jaredmck

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by jaredmck 10y ago
Tell me about a time you hacked a system.
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by jaredmck 10y ago
What neighborhoods in Chicago are becoming more dense like this? I don't recall seeing this being too common.
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by jaredmck 10y ago
You keep saying Bezos used to work at McKinsey, but I don't see that info anywhere else? He used to work at the trading firm D.E. Shaw, and Amazon seems to operate in a very un-McKinsey way in many ways (i.e. they don't use PowerP
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by jaredmck 11y ago
Google has consistently operated as "do as I say, not as I do". They've rolled out these 4 ads above the fold off and on, in addition to Product Ads, and Hotel/Insurance comparison ads. Golden Rule: He who has the gold m
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Blekko acquired by IBM Watson(asmarterplanet.com)
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by jaredmck 12y ago
I would agree - however, it seems like Google is in a position where their algorithm doesn't necessarily have to be good, just good enough. And good enough basically means they don't torch any high-profile sites that would begin t
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by jaredmck 12y ago
He didn't? Steve Jobs attended Reed College (and according to his biography, it was the only college he applied to)
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by jaredmck 12y ago
The media certainly is not glorifying this enterprise. I read the New Yorker article as a massive, massive indictment of Spartz's business model.
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by jaredmck 12y ago
I think it's safe to say that's the answer - SpotHero is doing quite well and just raised a $4.5M series A, GiveForward as mentioned has crowdfunded a good amount of money for people's medical bills, and FeeFighters sold to g
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by jaredmck 12y ago
Ask.com & AOL are large chunks of change for the "google search network" syndication partners. This is probably most of the $3B+ in traffic buying.
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by jaredmck 12y ago
I think the usage of girls here is likely intentional and is a very important and much better word choice than "women" IMO - it shows the power differential common in many of these situations.
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by jaredmck 12y ago
I wouldn't say this drop in unique linking domains says a whole lot about the fall of valleywag - what domains dropped off, and at what rate? Is it just because of a certain story thread acquiring huge waves of links across other gawke
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by jaredmck 12y ago
Or it's possible that they want you to believe this? I find it strange that both of the Preston-Werners posted blog posts directly after the github post came out. Usually I'd think lawyers would not encourage this...
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by jaredmck 12y ago
This should be interesting - especially with all the delivery startups which were created following uber's success.
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by jaredmck 12y ago
I'd never heard of Algolia before, but their demos seem very impressive.
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by jaredmck 12y ago
Probably a good time to mention that Google Ventures invested in RetailMeNot. I think keeping these kind of coupon codes as a %rev affiliate model rather than CPC ads makes it easier to justify the high level of spending (much of which is c
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by jaredmck 12y ago
Your adwords rep will hide the complexities if you like - be prepared to bleed money all over the place though - in many simple, complex and esoteric ways. Most of those "no price listed" tools run somewhere between 5-15% of ad sp
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by jaredmck 12y ago
What are the first principles of journalism? What is journalism? For all the words journalists spend on this topic, I've never seen anything which makes a whole lot of sense to regular non-journalist people, often the crux of the journ
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by jaredmck 12y ago
This story is just another piece of the wu's marketing genius. Could it be true? Sure, so they may as well have you think about it - argue the truth, etc. Mystery shrouds the shaolin sword. Wu-Tang are one of the few music acts to real
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by jaredmck 13y ago
They don't have as high a percentage of winning the final round - 15/24 vs 14/26
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by jaredmck 13y ago
I get that it's easier to set up WPEngine, but this seems like one of those cases where you might be better off learning what to do - just set up a self-hosted VPS with nginx + varnish? At least if you're gonna have multiple site
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by jaredmck 13y ago
It seems worrisome that 60% of their text links are blogroll links - I'm not sure the stated penalty is all that's going on here.
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by jaredmck 13y ago
Might want to pick a real name so people can find the company...
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by jaredmck 13y ago
I'm not super familiar with daily fantasy (variance is obviously going to be huge) - but for NHL data check out extraskater.com - think he uses nhl event feeds. Features have been rolling out this year and it's easy to see tons of
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by jaredmck 13y ago
This is an interesting idea - Yandex isn't great in English but I'd guess with time they could get there if they focused, their raw tech is probably superior to Bing and they've been working on the problem for a long time.
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by jaredmck 13y ago
So does anyone know what they actually do in more detail?
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by jaredmck 13y ago
Note that the brewer didn't officially name his beer Frappucino - someone just checked it in on Untapped named as such (it was their vanilla creme ale with a splash of Founder's Breakfast Stout added)
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by jaredmck 13y ago
Yes, internal links can be extremely valuable especially in narrowly relevant niches like SO.
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by jaredmck 13y ago
Outing all your competition is extremely lame, stop snitching.
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by jaredmck 13y ago
They don't go to the same place - they go to different annotations within the same song which then link back into the full song page.

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