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by cosmie 7y ago
My last two employers have both offered Hyatt Legal group plans[1] as a voluntary benefit. I signed up because it seemed like a potentially useful benefit and ~$9/paycheck was a tiny enough cost to impulse check that box without much t
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by cosmie 7y ago
You could also repurpose the idea and leverage it as a traffic driver. Run a few high-level queries to get the baseline stats, then post those up on a benchmarks page. That way you have a draw for those types of needs, yielding more traffic
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by cosmie 7y ago
Have you ever thought about packaging up the analytics you can derive from this into a product offering? The inspiration you mentioned in another comment is the exact impetus that would make for a lucrative offering, particularly on the age
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by cosmie 7y ago
> First, is it possible to develop software without inconveniencing business users with temporary ... regressions and inconveniences? The trick is to avoid introducing change without simultaneously introducing perceived value to the us
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by cosmie 7y ago
> I think it's just that the people who make the goods often have no market sense and rely on outsourcing it for 90% of their sales. I've worked on a few client projects that involved large, successful, but traditional consumer
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by cosmie 7y ago
That's underselling the difficulty of being a business/data analyst. You not only have to express yourself clearly, but are constrained by the knowledge and mental models used by your target audience. Which becomes exponentially m
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by cosmie 7y ago
It is anecdotal in nature, and should be interpreted as such. But they're still pretty useful for those without much experience or for individuals that have a difficult time with this type of situational awareness. While they're
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by cosmie 7y ago
The violation may have been the lack of appropriate reporting. [1] mentions that "unsanctioned boycotts" must be reported. Later in the comments she mentioned that the contract in question was screened and found to not actually be
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by cosmie 7y ago
As you said, every capable manager learns how to work the system for when the situation warrants it. I currently work (as an employee) for a marketing agency doing analytics consulting work, and we're frequently used as a backdoor to g
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by cosmie 7y ago
> 2. Focus on smaller to mid-size companies (large corporations likely have the tech team and contractors to cover almost of their needs) Another aspect of this is that large corporations have pretty byzantine processes for hiring/v
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by cosmie 7y ago
Same here in TN. And it's not limited to just dues - they can fine you for violations and place a lien for lack of payment of those fines, as well. I rent in a nice neighborhood, and the HOA really dislikes rentals. But they don't
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by cosmie 7y ago
It's due to being in beta - the Google Group is how you whitelist specific individual's Google accounts to be able to get the beta app on their Android device. For people joining the iOS beta, they sign up via Testflight.
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by cosmie 7y ago
> All your doing is preventing communication using school provided technology and eroding students trust in the school. You're not actually preventing a shooting. Kids can still do whatever they want and there's nothing you can
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by cosmie 7y ago
Azure is part of Cloudflare's Bandwidth Alliance[1]. If you use Azure's serverless functions and put your service behind Cloudflare, you'll get free egress. [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance&#x
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by cosmie 7y ago
> for some reason it did not happen. Part of the organizational allure of migrating to the cloud is being able to rationalize headcount. Hybrid clouds, while bringing a lot of potential upside, are complex. While you can potentially redu
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by cosmie 7y ago
For those that are interested in taking a home sleep study, you can get them for far less than the $500 referenced in the article. I used RPM[1] myself; the test is $150. You can pay with an FSA or HSA card if you happen to have one. If you
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by cosmie 7y ago
I managed at Domino's back about a decade ago when they forced the transition to the updated in-store POS that was required for this. To add a bit of color to what's happening: - You don't actually hit an "It's read
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by cosmie 7y ago
This. My two biggest takeaways from years of stats classes were that, when applied right, you can do some really fascinating things with statistics. And that no one ever applies things right, so take any stats you come across with a grain o
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by cosmie 7y ago
Depends on the context for trying to catch up; both where you're at in life and what you're wanting to get out of it. If you want to connect, feel free to reach out to the email in my profile. I may not be the best resource for be
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by cosmie 7y ago
Precisely. This is part of what I meant by being able to take this route is a strength in itself. It takes a high degree of situational awareness and a significant amount of self-awareness to be able to suss out the differences between envi
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by cosmie 7y ago
Avoidance as a compensation strategy for weaknesses isn't particular to just tech culture; it exists in pretty much every discipline. I've taken the opposite approach: from what I went to school for to how my career has developed,
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by cosmie 7y ago
This is really neat! I'm generally prohibited from using stuff like Zapier at work, since we handle a lot of client data and passing it through any third party opens up a Pandora's Box of legal reviews. The self-hosted nature of t
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by cosmie 7y ago
I went to school for statistics, and work in "analytics" (a catch all term for anything from basic reporting to analytics infrastructure to conversion rate optimization experiments). You're absolutely right in that people ten
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by cosmie 7y ago
The majority of shoppers do not actively price shop. If they do at all, they do so passively in the form of selecting a retailer based on perceived prices (i.e. they may not compare pricing between Target and Walmart on specific items, but
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by cosmie 7y ago
This is a really slick little utility! I'll definitely be adding it to my data munging grab bag. For those that deal with this sort of thing often, here are some similarly useful tools: ⠀ Really useful for generating table definitions
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That's frustrating. It was the last remaining hope I had for Amazon purchases.
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> I'm -1 on photos on resume since it opens the door to a lot of bias (unconscious or not) so I hope you offer a lot options without photos / icons. To that end, many HR departments in the US have a blanket policy to reject app
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by cosmie 7y ago
I'm not sure if the situation has changed, but it used to be that co-mingling was exclusively an aspect/option of FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon). They did not co-mingle their own inventory, so you could still be somewhat confident in
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by cosmie 7y ago
Well meaning or otherwise, it's impossible to avoid falling into this sort of situation at some point or another. What makes or breaks a manager is how well they navigate it. Pushing your team to do shit on time by force may work, but
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by cosmie 7y ago
One company I worked at imported broccoli from China to their factory on the eastern side of Canada, for products intended for distribution across all of Canada, Mexico, and the US. Even with constant quality issues and recalls[1], there ju

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