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by snewe 17y ago
Thanks for knocking something off my to-do list. However, what I really wanted (and I wrote an ugly version for myself) is an update for apartments. We were looking for 1-2 beds that allowed dogs/cats within a certain prices range, not in
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by snewe 17y ago
What about Google bookmarks? They are also private, you can export them and I suspect are backed up.
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by snewe 17y ago
For those with Wordpress blogs, here is a plugin to do the same: http://github.com/paulwilliam/wordpress-github-gist-shortcod...
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by snewe 17y ago
Important point about the cost of the original acquisition: "Even so, it’s important to remember that Google paid for YouTube in stock, not cash, that represented a tiny fraction of the company’s total market capitalization. (The deal was i
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by snewe 17y ago
Yes, but suppose it fell 11 percentage points from 90%. That would be a smaller real drop.
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by snewe 17y ago
In fact, IE's market share fell 17% (65.8-55.4)/65.8. Oh Techcrunch.
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by snewe 17y ago
I wouldn't say they are taking on Walmart. Here is the CEO on making money: "We're really not a retailer at all. We make no [profit] selling goods. We make money on the advertising side of doing coupons, sampling and keywords – like if you
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by snewe 17y ago
Are their fees competitive with authorize.net?
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by snewe 17y ago
The article does little to show hows maths brought down Lehman Brothers. Rather, it shows how important assumptions about the future (and your uncertainty surrounding those assumptions) are for structuring financial contracts.
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by snewe 17y ago
The article makes some strong claims about the statistical validity of their results. However, 1,000,000 observations is not always better than 3,000 observations. If the data are not representative, then a Gallup poll (which is) of a ord
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by snewe 17y ago
Direct link: http://predict.i2pi.com/
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by snewe 17y ago
He basically concludes that non-iPhone development has huge sunk costs (i.e. less competition), so it is where the money is: "The bar is set too low. Anybody can play in the iPhone space. All it takes is an idea and few thousand dollars to
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by snewe 17y ago
Original story: http://www.businessinsider.com/att-to-offer-iphone-3g-owners...
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by snewe 17y ago
How does this differ from: lala.com mp3tunes.com ?
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by snewe 17y ago
How much of this is just buzz-creation? It is next to impossible to verify the $'s spent. However, 18 months of time + volunteers does have a high opportunity cost.
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by snewe 17y ago
Here is the actual story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124269038041932531.html#mod=...
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by snewe 17y ago
Try wp-o-matic to import RSS feeds directly into WP. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-o-matic/installation/
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VCs Pay Business Plans Little Heed, Study Finds(nytimes.com)
20 points by snewe 17y ago|2 comments
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by snewe 17y ago
I suppose I pointed it out because the demo video was done on a Mac.
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by snewe 17y ago
You can do this on a Mac with http://fluidapp.com/ which I believe runs on Safari/Webkit. It allows for Applescript and plugins.
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by snewe 17y ago
Warning: opens iTunes.
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by snewe 17y ago
Predictions via regressions should always have confidence bounds. I am skeptical of the conclusions given that he has prediction for 1980. In order to estimate predictions he probably ran his model on 1970 - 1979 data. The confidence in th
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by snewe 17y ago
So points = number of tweets of a link? If so, it is HN/Reddit without the voting.
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Amazon Mechanical Turk Best Practices(smartsheet.com)
11 points by snewe 17y ago|0 comments
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Freebase topic descriptions and AJAX in Mechanical Turk(livewebir.com)
3 points by snewe 17y ago|0 comments
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by snewe 17y ago
Techcrunch blogspam. Direct link: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-search-power-t...
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Kiva.org's Founder on Careers and Feeling Alive(socialentrepreneurship.change.org)
6 points by snewe 17y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Duplicates Twitter, Launches Public Profile Text Updates(allfacebook.com)
2 points by snewe 17y ago|0 comments
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by snewe 18y ago
I assume that he is talking about payment processing: http://wufoo.com/docs/payment-settings/ We use it at Antiwar.com for donations...great way to create consistency in data across payment types.
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LG Outsources Some R&D to the Masses(crowdspring.com)
4 points by snewe 18y ago|0 comments

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