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by jedc 12y ago
Completely agree. I wrote a blog post about it a while back [0], but to me the killer feature is being able to pin items as to-dos (or create new todo's unassociated with an email), and then flip the switch so that you ONLY see these
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by jedc 12y ago
It's over a year old; longer if you include the beta release: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_%28game%29
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by jedc 12y ago
MN native here. While those stats do seem to be right (citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by... ) they are for the city of Minneapolis only. The article focused on Minneapolis, but talk
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by jedc 12y ago
He gets that data from Seed-DB ( http://www.seed-db.com ) where you can see the detailed data, and median data where that number is meaningful.
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by jedc 12y ago
Answers to #1, #3 (implicitly), and #4 can all be found on Seed-DB ( http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators ).
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by jedc 12y ago
Xoogler here. One of the things I remember (and respected) most about Alan was his promotion of the Unconscious Bias at Work training. I found it to be HUGELY valuable, and would recommend it for anyone hiring or managing at a business of
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by jedc 12y ago
As someone who has actually used Google Glass, the camera/videocamera was the very best part about it. The killer app for me (and others that I knew) was taking photos/videos of their kids. My daughter knew what I was doing when
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by jedc 12y ago
Hey tamar; thanks for responding. Like others have said, it's mainly that the interface looks and feels like something circa 2001. I inevitably click into the wrong menu/interface/page for something I want to do, and it just
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by jedc 12y ago
I've been a beta-tester of Google Domains for months, and it's just such a nicer experience than GoDaddy/Namecheap. Particularly with GoDaddy, I feel like there's always a chance I'm going to click on the wrong thi
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by jedc 12y ago
I think you just described ROCKI! - http://www.myrocki.com/ They had a successful Kickstarter in 2013 ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rocki/rocki-wifi-music-... ) and went through Techstars B
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by jedc 12y ago
Blog post is from 2007! Things have probably changed substantially for both companies since.
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by jedc 12y ago
Full Contact does the same thing: employees get $7500 to go on vacation, but only get it if they actually go on vacation. https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-vacation/
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by jedc 12y ago
Yep, that's how I've always used/interpreted this same feature. I know the various different routes I could potentially take, and knowing Google has already calculated they're slower makes me feel better about the one I
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by jedc 12y ago
Unfortunately batteries require advancements in chemistry, materials engineering, and manufacturing processes... all in sync. While there might be capacity for a 10x improvement at some point, it's far more likely that progress will
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by jedc 12y ago
Former US Navy submarine officer here. First, this article clearly shows how nuts the US military was acting in the height of the cold war. Just... wow. On a more practical note, when I was on board my boat I read some of the studies&#x2F
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by jedc 12y ago
I believe the fourth point was something that has already been changed in the AdWords API Ts & Cs almost two years ago, as a result of the FTC settlement. http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/updat
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by jedc 12y ago
I've read one draft paper that does exactly that... Try to compare companies that have gone through accelerators to counterparts that haven't. I would hope it gets published sometime next year. I can't share the content (I ag
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by jedc 12y ago
They haven't exited, but prominent companies are: DigitalOcean, SendGrid, Orbotix/Sphero, DataRobot. (They've ask raised pretty significant rounds)
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by jedc 12y ago
You must not have read the article. There's an expectation that drivers keep their knowledge current. Certainly the examiners keep their knowledge current and test based on that.
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by jedc 12y ago
Maybe I wasn't clear... I was in a couple miles away at home and told this driver the wrong street (and no restaurant name) and he got me where I needed to go. You might put it down to "local experience" but I think it'
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by jedc 12y ago
It's not completely replaceable by technology. Once I had gotten a text from my wife as to where to meet her for dinner with friends. She didn't know the restaurant name, and had gotten the street name wrong. I just read the tex
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by jedc 12y ago
I disagree. I thought that his book framed the larger issues of stoicism well, so I could better understand the source material as the next step. (Particularly since some of the translations use language that's not particularly access
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by jedc 12y ago
Obligatory link to Hunter Walk's great post on exactly this point: http://hunterwalk.com/2011/12/24/its-fine-to-get-an-mba-but-...
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by jedc 12y ago
I _did_ read your post. But it was still my understanding that not everyone can get an account as easily as you describe. If you show up to the UK (as I did >10yrs ago) from the US with NO credit history, no lease (b/c of company
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by jedc 12y ago
UK current accounts are free, but I don't think they're accessible to all. Like the US, I think if you don't have enough credit history (or poor history) it's difficult to get an account.
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by jedc 12y ago
Weird, William Hill's corporate cheques are drawn from the very same bank branch where I have my account.
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by jedc 12y ago
You're looking at the wrong terms. These are the ones you want: https://developers.google.com/cloud/terms/
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by jedc 12y ago
Then it is exactly what it appears to be: a marketing incentive to get startups to try what Google believes to be a better offer! It might not be LOCK-in, but if it does the same thing (keep companies that are small but growing quickly on
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by jedc 12y ago
Points 2-4 would involve Google violating (likely) their own Ts&Cs with customers and (possibly?) state/federal law. But I think your Point 1 is highly likely. How many startups are going to build on Google's Cloud Platform,
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by jedc 12y ago
That happened quickly! They just raised $1.3m eleven months ago: http://blog.bergcloud.com/2013/10/28/berg-raises-1-3m-round-...

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