Bill Gurley, a venture capitalist in Menlo Park, tells what happened when he began working as a Wall Street analyst in Manhattan in 1993, fresh out of business school. A colleague turned his tie over to check the label. “My first day at work,” Mr. Gurley recalled, “I was told to replace all my ties with Hermès and never to wear brown shoes again.”

More important: You do not need to go to graduate school in order to read, to write, to debate, to do intellectual work. You do not even need to go to graduate school to learn from brilliant scholars, though that would be a much better reason to go than any cited in this post, which, oddly, never mentions professors, scholars, or learning. If you want to read, write, and debate, you can do all that for free, and while you’re earning a living and putting money away for retirement. Why should you give up years of your time and earning potential to do what you can do right now, on your own? — and that’s in a best-case scenario, in which you’re getting full funding and therefore at least not hemorrhaging money. But what if you’re not getting that funding, and doing graduate study only by incurring crushing debt?

he show is genuinely funny, and the better you know Macbeth (and “The Simpsons”) the funnier it is. Indeed, if you don’t know Macbeth well, a great many jokes will fly right past you - but don’t worry, there will be plenty more where those came from.

I had the most fun contemplating the casting. Some was obvious - but still brilliant. The rivalry between Homer

Simpson and his neighbor, Ned Flanders, combined with Flanders’s conspicuous rectitude, makes him an obvious choice for Banquo. And Crusty the Clown brings down the house as the Porter. (“Knock, knock, knock - Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of Hell Gate, he should have old turning the key. [Pause] Ah, I got nothing - here, try this one: Knock, knock. Who’s there?”)

“There is a pampered class of artists in the United States,” concedes Gioia, who got to know a wide range of creative types during his years as NEA chair. “But it’s tiny. And they make insignificant money compared to sports people. We have this Puritan, practical tradition in the United States. Puritans would give to the poor, but not to the idle. Artists are seen as these idle dreamers.”

More typical than a celebrity artist feasting on enormous grants, he says, is someone like Morton Lauridsen, who is now one of the most performed living composers – after decades of scraping by, teaching and writing choral works. Or a writer like Kay Ryan, who, until becoming U.S. poet laureate in 2008 was known to only a small few. “She never applied for a grant, never taught writing,” Gioia says. “She taught remedial reading at a community college.”

It was the Coast Guard Academy band, in New London, Conn., that allowed Kelli O’Connor, a conservatory-trained clarinet and saxophone player, to make a living. These days she’s a principal in a nearby orchestra, plays with a chamber group at a Boston church, coaches at area high schools and teaches at the University of Rhode Island: None of these pay a full salary or significant benefits. “Freelancing is a hustle all the time,” she says. “You master the art of scheduling. Squeezing in as much as possible. There are some days when I’m not done until 11 or 12 at night, and then I have to get up at 7 in the morning.”

Like most musicians, she teaches private lessons, but her students have fallen by more than half. “Because of the economy, it’s really gone downhill. People are afraid to spend their money. You’re constantly sending your C.V. to local schools to stir up interest.”

It comes down to this: biography, history, and serious nonfiction take years to research, write, and publish. When books sell to publishers, they do so on proposal, with the expectation that it will take those aforementioned years, if not more, to complete. There are ways to do so with little money, but that generally means the writer needs to be supported by an institution — university, think tank, you name it — or be independently wealthy. Big deal, right? Most writers working in any category are in the same boat. Serious nonfiction is not really a money category, though, but a prestige one. And “prestige” translates even less well to ebook sales. Mosey on over to, say, the Kindle bestseller lists, and how much serious nonfiction do you see there? Caro right now, sure, but that’s because he’s a known entity, a name brand if you will. And he’s working off contracts that are years old and equity that dates back more than 40 years, in a manner of speaking. And last fall, Walter Isaacson and his Steve Jobs bio, but then, Jobs was newly dead. Otherwise, not so much as compared to commercial fiction, romance, mystery, self-help, politics/current affairs, etc.

God forbid a JS utility suffixed with 'another' in the title. But there was no other option. Thus introducing $script.js: an asynchronous JavaScript loader and dependency manager with an astonishingly impressive lightweight footprint of only 643 BYTES! (yes, you read that correctly). Like many other script loaders, $script.js allows you to load script resources on-demand from any URL and not block other resources from loading (like CSS and images). Furthermore, it's unique interface allows developers to work easily with even the most complicated dependencies, which can often be the case for large, complex web applications.

If you could only do one thing to prepare your desktop site for mobile and had to choose between employing media queries to make it look good on a mobile device or optimizing the site for performance, you would be better served by making the desktop site blazingly fast.

It all depends on your requirements!

If we don’t adhere to the SRP then we are likely to end up with code which does more than it should, this means that altering one part of that code could negatively impact a seemingly unrelated part of the same snippet. It also makes our code a lot less flexible in that we find our code is trying to do too much; it is too specific in its job to be portable and reusable. Abstracting chunks of functionality into several responsibilities means we can reuse a lot more of our code and recombine it over and over with other similarly abstracted chunks.

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Coming to the Big Easy, 72-year-old Dion Rich had sneaked, weaseled, conned, bluffed, tricked and bamboozled his way into 32 straight Super Bowls, the record for a man refusing to touch his wallet.

Why Git/GitHub, as opposed to Mercurial/Bitbucket or some other system? Because it's very well-made, and it's where the people are. Clearly GitHub has won the majority of open-source developers' mindshare. John Lennon said: "If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else?" GitHub is Rome.

Anyone can learn how to land a spacecraft on a rocky asteroid flying through space at twelve miles per second. I don’t need some pencilneck with four Ph.D’s, one-thousand hours of simulator time, and the ability to operate a robot crane in low-Earth orbit. I need someone with four years of broad-but-humanities-focused studies, three subsequent years in temp jobs, and the ability to reason across multiple areas of study.

We work a 4-day week (M-Th, 9-6) because we think that information work isn’t like manufacturing. Another hour at the MacBook won’t yield another $1,000 in profit. We believe that smart folks can get five days of work done in four days. Simple as that.

"With Webkit" should added to the title

Ha ha, can't believe I just found this.

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