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You can just buy a suit and wear it, or you can look good in it for the same cost. If price is the primary focus, look for second-hand, or used materials. If that's a bust, know that JC Penney makes the suit most worn by millionaires (according to a book I read that I'm having a hard time remembering -- something something habits of millionaires), and are generally a good bang for the buck. They aren't high fashion, but they're a suit, which fits the bill.

Now, an aside... when I got my first job that needed suits, I did kind of the same thing. I went out in search of the most cost-efficient suits that didn't look ugly. I stumbled across a sale at Macy's and ended up buying a couple of suits, and a couple of pant / sportcoat combos for approximately $150-200 a set.

Then I started going to meetings, only to realize that while I 'met the grade', I was judged on the quality of my suits by some of the higher ups. It wasn't like the business card scene in 'American Psycho' or anything, but I'd be asked "Who are you wearing?", and other 'rich people questions' I didn't think people ever actually asked. The worst answer I found was "I dunno", but an only slightly better is answering with the name of a poor quality manufacturer.

Subsequent advice takes that into consideration, if you'd like to avoid being singled out. Please note that the advice works well for 'government-quality' attire, and would likely not pass as 'wall-street-quality' attire or "big-law-quality" attire.

Jos. A. Bank is a respected name in suits, mostly because the average suit cost is about triple ($600-750) the minimum suit cost you can get, but they run sales approximately once a month with buy-one-get-one or buy-one-get-two specials and the like that can knock the effective cost down to $200 or less (which is about the most I'll pay for a suit.) You can buy the pants unhemmed and take them to a local drycleaner to have them tailored for a nominal fee which helps avoid the 'off-the-rack' fit.

If you are like me, I often admire bold color choices on others that I would never pick out for myself, or that I don't think would look good on me. A good place to go for fashion advice is Men's Wearhouse. I'm sure mileage varies, but I've been to a few locations in different locales, and I've always gotten great accessory suggestions for ties, shirts, etc., that I would have never picked. It isn't pushy, and you can 'suggest-down' to whatever level you're comfortable wearing (for when they suggest a hot pink tie or whatever) and a good rep will get your tastes and start suggesting accordingly.

You'll pay more generally, but they have pretty aggressive sales on occasion too.
*The ticket sale simply can't be a zero-sum game*

When there is a high jackpot, it almost is a break even proposition.[1] Of course this is not zero-sum in the medium term because this situation only occurs because it was not won previous weeks. It takes a jackpot of around $120m to be 'fair' (on the powerball lottery).

1. http://users.stat.umn.edu/~geyer/lottery/
Education is going to be vital. Don't expect her to become an autodidact overnight. Get her enrolled in some online courses. A lot of community colleges have day cares, as well.
Cuz you're a frickin' amateur? It's not rocket science, it's easy to do, but it is work!

I think these meatheads are complaining because it's work...
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The real moral of this story is that if you offer a lifetime pass, put in a buy-back clause in the contract... That at any time you can buy it back from the customer at 2-3x the price he/she paid. No need to make this complicated.
I would tell them to "git r dun" :)
'Enterpreneurial' is defined as 'willing to take risks in order to make a profit.'

Yes, I've quit my nice day job to run a company on what was basically a bluff. Yes, I was literally hungry on more than one occasion. Yes, I don't have a clue how things will pan out within more than 3+ months with my company. Yet, I go on, and I'm not without an option to go back to comfort cave.

There's nothing enterpreneurial in getting hired by Apple. By definition.
interesting attempt with mic, but wouldnt it be easier to make the kinect cheaper and smaller and embed it in computers or sell it as a smaller unit?
1) There's only a "tendency." Reread.
2) The analogy is with art generally, not just music. Reread.
It didn't read like "bragging" to me so much as being honest about the worst parts of a job, kind of like the "for better or for worse" part of a wedding vow. Occasional unexpected work is a fact of life for roles that oversee mission critical products. It wouldn't surprise me if this was true at Apple, where small teams are responsible for products that tens of millions of people uses. If a showstopping OSX bug pops up on a Friday afternoon, do you really expect some kind of weekend skeleton crew to do the coding or should, you know, the people responsible for the relevant parts of the code come in?
My code is regulated. I develop retail point of sale technology which requires certification with various state agencies such as WIC. Each state likes to do things just a bit differently, which keeps things interesting to say the least.
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There is a massive difference between founding a startup and investing in startups.

