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by sajid 15y ago
I recommend reading 'Managing Gigabytes' by Witten, Moffat and Bell: http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Gigabytes-Compressing-Multime...
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Image sequence geolocation with human travel priors [pdf](graphics.stanford.edu)
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by sajid 15y ago
Some thoughts that immediately spring to mind: 1. Initially focus on the weight loss and quit smoking programs. 2. Create special landing pages for these programs and A/B test them using different traffic sources. 3. Incorporate the client'
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by sajid 15y ago
This is a great idea and could be really successful if executed well.
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Two ways for banks to win with IPOs(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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by sajid 15y ago
Erm, cdixon is talking about trust and reputation. I'm saying it's sheer numbers.
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by sajid 15y ago
This is something Quora should have done a long time ago. The Q&A format always seemed like an arbitrary constraint which hindered fruitful discussion.
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by sajid 15y ago
A simpler explanation to 'why now?' is that more people are online now than ever before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_users_per_100_inh... Sites (even niche sites) which would previously have only appealed to a small number
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Paul Kedrosky: Zynga may fall to $6 in 2012(washingtonpost.com)
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Even as Zynga slides, bankers reap big fees(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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What it does it feel like to realise that your startup is a failure?(quora.com)
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Coffee logic(mrburkemath.blogspot.com)
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Groupon to be investigated by Office of Fair Trading in UK(guardian.co.uk)
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GRPN(google.com)
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Working at Google feels like winning the lottery(plus.google.com)
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by sajid 15y ago
When someone starts out on antidepressants, their neurotransmitter [1] levels return to normal almost immediately. However, patients usually only begin to see improvements 2 - 4 weeks later. This wouldn't be the case if depression was simpl
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by sajid 15y ago
Death date removed from Wikipedia. Latest edit shows: "(Protected John McCarthy (computer scientist): Violations of the biographies of living persons policy: Rumors of his death added to page. May be true, but better to wait than edit war."
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by sajid 15y ago
Anyone got a reliable source corroborating this?
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by sajid 15y ago
On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPUsuY8JZJI
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Why Groupon is technically insolvent(cnbc.com)
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Is late stage the new early?(techcrunch.com)
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Why do pilots still die from not knowing which end is up?(airspacemag.com)
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Follow your bliss - sort of(theatlantic.com)
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by sajid 15y ago
Steve left out data mining and machine learning from his presentation and Bezos spotted it. Is that an example of Bezos' smarts or just a silly omission on Steve's part? Steve keeps emphasizing how smart Bezos is but I see no evidence of it
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by sajid 15y ago
Like Pinterest for classified ads? I think it would work well.
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by sajid 15y ago
Some examples of successful sole founders: Aaron Patzer (Mint), James Dyson (Dyson), Pierre Omidyar (eBay), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Bob Parsons (GoDaddy), Craig Newmark (Craigslist)
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by sajid 15y ago
> We have some great speakers lined up, details to follow shortly. Any idea when?
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Startup brings Flash games to the iPad(building43.com)
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Seeking wisdom(sivers.org)
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by sajid 15y ago
"When Amazon got its start, we had brilliant engineers. I didn't know all of them, but I knew some of them. Examples? Shel Kaphan. Brilliant. Greg Linden. Brilliant." - Steve Yegge Shel Kaphan: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan

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