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by winslett 7y ago
I’ve seen these types of decks pitched internally at blue chips as well. There, an audience being bewildered by innovative words is exciting. Get in, get budget approved, get promoted before the devil even knows you’re there.
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Using Siri with iOS Shortcuts and Cloverly to Green Your Commute(cloverly.com)
3 points by winslett 7y ago|0 comments
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by winslett 7y ago
Shameless plug, Cloverly has a air travel offset endpoint: curl https://api.cloverly.com/2019-03-beta/estimates/flight -X POST -d '{"airports": ["bhm", "atl", "sfo"]}&
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Astoria, Oregon creates revenue by not cutting trees(cloverly.com)
2 points by winslett 7y ago|0 comments
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by winslett 7y ago
Shameless plug: check out Cloverly.com for an API for Carbon Offsets.
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by winslett 7y ago
What are the tax implications of Evernote failing? Do the founders have to pay taxes on the investment that has been written down to zero?
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by winslett 7y ago
I was thinking "single point of focus."
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by winslett 7y ago
I feel like I should name drop Cloverly.com for this. It allows you to programmatically allocate renewable energy and carbon offsets for your purposes. Disclaimer: I work there.
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by winslett 7y ago
Yes! I spent 36 months at a company, which had organizational walls between product, engineering, marketing, and "growth". With these tools, "growth" learned they could inject messaging using javascript to nudge users a
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by winslett 7y ago
This post was causing my spidy-senses to tingle. It was reading like something I’d find on Zerohedge. Then, I got to this: > Ipsos, which conducts the quarterly poll for MNP, surveyed 2,070 Canadians online from March 13-24. I don’t trus
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by winslett 8y ago
I shot skeet competitively when I was younger. I competed at a high level. Unlike many other sports where competitors affect your play, the only reason you fail in skeet is because of you. The target will fly the same. The gun and ammunitio
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by winslett 8y ago
I like it. I like that it encourages human-to-human meetings through technology. I like the simplicity of it. Given LinkedIn screw us with permissions to access contacts, I always cringe when an app requires access to contacts.
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What I learned in 5 years at IBM(medium.com)
3 points by winslett 8y ago|0 comments
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by winslett 8y ago
His management has already nudged him to find a new job.
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How an early fundraising round happens(jonathansides.com)
1 points by winslett 8y ago|0 comments
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by winslett 8y ago
In a city like B’ham, with little ability to provide public transit due to low density and high per-capita costs, something like Bird fills a gap.
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Birmingham Entrepreneurs back Bird scooters(homewoodstreets.org)
3 points by winslett 8y ago|1 comments
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by winslett 8y ago
There are a few side-affects of technical debt that drive me nuts. These come from companies where developers are autonomous, self-choosing of time investment: * continuous complaint without action (i.e. pretending to be a victim of the sys
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by winslett 8y ago
The school is looking forward to your job application to be a preschool teacher. You'll have the following benefits: * $32k annual salary You'll have the responsibility to take care of the most precious little things that have eve
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by winslett 9y ago
I was riding my bicycle a lot at the time trying to figure out a availability solution with Postgres. I'd ride my bicycle (40km) 24 miles one-way to work -- each leg took a little less than 1.5 hours. I really only coded and prototyp
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by winslett 9y ago
‪If you know me and you know the experience, I don’t think any one person was to blame in that scenario. It took behaviors from a participants involved to make it as painful as it was. The example I gave of subversion wasn’t just one bad ac
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by winslett 9y ago
Nails it... > The co-founder dysfunction impacts everyone in and around the company, but mostly the team underneath the founders. It is like being in a family where mom and dad aren’t getting along. There is stress and strain, messed up
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by winslett 9y ago
I’ve heard many scenarios like “transfer of human organs” as a scenario for blockchain, but I’m skeptical that blockchain solves problems in the tangible world all that easily. It is my perception that blockchain is great for trustless info
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by winslett 9y ago
I've got my money on Redbull buying them.
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How does proximity affect empathy? A simple survey on streets usage(homewoodstreets.org)
3 points by winslett 9y ago|0 comments
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by winslett 10y ago
Ha! Thanks :) The "genius class" on YCombinator isn't my intended audience. Those folks can go jump off a cliff. My intended audience is the average person who jumps in a car and drives without thinking what is beyond the wi
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by winslett 10y ago
I do recognize I have large gaps of data missing. This was written as a hypothesis on travel and randomness. To support kids activities in a southern US city, random time/source/destination of drivers is removed. Most people ha
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Unintended road experiments – how kids cause traffic(medium.com)
35 points by winslett 10y ago|35 comments
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Endorse gun control? Drive faster than the speed limit? You’re a hypocrite(medium.com)
2 points by winslett 10y ago|0 comments
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Tune Postgres cluster consistency per session or transaction(compose.io)
7 points by winslett 11y ago|0 comments

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