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by dhimes 7y ago
I can't imagine Twitter being good at reaching a market unless you've gone viral. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like it's like pouring a taste of wine into a fire hose. I don't think I've ever learned about a
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by dhimes 7y ago
What about when you are not specifically looking for something? How do you find out about new shirts, or cars, or coffees or trips or whatever? Do you stumble across them on web sites, like in articles? On TV? If you usually find out th
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by dhimes 7y ago
So how do people reach you to sell to you? Or, to turn it around, how do you find out about new products/solutions?
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by dhimes 7y ago
or: "Please enter the result of 7 modulo 5 to prove you are somebody I want to talk to."
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by dhimes 8y ago
But if we can reduce that to a second-order effect we will be better off. For example, if you made the rule ('regulation') that "shoes shall not be worn in the house" then you can avert the situation and never need to
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by dhimes 8y ago
There's a whole lot about advertising I don't know, but the question that sticks in my mind is, did you need that ad to know which rice cooker to buy the second time? Did it change your decision? Did you see an ad for a diffe
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by dhimes 8y ago
This happened to me in a different way: I was giving recurring payments to a .org. I kind of knew how much I wanted to give, but instead of a lump sum I figured I would do recurring for a year. It would give them a little more and seemed
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by dhimes 8y ago
I've found cellphones don't need to be on the list but the charging cords do!
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FAA Board Sees No Need for New Boeing 737 Max Simulator Training(bloomberg.com)
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by dhimes 8y ago
I think this is a great point. With fast internet, my fear is that websites will load more and more crapola, eating our bandwidth, so basically we will indeed be buying 3 minutes of internet per month.
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by dhimes 8y ago
"It’s very simple: write A LOT and cover A LOT of keyword variations." This is exactly what you shouldn't have to do if the search engines were reasonably close to accurately measuring relevance. In fact, a site with a sing
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by dhimes 8y ago
"Think of your site as a wiki." That's an elegant way to put it.
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by dhimes 8y ago
That's not what I said. The laws I am referring to would restrict the people with whom you share your DNA (23 and me, for example).
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by dhimes 8y ago
That's exactly why we need laws restricting what can be done with it without our consent.
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by dhimes 8y ago
For me (and I know others), the rule is to never give the correct answer to any of those questions (what was name of first pet? what elementary school?). That's how Sarah Palin was doxxed
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by dhimes 8y ago
I agree with you completely.
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by dhimes 8y ago
This isn't about the laws of electricity but about how the power supply is designed. I was surprised recently when my Mac-using colleague needed a three-pronged extension cord. I don't carry those around in my backpack because e
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by dhimes 8y ago
Yep. We got hit with an enormous bill we didn't see coming either. The new tax law crushed us. But strictly speaking, they don't see it as holding your money, they see it as your money is due when you earn it and if you are with
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by dhimes 8y ago
This is a cornerstone of traditionally "conservative" viewpoints in the US. I am now in favor as well.
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by dhimes 8y ago
Great advice.
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by dhimes 8y ago
I find it helpful to think of it as teaching a computer to do something rather than telling it to.
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Millions of sensitive Facebook user records were left exposed on public web(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by dhimes 8y ago|0 comments
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by dhimes 8y ago
I think that might be the same approach...
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by dhimes 8y ago
While I wouldn't call Facebook content benign, I definitely try to be mindful when I see articles like these that news sites like Bloomberg are so eager to attack Facebook because Facebook is the biggest and most direct threat to thei
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by dhimes 8y ago
They shouldn't need to log in to the user's password account at all through OAuth or any other way! A side problem with this is that if it's truly easier for the user than clicking on an emailed link, then users are going to
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by dhimes 8y ago
I agree with you. To do multiplication by any non-parlor-trick method you have to be able to multiply single-digit numbers. If you don't memorize the table then every time you do larger numbers the process becomes that much more of a
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by dhimes 8y ago
This is similar to the "Lattice Method" that they taught (still teach?) here in the US. I can't stand it. The students simply learn an algorithm, without developing a sense of place value and an intuition for "how numb
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by dhimes 8y ago
On the plus side, you can see the code and turn those off. So if you think of the plugins as a starting point it's not so bad.
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by dhimes 8y ago
There's an interesting hack that works for a lot of people, including me- I've even included it in Study Swami: Keep a time log. Just log what you are doing throughout the day (I also log when my concentration breaks). You only
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by dhimes 8y ago
Ph.D. in Condensed Matter (surface) physics 1992, the "era of the 40 year old post-docs." I had a talent for teaching, so rather than pursue the endless post-doc trajectory I followed my talent and taught. Now I work on education

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