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johncbeck.tumblr.com 12y ago

Why I’m No Longer a Professor

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time.com 12y ago

The SAT is part hoax part fraud

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touch.latimes.com 12y ago

Bitcoin near collapse

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members.wolfram.com 12y ago

Trade-in quality index created by an auto auctioneer and statistician

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www.yelpcontracts.com 12y ago

Yelp contracts

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touch.latimes.com 13y ago

A federal judge takes on 'copyright trolls'

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www.reddit.com 13y ago

Redditor invests $30,000 life savings in bitcoin a month ago when it was $25

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m.newyorker.com 13y ago

Can Hospital Chains Improve the Medical Industry?

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s3.documentcloud.org 13y ago

LA Magazine (1988) predicts life in 2013

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www.wired.com 13y ago

101 ways to save Apple (1997)

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www.openculture.com 13y ago

The Making of John Mayer’s ‘Born & Raised’ Album Artwork

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www.theatlantic.com 14y ago

The Man Who Broke Atlantic City

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

Neil Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web

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tapaboyla.com 15y ago

Foodtrucks Squabble Over Logo Design

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mobilized.allthingsd.com 15y ago

Game written by 14 year old passes Angry Birds as the top free iphone app

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ynzal.com 15y ago

IPod Touch case claims to add voice call and text messaging to Touch

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daytum.com 15y ago

Daytum iPhone app collates your personal statistics

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blogs.alternet.org 15y ago

Massive Censorship by Conservatives at Digg Uncovered

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encourageothers.com 16y ago

I used to play hockey. Now I Dribbble.

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fstoppers.com 16y ago

The iPhone 3Gs Fashion Shoot

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www.cellrevealer.com 16y ago

Reverse cellphone number lookup, privacy issues?

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news.cnet.com 16y ago

Verizon iPhone coming in January?

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techcrunch.com 16y ago

Groupon Brazil confirmed that the majority of the deals are not real

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www.foxnews.com 16y ago

Google Me to challenge Facebook?

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mackcollier.com 16y ago

Number of Twitter followers is the most overrated metric in social media

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earthobservatory.nasa.gov 16y ago

Sat Image of Oil spreading northeast from Deepwater Horizon leak

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torrentfreak.com 16y ago

Rapidshare kills reward program piracy concerns

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en.wikipedia.org 16y ago

The Social Network, movie by David Fincher

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Site/service connecting startup concepts w/ hackers for co-founding?

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www.youtube.com 16y ago

Lego printer uses world’s cheapest ink cartridge

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Restaurant Depot, we all go there. At least those of us in proximity of one.

Been trying to do this on a smaller scale (pooling the needs of restaurants in foodparks), and it is horribly difficult. There are so many factors at play (demand changes day to day, spoilage, etc.) Even with software to automate the process, the delivery logistics would be too time consuming for your average restaurant owner to get into.

As a former real estate appraiser, I am very Interested in your methodology and approach in valuing homes. Lenders require appraisals, do you find that the value you place on each listing come close to the appraised value?

I wish I had saved the article but I remember reading somewhere (and just paraphrasing here) that the team that works on the iPhone make it good enough so you'll use your iPad (tablet) less, then the iPad team makes it so good you'll use your MacBook less, and so on. I think it's great forward thinking to be always trying to put one of your largest product lines out of business as a way to constantly innovate. In so doing, you hopefully have less chances of having to lay off tens of thousands of people because you tried hard to stay ahead of the curve.

Glad to see you alive, battling, and bucketlisting, Amit. As a huge fan of Photojojo (considered applying a few times even), I am happy see that it will be in capable hands that you trust.

Make every second count and leave that shutter wide open. :)

I feel like any type of online review site must be moderated. I've seen firsthand the damage it can cause a legitimate enterprise. On the flip side, I've also seen the difference a 3 star to a 5 rating on Yelp can do, and it's not insignificant.

Precisely. This is deep in the trenches data.

Amazon will gain by knowing what products sell most at what time of the week. It will allow predict where to roll out certain services. One day delivery? Done.

Amazon has a truck fleet that look almost like Foodtrucks. I've actually seen a retrofitted Foodtruck selling Fire's and the new Amazon Phone by the beach in Santa Monica.

This makes sense for more than just Foodtrucks. The pain of fees is a very real thing for retail startups and if amazon is also going to give us a terminal that can take the place of a $3k+ POS system, then I'd be seriously considering it.

Student feedback should be valued for sure, but there has to be another way to evaluate a teacher's skills and ability to impart lasting knowledge.

Amazon Fire Phone 12 years ago

Plus, fine motor skills seem easier with my fingers rather than my whole hand having to learn to tilt in increments. I find that mobile browsing (especially with smaller text on my phone) involves smaller, fine movements that I can't imagine doing by tilting.

My conclusion is that to do lean successfully you also need to get off the web and get out and talk with potential customers face to face. Sometimes if you listen carefully they will hand you an even better idea.

Can't repeat this enough. TALK to your (potential) customers. There's just too much to learn from them to ignore this step. Not knocking on the mostly valid assumptions one can make off a/b experiments, but to tweak your product to its best potential, you really should hear and see your customers react, interact, and critique your product.

Uber Rush 12 years ago

Lawyers, accountants, the biomedical industry, real estate, the potential for tapping those markets are there. I've interacted with a few, and from what I've seen, they're loathe to try anything new if what they have works. Uber will have some creative marketing to do to reach out to these potential customers.

True, I'd be more interested in their actual resolution process and the steps they take to safeguard domain owners.

It works both ways though I think, the same steps they take to secure your domain are the same ones that will make it hard for you to get it back.