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gawker

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About gawker

http://mintspaces.com

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    Comment #5368135

    By nice, I meant that the presentation was nice and clean. And I understood each individual piece of data but I am unsure if I was supposed to identify a trend amongst teams or not…

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    Comment #5363748

    Very nice - although I'm not too sure what it's trying to communicate to me. Btw, did you have to pay for your stats?

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    Comment #5304834

    Forcing people to be in the office will not boost morale and productivity. There's probably a reason why personal and "side projects" are being done by her employees. Their work pr…

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    Comment #5295028

    Agree with the point that humans are fallible. We should always have back ups. A company with 1000s of paying customers should at least take steps to protect itself from this sort …

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    Comment #5178898

    Startups have limited amount of funds to invest in their human resources so they will always be look for the best, the ones who take initiative, who goes all out to make something …

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    Comment #5178004

    I definitely commend you for taking the effort :) If I had a company, I would love to have you on my side to help me point out my flaws. Your manager needs a reality check to reali…

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    Comment #5176618

    Agreed. I feel like it's more of an exercise to have some sort of vision but in reality, it's really difficult to predict what the environment will be like in 4 years. Looking at w…

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    Comment #5176584

    I think you've outlined just how undervalued managerial skills actually are. I have seen many that have claimed that they can take up a manager's position yet can barely manage rel…

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    Comment #5099019

    Sure but they have their R&D arm and they easily have enough cash to acquire upcoming companies. Granted of course, they will need to be smart enough to spin money out of those thi…

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    Comment #5097306

    Beautiful! Thanks! I'm probably going to fork it at some time to add something. I've been dreaming about this for a while.

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    Comment #5097294

    You would probably lose more than just a few banks if they didn't get some sort of money. The financial markets need confidence to survive as well.

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    Comment #5097265

    The company is still afloat and still profitable - he's doing a much better job than quite a few CEOs out there.

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    Comment #5066979

    Yes, they seem to express great shock when it's simply just capitalism at work.

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    Comment #4938978

    Hi Pierre, Would you be able to comment on how your process and decision on picking a speech engine company? Thanks

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    Comment #4933995

    I think it's absolutely great that they've donated all the proceeds to Wikipedia :) Congratulations. It's heartwarming to know that although there are some free loaders, you were s…

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    Comment #4916058

    Essentially, that's what happens when you take in outside investment. If you can build a cool product and bootstrap it, it need not be that way. Once you're taking in external shar…

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    Comment #4915771

    It's possible that their analysts division is separate from the investments division. Anyone from investment banking care to comment?

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    Comment #4881669

    In a sense, yes. D3 is at a lower level - basically taking any DOM element and mapping it to data. It doesn't have to be a chart or a graph. It could be a list of items or a table.…

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    Ask HN: Gmail plugin

    Hey guys, For those of you who have experience building a Gmail plugin, I have an idea but I'm not sure how to begin? I've noticed some extensions offered on the Chrome Store, Stre…

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    Comment #4847863

    As with most comments, I'd say very slick and straight to the point demo. The typing text did kinda annoyed me abit - it's probably a give or take as I don't have patience reading …

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    Comment #4819815

    I'm interested to know how this compares to private/Ivy League schools. It seems to me that you would also have a price to pay in order to gain access to top education although cer…

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    Comment #4814316

    Just wanted to say that I really love this editor. Really simple to quickly create diagrams. Great job!

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    Comment #4757328

    Great great job! I love the demo and love the clean interface compared with Trello. I think eventually you'll reach a point where you need to decide if this is still a side project…

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    Comment #4722737

    I think that's a very interesting thought. I deleted my Facebook account after I felt that it sucked up too much of my time just browsing status updates. Before, every so often, I …