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jackery··on What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs
That's actually closer to their quarterly earnings according to IAC's earnings releases (see search and apps) (http://ir.iac.com/results.cfm?Quarter=&Year=2013).
jackery··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)
Ask.com: DevOps / Tools Manager

Oakland, CA

About Us Join the #1 brand and top Web property focused on answering people’s questions. At Ask.com, we’re building a next-generation Q&A service – spanning both the Web and mobile devices -- that combines the power of search with insight from real users. Our proprietary algorithms crawl the web for question and answer pairs (400 million and growing), fueling one of the biggest Q&A databases on the Web. This unique technology, combined with answers from real users in our community, makes Ask.com the most comprehensive Q&A service around. At Ask, we empower each individual to succeed, communicate their ideas, and take action. When you work here, you know your contributions will have a direct and immediate impact on the company. We are serious about creating and maintaining a company culture that is both innovative and fun, and we’re looking for great people to come join our team.

I'm looking for a manager who will spend his time both contributing and building a team responsible for creating tools to automate technical operations. We're doing some pretty cool stuff at a pretty large scale and need someone with a unique familiarity with Linux administration and software engineering to manage our current Devops engineers and grow the team's responsibilities.

Salary and requirements are flexible.

http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=ot6bXfwr&s=hn

I also have an Systems Architect role: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qXY9VfwJ&...

jackery··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)
Ask.com: DevOps / Tools Manager

Oakland, CA

About Us Join the #1 brand and top Web property focused on answering people’s questions. At Ask.com, we’re building a next-generation Q&A service – spanning both the Web and mobile devices -- that combines the power of search with insight from real users. Our proprietary algorithms crawl the web for question and answer pairs (400 million and growing), fueling one of the biggest Q&A databases on the Web. This unique technology, combined with answers from real users in our community, makes Ask.com the most comprehensive Q&A service around. At Ask, we empower each individual to succeed, communicate their ideas, and take action. When you work here, you know your contributions will have a direct and immediate impact on the company. We are serious about creating and maintaining a company culture that is both innovative and fun, and we’re looking for great people to come join our team.

I'm looking for a manager who will spend his time both contributing and building a team responsible for creating tools to automate technical operations. We're doing some pretty cool stuff at a pretty large scale and need someone with a unique familiarity with Linux administration and software engineering to manage our current Devops engineers and grow the team's responsibilities.

Salary and requirements are flexible.

http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=ot6bXfwr&s=hn

jackery··on DuckDuckGo is blowing up
With everyone's concern with privacy, I'm surprised Ask Eraser isn't mentioned more frequently (http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/about/askeraser.shtml).
jackery··on Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks
A more comprehensive DB of various tips for MacOS: http://secrets.blacktree.com/
jackery··on AllTheWeb closed by Yahoo early April, no-one notices (1999-2011) RIP
We're just Ask.com now and are the 40th ranked site on the Internet according to April Alexa estimates.