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The Age of the Product Manager(slate.com)
61 points by sheri 13y ago|42 comments
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The Long-Term Unemployed Are Doomed(slate.com)
47 points by sheri 13y ago|137 comments
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Birds Will Attack Amazon’s Delivery Drones(slate.com)
2 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
The video mentions that the aerodynamics of the car generates so much down-force that it could ride upside-down on the ceiling. Wow.
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50 years since the Kennedy assassination(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
Coin actually seems like it would be a pain from a usability stand-point. Say I actually put in lots of my cards in there. Now, I go to Safeway, I need to first keep clicking until I reach my rewards card. Then, I need to keep clicking agai
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by sheri 13y ago
Maybe I'm old, but I'm still struggling to figure out if Twitter is a short-term fad, or a serious here-to-stay concept (and thus a company) in our lives. I like to imagine say a 10-15 year time frame, and if I think the company w
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How Julian Assange spent a summer coding in PostgreSQL(mat.caminos.upm.es)
3 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
I find it quite incredible that these days a company can go from a position of almost unassailable strength to total collapse in a few years. That too in a market that is booming rather than falling. Blackberry had over 50% market share bac
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New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use(techcrunch.com)
118 points by sheri 13y ago|92 comments
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Google uProxy(google.com)
2 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
In-Q-Tel's own site list's their portfolio: https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/
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by sheri 13y ago
Something like a Yelp or Tripadvisor seemingly has made it seem possible for restaurants (or hotels) to not advertise anymore. If you provide good food and good service, your restaurant/coffee-shop should bubble up to the top and be se
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by sheri 13y ago
Advertising. Three of the largest, most influential and defining technology companies of our lifetime (Google, Facebook, Twitter) make money pretty much solely through advertising. Is there no other way companies can use this data to genera
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Voyager probe 'leaves Solar System'(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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Danny Lewin: The first victim on 9-11 and an architect of the internet(slate.com)
1 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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Google's N-gram: The Language Time Machine(slate.com)
1 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
Also see the Minnesota Vikings and the LSU Tigers colors.
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by sheri 13y ago
At the very least, they should give the connecting gate number, and if possible instructions to get there and to walk to the gate. I presume they don't do this since the gates are subject to change, so printing this up front could misl
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by sheri 13y ago
There is a tendency to believe that the companies which are doing well right now have 'won' in some sense. We need to understand that this is the state of affairs right now. There is a non-trivial possibility that Facebook/Go
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by sheri 13y ago
Last week I flew into SFO from Paris. I was called out at the Paris airport with another person (of Muslim origin). The person at the counter started asking me a few questions, and then asked me if we're colleagues. I said we weren&#x2
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by sheri 13y ago
In my Psych course in college we were told on how playing on gender roles can affect performance. Boys and girls were given a math test. On average they performed equally. However when they were given the test and told that the test was als
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by sheri 13y ago
I like the idea. Apart from the excitement of actually changing the iconic logo, it will get Yahoo a lot of eyeballs in these 30 days and create some buzz around the site.
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One Year on Mars: The Curiosity Rover(theatlantic.com)
1 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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Remembering the Apple Newton’s Prophetic Failure and Lasting Impact(wired.com)
3 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
I can't believe this comment is at the top of this thread. Ridiculous. > out in favor of saving tens of thousands of dollars and hire an H-1B. What evidence do you have that they saved tens of thousands of dollars with an H1B? They
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Down With Lifehacking It doesn’t make life better—it just makes us work more.(slate.com)
2 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
> Medical tourism, though very fine for a lot of folks who want a cheaper alternative, is driving up the cost of medical treatments in India by leaps and bounds. Any evidence to back this up? Your links and statistics are about how this
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NeverWet? More Like OftenKindaWet.(slate.com)
4 points by sheri 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheri 13y ago
We were living in a really crusty apartment back during college. The cooking range was super old, and over time we started smelling something which smelt like a gas leak. We called someone to take a look, and apparently the pilot light was

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