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Entrepreneur and hacker, created one of the first sites on the Internet for buying and selling used cars in 1995: http://www.AUsedCar.com

Now working on BudgetSimple, one of the most popular online budgeting solutions: http://www.BudgetSimple.com

Twitter- @jamespanderson

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philanderson.net 9y ago

“The Honda Way” for Product Management

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philanderson.net 10y ago

The Pros and Cons of Unlimited PTO

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www.budgetsimple.com 11y ago

Why Our Startup Is No Longer Using Facebook

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www.bbc.com 12y ago

Mazda Software Update Literally Fixing Bugs

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jamespanderson.tumblr.com 12y ago

Facebook CPC – Don't Waste Your Money

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en.wikipedia.org 12y ago

List of Assigned IPv4 IP Address Blocks

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www.flir.com 12y ago

FLIR – Thermal Imaging Device for iPhone 5

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www.budgetsimple.com 12y ago

When I'm Rich

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status.uservoice.com 12y ago

UserVoice being DDoSed, currently down

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officesnapshots.com 12y ago

10 Best Startup and Tech Offices in New York City

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jamespanderson.tumblr.com 12y ago

Google parsing email for data to use in maps?

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figure53.com 12y ago

We Let Our Employee Set Their Own Salaries

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Write a Letter to Your Users

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www.slate.com 13y ago

The Family That Never Learned To Walk on Two Legs

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news.msn.com 13y ago

Google Sent Out 8,000 Invites Today for Google Glass

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Washington Post to Add Paywall This Summer

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answers.ea.com 13y ago

SimCity traffic AI is why services and traffic are broken

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Engineering Team for Sale

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What's Your Secret Sauce?

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www.owl.com 13y ago

Go to www.owl.com and you get AOL.com with an Owl background

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John McAfee deported to the USA

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How to Provide Unexpectedly Amazing Customer Service

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Valid Email Addresses

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twitter.com 13y ago

Labor Unions Shut Down FogCreek Bucket Brigade, Two Hours of Power Left

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How to Track Who Clicks Your Biz Dev Emails

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Michael Arrington and MG Siegler Return to TechCrunch

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Signed In Google Search is the Worst

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Google Launches Their Own Tag Management Solution

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mashable.com 13y ago

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www.bizjournals.com 13y ago

Hostage taker in Pittsburgh posting actions live on Facebook

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I see what you are saying, but it's also almost the complete opposite of a union shop. The huge differences that you don't have to work outside of 8 hour day (without time and a half pay) and you are also paid more than non-union people, but basically guaranteed pension and job for life if you get in.

Nexus 6 12 years ago

Good point and I agree, nothing left for small hands currently!

Nexus 6 12 years ago

It's ridiculous. I thought I remember someone saying the iPhone 1/3/4 size was designed to be perfect for the human hand and I agree. It's easier to make things larger, it's hard to make them small, how are we regressing?

Can We Trust Uber? 12 years ago

I may be wrong, but I doubt the initial laws were setup to protect the cab industry. It solved a problem of safety, reliability, and set prices with cabs. See third world countries where a cab ride can easily mean a kidnapping or robbery at worst, or a fleecing at best. I'm sure once the basic infrastructure was in place cab companies used their lobbies to further entrench, but the basic laws are there for consumer protection.

Can We Trust Uber? 12 years ago

We call them Jitneys or Hacks here in the US. Very common means of transportation in poor areas, but an app makes the same concept hip I guess.

Yo 12 years ago

I'm suspicious of the "unnamed investors". Has anyone done any fact finding, I'm betting these guys are just looking for PR, and saying they got 1.2m for a "Yo" app is a pretty good way to do it.

The salaries are not that much lower, and the cost of living is so significantly lower that you'd net more in Pittsburgh. I live in Pittsburgh and have had several jobs that pay over $100k. You can rent an apartment in the nicest hippest area here for $800/month (or less). You can own a home in a reasonable area for under $100k.

I speak from experience as sure my paycheck was larger when I lived in DC, but I could never afford to own a single family home. Now I own what would be the equivalent of a mansion in DC for less then what my suburban Maryland townhouse went for.

The really terrible thing is how hard it is to get those contacts OUT of the system. The best part is once you figure out how, they only let you delete 100 at a time (odd they had the capability to upload more than that at once). Just spent an hour last week doing this.

Or Hockey or Soccer? Concussions are common in many sports, soccer which is considered a "safe" alternative to football has the second highest rate. Also not unlikely to occur in Basketball or Baseball.

"and make their profit on the Internet because it costs so little to provide once the basic cable plant is built."

That's some big hand waving, because laying the cable costs a fortune, and takes many years to recoup the cost which is why there is so few are competing for this "super profitable" business.

Alibaba took off long before Mayer arrived. Regardless of financial improvements, the products have seen more innovation than the previous 10 years. I now have 3 Yahoo apps on my phone! Some improvements have been for the better, some for the worse, but she seems to have at least broken the "do nothing" attitude at Yahoo previously.

Lyft Plus 12 years ago

It explicitly says: "100% customized for comfort Settle into complete comfort with our fully customized 2014 Ford Explorers." So unless they are only accepting applicants who have 2014 Ford Explorers, it seems like they are providing the car here which seems like a substantial change...

When I was bootstrapping my startup while working a day job, I used to wonder how to answer that question. My product was bringing in more money then the company's costs, so it felt "profitable", yet not enough to employ me full-time. Seems like there is a difference between that and something that is just plain unprofitable (where the burn rate will eventually cause the bank account to go to zero).

But then I suppose you'd also need to compare the quality? Is the free healthcare paid for taxes as good as the paid healthcare after taxes? I'm not saying it is or it isn't, just makes it hard to compare. If someone doesn't take advantage of the free education what then?

Also so much of US taxes goes to military, which countries like Canada benefit from, in a sense our military spending subsidizes Canadian healthcare.