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This is a lot of fun. Congratulations!

Agreed 100%. Our (informal) manual for consultants used to say something like "The cupcakes in the break room are not for you. Most people will not care if you take a cupcake, but …

FWIW, this isn't the case at Google (or many other large technology companies). Google dictates the staffing agency markup (which is very limited) and audits for compliance. This, …

This could be because of the manufacturer, or it could be because your father is older than you. There's a small amount of actual data ( https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-…

It's answered (I believe) right below the chart: "Importantly, the data does not solely include TEUs arriving in a particular week. It also includes TEUs arriving in prior weeks th…

just wanted you to know that I found your site about a year ago (somehow?) and have always loved it. Nice work!

Based on the most active thread here, I think this article has accomplished its goal, which is to lead (smart) casual readers to believe that the congestion and associated delay ar…

DCRainmaker has a specific guide for a range of Garmin watches and machines - https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/07/how-to-upload-your-garmi...

Gimlet Media did a really fun story talking about Paul in the context of superpredictors. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/58-earth-pony/

Boy. As someone who actually runs a contracting + project agency, that looks to be of an approximately similar size as 10x (at least before this was published), this was lifting-ca…

These are excellent responses as usual, and I'm coming to this a few days late, but I wanted to add another answer for someone who maybe isn't willing to bite off quite as much sal…

Hark was a Capitol Hill startup (and some great people), but has been effectively defunct for ~9 months. http://www.geekwire.com/2013/hark-hit-wall-corporate-records...

Blake, you're right that the vast majority of PNW _vendors_ (i.e. technology service providers) are MS shops. That's because almost all (at least 95%) of the vendor ecosystem here …

Unnecessary ad hominems aside, you're confusing what we know now (BlogThis! didn't become big and important) with what was a realistic concern then (distributing easy-to-use one-cl…

That's right - they seeded nonsense queries with very specific results. Working assumption is that Bing was integrating clickstream data (either from ISPs or from the MSN Toolbar) …

Hi Michael - Welcome to HN, and thanks for creating an account and then posting a minute later. We're happy to have you. I'm not sure you're going to get very far saying (to your k…

Altay, I wish you the best of luck here - I hope this model works for you and your team. One thought for others, one for you. >>First and foremost, our clients are the developers. …

No 40Kwh models have shipped.

Does anyone know where we can find actual user reviews of this? I like the ballsiness of requiring payment just to see the beta, but I don't know what I'm getting for my $60.

SEEKING FREELANCERS - Seattle or Remote (NA hours required - we're on Pacific Time) We're looking for a few freelancers for different clients. 1) Ruby/Rails developer, primarily fr…