Professional investors (VCs, Angels, Incubators) choose the best startups (most efficient choices) and do not fund the rest which eliminates a huge number of founders who simply fail and get zero return for their work. On top of that, there are a number of VCs and angels who are completely unsuccessful picking startups and end up out of the business unable to raise additional institutional money or who lose their additional investment capital.

The expected return of investing in startups is very likely negative if you add all the smart and non-smart investors together. (I don't have data, and can't even imagine where to get it, so I'm saying "likely".)

Using the security market line to prove your point isn’t really fair since not much research has been done on applying it to startups. One of the major issues with applying the SML is the fact that it is very hard to calculate beta of startup investments since they have very long term time horizons. SML has more to do with portfolio construction and how you can get a portfolio which doesn’t deviate from the benchmark too far while still producing Alpha. (Alpha is active return). The Tryenor ratio is more about making sure public equity managers are not doing really crazy stuff.

Overall my point is that there is no evidence that suggests the expected return from investing is startups in net positive. Whether founding or working for a startup produces positive expected returns or not is also very hard to know, but I would estimate that working for early stage startups for lower than market pay has a negative expected value even after considering the possibility of huge exits (a lot of companies fail that you have never heard of).

Where I think startups have a much higher expected return comes with the experience and growing up you can do while working in a small company. When you calculate total earnings over a lifetime for people who join even failed startups early on, I would not be surprised if they made more and had more enjoyable lives, even if they ended up at big stable companies later. When you add the possibility of a big exit to the higher future earnings I think the expected value goes net positive.
No, I'm a Boltzmann brain. The rest of you are just a figment of my imagination.
Does it mention "without compensation" or even "forced overtime" anywhere? You're assuming bad motives unnecessarily.
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Thanks for this! I had no idea how you could run a lottery which paid out more on average than it took in.
I did consider moving search to the top - what do you think? What stopped me was wanting to augment rather than completely change the current HN experience.
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I would say forget that you have $1k, try to start from zero (or as close to it as possible)

When people think they have $$$ to throw at an idea they usually make bad decisions. Try and spend as little as possible of the $1k, test your ideas quickly for free and aim for simplicity and early revenue.

This is especially true if it's your first side project. Once you have two or three things launched you have valuable networks that you can draw on for your next project and so on.
Sometimes I suspect many hackers of being anarchists. It's not always that a big company is going down, or that a certain industry needs to be disrupted from behind. It's like some of you secretly want to see the world as we know it, burning down in flames around you!
This is kind of an unfortunate title for those of us that still remember 9/11.
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+1 for Nordstrom, based on their staff. Of several places I've been, they were the most sympathetic to my sheer cluelessness when trying to find clothing to suit my purpose. :-)

Might be I just got lucky, but it's been true at two locations so far.
Meh, useless blabla from big corps. The real meaning: "devote your a to the company, and maybe we'll consider sharing some of our extraordinary benefits".
Given the wide variety of Javascript add-ons and modules, A brief explanation of what the product does and what it might be used for placed in the read me document would have been nice.
A Ponzi scheme is also really safe, if it's clear that there are a ton of gulliable fools willing to support the pyramid long enough for you to get in and get out. :)
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The projects I do have never had final documentation before development started, and its not necessary.

I got this process from another Ruby consultant and it works great
- Get wireframes of main page views (usually there are about 6 of these. You can help them create this
- Get them to write out, or describe the requirements and take notes
- Break the wireframes and requirements into user stories and load it into pivotal tracker with estimates
- Tell them "we are going to build all these user stories PLUS 30 'freebie' points of stores. Any changes you want you can spend your freebie points on, and after that you can substitute out currently scheduled points if you really want those changes

It works great so far.
Also:

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But are not perfect and it would be nice to have a single package.
They even added a raid finder which IMO is the biggest consession to the casual player. At one time you needed to be part of an active guild and spend a lot of time in game to see all the content. Now you can queue up and while there are harder versions of the encounter the only advantage is loot that helps you climb the treadmill and bragging rights not content.
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The only person who seems to have been able to do this on a grand scale even when he matured was Jobs.
You might consider adding a curl to pages where there is a next page. Once you get to page 2 there's no real indication that there is more content after it.
This should do what you're after: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/njdndkhkelkeepcnmo...

