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by yid 15y ago
used underwear
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by yid 15y ago
Could someone please tell me why Hipmunk is so...well, hip? Why are they mentioned in the same breath as Dropbox, for example?
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by yid 15y ago
Nope. It refers to the region roughly south of South SF and north of San Jose.
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by yid 15y ago
FYI, it's been a while since FB was 200 engineers. The average size of the summer intern class itself is about 200.
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by yid 15y ago
That makes no sense. Mountain View is a real place. Silicon Valley is a nickname for the region, so saying "MV is directly adjacent to SV" makes no sense to me.
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by yid 15y ago
Perhaps put the bong down now? :)
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by yid 15y ago
The definition of active is absolutely not fuzzy. Standard metrics include 1, 7 and 30 day actives, i.e. the number of people who have logged in at least once in the last N days. Tracking those three over time gives you some good statistics
578.
by yid 15y ago
Have you dealt with the issue that checkins are almost impossible to verify in their current form?
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by yid 15y ago
Sounds a bit like hubris perhaps...
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by yid 15y ago
Pretty much the same as the Google nightmares you hear about. I've come to the conclusion that the average tech HR rep is just not competent. It's a level of ineptitude far below what an average programmer (for example) would be at. Then a
581.
by yid 15y ago
I'm a Facebooker, just not on the API team. If you think that silence is bad, you should hear about the ordeal I had with my HR recruiter. Talk about silence....whew!
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by yid 15y ago
True, but you've just demonstrated that marketing / PR isn't your forte, and you come across a little brash in an Internet forum filled with entrepreneurs and VCs.
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by yid 15y ago
How I wish more grad students dissected empirical data like this!
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by yid 15y ago
The essence perhaps, but rarely the entire template.
585.
by yid 15y ago
Natural language generation is an established idea, so you should definitely hit Google Scholar before trying anything.
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by yid 15y ago
In fairness, media pirates and revolutionary elements have never been prompt about paying their lobbyists.
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by yid 15y ago
> But if you look historically at most major open source projects, they aren't innovative. Most software isn't innovative, and open source samples from the same intellectual gene pool.
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by yid 15y ago
Just so you know, in SF that money will buy you a dingy room in an average area with roommates.
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by yid 15y ago
Maybe you should read the title before clicking the link then?
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by yid 15y ago
Chicago winters are where you come to atone for your transient enjoyment of other cities.
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by yid 15y ago
Interesting cadence to your comment, but the same could have been said of petroleum infrastructure before we had petroleum infrastructure.
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by yid 15y ago
That's essentially Flash / ActiveX / Silverlight.
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by yid 15y ago
Right, but the lower down in the stack they go, the more they deter the "casual" hacker. I think they want to bring down the sheer number of pirates to a level where the vast majority of media won't be pirated.
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by yid 15y ago
Interesting analysis of MS politics. Just curious -- is your information firsthand or through careful analysis of third-party sources?
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by yid 15y ago
Was I the only one who thought that Richard Stallman is the prize for destroying software patents? As much as I dislike patents, I wouldn't know what to do with a full-size Stallman at home.
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by yid 15y ago
One man's ass-pain is another's eccentric but ultimately reasonable idiom.
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by yid 15y ago
As kenjackson notes below, college-age students typically have everything figured out. As a sort of hangover from the teenage years, the world is astonishingly simple (the story of Asteroid Boy comes to mind) and traditional institutions ar
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by yid 15y ago
Hi! Idea seems fantastic, but some of your front page promotions say "sold out" when I click them. I feel a little cheated that they're still up there having sold out.
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by yid 15y ago
Isn't this MongoDB's approach to persistence?
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by yid 15y ago
Um...why was it being hosted off Comcast, instead of Linode (for example)?

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