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Just curious. Did the author get the proper permissions to use the MBTA logo in his map? It would be ironic if the map itself violated MBTA IP.

Definitely need a clarification. By comparison, Supercell which has the #1 top grossing app (Clash of Clans) and #4 top grossing app (Hay Day) was reported to have $15M in gross mo…

Yes, that is why it is very difficult to get a change of venue out of the Eastern District. That's just one of the reasons why ED Texas is so deadly. Others: In the ED, it is extre…

It's the result of an incredible bd and ad sales team. If you look at the senior team, esp in sales, it's a lot of very senior CNET veterans who took along most of their experience…

Shouldn't you narrow down "build a big business charging consumers"? Even in just digital goods, there are general software companies (Microsoft, Intuit, McAfee), gaming companies …

Actually, at very high volumes (where the non-recurring engineering cost is sufficiently amortized), the larger equivalent component is more expensive, since you are using more mat…

Even with that definition, there was Shozu, which was founded in 2001 and raised over $36M. At least by 2005, they had significant traction with their mobile photo sharing tools.

close. Lucky Goldstar

I would totally disagree that the theory is sound. The fact wrist-based actigraphy correlates at all with REM phases is not scientifically validated in any robust way.

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mint.com is/was another one

linkedin, hulu, rapleaf, flixster, zillow

I'm not entirely convinced that "society starts conditioning for gender roles very early". You'd have to show me hard data. On the other hand, there is fascinating evidence to prov…

Many companies would find similar behavior among their employees to be unethical and cause for termination. For instance, large retailers have strict gift rules in place so that su…

Here's one tragic result of forced gender assignment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer plus anecdotes from friends and family: ""When I say there was nothing feminine abou…

What's sad is that the longest comment thread in that post was about Java vs other languages. Not getting into analysis paralysis about technology is probably another lesson to ins…

posting this as an example of highly misguided thinking. though I am curious about "Three-fourths of executives at venture capital-backed startups say patents are vital to getting …

"Regardless, in the end a judge is going to be asked if a $1,000 passive investment really should be worth billions of dollars in 6 years. The answer to that question in our countr…

If you can make the cut at a top investment bank, hedge fund, PE firm, etc, it's fairly trivial to accumulate $1M in liquid assets after 10 years of work. Much much easier than try…

Since that quote is straight from the 1984 commercial, I guess I am learning from the master of hyperbole and reality distortion himself.

sorry, most of that early work was done by Woz. please demonstrate any significant code written or schematics created by Jobs.

Btw, it's this type of close-mindedness and insularity that leads to tremendous abuses in society. Witness the Catholic abuse scandals. Can one criticize the Church without being a…

hmm...ok, so a political dissident can't criticize a brutal dicatorship because he's never created a brutal dictatorship before?

We already know how much Steve likes the use of "freedom from"... "We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure …