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Tell me about a time you hacked a system.

What neighborhoods in Chicago are becoming more dense like this? I don't recall seeing this being too common.

You keep saying Bezos used to work at McKinsey, but I don't see that info anywhere else? He used to work at the trading firm D.E. Shaw, and Amazon seems to operate in a very un-McK…

Google has consistently operated as "do as I say, not as I do". They've rolled out these 4 ads above the fold off and on, in addition to Product Ads, and Hotel/Insurance comparison…

I would agree - however, it seems like Google is in a position where their algorithm doesn't necessarily have to be good, just good enough. And good enough basically means they don…

He didn't? Steve Jobs attended Reed College (and according to his biography, it was the only college he applied to)

The media certainly is not glorifying this enterprise. I read the New Yorker article as a massive, massive indictment of Spartz's business model.

I think it's safe to say that's the answer - SpotHero is doing quite well and just raised a $4.5M series A, GiveForward as mentioned has crowdfunded a good amount of money for peop…

Ask.com & AOL are large chunks of change for the "google search network" syndication partners. This is probably most of the $3B+ in traffic buying.

I think the usage of girls here is likely intentional and is a very important and much better word choice than "women" IMO - it shows the power differential common in many of these…

I wouldn't say this drop in unique linking domains says a whole lot about the fall of valleywag - what domains dropped off, and at what rate? Is it just because of a certain story …

Or it's possible that they want you to believe this? I find it strange that both of the Preston-Werners posted blog posts directly after the github post came out. Usually I'd think…

This should be interesting - especially with all the delivery startups which were created following uber's success.

I'd never heard of Algolia before, but their demos seem very impressive.

Probably a good time to mention that Google Ventures invested in RetailMeNot. I think keeping these kind of coupon codes as a %rev affiliate model rather than CPC ads makes it easi…

Your adwords rep will hide the complexities if you like - be prepared to bleed money all over the place though - in many simple, complex and esoteric ways. Most of those "no price …

What are the first principles of journalism? What is journalism? For all the words journalists spend on this topic, I've never seen anything which makes a whole lot of sense to reg…

This story is just another piece of the wu's marketing genius. Could it be true? Sure, so they may as well have you think about it - argue the truth, etc. Mystery shrouds the shaol…

They don't have as high a percentage of winning the final round - 15/24 vs 14/26

I get that it's easier to set up WPEngine, but this seems like one of those cases where you might be better off learning what to do - just set up a self-hosted VPS with nginx + var…

It seems worrisome that 60% of their text links are blogroll links - I'm not sure the stated penalty is all that's going on here.

Might want to pick a real name so people can find the company...

I'm not super familiar with daily fantasy (variance is obviously going to be huge) - but for NHL data check out extraskater.com - think he uses nhl event feeds. Features have been …

This is an interesting idea - Yandex isn't great in English but I'd guess with time they could get there if they focused, their raw tech is probably superior to Bing and they've be…