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by sbisker 13y ago
If it is indeed the webcam and not Skype, it'd be cool to update the description and/or title accordingly. After all, it's rare to see a MS product given high praise around here - and they certainly seem to deserve it here.
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by sbisker 13y ago
Google definitely asked me "how many ping pong balls fit in an airplane" straight up back in 2007. Then again I like Fermi problems. :)
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by sbisker 13y ago
Eh, I'm with you right down to the point in the article where they start talking about this company Craft International who trained law enforcement snipers, and oh by the way were also at the Boston Marathon carrying backpacks with &qu
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by sbisker 13y ago
That may have been true a year ago, but a 2br apartment for 1k a person would currently put you no closer to the city than the outer richmond.
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by sbisker 13y ago
I'm curious about the patent he mentions filing, for placing the quadrocopter blades inside of the wheel. I'm not familiar with this field - is that a novel contribution? If so, kudos to him for coming up with a simple invention I would hav
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by sbisker 13y ago
I work at Locu over here - I was going to tell Adam his writeup made the front page so he could respond (I don't think he was expecting this), but I think he's asleep on the East Coast, so I'll post this before this falls off the front page
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by sbisker 13y ago
Fair; it's not for everyone - but that's really not the point. The point is that no one really thought "22 year olds" were capable of making an economic impact before YC came along. Hence, someone with the simple idea to say "Hey, we should
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by sbisker 13y ago
They basically just turned this into a huge experiment in price discrimination for those customers who genuinely feel bad for what happened. Those customers who feel bad and were originally willing to pay the full price savings will likely
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by sbisker 14y ago
San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA - Locu is hiring Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers and Visual Designers - Full-time; H-1B OK Locu is developing technologies to change local search ($35bn advertising market by 2014) through a number
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by sbisker 14y ago
I was hoping this would be an article about a real Google Graveyard...not for people! but for code. What do large companies like Google do when they kill projects? Surely they don't just rm -rf * the entire machine and repurpose it - do
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by sbisker 14y ago
I find that fact impressive, not disconcerting. (Perhaps disconcerting about the evolution of the internet.) It's not often you see a basically unchanged tech website over four years becoming more relevant to the HN community instead of les
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Data Viz: All Pistol Permit Holders in Westchester and Rockland Counties(lohud.com)
3 points by sbisker 14y ago|0 comments
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by sbisker 14y ago
I think there's a lot more meaning in the difference between 0 and 600 karma, than the difference between 600 and 23,000 karma. I was only speaking to my willingness to believe this guy wasn't flat lying or exaggerating about his position,
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by sbisker 14y ago
Huh? The guy is posting from an account with 600 karma; I'm going to assume his experience is at least as reputable as anyone else's here. Though it'd be useful to hear a slightly more specific example with the timescales and nuances on whi
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by sbisker 14y ago
Agreed that that's a good reason not to promise to delete the data. However, they don't even say they'll try to delete it, do they? Of course, "trying" is legally just a terrible way to not promise and still get sued. I get why their lawy
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by sbisker 14y ago
Wait, my engineer-sense is tingling. Why are they just deleting the key? If they really couldn't access the Poke after deleting the key, wouldn't they want to save storage costs by deleting the encrypted message contents too? Unless, of c
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by sbisker 14y ago
How's adoption of the customization looking? Curious to hear if this is resonating with people or if four options is not enough...or too many.
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by sbisker 14y ago
When bidding more than the "estimated value", the winner can write off the difference between the value and their bid as a tax deductible donation. So that's one reason to not go too crazy with the valuation - a more reasonable market valua
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by sbisker 14y ago
In fairness, the TechStars model isn't quite the same model. For instance, YC rather explicitly doesn't provide shared office spaces. The shared office space of a TechStars location is a large startup community galvanizer in the cities wh
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by sbisker 14y ago
San Francisco, CA - Designers Wanted at Locu ( http://locu.com ) Locu is developing technologies to change local search ($35bn advertising market by 2014) by creating the world's largest semantically-annotated repository of real-time small-
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by sbisker 14y ago
Funny, I was asked that exact question at Google. Granted, it was ping pong balls, and it was an airplane, but same thing. It was also 2005, for an APM position, coming straight out of college. Truthfully, for a kid coming straight out of c
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by sbisker 14y ago
You clearly haven't hung out with my grandmother. Schlep can definitely be used as a noun, and commonly is by native Yiddish speakers. (As in "Oy! What a shlep!" or "Picking you up during rush hour would be a shlep, how about you just take
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by sbisker 14y ago
I'd like to think this guy's question wouldn't be actively modded down for not adding to the discussion. Yes, people are supposed to read the rules and such, but I don't find anything wrong about legitimately asking the community for clarif
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Locu, Local Business Data Startup, Launches Today(techcrunch.com)
3 points by sbisker 14y ago|0 comments
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by sbisker 14y ago
I suspect it has more to do with applications for the newest class being due soon. When pg gave a talk while I was at MIT, it was in early October (of 2006 - yikes I'm old), about 2 weeks before apps were due (I didn't get in.) Apps for thi
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by sbisker 14y ago
I hired a TaskRabbit to pick up a large amount of IKEA and deliver it to my house. The TaskRabbit proceeded to show up an hour late with the furniture...because she dropped the furniture on her foot, breaking multiple bones. Once I heard th
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by sbisker 14y ago
[Interested in what we do? Come say hi to us and play with our API [ http://dev.locu.com/ ] at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon [ http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-sf-2012/event-info/ ] in San Francisco next weekend! -sbisker] San
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by sbisker 14y ago
It's not that he sent beer, it's that he sent beer with his own service. He was able to prove it worked, to an audience that needed that level of ease of use to be convinced it would work. The fact that he would get a free six-pack out o
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by sbisker 14y ago
Slightly off topic, but worth noting: In Boston, the fees coming from the airport are insanely regulated...to be very expensive. But always the same amount of expensive. There's no funny business there (I think). The fees look like they c
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by sbisker 14y ago
[These positions are for our new San Francisco office in Lower Nob Hill. We're also happy to announce a $4M Series A from the likes of General Catalyst, SV Angel, Lowercase Capital and Lightbank, to name a few. http://techcrunch.com/2012/

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