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by cosmie 8y ago
I have a similar stance as the parent post, and it's mainly due to the pervasive secondary uses of access to privileged consumer-level data for advertising and marketing purposes. Plenty of companies gain access to privileged informati
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by cosmie 8y ago
> Why is your release binary built in debug mode? > Be grateful for what you have. I loved the FAQ overall. But something about this at the end made me bust out laughing.
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Something like ObservePoint[1] would be more appropriate for that use case. Avo seems like it's designed to deal with consistency issues, rather than coverage issues. For example, say you have three different multistep sales funnels. Y
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Better marketing sometimes is the better business model. Can you do basic scripting? Can you do advanced scripting, with such revolutionary capabilities as calling out to external APIs for stuff like OCR? Then rejoice! As you have the p
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You don't even have to be an Excel wizard. Just a competent Excel user. A previous company I worked at made YouTube videos for content marketing purposes. For some reason that no one could explain by the time I started there, the first
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by cosmie 8y ago
Just to note, there are two kinds of sleep apnea. The one you typically hear about that presents with extreme snoring is obstructive sleep apnea. It's pretty much as the name implies: sleep apnea caused by an obstruction. Your body tri
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Warning for anyone using a customer owned modem with Comcast: Be sure you keep your receipts and original packaging. I recently canceled service and switched to AT&T Fiber. It was actually an unexpectedly easy process. But when I droppe
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Quality binning is a thing, but not quite like that. If they do a factory run for "Brand A", adding the label is a component of that run. There's three main outcomes: - The product passes Quality Assurance / Quality Cont
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It's also commonly a signal of an executive-by-default vs. an executive-by-experience. The traditional path to leadership roles generally involve a stepped process from a role that's fully an individual contributor to one that has
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> I don't think I am anywhere near ready for that. I never test, have no successful continuous integration projects (despite my best efforts to get people on board), and have basically no apps running at a high capacity. Don't
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It's deeply flattering that you read to the end of my rambling comment, let alone referenced it! :) I happened to be exposed to that model at one of my first professional jobs, and it was such an incredibly effective and seemingly ob
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It's high compared to a typical lease, but a typical lease also generally includes significant penalties if you go over 10,000 - 12,000 miles per year. $680 isn't unreasonable considering the accelerated rate of depreciation and w
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I completely understand the terrors of hidden dependencies on shadow IT. The work I do tends to grow up organically in different areas of every org, so I've hopped between functional business units, centralized business operations, and
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Thank you! It has certainly been met with recognition, to the point where I'm essentially having to become a people manager again and create a team to support the capability across more clients.
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Ha! I've seen higher ups not even bother to go to that length. They checked the "validation to put it on a slide somewhere" box by just implicitly rebranding AI to be short for Augmented Intelligence. In the context of execut
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by cosmie 8y ago
Hahahaha. I stumbled upon Flow last year when I switched jobs. Our IT/procurement process is ridiculous, so I scrounged around our intranet resources for licenses and tools that I had access to by default or could get/request acce
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by cosmie 8y ago
Others have already posted some fantastic, practical resources for creating technical systems. But for truly first-time system designers that haven't had much exposure to systems thinking before, you might find [1] useful. Donella Mead
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by cosmie 8y ago
The 'conversion option' is just a bottom of funnel component of your acquisition strategy, and the costs to support those freemium users is still a component of your marketing spend. For established marketing channels/user se
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by cosmie 8y ago
> That "elsewhere" might be the word-of-mouth on steroids that I talked about in the article. I'd argue that still falls under being a marketing expense. Word of mouth on steroids is a fantastic thing, especially so as a s
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It's also not even completely altruistic. The free accounts on Cloudflare serve as an incredibly diverse source of first party signal intelligence, which directly impacts the quality of the offering they're able to provide to paid
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Pretty much. Here's to hoping for a long and profitable future for Google on it's current path. Because the alternative is too terrifying to contemplate.
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Ha! I completely understand and agree with that viewpoint. It's only mildly reassuring to me relative to how loose I know most providers are with leaking user data. And because, having interacted with it from the advertiser side, I can
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by cosmie 8y ago
I'm a non-Googler who has spent a lot of time around media analytics, and I'll make the same insistence that that is a true and important statement. Google is a one way mirror. They will suck in as much data as you want to give th
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by cosmie 8y ago
> I sincerely doubt Google would send ANYTHING to a third party unless it really had to. In this context, Google is the third party. Plenty of apps use the Google Analytics SDK[1], or the newer GA Firebase SDK[2] for their analytics. [
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Hiring side, your first question is a favorite of mine. A corollary to your first outcome is an understanding the candidate's situational awareness. How well the candidate grasps a complex process, organization, problem, etc. Even if
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by cosmie 8y ago
I don't disagree that finding ways for prolific open source contributors to be able to monetize their expertise is incredibly valuable, but I'm not sure if that's actually DevFlight's focus. Their website copy focuses on
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by cosmie 8y ago
It looks like DevFlight's focus is on identifying active revenue streams for maintainers, based on whatever aspects the maintainer is flexible in commercializing (priority support, feature requests, etc). That's an awesome way to
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by cosmie 8y ago
In unlimited PTO schemes, you don’t earn/accrue any vacation time, so there’s not technically (nor legally) any to pay out. In some HR systems you’re basically lazy-provisioned PTO time as it’s taken, so your amount of accrued PTO Ti
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> The problem is, you can read the same shit again and again, but if you're not that way from the beginning, reading the same crap isn't suddenly going to change you. > Most people who are mega driven are that way because of
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> There've been many rumors over the years that Unroll.me sells information about the emails it scans. It's not just rumors, it's stated clearly (if in softened terms) on the site now[1]. Although it wasn't for the f

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