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by cosmie 9y ago
Thanks! As much as I can market just about anything, I’ve never been good at making things to market. Appreciate the insight!
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by cosmie 9y ago
> I was looking for actionable advice on content marketing and I don't feel I am seeing much of that. As a professional in the field, do you happen to have any recommendations on sources that do have actionable advice? It's a
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by cosmie 9y ago
Completely agree! Although most of the developers I interface with look at me like I'm an alien. So I don't know if SQL being the sanest part of my day is a point for SQL or a point against the general sanity of my day.
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by cosmie 9y ago
This is super awesome! Although it's slightly frustrating how closely named it is to the Amazon Athena[1] service. Which also is a SQL-based analytics service, but quite a bit different than Uber's project. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by cosmie 9y ago
> How they verify that is beyond me. They don't. It's essentially an indemnification clause that they can point to as a copout if their service gets abused and a victim of that abuse comes looking. "They said they had per
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by cosmie 9y ago
Further away places also mean increased chance of hopping through intermediate networks which could introduce their own bottlenecks.
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by cosmie 9y ago
They're shutting down their consumer service to focus on the B2B market. https://blog.eogn.com/2017/08/22/crashplan-is-shutting-down-...
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by cosmie 9y ago
+1 for TextWrangler. With it's solid remote file support, inline file browser (if you open a directory or have multiple files open in the same window), ability to not choke on multi-GB files, and solid regex Find+Replace support (inclu
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by cosmie 9y ago
It's conjecture, provided as a counterpoint to the conjecture in the parent post about requiring near 100% adoption of autonomous vehicles in order to see the benefits. You're completely right that it could cause an increase in ag
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by cosmie 9y ago
I don't disagree that it's overhyped, it's just the most recognizable example for me to mention. > reducing the burden on the bottleneck. That's it, nothing more. That's precisely it though. By reducing the burd
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by cosmie 9y ago
Will it though? A lot of resistance to more efficient driving patterns is due to emotional reactions (or the fear of emotional reactions). The zipper/delayed merge being the quintessential case[1][2][3]. It works better, a lot of peopl
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by cosmie 9y ago
While true, self-driving vehicles should be able to optimize the flow of traffic more efficiently than humans do. There are known methods for improving the flow of traffic, such as the zipper merge, that are really hard to get humans to do
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by cosmie 9y ago
Professionally, I do some mentoring outside of work. But it's mainly informal, and consists of former employees and interns reaching out to me. For these, the mentoring is less advice-giving and more playing devil's advocate to he
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by cosmie 9y ago
That's really neat! I'm in Nashville and haven't ever heard of this. Have you guys reached out to groups like the NTC[1] to potentially advertise in their newsletter? It seems like a lot of their audience would be interested
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by cosmie 9y ago
Does the Prime Video app support the Chromecast protocol now? Or are you referring to a full screen cast from an Android device, that's just mirroring the device screen? Newer Vizio TVs use what's essentially an embedded/modi
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by cosmie 9y ago
I second the effectiveness and pleasantness of Hyundai's implementation. My 2015 Sonata has those features (its standard now, but was introduced that year for the Limited trim). It, combined with auto-hold to apply the brakes when the
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by cosmie 9y ago
Yahoo search is basically a white-labeled version of Bing, and has been since 2009[1]. And Siri also uses Bing by default[2]. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8174763.stm [2] http://searchen
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by cosmie 9y ago
Probably not what you meant, but it's definitely the best engine for B2B PPC advertising. It's a veritable goldmine for B2B marketing thanks to corporate policies forcing IE/Edge and leaving Bing as the default, combined wit
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by cosmie 9y ago
> once upon a time we managed to pay for books, newspapers, magazines, and newsletters just fine. We can do something similar online. Even those paid-for newspapers, magazines, and newsletters had advertising in them. The subscription co
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by cosmie 9y ago
Depends entirely on the type you get and how you install them. If you get floor to ceiling types with appropriate glass, it provides just as much sound isolating properties as a traditional office. And with appropriate sound dampeners (eith
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by cosmie 9y ago
Landlords won't generally let you make structural/material changes to a floorplan without a longterm lease to justify it. However, you can make some pretty snazzy temporary office space that doesn't require permanent modifica
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by cosmie 9y ago
Really strict data privacy laws with a regulatory environment that doesn't play games and heavily leans towards consumer rights. In Germany at least, you're also required to obtain double opt-in and record extensive documentation
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by cosmie 9y ago
The merchant fees do fund a substantial portion of the rewards programs for cards. However, there's a pretty large market for credit/debit card transaction data. Even Google purchases it[1]. Both your credit card company and the p
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by cosmie 9y ago
Is this still the case since Target sold their pharmacy operations to CVS? I've been curious how much of the "Target charm" remained after that transition.
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by cosmie 9y ago
There's not really any special sauce in the tech. I scanned the FCC Order and didn't see a reference to a particular autodialer, but there are dozens to choose from. If his service was purely playing an automated IVR message and t
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by cosmie 9y ago
Application load balancer http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/appli... Gives a good overview of the two types
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by cosmie 9y ago
Just noticed I forgot to add in my [2] and [3]. [2] https://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Salesforce [3] https://discovery.hgdata.com/product/salesforce-com-crm
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by cosmie 9y ago
FWIW, it appears that at least some of the ancillary functions get done by other people. According to [1], social media marketing and accounting are two that he doesn't handle personally. > I am in utter disbelief one person can do
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by cosmie 9y ago
There are two different versions of Casting that I'm aware of. One is using a Chromecast (or something that exposes itself like a Chromecast, such as the new Vizio tvs). In which case your device is essentially acting as a remote that&
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by cosmie 10y ago
Sounds like they knew he wasn't an employee. What they didn't know was if he was associated with some high profile account and whether an employee (generally in sales or marketing) had inadvertently signed up the company to spon

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