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You could check http://www.charitynavigator.org/ to see what ratio of the money goes to programs vs. admin costs and funding costs. The navigator has many entries for United Way as…

Yes - but TV screen sizes are advertised in diagonal length because it is assumed an aspect ratio of 16/9. For a given aspect ratio, larger diagonals imply larger area.

By the way, if you or you children need a quick and easy way to practice mental calculations, find an implementation of the game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_chiffres_et_des_le…

A note for readers who might think this type of resume could help land a job in a traditional company (AMZN, GOOG, MSFT, and any other software company, large and small, who employ…

Somehow I fail to equate Zynga with "dent in the universe". Netscape did make a dent. Google did make a dent. If you have the choice of where you'll work, and you want to work that…

HP ;)

How about a pure software product? There's been rumors of a cloud-music solution; or a relaunch of MobileMe.

You're off by two orders of magnitude.

Let's not rewrite history here. The API that was used must have been PAAPI since it's the only Amazon API that allows access to their catalog. That API has very clear terms of use,…

Amazon is still hiring ;) www.amazon.com/jobs I don't know if we're developing 3 times faster than possible, but from the inside it's amazing to see how many projects launch on any…

Cuil seems to be a company of hackers. Just have a look at the founders page: Anna Patterson? wrote 2 search engines (Xift and Recall.archive.org) before the GOOG. Louis Monier? ma…

I used US gallons.

If you cross the pond often, it's useful to remember the following: x mpg * y l/100km = 240 (or more exactly 235 and change, but 240 has more divisors and is easier to manipulate).…

Ok - yet another licensee of Anoto. Not sure why people haven't yet seen one or the other incarnation of this technology. LeapFrog had a product out one or two years ago. There was…

Is Hacker News the new slashdot or what? How come this entry made it to the top of the page? And a note for Erik Peterson: some future day when you discover that you need some help…