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cnaut

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About cnaut

Co-Founder of Playbook HR. Building stuff for the future of work. Former Microsoft Bing Relevance PM and Stanford CS alum.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #32087273

    I love the built in pomodoro timer and the intentional goal setting

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    Comment #28223432

    I love this idea! I have used Flow Club a lot and this would keep me even more accountable.

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    Comment #24640968

    So this was something built internally inside a VC firm and then opensourced?

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    Comment #20775161

    Google Photos and Google Maps are underrated in terms of future potential for Google's business

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    Comment #17051339

    Whoever set this up should have taken Introduction to Web Security first

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    Comment #8496896

    +1 love to see companies with innovative interview process that go beyond standard tech interviews and really try get to know applicants. I chose an internship one summer just beca…

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    Comment #8455960

    +1 Can also confirm the ease of development for us (Playbook HR) and the joy of working with Jonathan and Daniel

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    Comment #8144766

    Does ElementaryOS run better than Ubuntu on it?

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    Comment #8143789

    Actually zimride got sold to enterprise. Maybe they needed to build out the two-sides of the marketplace before being able to actually do "ride-sharing"

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    Comment #8134726

    Incognito can still capture your location which will affect the ranking: http://imgur.com/7O04wwl

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    Comment #8134716

    There are a lot of others like fluc and non bay-area ones like orderup, favor, WunWun, kanga

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    Comment #8134693

    I agree. I wouldn't consider online learning neglected. The article mentions vowpal rabbit which is being used at Microsoft

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    Comment #8095492

    The justin.tv/twitch/socialcam founders sold their first startup's site (kiko - the first AJAX calendar) on ebay once it failed. The ending bid was over $250,000. Not sure if ebay …

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    Comment #8095486

    I love usemin. It is really simple and works perfect for my workflow. In development, it allows me to have all my js and css files referenced normally. In my build process, usemin …

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    Comment #8095476

    +1 for webstorm. Very powerful IDE especially if your backend is node

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    Comment #8095439

    The experiments data was the most interesting thing I found. I am in the treatment of an experiment involving driver referral emails

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    Comment #8076795

    Since Bing is only 5 years old, I would consider losses 2 years ago to still be early. Also, reported numbers were usually on Microsoft Online Services Division as a whole which in…

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    Comment #8076771

    I think you are confusing revenue and profit. The profit was down but that was mostly due to the acquisition of Nokia

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    Comment #8072688

    Revenue is actually up

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    Comment #8072683

    This is the not the case anymore. A lot of the early loses were necessary investments to establish the infrastructure needed to compete with google in search.

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    Comment #8071031

    I don't feel comfortable giving my amazon login credentials like a lot of people here. I think Unioncy ( https://unioncy.com/ ) has an interesting solution to this. They parse your…

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    Comment #8066888

    I like the philosophy here of "Move fast, optimize later". It is faster even if it isn't perfect for golang

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    Comment #8054825

    This is also interesting from the cloud storage perspective. Amazon is slowly making personal cloud storage almost irrelevant by providing all these subscription streaming services…