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Google won with Motorola, and could have won with Groupon
(medium.com)
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5700+ Games, 50+ Systems.Complete Nintendo and Sega Sets
(ebay.com)
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Perhaps that's because Dava Newman -- the PI on the work and a tenured prof in Aero at MIT -- is a woman.
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12y ago
I was wondering why he changed his name: http://www.skypaint.com/baby/andresen.html
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12y ago
My world got a little smaller. Khot's advisor -- Sanjeev Arora -- was the guy who cemented my decision of where to go to school.
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I'm finally beginning to appreciate how my embarrassing behavior ends up trotted out regularly.
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12y ago
Just bought a seed packet. Very cool! Will the plants produce seeds? Reproduce? Will the glow genes reappears in successive generations?
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12y ago
The way that I think about TripAdvisor is that we have become a location that aggregates traffic that is interested in booking a hotel (or restaurant, or attraction) better than anyone else. And this is a nice flywheel: more reviews means
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12y ago
As coldcode pointed out, "being an OTA" is a lot of work. I'm not involved in that side of the business, but I'd take our public statements at face value.
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We built instant booking to make booking easier for our visitors. If you look at the phone booking experience on most sites, it is miserable. We've got some phone expertise, and wanted to parlay that into a much better experience. Ins
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I work at TripAdvisor and am quite enjoying myself. I'm happy to answer questions to the extent of my ability.
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12y ago
"However, an employer may make an employment decision based on the conduct underlying an arrest if the conduct makes the individual unfit for the position in question." Which is more than enough wiggle room.
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12y ago
The article alludes to data backing up what they're saying, but (as far as I can tell) doesn't actually reference any. It is just a collection of anecdotes. I have found that as I've been at companies longer, I'm more a
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12y ago
This is really clever! I'd love to extend this to a state-level tool. Specifically for Massachusetts. It looks like the sunlight foundation only works at the federal level. Could I generate a JSON representation of the state data and
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Anon attacks Boston Childrens' Hospital
(healthcareitnews.com)
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13y ago
Getting accepted into YC immediately values your company at $1.7M.
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Java Real or Not?
(java.metagno.me)
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I wonder if this could help with comments: http://xkcd.com/481/
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13y ago
You might be overthinking this. MachoMan and GirlyWoman had sex 28 times per month EgalitarianMan and EqualityWoman had sex 26.5 times per month. (numbers and names made up.)
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I dance into my pediatricians office to get my kids vaccinated. Then we get some shots. Then we do another dance, which has an accompanying song entitled "I just extended you lifespan!" We also talk about how we're going to g
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This may be my favorite line from a PG essay of all time: So the kind of people you find in Cambridge are the kind of people who want to live where the smartest people are, even if that means living in an expensive, grubby place with bad w
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I don't see any reference to "centimeter accurate" in this description.
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Most YC companies have at least two founders. Many have three. PG's language here: In the current YC batch, 16 out of 68 companies, or 24%, have female founders. is ambiguous. If we assume for the moment that the average YC company
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Tactical Porosity
(thearchitecturemachine.tumblr.com)
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"First, we have rolled out an over-the-air update to the air suspension that will result in greater ground clearance at highway speeds." Wow. Now I live in the future.
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4942 Munroe
(blog.xkcd.com)
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A better way to defer JS
(feedthebot.com)
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Is Linus Tovalds really a hacker? I think of him as a benevolent dictator bureaucrat.
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Hiring well is the most important thing any organization can do. Guess what accounting bucket that goes into?
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13y ago
I was using Unicode "scare-quotes". They may not have rendered accurately. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
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