most justified and glorious, etc, etc. (I was taught the same way, and had the same feelings until doing a lot of research and reading) Now I don't think that's the case, I think the British did a generally good job, and if I was alive in the times of the British Empire, I'm pretty sure I'd want to be under British rule. Is there a way I can put that point of view out there straightforwardly without tweaking people?
Yeah, but he is showing how easy it is to leverage it for your own small business
It's worth it to buy a good book on Adwords. I found the Ultimate Guide to Google Adwords to be pretty good:

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Google-AdWords-ebook/dp...
I would like to find some good support for sequel in rails3, as it's happening with datamapper: datamapper's crew seems to be very "active" in the domain of "marketing", taking the rails3 occasion to low (near to zero) the barriers to jump on the boat... is there anything like that for sequel?
I would like to try, and that would be a great encouragement...
Thanks a lot!
The down-voting doesn't bother me. I have come to expect a level cultural unsophistication from the faceless, voiceless, voting masses (at least I have the decency to comment and say "It was me" :-)

Don't worry, I can make up for all my lost points here with a witless one-liner against PHP or relational databases.
I think Cook is a better analogy
His font / size hurts my eyes.
doesn't matter. goal is to take an appropriate open source platform (any one of the CMS that will do) to create a travel website
which makes it super easy to find:
the best hotels to stay -- 1000-3000, 3000-5000, 5000-8000 a day
the best things to do
what to buy from where at what price

Initially do this for the top 6 cites in rajasthan

designed for a foreign audience travelling to india

use what ever platform is available so we can launch fast, get user feedback and then iterate
I'm not sure what in your study of British history lead you to believe that colonized nations under Britain had "minimal violence and corruption" and "safety". That's just not [EDIT: always] true.

Slavery was the core of the British empire in the West Indies and many other areas until it was abolished in the early 1800s. I'm not sure you can claim the safety provided by slavery is valid and without corruption. Slavery is by definition corrupt. No longer able to use slavery to control the population of colonies, Britain opted to smuggle Opium into China (in defiance of Chinese law I might add). This eventually lead to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. Not exactly the kind of stability you claim the British Empire provided.

Hell, even today the British Empire is responsible for a lot of conflict in the world. Kashmir, Palestine, Sudan? Britain created state boundaries in these areas that ignored the religious and racial distribution of the ethnic populations. You can be sure this mistake is in part responsible for the conflicts we still see today in these areas of the world.

The issue is not as one sided as the picture you painted.
Hi folks, any suggestions for this design? 
Hi folks,
I've been working on this for some time, I'm finding it very hard to settle down with the design. I would be really grateful if you guys could give me a few tips.

The site is meant as an aggreagator, such as popurls and such, but it organizes articles using various algorithms. Articles can also be saved with a temporary account.
This is the site http://www.whizis.com/

I'm not sure how usable it feels or if the design might be in some way confusing.

Any comments?
Help would be very much appreciated!
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I have to agree.

IMO bzr, git and hg are comparable and these dabates are no different emacs vs vim.

My personal preference is bzr but I quite like hg also. I also like git but the only thing that keeps me away from git is the whole fanboy culture around it.
Have you done anything like this before? Any idea how to go about finding these people. You can email me directly at yegg@alum.mit.edu.
So, I think -- but I'm not certain -- that the link to the TED video wasn't in your comment when I first read and responded to it. Or, it was, and I just somehow completely missed it.

But, I just finished watching it. It's great! I was disappointed at the audience's awkward laughter to points that I don't think he was joking about, but he makes a very compelling point, and he makes it clearly.

That said, I don't disagree with him or you on this, and I wasn't actually just focusing on the initial invasion, though I can see how my statements could be interpreted that way.

I'll try to do a better job this time:

I think some parts of Africa, like Sudan, would be easier to both develop an initial presence in, and maintain a mostly peaceful presence in, than Iraq. Although you're right to point out that Iraq has more social infrastructure to begin with, that social infrastructure provides resources to "the other side" as well as "our side".

In other words, I think that there being less of a foundation to build on in Africa is actually beneficial -- even after considering Barnett's point, and agreeing with it. I think it's beneficial because it allows us to more easily provide resources to impoverished people without having to fight them for it. Think about it: there are no schools to blow up in some of these areas, so we can build them from scratch and introduce education to a population that hasn't had it.

I [EDIT: don't] think it's right to say "we don't know how to do that"; though Barnett may say the same thing, I think it's more of a statement that "we don't do that". Certainly Barnett has some good ideas about doing that, as do some aspects of the U.N. and organizations like the Peace Corps.

To underline my point: Iraq did indeed have a uniformed army, police, and some government -- and it is the remnants of those things which we are still fighting in that country to this day, and that's why Africa would be easier to administrate.
Stop posting this garbage. I'm not signing up just to read an article.
Doesn't matter?

Okay let's do this in assembly, you down?
bzr has the bzr-colo plugin to support co-located branches. Like I said in another comment, I think bzr, git and hg are comparable and there isn't a clear winner (and there need not be).

https://launchpad.net/bzr-colo
You should compare independent countries before the colonization with the same countries under colonial powers rule, not after the colonization.

Many things people of countries that were colonies expriences are because of colonialism.

