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  1. I’m excited to see a new crop of exciting startups in this batch!

  2. Is there a well-known sorting algorithm that fits the scenario described below? A wise teacher once brought balloons to school, told her pupils to blow them up and write their name on one. After the children tossed…

  3. Years ago at a company meeting the regional director was talking about the strength of the brand and how if you cut corners in quality you'll lose customers in the long run. He gave an example (likely apocryphal) of a…

  4. Gmail used to display actions directly in the inbox, like "Check In Now" for a flight reminder or "View this Pull Request" for a GitHub email. Here is a page describing the feature:…

  5. I've seen a few news stories on Softbank's Opportunity Growth Fund for people of color [1], but are there any specific steps to apply? 1.…

  6. I'm writing software to parse resumes from PDF or Word docs and return JSON. I've tested it on a few dozen resumes I have on hand, but I would like to test it on hundreds or thousands of resumes. Is there any place I…

  7. I know there are libraries to extract dates from text (e.g. "last Thursday" becomes a date object), but is there a library to find time or duration (e.g. half an hour or 20 minutes to a numeric value in seconds)?

  8. Messenger appears to be censoring swear words. Bullshit appeared as b* * * * * * *, that's how I found out about it. I haven't tested a wide range of words and I don't see any info about it online or in the app…

  9. These seemed to be big a few years ago, but I haven't heard much about QR codes recently. What is the preferred way of sharing a link in the physical world? NFC?

  10. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lynda-com I'm not sure if the Crunchbase data is complete, but they were founded in 1995, took on $289 million only recently, and then were acquired for $1.5 billion. With typical…

  11. When a developer friend of mine recently left his job after 7 years with his company he told me his starting and ending salaries, and I was a little shocked. He started at $50,000 and ended at $80,000 (averaging roughly…

  12. Just curious to know what other inboxes look like. I'm guessing you have more than one account, so to make the math easy, just go with the account that has the most, and include both read and unread messages, and those…

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