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You could check http://www.charitynavigator.org/ to see what ratio of the money goes to programs vs. admin costs and funding costs. The navigator has many entries for United Way as it seems each region has its own organisation.
Yes - but TV screen sizes are advertised in diagonal length because it is assumed an aspect ratio of 16/9. For a given aspect ratio, larger diagonals imply larger area.
By the way, if you or you children need a quick and easy way to practice mental calculations, find an implementation of the game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_chiffres_et_des_lettres on your phone.
A note for readers who might think this type of resume could help land a job in a traditional company (AMZN, GOOG, MSFT, and any other software company, large and small, who employs recruiters).
Know your customer. Your customer is the recruiter.
A typical recruiter spends less than a minute looking at a resume. Much less than a minute in some cases. This presentation makes it impossible for the reader to skim and get the salient point of why you might match the requirements of a particular position.
The only reason a recruiter would actually read this type of resume is if you were a referral. Otherwise, the recruiter will skip to the next resume on their stack.
Somehow I fail to equate Zynga with "dent in the universe". Netscape did make a dent. Google did make a dent. If you have the choice of where you'll work, and you want to work that hard, you might want to pay attention to how what actual value will come out of your work for the rest of us...
HP ;)
How about a pure software product? There's been rumors of a cloud-music solution; or a relaunch of MobileMe.
You're off by two orders of magnitude.
Let's not rewrite history here. The API that was used must have been PAAPI since it's the only Amazon API that allows access to their catalog. That API has very clear terms of use, and the terms haven't changed that much in the recent past. If a company decides to build a product or business using an API knowing that it goes against the terms of use, it is a huge risk that they have to assume.
Amazon is still hiring ;) www.amazon.com/jobs
I don't know if we're developing 3 times faster than possible, but from the inside it's amazing to see how many projects launch on any given week without any part of the machinery ever stopping.
Cuil seems to be a company of hackers. Just have a look at the founders page: Anna Patterson? wrote 2 search engines (Xift and Recall.archive.org) before the GOOG. Louis Monier? major contributor to at least one search engine (Alta Vista), and also said to have helped eBay.
I used US gallons.
If you cross the pond often, it's useful to remember the following: x mpg * y l/100km = 240 (or more exactly 235 and change, but 240 has more divisors and is easier to manipulate).
Illustrated:
10 mpg = 24 l/100km
20 mpg = 12 l/100km
24 mpg = 10 l/100km
30 mpg = 8 l/100km
40 mpg = 6 l/100km
60 mph = 4 l/100km
Small cars in EU are i the 4-6 l/100km range, or between 40-60 mpg. Sedans are typically between 8-12 l/100km, or 20-30 mpg.
HTH
Ok - yet another licensee of Anoto. Not sure why people haven't yet seen one or the other incarnation of this technology. LeapFrog had a product out one or two years ago. There was a startup at DEMO this year selling a product for students. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoto
Is Hacker News the new slashdot or what? How come this entry made it to the top of the page? And a note for Erik Peterson: some future day when you discover that you need some help for something you don't quite understand fully, you might regret having written that blog entry.