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Facebook created what amount to digital science experiments, complete with control groups, to see how users responded to Facebook ads.online.wsj.com
One little-discussed factor in those strong numbers: Facebook's creative and sometimes tumultuous efforts behind the scenes to prove to the advertising industry that social networks can stand toe-to-toe with Google Inc. when it comes to return on inves... -
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Trying to Run a Startup When Your Spouse is an Addict - Startups Anonymousstartupsanonymous.com
I often hear startup-related horror stories about founders who choose the wrong co-founder. But I rarely hear startup-related horror stories about what is arguably an even more important partner when it comes to startup success – your spouse. I’ve been... -
Number grows to 6 of Super Bowl-area hotels getting ‘unknown substance’ letterscliffviewpilot.com
UPDATE: Letters containing an unknown substance and the words "Al Qaeda" on it were delivered late this morning to at least six hotels within minutes of MetLife Stadium, drawing a massive emergency response amid heightened security for this Sunday's Su... -
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Making PHP Safer: Introducing Augmented Typestech.blog.box.com
Introducing PHP Augmented Types, a PHP extension that enforces PHPDoc-style type annotations at runtime. At Box, we depend heavily on PHP. While we have a diverse set of services that utilize a variety of languages, all external requests and most othe... -
Breaking Madden: The Super Bowl, in which the machine bleeds to deathsbnation.com
Seahawks-Broncos ends in the most horrific way imaginable in this season's finale of Breaking Madden. -
Man uses first-class ticket for year’s worth of free mealsktvu.com
A man in China discovered his first class airline ticket could get him more than just a flight. He used the voucher to score free meals and drinks nearly every day for a year — all courtesy of the VIP airport lounge. - msdn.microsoft.com
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Dear America, I Saw You Nakedpolitico.com
On Jan. 4, 2010, when my boss saw my letter to the editor in the New York Times, we had a little chat. It was rare for the federal security director at Chicago O’Hare to sit down with her floor-level Transportation Security Administration off... -
Breaking silence - The Techtech.mit.edu
I am writing this not because I know exactly what words are the most right to say, but because I know it is important: I know it is important, and I know that I am not alone. -
billing - Why do credit card forms ask for Visa, Mastercard, etc.? - User Experience Stack Exchangeux.stackexchange.com
You can tell if it's a Visa or MasterCard based on the number it starts with, i.e. 4 for Visa, 5 for MasterCard. Why do most billing forms request the type of card? It's not a barrier for bots (t... -
Solve the Adjunct Crisis by Hitting Colleges Where It Hurts —Their U.S. News Rankingsslate.com
Changes are afoot among us part-time adjuncts who shoulder a hefty majority of college instruction in the United States. We have, for now, the attention of Congress. We’ve got our own snappy hashtags! And we’re methodically organizing ourselves into un... -
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Age is largely irrelevant. - My Octopress Blogmaxehmookau.github.io
Age Is Largely Irrelevant. Jan 28th, 2014 I’ve lost count how many times over the last 12 months that I’ve been told how it’s done … -
Who wants competition? Big cable tries outlawing municipal broadband in Kansasarstechnica.com
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This Wall Street trader was making millions by 30 and left it all behind, here's whyfinance.yahoo.com
Sam Polk was a hedge fund trader on Wall Street who had made more than $5 million in bonuses by the age of 30, but he left finance behind and went on to start a nonprofit to help feed the hungry. He tells us why. -
User Onboarding | A frequently-updated compendium of web app first-run experiencesuseronboard.com
With just under 16 million members in nearly 200 countries, Meetup has to be doing something right with their onboarding experience. What might that be? Let's check it out! -
Watch out: your emails may reveal text hidden in Microsoft Word | ZDNetzdnet.com
If you paste text from Microsoft Word into an email, you may not see what the recipient will see, and this includes hidden text. Microsoft ought to fix this in Outlook.com. Until it does, the solution is 'Inspect Document', which also lets you remove h...