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by chrisdinn 6y ago
You’re definitely right by that measure. There’s a famous hydro energy deal between the provinces of Newfoundland and Quebec in Canada where in the 1960s Newfoundland agreed to provide hydro power in a long term contract (80 years?) for wha
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
What counts as notable success? The entire base energy load for Ontario, Canada comes from nuclear (see: live.gridwatch.ca) and the provinces high energy costs (such as they were) were directly caused by investment in renewables through gua
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
You want an off-grid builder-grade house like you’d buy in a suburb, it sounds like. Going to be a long time before that happens. The builder homes work (both price and reliability) because there’s hundreds of thousands of them virtually id
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
I agree 100%. It’s all about talent. The existence of the TN visa ensures this will continue to be a problem until founders/investors learn this lesson. Any Canadian university graduate can go work as a “computer system analyst” (but
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
$100M was labelled "fraud" in this example, but there was more waste uncovered in the remaining $50M that didn't get that label.
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
I think CTD ads (click-to-download) are one of the exceptions. It's a great format for some cases, eg games. For game devs, trust that yours is addicting enough that you can safely show your users a competitor's game knowing they&
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
Ya for sure. I was a Googler so my examples were biased, these aren't the only ad formats that work but there are fewer than most people (even in ad tech) realize.
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
I thought that at first. But like the original post points out, Uber was spending a lot of money, not just in absolute terms but in percentage terms, and it wasn't working for them. There's an allure to making something measurable
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
I think the problem is that the overwhelming majority of digital ad formats just don’t work. Does anyone who works in digital ad tech genuinely believe that these formats work? I have been here for the last ten years and have come to believ
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
I see raggi has patched, is this what they’re using in Fuchsia?
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On Google and Intellectual Freedom(ali-alkhatib.com)
1 points by chrisdinn 6y ago|0 comments
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
Why doesn’t Jeff just suck up his pride, apologize and hire her back rather than write increasingly thin rationalizations for his reaction? High level research (and engineering) will involve egos and you should expect this kind of push back
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
As someone who buys almost all my produce from local farmers to eat, preserve, & ferment I totally agree with this. It’s not a good way to save money, really. Maybe a little but only if you are careful to avoid wasted produce, and that
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
The ad tech industry is basically this idea taken to its conclusion and it totally sucks.
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
Fuchsia is 3-clause BSD, not Apache, though Google does use Apache generally. https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/master...
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
If even a handful of people see this comment thread and internalize this message we’ll have done some good today.
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
The tragedy is, as you and I know, it’s naivety like that in the parent comment sociopaths happily take advantage of. Reading it felt like watching someone give their money to a Nigerian prince.
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
Chuck Marohn is a well-respected planner with decades of municipal experience. He’s written books on this topic. You can watch him give his usual anti-suburb talk on YouTube. He’s especially good at reaching tough, conservative audiences, I
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by chrisdinn 6y ago
Underrated idea but very complex in practice. Contextual is coming back regardless as third-party cookies go away. But, I think “traditional” in this sense means brand advertising with broad reach, not micro-targeted messages for narrow aud
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The Beautiful Software Initiative(buildingbeauty.org)
2 points by chrisdinn 6y ago|0 comments
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by chrisdinn 9y ago
All buildings require significant ongoing maintenance to avoid demolition and many have a way of mysteriously burning down when the insurance value exceeds the market value. To learn more from recent US history search “The Bronx is burning”
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by chrisdinn 10y ago
The issue you describe is not something you should design around. I have written/reviewed hundreds of thousands of lines of Go on projects large and small and have never encountered this problem. However, in practice there are very goo
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by chrisdinn 10y ago
Why would you return an interface type? My advice is don't. Interfaces should be tightly scoped and defined by the consumer not provided by your package.
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by chrisdinn 11y ago
This my personal go-to project for testing in Go, popular with the rest of my team as well. Even when I'm not using the plugin directly I read the test files themselves as a guide to "correct" testing syntax. Highly recommend
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by chrisdinn 11y ago
> Dash basically takes all of the good stuff from HLS and gets rid of the bad pieces. Not sure I would use that sentence to describe a standard that replaces the extended M3U file format (it really whips the llama's ass) with yet an
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by chrisdinn 12y ago
Starting your business in Canada also limits your exit options, or makes them a lot more difficult. As someone who just survived an acquisition that required the entire engineering team to relocate from Toronto to NYC I can tell you that it
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Overcoming Impostor Syndrome(medium.com)
2 points by chrisdinn 12y ago|0 comments
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Soylent's Secret Ingredient Isn't People–It's Excuses(readwrite.com)
4 points by chrisdinn 12y ago|1 comments
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Yo – It's that simple.(justyo.co)
1 points by chrisdinn 12y ago|0 comments
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Mom's Instagram account shut down over breastfeeding selfie(cbc.ca)
2 points by chrisdinn 12y ago|1 comments

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