jbsimpson

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An interesting scam(jacksimpson.co)
3 points by jbsimpson 9y ago|1 comments
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Honeybees and missing data: Where do bees like to live?(jacksimpson.co)
1 points by jbsimpson 9y ago|0 comments
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Honeybees and missing data(jacksimpson.co)
3 points by jbsimpson 9y ago|0 comments
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Stroke recovery in mice through light(biosky.co)
1 points by jbsimpson 9y ago|0 comments
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Using AI to diagnose skin cancer(biosky.co)
2 points by jbsimpson 10y ago|1 comments
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
It's stuff like this that really puts me off app development.
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
I find that I always have a bunch of minor stuff that needs to get done at work which ultimately doesn't matter, but feels good to check off on a to-do list. I also have tasks relating to software I'm developing which is much more
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There are two types of to-do lists(jacksimpson.co)
10 points by jbsimpson 10y ago|2 comments
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What does it mean to finish a project?(jacksimpson.co)
1 points by jbsimpson 10y ago|0 comments
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
This is really interesting, I've been wanting to learn more about Torch for a while but have been reluctant to commit to learning Lua.
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
I don't know, I see a difference between an email personalised to myself and my current situation seeking my business vs mass spam.
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
I completely agree - if you swoop in and promise better uptime etc then you're making a deal with people that they won't experience this problem. You now need to be sure you can deliver.
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
That's exactly my thinking. If I actually made money off my site or it was happening too often I would have been really ripe to poach.
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
> capitalizes on a competitors stumble If I was actually making money off my site, I would probably be livid enough to dump my current provider - this is by no means the first time this has happened (although of course I bring this on my
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
Fair point, although one could argue that its situations like these that are potentially most likely to make you reassess how much you want to spend on hosting - these guys are actually more expensive.
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
Well, they sent me a personalised message, deliberately at a point when I was frustrated with my current hosting provider. I don't make money off my site, but if I did I'm pretty sure I might have been livid enough to take them up
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
"cold sales emails" There's a difference between cold sales emails that are completely impersonal and emailed out to thousands of people an an email that is personally addressed to me and my current situation. "believe p
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
I think they were making a point that they were going to clarify these things but didn't want to get involved in arguing online. I also wouldn't exactly call that a rant, I call that a bullet-point explanation of their logic. Pers
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
Thanks for commenting and clarifying things :)
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
Thank-you for the insightful contribution.
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
Oh I see, that's probably fair enough - I did toy with the idea of leaving a message at the end clarifying that I had received no money for writing it, but ended up leaving it out. I didn't edit the names out when they were mentio
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
I'm really used to getting those bot emails by now, the personal greeting (left out of my post for brevity), speed of getting back to me, and conversation I had with the fellow after made it fairly clear it wasn't a mass spammed m
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
To be honest, the hosting provider I use is so cheap I don't think there was too much loyalty to begin with.
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
Can you tell me how I can get people to pay me to write articles on my personal blog? So far I've mainly written about my interests in machine learning and science, but as a graduate researcher an extra source of income would be great
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
I'm guessing that they looked up the domain, saw the email associated with it and then emailed me directly.
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
I thought it a rather novel strategy and an interesting experience.
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
'spammer buying votes' Wait, so posting your own writing counts as 'buying votes'? It was something I enjoyed writing, apparently to be pure I should never tell others when I write something? 'comment karma farmers&
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
It wasn't, I emailed him back right away and we ended up exchanging multiple emails in a very brief period of time. Either that or chat bots are smarter than most humans these days.
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by jbsimpson 10y ago
Nope, I ended up exchanging a few emails with the guy about this strategy - it was not a bot. I removed identifying info to shorten the emails but it was quite obviously not a mass email.
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This is how you hustle(jacksimpson.co)
108 points by jbsimpson 10y ago|73 comments

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