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by jakobegger 7y ago
Lets say it costs $3 to acquire a customer on average. And your margin is $30. That sounds good. Now do an experiment. Stop your ads. Do your sales go down 100%? In that cost the $3 cost was definitely justified. Do your sales go down 50%?
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by jakobegger 7y ago
The problem with this kind of accounting is that it doesn't consider whether the ad was really necessary to make a sale in the first place. With a lot of brand keyword advertising, companies are paying for people to click an ad when th
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I'm pretty sure fixing bugs that make money is on the very bottom of the list of priorities....
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by jakobegger 7y ago
You can't talk about Chrome's market share without mentioning that it was (maybe still is? I don't know) prominently advertised on the google.com homepage. Everyone who went to search Google saw the ad. It said something like
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by jakobegger 7y ago
This is not true when radios are involved. In my experience, wireless connectivity issues are rarely caused by software; the problem is much more often caused by interference. The interference can be internal interference in the device, or
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by jakobegger 7y ago
We have automated tests for some parts of our app, depending on how much value tests add. For example, code that parses data generally has lots of tests. It's usually easy to write unit tests for parsers, and it's hard to write pa
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by jakobegger 7y ago
You said you applied to 50 companies. Did you send all of them the same CV? When I was hiring, there was one thing that made candidates really stand out: when they had previous experience that matched the job description exactly. For exampl
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Nope. It's pointless to sue a private individual for 100 million dollars. Even if those losses were real, there's no way to recoup them from an unemployed engineer. Tesla is going to spend a lot of money on legal fees with no pote
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> First of all, the idea of a “wait list” is terrible in and of itself. That’s called rationing. What do you want to do? There are only so many operating theaters, and only so many surgical teams, and demand is greater. So you have two o
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Someone at Apple probably said, is there something we can do about those leaks from Rambo? Then someone probably said, well we can block his dev account, may make it harder for him to reverse engineer everything right away. Then they told s
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I have never heard of anybody fly from Austria to the US because the medical care here wasn't good enough, or because some procedure was not available. I've only heard of people travel to get dental work done cheaper (not to the U
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Or, you could do what other developed countries do: Don't rely on private for profit hospitals. Here, most hospitals are run either by cities or counties, or by the public insurance companies themselves. This ensures that hospitals hav
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Yeah, I'd really love to see pictures of a car seat that has enough "internal damage" to be dangerous, without that damage being visible when you take the cover off.
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by jakobegger 7y ago
What kind of "internal structure damage" would that be? Most car seats aren't really that complex, and when you take apart a car seat (eg to wash the cover) you can see all the "internal structure", and it would be
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by jakobegger 7y ago
A booster seat is just a piece of plastic that's supposed to raise your kid to the correct height for the seat belt, right? Does it really matter if the material is still sturdy in a booster seat?
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Unfortunately the cameras in Macbooks are not of the "good quality 720p" kind. They make blurry images with lots of noise, have poor low light performance, and the colors don't look right. Facetime on iPhones is a lot better
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by jakobegger 7y ago
But Booking.com does suck! They manipulate you by showing only positive reviews. When they ask you for a review, they ask you what you liked about the stay, and what you didn't like. Then they just show the positive stuff to people. I&
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Another great trick is just increasing version numbers in your blog posts! People look for content relevant to their version number, so you should just make sure you have copies of your content with all the version numbers people might sear
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by jakobegger 7y ago
This article is a good argument that it should be banned. Also, the US has a lot of influence. They could get chemicals outlawed in other countries if they really wanted to. I mean, they got the whole world to adopt biometric passports, and
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by jakobegger 7y ago
That's probably a good thing. If people can't figure out which rule they broke, then they don't understand the rules, and they'll probably break them again soon. (of course, if everyone complains that they don't see
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by jakobegger 7y ago
You only need a paid account if you want to sign and notarize your app. You can build apps and distribute them without a developer account. But macOS will show a scary warning to your users.
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You only need to do that the first time you launch an app.
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by jakobegger 7y ago
While the article may technically address these points, it's not very effective, judging by what people post here. At the time I posted my comment, all the top comments here on HN were complaining how Apple is limiting artistic express
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by jakobegger 7y ago
This article mixes up a lot of issues and is not very coherent. Here are some important clarifications: 1. You can run any unsigned or unnotarized software from any developer by right-clicking the app, selecting "Open", and then c
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> That is like artificial selection on steroids No, it's not, because you are selecting on genotype rather than phenotype. Embryo selection only works when there is a simple connection between genotype and phenotype (eg. what type o
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> Allow embryo selection for 6'+ sons, that's where the real money will be! Yes, but height is influenced by hundreds of genes, each with a minuscule influence, which will make it all but impossible to create a model that predi
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by jakobegger 7y ago
You assume that everyone works on their own projects. In that case, yes, you should probably market it, if nobody knows about your project it doesn't matter. I was more thinking about contributing to other projects. What incentive do I
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by jakobegger 7y ago
One thing I worry about is that this funding model only works for somewhat popular developers. You need to be well known to get people to donate to you monthly. If you're a person that prefers to just do some work and not talk about it
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> If you are a citizen of a state that is known to coerce its people to work for it, you are not an individual, you're a state-level actor. You are putting collective blame on a billion people for the actions of their dictatorial go
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> totally excluding China from any and all international trade I don't have an opinion whether this is the right thing to do or not. But regardless of my opinion, how does not hiring chinese citizens help with that? This just sounds

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