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Hanselminutes Podcast with Omoju Miller on Redesigning Comp Sci 101 Education(hanselminutes.com)
1 points by Geekette 11y ago|0 comments
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5 Reasons My Startup Is Failing (And How I Could’ve Prevented It)(medium.com)
1 points by Geekette 11y ago|0 comments
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by Geekette 11y ago
Tax breaks are just some of the incentives. E.g. Dubuque also renovated a historic building for IBM, which cost money upfront. That said, I think tax breaks ultimately cost money, especially when the locals hired earn less than projected (t
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by Geekette 11y ago
If city officials bothered with a little research (assuming they don't already know), they'd find several examples of Big Co. entering and leaving small cities and towns without creating economic value equivalent to the huge incen
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by Geekette 11y ago
Just tried it out with the same pics I used for Wolfram. For one of the previously wrongly identified pics, Clarifai produced better results. For another, it miscategorized it with the same tags as Wolfram.
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by Geekette 11y ago
Interesting. Tried out a few pics from my desktop and it got some right and a couple wrong but I could see why in one case (ottoman cushions identified as "containers", probably based on shape). It would be really cool to see a re
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by Geekette 12y ago
As others have mentioned, it is not optimal for you to specify female devs only within your job ad. A more productive approach is to write a straightforward ad[1], include your openness to a diverse workforce and widen your ad circulation
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by Geekette 12y ago
Good for AdBlock Plus! Even if they lost, what's to stop hundreds of (potentially untrackable) clones suddenly popping up to continue helping users block ads? I guess it is easier for big press to push/bully to maintain the status
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by Geekette 12y ago
I would certainly discount info from a researcher who amongst other things: consistently ignored evidence disproving his assertions over time, was funded and endorsed by racist/white supremacist organization specifically to produce li
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by Geekette 12y ago
Refreshing to read post that highlights how abundant, irrelevant[1] and clickbaity[2] these how-I-got-a-zillion-insta-sales-and-signups "growth hacking" posts are. [1]Usually zero potential application for any other situation [2]W
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Parody of clickbaity posts on high sales/signups in no time with no skills(medium.com)
2 points by Geekette 12y ago|1 comments
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Even in Nursing, Men Earn More Than Women(npr.org)
5 points by Geekette 12y ago|2 comments
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by Geekette 12y ago
Great to see a successful example of a cross-continent, online-to-offline e-commerce startup. That Mall4Africa ships 4.5 tons of goods to Africa weekly reflects the massive and growing potential of oft-ignored or maligned W. African cons
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Bringing African Shoppers to the Global Mall(nytimes.com)
3 points by Geekette 12y ago|1 comments
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New documentary on Steve Jobs takes a more critical tone(businessinsider.com)
2 points by Geekette 12y ago|0 comments
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by Geekette 12y ago
Seems odd that the actual cost of tuition is not stated anywhere on the site and discussion on it is vague; all that's stated is that you pay it with your internship earnings + 25% of your salary for 2 years post-graduation. Seems rid
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by Geekette 12y ago
Interesting, quote that stood out:"Someone without an arrest may simply be a person who has never gotten caught". That only 40% of business owners would consider hiring a ex-criminal also makes one wonder how many employers in gen
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by Geekette 12y ago
I think even people who avoid others for superficial reasons realize that's what they're doing. I.e. They know deep down that the other person is not necessarily bad, but just don't want to engage them. Naturally, they won&#
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by Geekette 12y ago
Not understanding details of certain questions ≠ not understanding what people are talking about. Knowledge of subject matter ≠ quality of personal character. Not privy to details, but I imagine the YC partners have observed a high # of her
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by Geekette 12y ago
You appear to have a superficial view of character. Looks and awkwardness don't equate to, neither do they correlate with, a person's character (moral qualities). The 3 can occur in any combination and a person can perceive poor
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by Geekette 12y ago
"The takeaway is that part of what makes Indian food so appealing is the way flavors rub up against each other." The article seems to be a missive from the Capt Obvious dept, just apparently "datafied" with some study. I
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by Geekette 12y ago
The story reads so bizarrely: A man who loses interest in his wife orders her to move countries to his ancestral home as opposed to just divorcing her? Then she obeys and leaves her children to forges a new life elsewhere, makes no effort
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by Geekette 12y ago
Seriously surprising to hear that money-conscious lawyers might agree to such a piddly amount ($415M) from 4 companies whose collective market cap is over 1 trillion dollars. This is palatable only if it comes with significant sanctions an
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by Geekette 12y ago
When I started reading, I assumed it a sex toy company and was thinking this is one case where literature rather than samples would have been better (unless the reporter actually specialized in reviewing such products). ...Only to read o
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Founder in pursuit of press takes basket of sex toys, oysters, booze to reporter(sfgate.com)
8 points by Geekette 12y ago|4 comments
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by Geekette 12y ago
"...to me at least, Fountain will fail for one reason and one reason only: people do not like to pay for things on the Internet like this." I would normally agree with this, but I think if they focused on home renovation/repa
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by Geekette 12y ago
It is odd (or maybe just linkbaity) for Wired to bill this as a replacement for to "succeed where Quora failed". Especially in light of the fact that Quora focuses on a much wider base of users and topic areas, layered with intere
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Startup spams students under guise of internship offer(adayjchen.tumblr.com)
2 points by Geekette 12y ago|0 comments
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by Geekette 12y ago
Love this; what a great example of creative revenge! I thought we'd heard the last of stories about the bullying of ad clients at Yelp, but apparently not.
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How the Poor Can Afford to Live in New York(bloombergview.com)
6 points by Geekette 12y ago|1 comments

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