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by byron_fast 7y ago
And our competitors imitated us, and poured even more into it because they didn't have our Google rank and likely didn't understand how to look for bad "traffic". So in a tiny niche of e-commerce Google was taking in at
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by byron_fast 7y ago
I'm guessing most of it. Was giving them $5k / month, turned it off... zero effect. Other than no more traffic from Romanian blogs that were always 404. Out of our top 10 traffic sources, at least half were fraud from our Googl
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by byron_fast 7y ago
If you've been a parent, half in a daze, overtired, seeing insipid Thomas on TV and hoping - or fearing - it will amuse a toddler while you doze, you'll understand. Getting to fight him in a familiar game is a bossfight of a diff
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by byron_fast 7y ago
They say voice won't work in Canada but that data does; I haven't been able to get either to work. But for $3 USD + usage per month I can use SMS.
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by byron_fast 7y ago
I'm assuming the reason this is positioned as an IOT product is because they need to sell some product based on the network access they are able to negotiate. If they get allowed to use the 911 and voice network, I can imagine the p
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by byron_fast 7y ago
Cheating in PUBG is an economic result. It has nothing to do with Chinese people or Chinese culture. You can - or could - make real money farming digital goods in PUBG, and people in China have the bandwidth and computer hardware necessar
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by byron_fast 8y ago
What's more important - analytics, or the user experience. Damaging stats sucks, but this seems to outweigh that.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Do bills need clickbaity names to get attention?
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Yep, you are correct. If you output to an output device, it can be used for bad. The question is how hard can you make it at that point - to show that only the marketeers are using it.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
The point is to not make it so easy. It doesn't need to be easy, or automatable.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
It is possible. They specifically make it possible for bad actors.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
I work at a place that just had a near 24 hour outage due to a frozen water pipe. Water!
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by byron_fast 8y ago
This also describes most "terrorist leaders". Being born rich distorts your worldview.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
I guess they could have made that impossible to begin with. But, you know, reasons.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Being allowed options other than Bell has been a huge boon to consumers and businesses in Ontario. Although we still overpay for everything and Bell probably still makes money on the underlying infrastructure, at least we don't have to
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by byron_fast 8y ago
SVG is nothing but a bad imitation of the core parts of Flash's vector library. And that's awesome, because even that is decent - when it runs everywhere.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Yep, always downvotes for Flash. But the editor to create those curves was second to none.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
It's. Not. Flash. And that's too bad. Flash's vector graphics make SVG look bad, but they flew too close to the sun.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Credentials like Wharton and Harvard mean something to the HN crowd? I'm sure this guy is fine, but Tesla - Musk - needs someone who will eat the shit on their plate.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Envelopes, whatever. They cared more about interface and recommendations when they were an e-commerce company and not focused on pushing original content.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
It's always two steps forward, one back. I've used Netflix on a half-dozen devices and the latest version on PS-4 is the worst. Some improvements, but then adds things like five-second autoplay at episode end and autoplaying ads
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Netflix's interface was best when they still shipped DVDs in boxes. Ever since they stopped that it has been a steady descent into the dark patterns of social / mobile / eyeball counting user interface fail.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
See also: the Nuvistor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuvistor
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by byron_fast 8y ago
I want to believe. It may sound exactly like tubes. But if it doesn't look like a tube, and hurt when you touch it, it will probably be a market failure.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Mennonite joke: "Many young Mennonites are surprised to learn how many recipes contain only onions and fat." Onions are important.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Ads are flowers. We can hate on them, and they are annoying, but sometimes they offer something you need.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Everyone has their own view on who is bad, is all. One person's virtue signal is another's evil.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Is there a slope to where everyone is a neo-nazi equivalent though? I realize these are not likable people, but at the same time slurs are thrown around these days at many undeserving groups. It's a tough call: I don't want to s
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Okay.
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by byron_fast 8y ago
Don't think, just set the halt. https://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/practices/pracjustset...

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