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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…

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…

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.

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 t…

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.

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 man…

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/…

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

This is a great excuse for buying the nicest computer possible - I need to compute in the future!

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...

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 t…

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 …

the "anticipated 5-star" safety rating doesn't feel very comforting...

I wish they published the raw data for this - it would be a lot easier to do analysis and visualization on it.

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 stirri…

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 wor…

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 tur…

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 dec…

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 t…

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.

the yammer strategy? copy a consumer service everyone loves, market it for enterprise, sell to microsoft in a couple years...

Yeah I think you'd have to add them - but how else could it work otherwise?

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. W…

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…

gg'ing when you win is so bad manner