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by brokentone 9y ago
The market is all about growth -- they're projecting a pullback next quarter. It's also already priced in -- they're about 200% last year's price ($7.50). Investors already expected this news, they only beat estimates by
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by brokentone 9y ago
The article / study only seemed to consider specific ad buys though very particular conditions -- particular app / ad network and waiting till targets showed up in a geofence. It seems that an even simpler method would be basic re
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by brokentone 9y ago
At this point (trying to be a good citizen, not using an ad blocker) the ads on the site lock up my computer, and a simple lookup turns into a substantial time investment. Vs MDN doesn't have this issue.
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by brokentone 9y ago
Moving from unrealized to realized cost faster, sure is worse to a quarter, etc, but eventually it will all be realized. It is on their balance sheets in some way regardless. The bigger picture is that human capital to assess all the claims
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by brokentone 9y ago
The insurance investigators appear to be commercially licensed.
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by brokentone 9y ago
Seems like the article is incomplete. Another hour or two of investigation, actually proving a malware connection would have been really interesting. TLDR: It's not a legitimate site, they're probably doing something silly, though
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by brokentone 9y ago
This is the best thing I have ever read on Hacker News. This is my only comment on the matter.
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by brokentone 10y ago
I can't think of a single website I know that uses JS to intelligently load thing via connection-speed sniffing. It's a nice thought, but it doesn't happen. There used to be JS fills for responsive imagery -- it was never con
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by brokentone 10y ago
I'm not sure the article did well answering the headline. I now know that there is a mainframe (emulator it seems from additional research) that returns API responses very quickly (1-6ms) TO a Java app... which apparently is inefficien
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by brokentone 10y ago
One of my favorite videos, BBC Horizon's 20 year old Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus. There are details of "the elephant's foot" at around 16m. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x223h9r_bbc-horizo
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by brokentone 10y ago
I'm not sure -- you could make the argument that without dollars exchanged, the value of Google's algorithm is less. The overall irony that I'm attempting to express is that this person is part of a governmental "trust a
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by brokentone 10y ago
The actual components seem interesting. The odd part of this seems to be the building/requiring process. It seems that there are some implicit dependencies on webpack, which are not well spelled out. It appears the team chose to make a
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by brokentone 10y ago
Wait, someone who Amazon does not trust to send them money, is securing travel in the US? That seems problematic.
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by brokentone 10y ago
Obviously this ad network can do what they want. They can work with or not work with any website they desire. But I do worry about companies who control money becoming vigilantes attempting to support points of view they agree with and squa
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by brokentone 10y ago
Was most interested in this point: > According to KISSMetrics, every additional second of load time for a page will increase its bounce rate by 7%. Awesome, actionable metric. However, all I can find in the linked page is this, which is
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by brokentone 10y ago
I would like to take roughly the "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" approach here and suggest that it's not an intentional crippling, but the fact that the product developers likely do
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by brokentone 10y ago
Excellent question. I know of no answer, but maybe part of the issue of terrible TOS's is lack of resources to write good ones?
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by brokentone 10y ago
This is very true. However, I wonder if we as engineers and the like can provide a better TLDR ratings guide for marketplaces. Kinda like https://tosdr.org/ or a BBB that works... Then we as engineers refuse to build apps f
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by brokentone 10y ago
Can we change the headline to something less clickbaity? "Kerbal Space Program: There's no easy way to say this" etc...
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by brokentone 10y ago
This is a bit of a slippery slope -- food, water, almost anything you could suggest "ought" to be give away for free.
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by brokentone 10y ago
Do we need a payment system and chat client connected as a "platform"? Seems like an odd collection of things, and can't imagine that a startup would have reasonable expertise in chat AND payments.
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by brokentone 10y ago
[paywalled article]
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by brokentone 10y ago
I was going to say, isn't this old news? I thought IAC owned them for a while... and they did. Dang old story.
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by brokentone 10y ago
It's an engine -- it shouldn't bring much that is different. Having hundreds of frameworks, platforms, etc isn't great, but having at least one alternate is awesome. Minimally it allows for a larger collection of minds to dea
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by brokentone 10y ago
Nice research on the topic! I wish there were a way to algorithmically do this. Cluster content, show on a timeline, show quotes and obvious rewording to make clear what influenced what...
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by brokentone 10y ago
(disclosure, used to work for GB), but doubtful that changed much. It's likely the fact that feeds have been dominated by published and pirated content for a long time. Individuals are publishing less: http://www.inc.com&#x2
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by brokentone 10y ago
Well, similar to REST, security is not in the spec, but in the implementation. Different than REST, comes introspection. You would have to advertise fields and mutations to some people that you wouldn't to others, which is a bit of an
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by brokentone 10y ago
Awkward auto-inserted blog ad after that post... > ... And to anyone considering programming as a career, or trying to get into it… stay away from PHP. There’s lots of fun, interesting languages out there that also get the job done quick
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by brokentone 10y ago
It was the hottest thing a 2-4 years ago. Hype is probably the biggest association anyone who lived through that and didn't drink the coolaid has.
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by brokentone 10y ago
Some of the difference: > differentiating medical from non-medical collection agency accounts. This will help ensure that medical collections have a lower impact on the score, commensurate with the credit risk they represent. These enhan

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