Not that these kinds of questions dont elicit good information but to not hire someone because they couldnt make a good estimation seems overboard. And at the very least google should make sure their interviewers know the answers their judging everyone else on!
- Peter Butler
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I've been out on the tundra on one of these tours, I would have LOVED to have a bear stick his nose in and say Hi. They're such beautiful and incredible animals
- Will Higgins™
"Okay guys, who left the window open again?!"
- Holger Eilhard
...this reminds me of the Far Side comic where two polar bears are hovering over igloos, and one says to the other: "I don't know what you call them, but I love eating these things... they're chewy on the insides."
- .LAG liked that
Most things just aren’t built to last these days. Computers, cell phones, vehicles, televisions — good luck getting ten years out of any of them. Then there’s Tactical Canned Bacon. It’ll last for ten years. Ten. Years.
- Peter Butler
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So what's the real reason so many Beck fans think that he should not be fired? * They agree with him * They think this particular opinion deserves to be implicitly sanctioned by News Corp. * They forgive him this one moment of offensive idiocy
- Peter Butler
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Free burrito day at the new Chipotle = awesome.
- Megen Vo
I just ate one - not as good as I was expecting given it cost $10 but the pumpkin seed salsa was five stars - not to make you jealous or anything
- Peter Butler
What's the deal with all the pictures of him and Kim? I thought we weren't friends... At least Bill's not smiling in them, but it's almost like they are doing it so they can photoshop him later into more compromising positions....
- Fa La La La Lindsay
NYT: In 1992, Ariel Zev Emanuel, a young operative with the struggling InterTalent agency, had a problem with the rent on a $639-a-month walk-up in the city’s modest Fairfax district. The landlord took him to court seeking eviction, and won. Today, Mr. Emanuel has a $10 million home in the Brentwood neighborhood; a pipeline to the White House through his brother Rahm, its chief of staff; and a sprawling new talent agency of his own design, called William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.
- Peter Butler
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The club said Wednesday that it had signed Aon, an insurer, reinsurer and consulting company based in Chicago, as its principal sponsor, starting in the 2010-11 season. Aon will replace American International Group, or A.I.G., which chose not to renew its sponsorship after the company fell victim to the credit crunch and was bailed out by the U.S. government.
- Peter Butler
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You might think your job sucks, but at least your boss wasn't insane enough to remove all the chairs and install security so an alarm goes off if you don't walk fast enough.
- Peter Butler
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* 25% of all Web searches are porn related * 12% of all Web sites are pornographic * $2.84 billion in revenue was generated from U.S. porn sites in 2006 * 260 new porn sites go online daily
- Peter Butler
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But Huffington spiced things up when Swisher broached the issue of monetization. Huffington denied that HuffPo would ever consider subscriptions, saying “We absolutely never imagine subscriptions. Unless you’re selling porn, and especially “very weird porn”, you shouldn’t sell subscriptions.” Swisher cited a Penn Schoen & Berland survey that found that 5% of people would pay for blogs and 92% of people don’t pay for online content today.
- Peter Butler
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"It’s public knowledge that OpenTable charges $0.25/diner booked via the restaurant’s website and $1/diner booked directly through opentable.com (the higher charge reflects opentable.com’s value as a customer referral tool). The SEC filing tells us that these fees resulted in $17M of reservation revenue from 25M diners. Pulling out my trusty TI-83 and solving this linear equation ( 1*a+ .25*b = $17M and a + b = 25M diners) leads to the conclusion that 57% of diners book via opentable.com, and the remaining 43% book via the restaurant website. This tells us about the value of OpenTable as a marketing tool: being part of the OpenTable network yields roughly twice as many online reservations as a stand-alone solution."
- Peter Butler
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(Cristo: they said "online reservations".) This math isn't even close to true. Often I plan to eat someplace specific and then go book a reservation on opentable.com. If they're not on opentable, I go to the restaurant's website, and either call them or use whatever online reservation system they have (though I've never seen one that isn't opentable).
- ⓞnor
What is the advantage of using OpenTable vs calling? Especially for a nice restaurant, I want some human confirmation.
- Cristo
OpenTable is an online interface I know how to use. Restaurant web sites have terrible usability, and calling is a pain. So I'll go to OpenTable as my first choice for booking, then fall back to calling.
- ⓞnor
Now maybe if there was some incentive to using OpenTable, like if there were tables you couldn't get calling, that might be interesting. I heard a rumor that OpenTable could be hacked.
- Cristo
You get points, but they're not super valuable. Usability is good enough for me. There are pages about how to game OpenTable to get French Laundry reservations. (It's not really "hacking", just knowing precisely when to click to snap up the reservations as they're released.) But I'm told French Laundry is easy to get into these days, if you book a week or so in advance (a far cry from when you had to dial or click on the dot of midnight to snap up the seats that opened up three months in advance).
- ⓞnor
"You think Valleywag is a like a terrorist organization? Yes, in that it scares everybody. It’s terrible for the Valley, which is supposed to be about people who are willing to think out loud and be different. I think they should be described as terrorists, not as writers or reporters"
- Peter Butler
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"“If Mint has a record of everything people have spent in the past and the record of what they want to spend in the future, that’s a pretty damn good position to be in,” Patzer, 28, said in a May 6 interview. Mint doesn’t track the identities of its users, so there’s no danger of personal data being revealed, he said."
- Peter Butler
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"Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor."
- Peter Butler
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"# Thiel was down about 2% on the year, as of the end of March. # Stocks rallied hard in March. Clarium missed this rally. # Hedge funds in general were up +3.2% for April. Clarium missed that rally. # The fund lost $2.2 billion in assets between April 2008 and April 2009. # A marketing rep at another hedge fund tells us the fund looks more volatile than most, but that the funds historical track record remains impressive."
- Peter Butler
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Mr. Madoff listed family members, boat captains, housekeepers and others as employees of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, even though they never actually worked for the firm, newly released documents show. The convicted swindler also used his firm’s money to pay for real estate, yachts, private planes and country club memberships, according to court filings by the trustee charged with liquidating the Madoff firm and recovering money for victims of Mr. Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
- Peter Butler
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"We need an Adult Drunk Clown who is good at getting drunk and stupid. No need to do any clown tricks, just hang out and drink a shit load. We will be hopping around to different bars and want a clown to tag a long and drink heavely. He doesn't even need to socialize with anyone, just drink. the birthday is on Friday, Sept. 5th in Bucktown. Oh, did I mention that the clown needs to get shitfaced. Don't worry, we will purchase all the drinks."
- Peter Butler
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"Eight police officers serving with Scotland's largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, it has emerged."
- Peter Butler
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"In the Depression, smart college students flocked into civil engineering to design the highway, bridge and dam-building projects of those days. In the Sputnik era, students poured into the sciences as America bet on technology to combat the cold war Communist challenge. Yes, the jobs beckoned and the pay was good. But those careers, in their day, had other perks: respect and self-esteem."
- Peter Butler
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"Navy officers aboard the USS Bainbridge were in the midst of a drawn-out hostage negotiation when Navy snipers saw one of the pirates aim his AK-47 machine gun at Capt. Richard Phillips's back and concluded the American was in "imminent danger," said Vice Adm. William E. Gortney, commander of naval forces in the Middle East. He said the Navy ship was towing the pirates' commandeered lifeboat to calmer waters at the time, and the snipers fired on the three pirates from less than 100 feet away."
- Peter Butler
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