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by gyardley 11y ago
The biggest reason is that most publishers completely lack the ability to set up and manage an ad server. Next would probably be that the advertisers, fearing fraud, want the publishers to use a third-party ad server with reporting that the
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by gyardley 11y ago
Putting your title or the fact that you were one of the first employees at a company on your LinkedIn profile is pretty common, no? Just to spell it out - that's the perfectly clear indication, not 'oh hi I have 125,000 shares o
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by gyardley 11y ago
What a shameful and short-sighted way for a business as successful as Yelp to treat an employee.
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by gyardley 11y ago
I'd just keep your LinkedIn profile up to date with a clear indication that you might have an interesting amount of stock (co-founder, executive, early employee, etc.) and that you're no longer with the company. When secondary bro
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by gyardley 11y ago
For men who had a bit of an awkward childhood (like, say, me, and perhaps some of you as well), perhaps the most important bit of advice about marriage is that your first serious relationship, should it happen to end, will not end up being
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by gyardley 11y ago
When it comes to Easter Island, since the evidence is too sparse to be overwhelmingly conclusive, whatever theory you lean towards is likely to be a product of your own attitudes towards the environment, colonialism, and indigenous society
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by gyardley 11y ago
Polynesian rats eat palm seeds, roots, and sprouts. That's not going to kill a mature tree, but it'll keep trees from replenishing themselves. According to the theory, when the rats were introduced to Easter Island, where they had
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by gyardley 11y ago
It's better than all the available alternatives in about 99% of America by area. There's no shame in going to a Starbucks in the suburbs, or when traveling in another country without a good coffee culture. The people who are snott
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by gyardley 11y ago
Oh, it's decent advice for right now. Of course, you probably need that decent advice because you listened to your VCs' previous decent advice in better economic conditions - "don't worry about profit, just grow grow g
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by gyardley 11y ago
You might very well be right, and I agree that the Republican base would prefer that the Senate just doesn't bother to consider a nominee until after the election. However, my impression is that independent voters prefer action to inac
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by gyardley 11y ago
While there is a tendency to replace like with like, that's because Supreme Court justices usually time their retirements to coincide with presidencies that share their views. In this case, I doubt it applies. In theory Obama could p
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by gyardley 11y ago
For all the people from HN dreaming of American immigration, be aware that 'US citizens' in this article (any anything else pertaining to taxation) should generally be read as 'US citizens and permanent residents'. Also
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by gyardley 11y ago
Aside from Ecuador being awesome (which it is), here's the takeaway, buried at the end of the article: But perhaps I simply never learned to travel luxuriously. It's absolutely possible to get the novelty he's after while l
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by gyardley 11y ago
Well, sure, and if it succeeds, some people will claim the success was in spite of the policies. Ideologues gotta ideologue, and all that. But that doesn't mean we can't learn something useful - since those 'wrecker'-sty
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by gyardley 11y ago
It might. I don't think it passes the Occam's Razor test, though - given Google, I'm more inclined to go with 'an algorithm did something automatically somewhere.'
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by gyardley 11y ago
What an utter mess of a thread. Look, social experiments of the sort taking place at GitHub are good things - they can teach us something. If their policies make the organization stronger, that's awesome - we get a stronger GitHub. If
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by gyardley 11y ago
Probably because we have no idea why Google shut down the site - they're not always clear and it's not always obvious. Stating that Google shut this particular site down because 'they were advocating for the interests of labo
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by gyardley 11y ago
Oh, the joy of being a product manager for the particular type of programmer who, by virtue of being a programmer, also knows absolutely everything about absolutely everything. This is the type that refuses to tell you if they think, comple
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by gyardley 11y ago
I'd encourage you to not make stark black-and-white statements about parenting, or judgements about parents who are doing it differently. I certainly wouldn't go about dismissing a parent's love for their child. In this cas
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by gyardley 11y ago
Life is short when your life is good. Make too many bad decisions (or have too much bad luck) and it turns out life is really, really long.
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by gyardley 11y ago
It's also so much more biased and cranky, to the point where I would've kept the original. C'mon, did Marty Peretz shoot the author's dog?
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by gyardley 11y ago
Oh, it's possible that the commenter had an unusual palate and he got some perfectly fine pairings that didn't work for him and him alone. Or it's possible that the pairings were selected lackadaisically or to reduce some inv
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by gyardley 11y ago
Eh, there are wines that go better with certain dishes than others. If you order a wine on your own and it doesn't go with the food, it's your own damn fault, but on a tasting menu with wine pairings it's 100% understood by t
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by gyardley 11y ago
No experience with ESOfund, but I've worked with brokers before to sell some of my illiquid, private company stock on the secondary market. It really depends on what restrictions have been placed on your stock. If you can sell some o
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by gyardley 11y ago
Since an 'eating people' scene was the one thing most responsible for the collapse of the entire Ultimate Universe product line, I don't think Marvel needs a reminder. The writer of that one still won't do interviews abo
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by gyardley 11y ago
I really wish people wouldn't link to ten-year-old drafts without checking on current research. The article Atwood links to makes some totally bombastic claims - here's the retraction and clarification of them: http://w
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by gyardley 11y ago
It's not that hard to get some liquidity on the private market, as long as you're not selling quantities so large they can only be bought by a fund. Just work with a specialized broker who does this for a living, and they'l
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by gyardley 11y ago
This is pretty close to how I, as a native English speaker, feel about gendered inanimate objects. I have no idea why so many other languages force you to stick a gender on something without any genitals. I would've preferred not to ha
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by gyardley 11y ago
Michelin's reviews have nearly always been in line with my own tastes. Yelp, not so much. A good portion of Yelp reviews are written by rubes who don't don't know what good food is, tightwads who prefer a low price over quali
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by gyardley 11y ago
People who rely on vision alone have never had their vision be spectacularly, embarrassingly wrong yet. Make sure you don't have lucky-product-manager syndrome, where a couple of good decisions early in your career lead you to rely on

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