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by cosmie 8y ago
Sell reviews, more than likely. A review left by a seasoned account with an established and long purchase history appears far more legitimate than from an obvious shill account, and is correspondingly more valuable. The same sort of incenti
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by cosmie 8y ago
> And when do people not get to choose where they eat? And when they do, why would it be a place that serves zero vegetarian options? When entertaining clients. Which are also the majority of my T&E reimbursements. If I invite a cl
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by cosmie 8y ago
The Tawny Man Trilogy by Robin Hobb, which I've re-read almost yearly for over a decade. It builds on top of The Farseer Trilogy, but (while it's good) I haven't re-read that trilogy nearly as many times. From a story standpo
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by cosmie 8y ago
There are two primary coverage types under renter's insurance policies: liability and personal property. The liability coverage triggers for anything from people getting hurt on the property to (other) people's stuff accidentally
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by cosmie 8y ago
I've moved about a dozen times over the last decade, and all but one rental required me to have a renter's insurance policy as part of the lease terms - most of whom also required me to list them as an interested party[1]. A rente
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That's not wrong, but it's roughly equivalent to saying a 10x engineer can help by unblocking other engineers on their team. The devil is in the details. Does the 10x engineer accomplish that by pairing, code reviews, architectura
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Pretty much. A good manager is easy to spot by the how predictably their freight trains crash (if its not above company norms or team standards prior to their tenure). A bad manager is easy to spot, because you can see the disaster around t
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> I couldn't fully figure it out. In a previous career, I spent a lot of time sourcing, vetting, and managing data vendors. While I didn't buy data from shady vendors (our clientele would have skewered us, and I leveraged that
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by cosmie 8y ago
Making your reports 2x as productive is far more expansive (and less visible) than just ensuring they're working on stuff 2x as important or doing 2x as much work. Think of software for a moment. Has there every been a library, languag
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That would be the Enhanced Ecommerce functionality of GA[1]. It's supported by default in most ecommerce platforms, and is one of the tools that enables really sophisticated performance analytics, A/B testing, and remarketing if y
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Several states have joined a consortium called the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board[1], which harmonized, standardized, and streamlined the sales tax policies between those states in order to support easier compliance across multiple s
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> In places like Tennessee, the tax rate can change if your item is a grocery or isn't a grocery. That's not even the half of it. Grocery vs. non-grocery changes the rate. Some services that are tax exempt in other states are n
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by cosmie 8y ago
Amazon has been known to ban accounts that have excessive return rates[1]. One part of making this an explicit, branded service available to Prime members is reassurance that excessive returns of clothing items won't count against you,
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by cosmie 8y ago
It's been really common for years to split test headlines[1] for content. Even most email marketing platforms have a variation of it, where they stagger out emails, sending out a few variations with different subject lines to a subset
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by cosmie 8y ago
The inconvenience of glasses are relative. Before I had LASEK/PRK done, I had a very strong astigmatism and mild case of nearsightedness. Combined, I basically couldn't make out much of anything more than ~6 inches from my face. I
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by cosmie 8y ago
> LinkedIn had multiple layers of scraping detection systems deployed, and went to significant efforts to block their data from getting scraped[1]. Last year, they were ordered by a Federal court explicitly to allow scraping of content a
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by cosmie 8y ago
Integration can refer to better interoperability, not just dependence. Think of a large, non-tech company (i.e. development is a "resource" and not a first class citizen) that already has an Enterprise license for Office 365, whic
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by cosmie 8y ago
While I completely agree with your comment, it also omits something that just serves to underscore your point that consumers make assumptions about how things (economically) work. > They're going to think "I paid my cell phone
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by cosmie 8y ago
Were we ever in an era where innovation primarily came from startups? For the most part, foundational technical innovation has always spewed primarily from entities large enough to bankroll it without any immediate or known ROI (universitie
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It'll be interesting to see what this does to Florida's supply chain program. I went to a school that's ranked in the top 3 for supply chain programs. And despite not being in the supply chain program myself, I stumbled into
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They have an incredibly sophisticated and data focused marketing department. Target's marketing division is analogous to Walmart's supply chain division, in terms of level of optimization and sophistication.
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> PS. the partner categories program has actually been discontinued as of April 2018, so these third parties will no longer be able to syndicate their data to all FB ads users in the future. One thing to point out is that it's true
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Companies aren't making these complicated and overwrought things because nobody knows this stuff anymore. The ones actually doing the making generally know all the tried and tested ways to do what they want, because they used them to
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by cosmie 8y ago
If anything, awk should get some praise for it's flexibility to go from one liners to Doom-style 3d games[1]! [1] https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster
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I've only worked with one account/client that used Segment specifically, so I can't speak authoritatively about what their primary market segment is. But it fills a really valuable hole for anyone that spends a decent amount
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My 6 year old is a morning person and I am not. She puts on Katie Perry via the Amazon Echo, tidies up and lets the dog out so those excuses don't exist for me to get out of bed, then she goes and crafts/draws/watches a show
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That's generally the route I've gone in the past, particularly for complex data models. The entity has a uuid field with a unique constraint along with an auto-incrementing int/bigint for a primary key. The UUID is what gets
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The reason for the migration was to be able to leverage the Functional/Expression Index[1] capability of Postgres. Any type of aggregated time series reporting queries were likely painful from a performance perspective, since an index
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OP mentions that he doesn't know which neighbor owns the drone. If he's in a neighborhood like mine, he may only have line of sight of his most immediate neighbor and past that it could be any of dozens of other houses within clos
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Poka-yoke: Mistake Proofing(en.wikipedia.org)
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