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by fleaflicker 12y ago
I didn't interpret the article as just listing Mayer's faults. It also says decline is inevitable for all big companies, and the process is accelerated in tech companies (like everything else in their lifecycle). Turnarounds are r
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How Game Theory Helped Improve New York City’s High School Application Process(nytimes.com)
1 points by fleaflicker 12y ago|0 comments
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by fleaflicker 12y ago
Always happy to talk and help if we can ... Ori at fleaflicker.com
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by fleaflicker 12y ago
There's no glory in jeopardizing your wellbeing. And it's hard enough to make money in any market, especially one as competitive as fantasy sports, where all the big players have massive audiences already built-in.
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by fleaflicker 12y ago
They moved many of their popular Java projects recently: guava, guice, closure tools, gson.
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Football, the Newest Partisan Divide(nytimes.com)
3 points by fleaflicker 12y ago|0 comments
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Resurrecting Smallpox? Easier Than You Think(nytimes.com)
15 points by fleaflicker 12y ago|0 comments
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by fleaflicker 12y ago
I have never understood why daily games are legal. The outcomes can be determined by random events like injuries or the weather. How is this not gambling?
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by fleaflicker 12y ago
For a site that is simply some text and comments, they have a staggering amount of downtime and timeouts. At reddit's scale, it doesn't matter what they're serving. The challeneges of serving that many pageviews are signifi
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by fleaflicker 12y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the most obvious (and innocuous) motivation: to expose young developers to google's cloud platform so that they'll be comfortable with it when they become big-time CTOs in a few years. The n
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Losing Our Touch(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by fleaflicker 12y ago|0 comments
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by fleaflicker 12y ago
Like any other company's engineering blog, a post like this can help with recruiting and it's also a nice way for the team to summarize and share what they built.
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by fleaflicker 12y ago
Probably not--the eCPMs you could get on AdSense in 2006 are way higher than today. This is true of all ad networks in general--the amount of available inventory has exploded in recent years, reducing prices.
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The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011)(queue.acm.org)
60 points by fleaflicker 12y ago|53 comments
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by fleaflicker 13y ago
Nice quote at the end: Gates praised Zuckerberg’s drive, but described him as “more of a product manager”, insisting that he was more of a coder starting with architecture where Zuckerberg “starts with products, and Steve Jobs started with
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by fleaflicker 13y ago
http://www.fleaflicker.com/ (A fantasy sports site.) Started solo, sold, bought back, now operates as a team of two but I am the sole technical member.
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AOL Chief's White Whale Finally Slips His Grasp(nytimes.com)
2 points by fleaflicker 13y ago|0 comments
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Let the Poor Have Fun (nytimes.com)
59 points by fleaflicker 13y ago|21 comments
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by fleaflicker 13y ago
There's a tremendous Louis CK bit about this trend: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zd2sRC3K9Hs&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...
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by fleaflicker 13y ago
Copies the source app's Heroku Postgres data, if present. Won't that take a prohibitively long time for large apps?
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by fleaflicker 13y ago
The referenced article: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/costco-ceo-c...
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by fleaflicker 13y ago
I like his idea for a co-working space but ultimately it will not bring the fulfillment he needs. Your work is not your life. It's difficult to realize this when you're young and hacking seems like the greatest and most important thing in t
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by fleaflicker 13y ago
You should customize the bootstrap variable that controls the navbar collapsing width. There's no need for a collapsing navbar if it has just one item that easily fits on all widths.
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by fleaflicker 13y ago
Curious analogy As a graduate student, he'd just found serious problems in a famous economic study — the academic equivalent of a D-league basketball player dunking on LeBron James.
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by fleaflicker 14y ago
I once heard Joshua Schachter describe this kind of acquisition by a public company as "somebody in corp-dev falls in love with your product and has to have it." In other words, it's not repeatable. This is nothing new. It happens all the t
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One Hundred Seconds of Solitude(nytimes.com)
2 points by fleaflicker 14y ago|0 comments
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by fleaflicker 14y ago
Not the first time this has happened! Fleaflicker sold to AOL April 2008, bought back July 2011.
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Self-examination is the Secret Ingredient for Success(nytimes.com)
128 points by fleaflicker 14y ago|36 comments
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by fleaflicker 14y ago
It doesn't work like that in practice. Football is very dependent on matchups. Coaches will vary gameplans from week-to-week to exploit weaknesses they see on film.
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by fleaflicker 14y ago
You'll find that the text descriptions aren't consistently formatted. It's tough to extract structured data from all play descriptions. For example, first initial plus last name does does not uniquely identify a player. You'll need accurate

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