jimbobob

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by jimbobob 8y ago
Learn Python the Hard Way and Automate the Boring Stuff with Python were both very helpful for me to get started.
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by jimbobob 9y ago
She's not even trying to hide her selfishness. What a lack of empathy.
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by jimbobob 9y ago
This is an interesting approach in the short term and could help bootstrap Starsky's business before the conversion to fully autonomous driving. I still think driving a truck as a profession will be a thing of the past within 20 years
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by jimbobob 9y ago
How much traffic do you drive per month? There are exchanges / SSPs that would do an integration with you but that is going to require scale. Pretty much any SSP is going to ask you for a minimum of pageurl or app-level data in order
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Ask HN: Anybody Here Gone Through UC Berkeley Coding Boot Camp?
2 points by jimbobob 9y ago|1 comments
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Internet Advertising Bureau head comments on adblocking(iab.com)
5 points by jimbobob 11y ago|1 comments
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by jimbobob 11y ago
I think you are looking at the arithmetic average, which isn't very useful for the following reason: Year 1: 100% gain Year 2: 50% loss The arithmetic average here is 50%, which the geometric average is 0%. The CAGR listed is going th
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by jimbobob 11y ago
Spotify uses Chromium Embedded Framework to serve a lot of UI elements via HTML/CSS/JavaScript[0]. Anecdotally, there seem to be a number of desktop apps moving in this direction. [0] http://www.quora.com/What-is-t
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by jimbobob 12y ago
This seems like a smart way to go. You could start by looking for business development people at these publishers on LinkedIn.
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by jimbobob 12y ago
Responded to your email. Hopefully you find that helpful. Best of luck getting started!
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by jimbobob 12y ago
Hi foxpc- that is a hard question to answer without knowing more specifics. Here are some of the questions that I can use to point you in the right direction. - What kind of site(s) do you have traffic for? - Are they in a specific niche,
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Ask HN: Preventing reverse engineering
2 points by jimbobob 12y ago|0 comments
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by jimbobob 12y ago
https://www.earthclassmail.com looks like it is still alive, no?
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by jimbobob 13y ago
It depends on the size of your audience. Typically if an audience is very niche (eg user demographics are similar), then selling ads to direct advertisers is more of a possibility. What do your DAU/MAU numbers look like? How much eng
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by jimbobob 13y ago
I just updated my profile. Feel free to reach out!
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by jimbobob 13y ago
Your post would have fit me pretty closely ~ 7 years ago. Personally, I got into tech by getting exposure to online advertising with a side project. This led to an internship and then a full-time job in advertising operations. My advice:
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by jimbobob 13y ago
I started FitSpot ( https://Fitspot.io ) and released this week. Our first feature allows personal trainers to create a web presence easily and for free. We have some big ideas for the future but wanted to start small and build fr
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Show HN: FitSpot.io – profiles for personal trainers
1 points by jimbobob 13y ago|0 comments
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BitTorrent Sync Beta API Now Available to Developers(blog.bittorrent.com)
59 points by jimbobob 13y ago|33 comments
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Introducing BitTorrent Sync 1.2(blog.bittorrent.com)
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by jimbobob 13y ago
The 2% compounds over time. There is a far greater opportunity cost to losing 2% of earnings in year 1, as that amount reinvested at 7% over a 20 or 30-year period is quite significant.
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by jimbobob 14y ago
Where are you located? Your background sounds very similar to mine and I now work in Advertising Operations, which was a job I did not know existed when I was in school. Working in Marketing or Data Science in a startup might also be an opt
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BitTorrent Surf: BitTorrent Chrome Extension(chrome.google.com)
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by jimbobob 14y ago
M = 1000. MM = 1,000,000.
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by jimbobob 14y ago
It could be due to the Hulu videos loading in your Facebook News feed. This seems likely as the Hulu videos are interspersed with Facebook page loads.
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by jimbobob 14y ago
I recently went on a backpacking trip with the thought of working from the beach in Thailand in mind. I spent a couple months there, both in the South near Krabi and later in the North (Chiang Mai, Pai). The good: You can live a pretty goo
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by jimbobob 14y ago
Hulu pulls in $30 - $40 CPMs. That is comparable with TV, no?
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by jimbobob 14y ago
Just curious... where are you getting the $9B number from?
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by jimbobob 14y ago
Hulu does target users already based on a lot of demographic information they have. This can be based on info found in your user profile (gender, age, zip code, etc). Additionally Hulu builds profiles based on past viewing history and is
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by jimbobob 14y ago
This is great. Just registered and the process took about 15 minutes.

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