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arnoldwh

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About arnoldwh

I work on projects in Google Travel.

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    I think the "backlash" is a symptom, not the cause. The cause likely has a lot more to do with an unnatural supply constraint imposed previously as well as very little in the way o…

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    Comment #6889661

    As a power-excel user I agree with you that Sheets isn't quite there yet. Trying to use the same shortcut keys that I'm used to often makes me want to bang my head against a wall, …

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    Comment #6877417

    Hopefully, people can work together to what I think could be 2-3 good outcomes that help alleviate some of these very real problems: 1. Public Transportation: both inter & intra-ci…

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    Comment #6876993

    good news: UPDATE: Rodriguez writes that the "Google employee" was in fact a union organizer, staging a confrontation. http://boingboing.net/2013/12/09/tech-worker-to-san-francisc.…

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    Comment #6773952

    “My primary motivation,” Thoman said, “is because I don’t like playing games at low resolution.” I thought that quote was great. The modding community always amazes me for their fr…

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    Comment #6741977

    "...attracted the attention of Osama Bedier, the former head of Google Wallet, who’s an investor in Coin. Bedier spent years attempting to make Wallet the NFC payments standard of …

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    Comment #6560373

    It looks like how it lets you claim your money without your bank account details is by processing a refund. Don't know how they did it, but it's very cool.

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    Comment #6544807

    I hate to say it, but if I ran an art stand, I'd put up a few around central park right now. Wouldn't be surprised to see some stands going up to make money off the "halo effect" h…

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    Comment #6459749

    Here's the link to the Google Play Developer Policy http://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html

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    Comment #6293812

    "I am struck by just how many people there are working there on the floor. There seem to be too many whenever I'm there." Maybe that's more more of a load problem? They are probabl…

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    Comment #6176437

    It's a bit like a game. It's the investors job to eliminate false positives and vs. a first time founder, investors will typically have an advantage in that they've been through th…

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    Comment #6061286

    Love the indie game movement but think it'll take awhile for people to adjust to the higher failure rate that this will naturally spawn.

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    Comment #4130419

    I'd really love to be able to see an MMORPG take on politics like Civilization did. Would be interesting to see what happens...kinda Lord of the Flies-ish.

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    Comment #4119017

    Good to see more ways to share internet experiences with real-life people. Wasn't meebo working on some sort of web check-in thing? Wonder if there's something in the works around …

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    Comment #4065546

    The point I take away is a little bit beyond just realizing that you're lucky. That's important, and the people I've met that I consider truly successful (ones I would consider as …