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by spyspy 9y ago
Have they settled on a dessert name yet?
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by spyspy 9y ago
This is the deal at every company. Every employee (and the company itself) wants to be able to say they turned a hackathon idea into a real thing.
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by spyspy 9y ago
So this is a matter of brakes being unable to be _disengaged_ from standing rather than engaged at speed?
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by spyspy 10y ago
"Uncanny valley" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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by spyspy 10y ago
This entire project is just an elaborate hack day project. There's no reason to fault them for trying new and interesting hacks to get it off the ground. They realized it wasn't the right method and moved on. End of story.
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by spyspy 10y ago
That link has no real info on their growth potential, it's just one analyst saying that it has some with no follow up.
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by spyspy 10y ago
> only 92 of the system’s 425 stations accessible > On average, 25 elevators a day stop working Do 27% of elevators really break down on a _daily_ basis? That is abysmal if accurate.
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by spyspy 10y ago
> when they seriously start releasing electric vehicles They've been "serious" for a long time. Chevy has been selling the Volt since 2010. If they were going to muscle out Tesla they would have done it by now. And it&#x27
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by spyspy 10y ago
Seems like a B2B. From what I can gleam from their website they use their proprietary "knowledge engine" to help businesses curate their web presence and connect with customers.
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by spyspy 10y ago
Full job listing: http://www.nytco.com/careers/
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by spyspy 10y ago
You could find something like this in or around most major areas.
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by spyspy 10y ago
West Philadelphia is mostly students from Penn and Drexel, at least up until 45th St. or so. The "hipsters" you're talking about mostly live in south/east Philly (Italian market, fishtown areas). Both are being gentrifie
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The New York Times Celebrates 75 Years of Crosswords(nytimes.com)
1 points by spyspy 10y ago|0 comments
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by spyspy 10y ago
I'd be curious to hear from those who posted in the last thread. Are you still working for a failing company? What happened in between then and now?
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by spyspy 10y ago
That URL does not work. Here's the working link --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851987
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by spyspy 10y ago
> elite institutions being the exception Having worked with a lot of people with "elite" degrees, I disagree with this a lot. I walked out of school with much more relevant experience than I feel they have (through both school
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by spyspy 10y ago
And, more importantly, believe that a 23 year old's salary is acceptable because they're "building the future" or "revolutionizing the space" or "times are tough industry-wide" or whatever the CEO pos
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by spyspy 10y ago
The last Messenger update is literally Facebook's 4th attempt to clone snapchat (poke, slingshot, IG updates, now this). They're desperate.
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by spyspy 10y ago
I keep coming back to the idea of learning erlang/elixir. Can you point out the resources you've been using? Functional programming is still a little foreign to me.
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by spyspy 10y ago
This project aside, I'm in love with that setup UI on the homepage telling you exactly how to get started given your current setup.
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by spyspy 10y ago
The NYT website has been online since 1996. You can't say they didn't see the significance.
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by spyspy 10y ago
Those are both opinion pieces, not NYT journalism proper.
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by spyspy 10y ago
And what do they really need to do?
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by spyspy 10y ago
Seems to be down.
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by spyspy 10y ago
Does anyone know if there similar opportunities for other European countries?
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HTTPS on NYTimes.com(open.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by spyspy 10y ago|0 comments
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by spyspy 10y ago
What defines a mid-level engineer?
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by spyspy 10y ago
MTA is already wildly overburdened. As much as I hate cars in NYC, you can't just eliminate an entire form of transportation without thinking of the consequences.
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by spyspy 10y ago
People will find the sources to support their argument regardless.
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by spyspy 10y ago
"Financial assistance" is also very vague. My parents gave me $20 for the train because I wasn't carrying any cash over Thanksgiving. Does that count?

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