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by katzgrau 9y ago
I second that. I recently bought a king size tempur, upgrading from my queen size (which got moved to my spare room). It's not just comfortable - it's next level. I slept on a Casper at an airbnb for a full month this past summer
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I think FB has scooped up the older half of millennials. FB was the hot thing as they were just getting to college, when it was still limited to college kids. We can't discount outside of US/Europe though — they're big over t
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I agree, but the full effect of Gen Z won't be felt for 5 or 10 years. And they're definitely on Instagram, which still provides much more targeting ability to an advertiser than every other social site in the world apart from Lin
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by katzgrau 9y ago
At the time that I wrote this post, I was only getting started in digital advertising. I knew Facebook had a wide social and technical moat. But now I know that as a competitor to, and user of Facebook advertising — it's so much more p
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Facebook Changed Everything, It’s Not a Fad, and I’m with Zuck (2012)(codefury.net)
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I find this interesting. I'm curious though, who is the state sponsor?
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Yea I'd disagree. Like the process of evolution, I believe that ideas and the mutation and the proliferation of those ideas are what leads to progress. More seeds.
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I'm a fairly built 190lb person and I was a baseball catcher as a kid and in high school. It definitely took a toll on my knees - I wonder if squatting as rest is also somewhat dependent on humans being a little more wiry than they ar
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I'm more concerned that AI will become a modern deity in that it's considered science and ought not to be questioned. Things like predictions of academmic success, criminal behavior, etc that impact the rights of individuals.
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by katzgrau 9y ago
Agreed. Been WFH for six years and around year two I was probably the least healthy I'd ever been in my life. I had been waking up naturally around 8am every day which I thought was amazing, but I generally liked to be online by 9am so
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by katzgrau 9y ago
My wife was a teacher and eventually principal. One time we were discussing the idea of buying a bullet proof vest just in case. Then the absurdity of what we are now accepting as normal struck me.
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by katzgrau 9y ago
As a fairly successful bootstrapper, I'd say that it's more likely that taking money generally leads to a "runway" in that you need to be profitable or raise another round by the end of that runway. Many don't succe
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I walk pretty much everywhere within a two mile range if I have the time. It's a bit meditative and I can also get a little exercise (if you could call it that) in. According to WaPo, 70% of Americans are overweight or obese, so I don&
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I've thought about this too, and generalizing to one more degree, I believe it comes down to perspective. The details are what keep you locked in that perspective. It's difficult, but invaluable, to truly see things from other per
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by katzgrau 9y ago
That would certainly be the case, but it's probably one of the more far-fetched of many possible explanations. As another commenter wrote, a two-day hunt seems the more likely scenario
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by katzgrau 9y ago
Considering humans the most competitive species is also something that could be called into question. We certainly think we're special, but we're probably falling into Dunning-Kruger territory. I think the only obvious route is to
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by katzgrau 9y ago
Honestly, I thought the same. We're drawing some pretty far out assumptions about ancient celestial knowledge based on a drawing on a rock. I can't imagine that everything we find is going to have some deep or scientific meaning.
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by katzgrau 9y ago
One of my favorite Oatmeal strips: http://theoatmeal.com/pl/senior_year/pe
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by katzgrau 9y ago
From one of the comments (author, Nathan Spears): > People with Asperger’s can navigate social situations remarkably well after they learn “the rules” of social interaction. That's my experience. I too, was socially awkward kid who
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I had a production redshift cluster that underwent its scheduled maintenance and its queries took 10x longer afterword. I had another production m1.large which mysteriously started hitting 100% after maintenance - despite the fact that the
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I understand that a job gets boring and you have to do things you wouldn't choose to do yourself for decades on end, but that's what a job is. And as a developers, we're pretty lucky that we're generally respected within
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by katzgrau 9y ago
It's true — but advertising has two sides. You can of course be running a campaign that you're hoping for immediate ROI on, like a flash sale. In that case, you really want clicks and some sort of immediate indicator that the camp
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by katzgrau 9y ago
Well, most ads open in a new window. And most serious publishers barely have the resources to survive let alone do A/B testing. The publishers I work with thankfully shy away from network advertising and only deal with clients they hav
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by katzgrau 9y ago
As someone who has founded and runs an adserver for a living (we deal only with legitimate publications, nothing sketchy), I found this thought provoking. Since I deal mostly in niche/local advertising, I might have a unique perspectiv
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by katzgrau 9y ago
The employers are free to require whatever they'd like for a job. But the teachers and parents are often uneducated on the topic themselves and parrot the prevailing wisdom that a college degree is essential. Neither of my parents have
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by katzgrau 9y ago
This is really good documentation which, I think, unintentionally makes git look complicated and terrifying. I've been using git for almost a decade and there are plenty of things in its toolbox I've never bothered to touch - the
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by katzgrau 9y ago
I'm usually ready to embrace the next step, but the loss of the headphone jack was what made switch to the Pixel. Call it what you will, but the headphone jack is superior to its predecessor, unlike the floppy, cd-rom, etc. When I hear
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by katzgrau 9y ago
FB's tentacles are so deeply embedded in everything that I'm not sure a classic tech death from a disruptor is possible. Only a long and slow decline over a period of 5, maybe even 10 years.
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by katzgrau 9y ago
The sheer scale is incomparable. Comparing a doctor's mistake during a surgery doesn't quite compare to losing the data of 147 million. "Critical systems" developers would need astronomically expensive insurance to even
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by katzgrau 9y ago
Well, perhaps ... 1. There is more opportunity for Stanford students to pursue graduate degrees, leading many to forgo the entrepreneurial route 2. Stanford students receive better job offers upon graduation, leading many to forgo the entre

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