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by idoh 16y ago
If you don't like the post, just flag it and move on.
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by idoh 16y ago
Why the random dig on product managers? Most [fill in the blank]s don't pivot either. I think it really comes down to the organization's culture and the executive leadership. PMs will often be asked to create a roadmap, and then that roadma
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by idoh 17y ago
Oddly enough, it is a custom in Taiwan to serve warm water. I totally don't get it because Taiwan in the summer is, as you said, really hot and muggy. I was visiting someone in a mental institution in Taiwan and the nurses kept giving him w
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by idoh 17y ago
How long did it take your dad to build it? What type of expertise is needed?
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by idoh 17y ago
This is true but that utility won't let you remap Caps to Esc.
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by idoh 17y ago
If China pays more for the barrels then so be it. It all comes down to who can pay more for it, because they are getting the most value from it.
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by idoh 17y ago
The article places peak oil at around 2012.
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by idoh 17y ago
I'm not contesting that we'll hit peak oil at some point. I am contesting that people have been able to predict it - lots of people have predicted a wide range of dates. Maybe some people will hit it, but that's luck (or indistinguishable f
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by idoh 17y ago
Sort of interesting to see the peak oil meme spring up again and again for over a decade and always be right around the corner. Obviously at some point the production levels will gradually decline, but people will either boost efficiency or
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by idoh 17y ago
It turns out that the Osborne effect is a myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect#The_Osborne_Myth
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by idoh 17y ago
I'll also cast a vote for YUI. Caveat - I'm a product manager and not a developer, and the eng team chose YUI on it's own. It really worked out well for the product - we were able to put out some really impressive features using YUI data ta
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by idoh 17y ago
Agreed. Blaming a whole generation is silly. If you want to play that game, then blame the parents of the trophy kids who decided that it was a good idea to give everyone a participation trophy.
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by idoh 17y ago
Do you have a source for Carl's role in eGroups? It is hard to tell whether he was just an employee at the company or something more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGroups
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by idoh 17y ago
It turns out that the iPhone is actually an excellent smartphone for the blind - check out VoiceOver.
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by idoh 17y ago
Damn, I got the name wrong.
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by idoh 17y ago
It could be UCSB. It's on the beach and the College of Creative Studies is pretty kick ass.
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by idoh 17y ago
Duck Duck Go is a game we played in elementary school. It has to do with a bunch of kids sitting in a big circle, and one kid chasing another around it. I can delve more into the rules if you want ... I don't know how this relates to the se
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by idoh 17y ago
Say hi to Tanya for me!
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by idoh 17y ago
Cover letters don't seem to be effective for me. But definetly make sure to customize your resume for each place you apply to. It's a mistake to just have one resume and use it over and over again.
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by idoh 17y ago
In San Francisco Unified there isn't a high school bus system, and the classes still start at 7:30 AM. It has more to do with hidebound teachers and admins.
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by idoh 17y ago
Penenberg: Fake is real, right? Fake: Yes. I can't tell you how many times I've booked an air ticket only to get to the airport and find out they killed my ticket because it goes into the system and the program tosses a ticket that says "fa
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by idoh 17y ago
Can you give a reference for that?
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by idoh 17y ago
Just to take a small example with youtube, they've created an entirely new ad platform. Building out an ad platform at that scale is by no means easy - there's an ad server, BT, targeting, reporting, payments to youtube publishers, not to m
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by idoh 17y ago
Both properties grew like crazy after joining Google. Doesn't Google get credit for excellent stewardship of the properties? For example, compare delicious/flickr -> yahoo to youtube/blogger -> google.
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by idoh 17y ago
Also, they use hacker news to communicate to applicants. I applied a while back, and one day while browsing I got a message through HN, something like "pg has a question for you" in the header bar. Clicking through is the question, and plac
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by idoh 17y ago
My bet is that it is for technical reasons. Whenever you see a reply link (among other things) the server has to persist a continuation for it. Getting all of those pages crawled must generate a massive number of continuations to persist. I
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by idoh 17y ago
It ought to monetize really well with ads because the users are intenders.
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by idoh 17y ago
Hello PG, when you reply to a comment, can you put the focus onto the text box? that way you can start typing without having to click into the text box first? It would take about 2-3 lines of javascript to make this happen.
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by idoh 17y ago
What does that mean?
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by idoh 17y ago
It's happened to me to. It's hard to go directly at competitors. Users will only switch if your thing is significantly better, by that I mean some multiple better. Anyway, it looks like you've got the skills to make something nice. Maybe yo

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