I've been using it for months and it works great for me.
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The version I heard is that the American Physical Society is banned from Vegas.
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I've always wondered about that aspect of US law. If lottery winnings are taxed, does that mean lottery tickets are tax-deductible?
Well, the thing is, drones aren't sporting. Not honorable.

No respectable air force general wants to build a career on drone acquisition.
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I understand your goal of not completely changing the HN design. However, as the extension works right now, it is literally impossible for me to click the links on the bottom. I can see them for a microsecond if I scroll to the bottom but they instantly get pushed down by a wave of new stories.
Please elaborate on what was added by whom and not used?
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i read your post twice because its the top comment from my view, and while I see you wrote a lot, I don't think you actually said anything. are you interested in clarifying?
Oddly, his real reasons for why he plays the lottery has nothing to do with probability and statistics, and is in the last two paragraphs. I feel the essay would have been better serveed if he had started with that, then said "But, given that, let's still explore what the actual expected return on investment is for the fun of it."
But daylight saving occurs during the time when you already have more daylight than the vast majority of habitable landmass does. You aren't "saving" daylight at all during the daylight poor months when you're inside at work during the entire daylight period.
I love my share of anti oop rants and hoped for some functional praise.

Unfortunately I couldn't read the article on my mobile, because someone decided it would be a great idea to have floating social sharing gizmos covering the content. It's totally unreadable right now.
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By this line of reasoning, anything that is more popular among poor people is a tax on them?

The argument is that gambling houses are taking advantage of people's poor education to bilk them out of money. In principle, everyone in developed nations should know that gambling is a poor investment, but it takes good financial sense to really understand that. People with good financial sense usually aren't very poor.
In simulations the stealth (MADL, IFDL, and low radar profile from the front) and the fire-on-remote fused tactical picture the F-22 and F-35 present play out huge. It's mostly about the avionics. Conversations about these fighters are generally uninformed.
I don't really find software development difficult. When you're developing applications be they web applications or some sort of enterprise widget, the majority of the work is connecting libraries together. Most of the difficulty is in dealing with the incongruities of the various APIs. As long as there is a good process in place I've found little trouble in delivering and estimating software.

As in the construction of any artifact by human means there will be bumps in the road. No amount of technology we can use today will solve that issue. It's a matter of communication and flexibility. One might speculate that great buildings such as the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building weren't so perfectly specified as to allow the construction workers to simply, "put the pieces together." Problems certainly arise and must be dealt with accordingly.

Software is no different. We still write programs that guide fighter jets to land on a tiny boat in the middle of the ocean. We've written programs that drive robots across the martian surface. And we also write programs that share our inane thoughts and activities with our friends, family, and random interested strangers. The degrees of failure are still the same and for the most part assessed accordingly: while Twitter will strive for 100% up time there is little money or life lost when it does go down. Whereas when a martian robot plummets into the side of the planet it's a big loss (and has happened). Mistakes are made in engineering. Unanticipated side-effects arise. And we do our best to deal with them as well as we can.

What distinguishes software from contemporary engineering? A couple hundred years of development at the very least. I'd say we've come a long way and have some ways to go. But if you stick with it you might find it.
Fantastic idea... Can you elaborate more on the Hegelian Dialectic part, please? I mean, how Hegel's logic is being employed and where?
The replacement is always better... somehow.
I think they still need just one other successful game to prove to investors they can repeat the trick if people were to get bored of Angry Birds.
Sorry about that.

Here's the underlying philosophy of OOP not covered by the original article [philosophy described]. Here are some strengths not covered by the original article [salient points covered].

Author managed to share his frustration with the structural details of the paradigm without conveying that he understood the bigger picture of its actual effective use.

