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by smartician 14y ago
Maybe I'm becoming cynical, but reading memos like this makes me resent the cubicle world of Corporate America more and more. How about Hawaiian Shirt Friday? Can you change corporate culture by removing turnstiles and parking barriers?
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by smartician 14y ago
Is this the "embargo" breaker? http://gigaom.com/2012/08/23/car-sharing-service-lyft-goes-p... But in any case, this is not Watergate. I don't get why it's such a big deal to be the first to report on yet another startup product launch.
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by smartician 14y ago
There are multiple problems with this chart: 1. It looks like it tracks the average compensation, which is easily skewed by a few high income earners whose wages grew disproportionately (investment bankers, lawyers). 2. It doesn't say anyth
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by smartician 14y ago
Australia and Canada both offer a points based immigration system, which allows you to move to the country even without a job offer lined up. For example Canada requires 67 points. You get 22 points for a university degree, 16 points for sp
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by smartician 14y ago
It's true: roughly every other version of Windows is awful. Windows 95: Bad. Windows 98: Pretty good. Windows ME: Awful. Windows XP: Good. Windows Vista: Errrrr. No. Windows 7: Sweet! Windows 8: ...
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by smartician 14y ago
I had the endurance to read through Cryptonomicon, it was long but still enjoyable. Then I bought all three volumes of the Baroque Cycle, but gave up halfway through volume 1 and sold them. It was just too much.
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by smartician 14y ago
Inverted AeroPress [1] (wow, today I learned there's a World AeroPress championship, and this method was the 2010 winner!), fresh ground beans with manual burr grinder [2]. [1] http://sprudge.com/aeropress-champion-marie-hagemeisters-win..
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by smartician 14y ago
I just wanted to give Eduardo a shout-out to build a company that provides a tangible benefit for low-income families. I know that in the US it's hard for this segment of the population to get into the electronics payment system, and I imag
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by smartician 14y ago
This seems to be a promo for their academic licenses: "Enter academic emails only."
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by smartician 14y ago
I fully agree with you there. It just makes the decision to sell their new game as free with IAP even more questionable. They should have just sold the new game for $4.99 up front. Even if only a fraction of the people who installed the fre
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by smartician 14y ago
Is it possible that unpaid parking tickets go to some kind of court record, which attorneys frequently check for client acquisition? It's pretty common for someone in any kind of legal proceedings to receive solicitations from attorneys.
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by smartician 14y ago
So their first game sold for $2.99 up front and earned them $20k-$40k for two years. I would call that successful. Then, for their second game, instead of sticking to what works, they made the decision to switch to a freemium model, and mad
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Germany: Facebook must destroy its facial recognition database(arstechnica.com)
196 points by smartician 14y ago|132 comments