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Co-founder at PrizePool Co-founder at LearnSprout (IK12 W12)
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jobowoo··on U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 6.52%, highest since mid-2008
How are these firms able to buy at such low rates? I thought these loans were reserved for owner-occupied homes.
jobowoo··on Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric cars
With a Tesla it’s only 20 minutes to get 80% charge. It would be more than sufficient to do the LA to SF drive. I’d imagine most people would want to stop at least that long during the drive just to stretch their legs.
jobowoo··on A coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (2016)
There's an update to the original post. What a lovely ending to the story.

http://www.askamanager.org/2016/10/update-a-coworker-stole-m...

jobowoo··on Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Colleges
I was able to find this site that compares average income by where students went to college.

CSU Stanislaus: $47,000 (early career), $90,300 (mid career) MIT: $81,500 (early career), $147,000 (mid career)

Early career is 0-5 years experience. Mid career is 10+ years experience.

https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors?pag...

Obviously, we can't say that prestige of college and income are causal but the correlation is definitely there.

jobowoo··on Welcome x 11
YC and ImagineK12 merged (http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/y-combinator-absorbs-edtech...).

Geoff is/was a partner at both YC and ImagineK12.

jobowoo··on Show HN: Real-time Fare Estimate Comparisons for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and Taxi
I'd imagine these would be added to all fares so as a price comparison tool it'd still be valid.
jobowoo··on YC Hacks Winner: Athelas – Blood imaging and analysis from your smartphone
That was the biggest thing I missed about Win7 when I switched over to OSX. However, there are several third-party apps that will give you a Win7-like window management experience. I use Spectacle.

http://spectacleapp.com/

jobowoo··on What It's Like to Fail
Why?
jobowoo··on Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook
GRPN is at ~6.8bn market cap right now.
jobowoo··on DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery
What alternatives have you found to be better? I'd be interested in checking them out.
jobowoo··on Poll: What chat service are you using for internal communication with your team?
In what situations would you choose to use one service over the other?
jobowoo··on Airbnb vs. Hotels: A Price Comparison
Did you notify AirBnb? Did they rectify the situation?
jobowoo··on How we wrote our app for MS Office 2013
I was the program manager who worked on the Word APIs. The Javascript APIs were not meant to be a replacement for the power of VBScript. Instead, we optimized design for apps that could be used between various Office products. The only Word-specific APIs are around manipulating CustomXMLParts.
jobowoo··on What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
I think smackfu is referring to folks not being able stick tot he low carb / no grain diet.
jobowoo··on Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar
Congrats to the Addepar team. Love what you guys are doing :)
jobowoo··on IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer
From a 30,000 foot level how does IFTTT and Zapier differentiate from each other? IIRC, Zapier is focusing more on business-related APIs but those are lines that I see eventually becoming very blurry.
jobowoo··on Applications open for Imagine K12 Winter 2013
I was part of the 2nd cohort to go through Imagine K12. It was an amazing experience. They definitely helped us really define our company during its formative stages and are still a great resource for us. We wouldn't be where we are today without their support. If you're at all interested in edtech, I highly suggest you apply. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.
jobowoo··on Microsoft employees getting free Surface tablets, new work PCs, Windows Phone 8
I think you're reading too much into this. Google gives out a free Android phone to its employees every year.
jobowoo··on Got a 4? You just got fired from Microsoft
Most college hires enter at level 59 (SDE/PM/SDET I)

Once you hit level 61, you're an II Once you hit level 63 (maybe 64?), you're Senior After Senior, it goes Principal then Partner.

jobowoo··on 50 bucks gets me further than a "business-guy" co-founder
This is a completely worthless infographic. My guess is that OP, ammystew, is just a shill for Funders and Founders. The account was created on the same day as FnF.