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by jedc 16y ago
I'm in the same boat as the parent... it's my main news source and I think it'll be worth my $15/month. I've waited until now because they've never forced me to pay before. But when a choice is required, it's a fairly straightforward decis
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by jedc 16y ago
I'd say the real problem is that the power circuitry _within_ the boats/ships are designed to handle quite a bit of load. But the physical connections _on/off_ the boat are likely not designed to carry it. To do this properly would requir
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by jedc 16y ago
Specific data: S6G full power: ~165 MW (A fraction of that available for electrical power) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S6G_reactor Affected Japanese reactors: 785 MW each (All available for electrical power) - http://en.wikipedia.o
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by jedc 16y ago
Former US Navy submarine officer here. The easy answer is no. The turbine generators are much smaller than the main engines and are designed to take much less load. Also, the cables, breakers, and connections can't handle that kind of el
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by jedc 16y ago
A few relevant links: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/update-to-google-soci... http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/2011/03/decide-what-worl... http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2011/03/more-picturesque-go... http://google-latlo
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by jedc 16y ago
It looks like if you're signed into a Google account, you can access profiles with this link: http://profiles.google.com/me
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Google Profiles updated again: now add photos to your Google profile(googlephotos.blogspot.com)
1 points by jedc 16y ago|1 comments
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by jedc 16y ago
I have a friend who worked for a "wealth management" firm here in Europe, and they had code names for all of their clients for privacy. One of his clients asked for the code name "962" because that was the year the family had made their for
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by jedc 16y ago
Looked up the NYTimes article... it's also installed on an Audi TT.
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by jedc 16y ago
I believe there are other models involved in the program; not just Prius-es.
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by jedc 16y ago
Not a huge update, but it's much cleaner looking than current profiles.
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Google Profiles just got updated(googlesocialweb.blogspot.com)
56 points by jedc 16y ago|36 comments
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Looking back – 1.5 years since “Copying Y Combinator”(blog.jedchristiansen.com)
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by jedc 16y ago
Completely agree. It's one of the websites that I evangelize about. Congrats to the whole Songkick team!
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by jedc 16y ago
Thanks for the links; I just updated the spreadsheet.
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by jedc 16y ago
It typically does, particularly if they can speak directly to your work. To get an interview it's typically more important that you could be a really good fit for the exact job, too.
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by jedc 16y ago
The key point IMO was his sentence "What what we knew and ultimately figured out was that we needed to economically incentivize advertisers to want to do a better job advertising to our users." Which leads to his point "Sometimes to find th
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The 3 most important things I learned from Google (part 2) (from employee #13)(googler13.blogspot.com)
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by jedc 16y ago
And there are a number of Cambridge grads here, too. (And quite a few that are YC founders!)
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by jedc 16y ago
And for anyone reading, Inkling is an early YC company. W06, if I remember right. (Hi, Adam!)
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by jedc 16y ago
There are offices in virtually every Western European country, and a good number of the Eastern European countries. (Germany has 3-4 good-sized offices.) Unless you're looking for something very specific?
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by jedc 16y ago
That reminds me of a saying that we used religiously back in the Navy: "50/50/90". If you have a 50/50 chance of making a correct decision, you'll get it wrong 90% of the time.
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by jedc 16y ago
> As far as I am aware Plastic Logic was never a product company, they were a technology company. As I understand it, Plastic Logic started as a technology company, but as their investors poured more and more cash into the business were
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by jedc 16y ago
As usual, the HuffPo article is much less informative than the paper itself. From the professor's site here: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/rivera... The following is the abstract: Although a robust literature in
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by jedc 16y ago
1. Go to Google Maps. 2. Click "Labs" 3. Enable "Short URL" lab. Problem sorted!
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by jedc 16y ago
Seriously? Any info as to when?
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by jedc 16y ago
To summarize that article, The University of Michigan Solar Car Team reached 105 mph at Ford's Proving Ground in 2010. It looks like they never officially called Guinness, so that's why their record isn't in the books. (I used to be the pro
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by jedc 16y ago
Anyone know the name of the tool TechCrunch uses to get the screenshots of the tweets? I remember them writing about it, but can't find the reference.
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by jedc 16y ago
Great post, Martin. In chatting with other YC starrtups that had already launched, is this a common feeling? The entrepreneurial mindset seems more geared toward building cool stuff, which makes the next stage of scaling/support much less f
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by jedc 16y ago
Then again, you should probably be careful of someone described as 50% hair! :)

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