Suffice it to say (and for mostly unrelated reasons), he didn't get accepted. Maybe it's more of an American idiom, but usually when we say "suffice it to say", we mean it was for related reasons :)
Just like the American "could care less" is the same as the British "couldn't care less". Two nations divided by a common language as someone is supposed to have said.
"could care less" is actually wrong -- it literally means that you do actually care about the thing in question.
This should also be a lesson about using engineering notebooks and other such legal documents in programming a new product, especially with new ideas such as the DOM manipulation indicated in this blog.
Jeeze - DOM manipulation is not the newest idea in the world, and not everything created has to be patented, what's wrong with you people?
Another one I learned that pops up in this tale: get on the plane if the meeting is important.
Yeah, we were trying to coordinate that. Jonathan was anxious to get me up there and thought I'd be a big hit with the Writely guys who he seemed to hold in very high regard. But he had to fly back to New York (we were in SF at the time for the conference), then he had some other trip and then it just got complicated. That's why he just decided to pass me up the ladder, but in the end that clearly didn't work to my a…
I think Josh's point was to not wait for them to fly you out, but to fly out yourself. As rokhayakebe noted, say you'll be in town in two weeks and set up a meeting. Perhaps Google has streamlined the process to fly you out, but it still isn't as easy as "Great, check in at the front desk on Wednesday at 2PM". If meeting is a much bigger deal to you than who you're meeting with you need to do what you can to make it easy for who you're meeting with.
Just like the American "could care less" is the same as the British "couldn't care less". Two nations divided by a common language as someone is supposed to have said.
"could care less" is actually wrong -- it literally means that you do actually care about the thing in question.
Suffice it to say (and for mostly unrelated reasons), he didn't get accepted. Maybe it's more of an American idiom, but usually when we say "suffice it to say", we mean it was for related reasons :)
Just like the American "could care less" is the same as the British "couldn't care less". Two nations divided by a common language as someone is supposed to have said.
A better example of phrases that mean different things on either side of the Atlantic is what it means to "table" a proposal. In the US it means "kill it", but in the UK it means "bring it up". If an American says "could care less", they're just being incorrect. ;)
Prospective acquirers will often pursue potential targets simultaneously and, if they go silent on you, this may have little or nothing to do with whether you followed up diligently or not. In my experience, when an acquiring company wants to move, they know how to do so quickly, at least to engage in sufficient due diligence to see whether they might want to do the deal. Thus, when you do get in a situation where yo…
Of course, all of this is learned between ages 15 and 30 with the wonderful (and not so wonderful) women we meet :)
Sometimes you're the acquirer, sometimes you're the acquired, and sometimes you're the one sitting there wondering why it went dark :)
That was my first thought. If you get a call from these guys, you tell them "I'll be in town next week, when would you like to meet for 20 minutes?"
Yep. Some things have to be done face to face.
The book The Art of Possibility has a good chapter about this. It's also a great book in general; it's Rosamund & Ben Zander's philosophy of life disguised as a self-help book, in the same way that The Black Swan is basically Taleb's ideas about epistemology disguised as investment advice. The ideas aren't super unique, but they do a better job selling them than I've seen anywhere else.
Suffice it to say (and for mostly unrelated reasons), he didn't get accepted. Maybe it's more of an American idiom, but usually when we say "suffice it to say", we mean it was for related reasons :)
Just like the American "could care less" is the same as the British "couldn't care less". Two nations divided by a common language as someone is supposed to have said.
I'm not sure what you're referring to; I don't know anybody that uses "could care less".
Just like the American "could care less" is the same as the British "couldn't care less". Two nations divided by a common language as someone is supposed to have said.
I'm not sure what you're referring to; I don't know anybody that uses "could care less".
Really? I seem to see it a lot, a regional idiom perhaps? However, the "table" example is much better.
Just like the American "could care less" is the same as the British "couldn't care less". Two nations divided by a common language as someone is supposed to have said.
A better example of phrases that mean different things on either side of the Atlantic is what it means to "table" a proposal. In the US it means "kill it", but in the UK it means "bring it up". If an American says "could care less", they're just being incorrect. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_%28verb%29