Its like when doctor goes to the patient with chronic pain, gives him a painkiller and breaks his leg. While doctor is there patient feels no pain, after the doctors went away painkiller stops working, and the situation is even worse.
Is your reticence in naming certain countries a voluntary adoption of their censorship policies?
"Everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do."
It's amusing to hear the common myth that the Linux kernel is a huge project. No, a huge project is something like Gentoo or Ubuntu. Try to put all the source code for every package in a Linux distribution into a single Git repository and it (obviously) will fall over, because it would be tough to fit that on one machine. So if you're using Git, the best practice is "don't do that, then."

But I work at a large company where all the source code is in a single repostory. Being able to do a partial checkout (your package and its dependencies, on the head branch only) is essential for us and it's not a workflow Git supports at all.

I do agree, however, that Git is fast enough for any open source project out there. It's just not scalable to large organizations.
> When I tried using it, it was painfully slow, taking 20-30 seconds for a simple 'bzr log'.

When did you use it? On what history size? bzr 2.x series is quite fast.
In Montessori, there is some emphasis on choosing what you're interested in, but I think the more important part (when it comes to math) is that it's typically taught using strong visuals, manipulation of number blocks/cubes, etc. Instead of focusing on rote memorization of algorithms, the focus is on patterns and sensory experience. Kids "get" patterns; what they struggle with is algorithms applied to symbols.

I went through "normal" school and was always way ahead in math. My Montessori-educated sister, 3 years younger than me and not particularly mathematically inclined, could intelligently converse with me about my algebra homework when I was in sixth grade and she was in third. She wasn't as familiar with the symbols as I was, but she recognized many of the patterns (like difference of squares) in physical form.

The Montessori math approach is outlined at http://www.infomontessori.com/mathematics/introduction.htm
point taken. didn't mean it that way. any of the top 5 CMSes should do. Right technical person for the job - passion for the idea, tenacity - most probably decides what we use. sort of decision by default situation :-)
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You need 'hackers' or a plain developer? I hope you leant the difference in ur stint working for the F500 clients..
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You're intentions are good, no doubt there. I definitely didn't mean to imply it was intentional on your part. It's subtle, but it feels like the argument you put forth implies the colonized were lesser than the British in a fundamental sense. Hence why I said "inflammatory and libelous" feelings are justified. You also gloss over a lot of complex issues in regards to the Empire itself (which I wrote about here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1223286).

As a general rule, you're not wrong in the sense that a strong government can provide stability to a region. But it's important to remember the native population had no role in government. They never were taught how to govern by the British or allowed to develop their own methods of governing, because it was the British intention that their colonies always be dependent on Britain. The collapse after British withdrawal backs this up I think. Had the native population played a larger role in governing themselves or been given the freedom to develop their own system, they might have been able to create a stable government after Britain left.

There's also the fact that the British enslaved millions while building their empire. The military that created the stability you admire was paid for by the lives of millions of Africans. Seems like there is something wrong about glorifying that stability, given how it came about.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that the stability provided by the British Empire was a false and immoral stability. But factually your right that there was some temporary stability. That said, you can stabilize a region by enslaving everyone if you wanted to. Clearly there is a continuum for moral and immoral ways to stabilize a region. It's my belief British colonialism leans more towards the immoral side, but I understand where you are coming from.

Sorry, that was stream of consciousness haha. I know it's not well formed.

EDIT:

Is there a way I can put that point of view out there straightforwardly without tweaking people?

I'm not sure. I think there is something important to what you are saying, but it is difficult to frame it without implying that the colonized are inferior. There are positive things to say about the British system of government yes, but who's to say the native populations wouldn't have developed something just as good given the chance? Do I wish all the lives in Africa since the British withdrawal could be brought back? Yes. Do I think subjecting the entire African continent to British rule for two centuries is a fair price to pay for that? I'm not sure. Ultimately African nations need to learn (with international help) how to govern on their own.
Wow! That was white and nerdy...
While it does succeed in areas where other OSes are weak (package management!), Ubuntu still has a lot of annoyances.

For example...

Copying and pasting is broken in some apps: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/11334

Desktop icons cannot be auto-arranged: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/20284

Screensavers can't be customized: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/...

Context menu for an USB pendrive shows "Unmount", "Eject" and "Safely Remove Drive":
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/453072

There are a lot of others listed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bugs

Checking off features on a list isn't enough to make a good operating system. Like baseball, you have to work on the fundamentals to win.

(Jeez that last sentence sounds corny.)
I think African nations should implement some kind of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India
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Ireland a mixed bag? The British legitimately did some good things? You make it sound like the enslavement, genocide and the systematic extermination of their culture and national language was a charity. You must mean the railroads they very generously set down in order to hasten the exportation of their crops (which the Irish slaved to harvest) in order to feed the rest of their empire while the Irish themselves starved, this even while the only crop they could afford to consume witnessed a blight, killing 2 million of them and forcing another 2 million to emigrate. They could though leave their religion and change their name as a token to bear this witness for a single bowl of soup if they wished so perhaps this is also the mixed bag you speak of.

I must tell you too, the infighting was and is not religiously motivated. This is a common mistake. The fight is and was between nationalists (those who desire an Irish republic) and loyalists (those British settlers and their offspring who desire British rule). Their religious affiliations are an aside.
I think that it's worth noting that the most successful former British colonies are those that kept the ruling 'white' governments after separeation so that there was a continuity of rule and a tradition of European political values. The point being, not that colonial rule was positive, but that continuity in governence is important for social order.