drc1912

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Thousands of rogue restaurant websites diverting customers to OrderAhead(geekwire.com)
17 points by drc1912 11y ago|5 comments
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Why I Decided to Leave Google - A Response(carpenterarevalo.wordpress.com)
13 points by drc1912 15y ago|0 comments
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by drc1912 16y ago
Thursday is a _HUGE_ night at bars (and restaurants with bars) for college students. A lot of kids will take advantage of happy hour pricing on Thursday night and lax attendance policy on Friday morning. This is anecdotal and I don't have
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by drc1912 16y ago
Can you please tell us a little bit about the data/population that served as the basis of this analysis (ex: how big is total population of data set, how big is the subset of users who went to both gym and park, etc). It would help us bette
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by drc1912 17y ago
To be fair, their marketing spend compared to their competitors was WAY higher than Apple's was compared to MS. Google did spend a lot of dough trying to roll this out.
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by drc1912 17y ago
Can we agree that it (according to the depth of the article) that this decision wasn't made based on statistical analysis, but rather just ratings? "ohhh... a bunch of people judged our video and liked it! Statistically we can't NOT do it
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Are you what you earn?(benhuh.com)
3 points by drc1912 17y ago|1 comments
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by drc1912 17y ago
This is why I couldn't handle working in the hard sciences. While there are breakthroughs every day, there is little time for institutions to go through and verify these findings before they become commonly accepted. It is astonishingly e
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Fearless kids go on to become criminals(thelastpsychiatrist.com)
1 points by drc1912 17y ago|0 comments
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What does a Google PM actually do?(futurevc.blogspot.com)
1 points by drc1912 17y ago|0 comments
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by drc1912 17y ago
Basic premise: Unless you win the lottery, doing what you love isn't an option. In lieu of that, force yourself to work as hard as possible so that you can be successful at what you must do (and learn to love the success).
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How to get tossed from a job application(benhuh.com)
3 points by drc1912 17y ago|0 comments
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by drc1912 17y ago
Reminds me of the "Human Flesh Search Engines" that form on Chinese BBS's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine
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Who Gets the Highest Ad Rates Online?(adage.com)
3 points by drc1912 17y ago|1 comments
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by drc1912 17y ago
A very good point about the disruptive innovator being compared to incremental changes. That being said, Yelp is in a much better position than Netscape was in terms of revenue generation ability/potential and ultimately that is what IPO's
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Netscape, Yelp, and the Tech IPO Boom of 2010(paul.kedrosky.com)
20 points by drc1912 17y ago|6 comments
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Connect the Dots Between Your Online and Offline Marketing(newmediacampaigns.com)
1 points by drc1912 17y ago|0 comments
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by drc1912 17y ago
"Mr. Bierfeldt, it turns out, was carrying the money because he was returning home from a regional conference of Campaign for Liberty, a group that supports Ron Paul, the former presidential candidate. " It totally makes sense to me that it
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by drc1912 17y ago
I'm going to his book signing tonight in Seattle. Any other HN people from Seattle going?
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by drc1912 17y ago
To the above poster, I believe you meant debt is the lower cost way to go, not lower risk.
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by drc1912 17y ago
Am I crazy, or does the subject of this post miss the point completely? Wasn't the whole point of this article the fact that the writer WASN'T an engineer, but that he intimately learned the product he was marketing, and that was what peopl
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by drc1912 17y ago
Video of Kara Swisher's visit to ICHC HQ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090803/kara-visits-lolcats-i-ca...
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by drc1912 17y ago
flowingdata.com FTW. They even have their own data visualization twitter app. Great stuff.