That's a recap. Work any better for you now? Or did you not understand my description of how the philosophy works or what the strengths were?
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Damn... I've been working on a userscript to do, well, pretty much what this does; I'd completed thread folding, and was just getting stuck into AJAXy "more" links and reply forms.

Oh well, time for a new hobby project.

[edit: Incidentally, do you find the tables-within-tables-within-tables structure of HN, with some arbitrary variations between pages, as infuriating as I do? Or am I doing something wrong?]
One of the most important things programmers can learn is that you don't have to choose one language per project. Binding, say, Python and C++ in the same program can be very valuable (though it is not trivial, even with SWIG). Some code benefits from the simplicity, clarity, testability and huge standard library of the scripting language, and the remaining code gains performance and expressiveness to handle its greater complexity.
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We're actually trying to build the beta with you guys. we've been actively contacting everyone who signed up to help us with our customer development process.

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"OOP (when done properly) enables us to focus at any time on a sub-part of the system containing five entities or less"

...

"I like benefits of the functional programming too, but ..."

Your response makes it sound as though you believe OOP is the magic that allows encapsulation or modularization.

Functional programming also enables us to focus at any time on a sub-part of the system. You don't need OOP for that. In fact, you don't even need functional programming for that. For example, you could get by with nothing more than subroutines and functions (whether they be first class or not).
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I think this technique may render CSS compilers (sass, etc.) largely unnecessary. Their main advantages are variables and arithmetic. The use of factored out mixin-type classes does a good part of what variables do for you. And one of the chief reasons that we need to do arithmetic in CSS is the weird box model, where padding adds to the width of a div. Use "box-sizing: border-box;" and this problem goes away.
We'll be offering much more complete suite of tools to collaborate around a draft: box, pin, arrow annotations with issue tracking and issue related discussion.

The vision really is GitHub for the Rest of Us :)
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We won't offer the ability to modify the document. The document is owned by the owner of the project who puts it out there to hits participants for review and issue tracking.

Hope it helps better understand the use case for CarbonDraft?
They say you get the government that you deserve. If you don't think you deserve what you have, maybe you should get something else.
We're based on Crocodoc API as specified above we won't offer the ability to modify the document but rather start a discussion around through a coherent Issue tracking system.
> Be honest. We're talking about a place that can't judge you in an interview.

Be real. That place is competing for employees with folks who aren't playing games.

"Come work for us, we're clueless" isn't a selling point.

> The up-shot is you would start working the next day at your 'monopoly rate', versus going through rounds and rounds of interviews at all sorts of other companies.

Why do you think that those are the only alternatives?
Why not let the users run their own CSS if they want to? I like to use the Georgify user script: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfeh...

It's not very compatible with your addon, unfortunately.
A couple of excellent reads for arguments against OOP:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ArgumentsAgainstOop

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ObjectOrientationIsaHoax

Personally, I'm on the fence, but I think as is the case with most tools, there is a right and wrong place to use them. The trick is figuring out when that is.
> I would rather optimize for security than ease of two-way communication with external entities.

So in case of your networks Skype traffic will go though third-party servers ...
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In my head, that letter was narrated by Richard Dreyfuss as I read it. It feels very much like their advertizing. My gut reaction would be to simultaneously be excited about the possibilities and worried over what I had gotten myself into, since i was clearly being sold to in such a manner. That's pretty much what I imagine working at Apple is like, though - potentially awesome, fun, exciting, and interesting work, stressful, difficult, and somewhat abusive company culture and demands. So, I guess maybe it's accurate.
True. I respect what they have created, even as I'm skeptical of some of the aspects of it (walled gardens, etc).

The fact that I'm able to use a Unix workstation - that also runs common office apps (MSFT, etc) for interoperability with the non-hacker world - solidified my (guarded, skeptical) loyalty to the Apple platform.

Their "one way to do it" approach can be exasperating but it's generally a smart and lucrative business strategy.
I think you may have misunderstood: If I rollover a username, it drops down a popup. If I move away from the username, the pop-up remains. It notices my onMouseOver to instantly rolldown, but ignores my onMouseOut when I leave.

This disparity in behavior is frustrating, why is activation onMouseOver, but deactivation requires a full click white space to change focus? It should be click on/click off or roll on/roll off, IMO.