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by robk 14y ago
No one really makes much money on interest anymore. Currently interest rates for short term cash holdings are very, very low everywhere you could park money. It's more about cashflow for Groupon versus actually making money on the float.
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by robk 14y ago
The Kernel (UK) had a nice expose on recruiter tactics recently as well. http://www.kernelmag.com/topic/the-kernel-recruitment-report...
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by robk 14y ago
Then he mentions booing him at an event at the bottom. Friends seems to be loosely meant.
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by robk 14y ago
The logins are often hard to grok if it's a third party API-level access. For example, I believe if you're using a mail plugin that uses App Engine, it will appear to have generated a login from a Google IP block.
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by robk 15y ago
This is a pretty good product actually for those that have small businesses. Wouldn't you rather receive a flyer in the mail than have a dodgy flyer guy putting it under your car windshield? Royal Mail (UK) has offered this for years and i
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by robk 15y ago
Great blog post. These principles are what really can prevent a company culture for changing for the worse. Of course this assumes there's a "culture" in place to start, but for companies that have one, this is really useful advice.
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by robk 15y ago
He was definitely a PMM. Started as an Associate PMM.
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by robk 15y ago
I understand their need to preserve revenue but it seems rather heavy handed to discourage 2-way communication so much.
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Why I won't be using airbnb again(romerotron3000.com)
2 points by robk 15y ago|4 comments
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by robk 15y ago
Ugh, as a driver I'd prefer not to have all my actions recorded regardless of whether it's beneficial to me. This reeks of invasion of my privacy and possibly opens me up to prosecution if the camera were subpoenaed in a criminal proceedin
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by robk 15y ago
Traffic growth remains strong, particularly ex-US http://trends.google.com/websites?q=foursquare.com&sa=N
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by robk 15y ago
Presumably he took quite a bit of money off the table in the secondary that went down last week. Good for him.
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by robk 15y ago
InSync[1] is a pretty close experience right now to using Google Docs as a Dropbox-like product. Surely Google will launch a desktop connector like InSync or otherwise buy them. [1] www.insynchq.com
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by robk 15y ago
Jungledisk is still around, although the pace of updates has slowed quite a bit. I like the option to choose between AWS and Rackspace too.
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Rapportive acquired by LinkedIn(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by robk 15y ago|0 comments
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by robk 15y ago
France is well known for being protectionist however, when it's a foreign firm competing with local firms regardless of the terms. I expect protectionism like this is probably timed around the upcoming election, which will feature several
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by robk 15y ago
I presume this is driven by the runaway growth of Flipkart in India right now. Surely Amazon wants to build a footprint so when they have products stocked locally, then can move to a full Amazon.com model with additional sellers also avail
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by robk 15y ago
Sadly this seems unrealistic given the constraints placed on student athletes and the time consuming nature of engineering studies. It's really hard to find blocks of time to work on CS projects when you're spending 6+ hours a day outside
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by robk 15y ago
Why would you and your brother have the same phone number? Surely you each have a different mobile number.
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No longer loving Google(somebits.com)
246 points by robk 15y ago|123 comments
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by robk 15y ago
There's little incentive in filling out a form that disappears into the ether. Given that Google's other web-based support tools are mostly useless and unanswered (Gmail support for example), this is not much an incentive to waste time fil
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by robk 15y ago
This seems rather contradictory with the general AdSense historic guidance to run up to 3 ad units and place them generally to the top and left side of the page (per various pieces of heatmap research often cited). Seems like this could be
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by robk 15y ago
Every VC associate will be using this in a matter of weeks!
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by robk 15y ago
This all seems really fishy. You'd think if this was really top-secret level equipment, there would be several failsafes and an inevitable self-destruct mechanism in the event it was out of contact enough to reasonably assume capture. The
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by robk 15y ago
All those that ridicule Google's product quality on iOS have never tried to use iTunes on Windows! And given that lots of Googlers have iPhones, it's hard to ascribe malice when just incompetence will suffice.
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Adobe acquires Auditude for $100M(gigaom.com)
2 points by robk 15y ago|0 comments
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by robk 15y ago
Site is slowing down... From the main page: How does Ridllr work? When you authorize Ridllr to access your Google Reader account, it downloads a list of other Google Reader accounts that you follow. For each of those accounts, Ridllr subscr
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by robk 15y ago
Cool, nice work!
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Fix the economy by fixing negative equity.(creditslips.org)
2 points by robk 15y ago|0 comments
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How to spot a liar.(blog.ted.com)
3 points by robk 15y ago|0 comments

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