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by athst 3y ago
The problem at Goodreads is not that they haven't made any improvements over the past decade that Amazon bought it. The problem is that they've only made technical improvements and other changes under the hood that no user ever n
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by athst 3y ago
Amazon bought Goodreads in 2013 - if you had interviewed after the acquisition, you'd have encountered Amazon's style of interviews, which is much more professional and better than the experience you describe.
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by athst 6y ago
How is this computed? It looks cool, but it's difficult to use as a book discovery tool unless you know more about why it considers one book related to another.
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by athst 6y ago
This feels like a missed opportunity. There's a lot of data Shippo could share about USPS and that would help add more context to what's happening in the news. But it's difficult to understand anything concrete from this.
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by athst 6y ago
Wow! Q3F! That was my absolute favorite game back in the day, and I was always sad how it fell off. I couldn't get a game loaded here yet, but looking forward to it.
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by athst 8y ago
On the applicant side, one of the more interesting questions I've been asked (as a product manager) was something to the effect of: "What is something you believe about product management that differs from conventional wisdom (or
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by athst 10y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes (though preference for SF) Technologies: R, SQL, Javascript, D3.js, Python, iOS/Android, Jira, Web Analytics Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.co
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by athst 12y ago
He uses node for the basic HTTP server to display the visualization, and he also uses NPM to manage dependencies for the project like TopoJSON
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by athst 12y ago
This is a great excuse for buying the nicest computer possible - I need to compute in the future!
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by athst 13y ago
This is really cool, but it is clearly heavily influenced in design by Viegas and Wattenberg's Wind Map: http://hint.fm/wind/ The creator should really acknowledge their work...
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by athst 13y ago
very nice, thanks. just a note - for some reason when I'm using it (safari OS X), the map keeps rendering on the bottom of the controls so you can't adjust the parameters and see the map at the same time.
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by athst 13y ago
This is a cool service for urban areas, but I wonder if it's really true that UPS or FedEx wouldn't just do this if it became popular. For example, I recently discovered that with FedEx you can now schedule a delivery for 5-8PM
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by athst 13y ago
the "anticipated 5-star" safety rating doesn't feel very comforting...
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by athst 13y ago
I wish they published the raw data for this - it would be a lot easier to do analysis and visualization on it.
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by athst 13y ago
I really dislike these kinds of posts that try to dramatize things with statements like Uber "has no customer service." It feels like you're trying to hold up the company by stirring up the mob. You should have given them m
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by athst 13y ago
This is a great idea that I would use all the time, but I don't understand this trend of posting long blog posts of company ideas. If it's a good idea, why don't you just start working on it?
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by athst 13y ago
This guy left a passive-aggressive, disrespectful comment and is now trying to act innocent when he got an angry response? He should just admit his mistake instead of trying to turn this into a broader issue like bullying in the tech commu
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by athst 14y ago
Something seems off about this. I think we need to learn more details about what happened at the company rather than just accept some vague idea that there was a bad purchasing decision. Should a bad purchase really be able to sink a comp
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by athst 14y ago
Market share? It's been shown that even though a lot of "android" devices may be out there, the majority of use and engagement from mobile platforms is still coming from iOS. See this post on asymco: http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/26/the-a
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by athst 14y ago
If you're making a mobile app, or especially something for tablets, in a lot of cases most of your users WILL be using Apple products even if it's not specific to iOS.
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by athst 14y ago
the yammer strategy? copy a consumer service everyone loves, market it for enterprise, sell to microsoft in a couple years...
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by athst 14y ago
Yeah I think you'd have to add them - but how else could it work otherwise?
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by athst 14y ago
Good idea, but I wish there was something we could see on the site before it was posted. I think this could be an interesting service for the launch of Diablo 3 in a couple week. With the difficulty of Inferno mode in combination with the
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by athst 14y ago
To me, it seems like they must have omitted the iPad share on purpose to come up with this huge share number that actually doesn't matter. I'm sure that they have the numbers - but if they included iPad, we'd probably see that the Fire's sh
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by athst 14y ago
gg'ing when you win is so bad manner
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by athst 14y ago
I don't understand - why should they allow AirBnB postings in the first place? When someone comes to Craigslist, I think the assumption is that you'll be doing business on Craigslist and not through a third party site like AirBnB. Why sho
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by athst 14y ago
Seems cruel to release it so early PST... how many people are going to wake up this morning having missed the opportunity to buy tickets? :)
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Jim Gaffigan releases his own self-published comedy special(jimgaffigan.com)
2 points by athst 14y ago|0 comments
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by athst 14y ago
I don't agree with that analogy. To me it's more like saying that your children should have different parents through elementary/middle/high school.
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by athst 14y ago
With today's acquisition news, I think this is a good reminder of what happens to a lot of companies when they get acquired. IndexTank was a good product, and it's a shame that they didn't continue with it. Yeah they open sourced everythin

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