katzgrau

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by katzgrau 5y ago
My guess is that everlasting life will just open the door to other problems we didn't consider. Fix one bug, say hello to another.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> which in my book just makes it delusional rather than dissonant or contradictory. Not to get off track, but ultimately it's a subjective position. I could easily take the view that anyone working for Facebook is actively helping e
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Ad network CPMs are seasonal, but I agree that it's a race to the bottom there. Ad networks (including Google's) are designed to maximize profit for ad-tech, not the publisher. The publisher/creator is always the last on line
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Ad-tech involves big data, lots of volume, and tons of innovation and interesting challenges. There's usually a good paycheck too, because there are lots of companies that need smart people to work on the above. Greatest minds? Maybe t
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by katzgrau 5y ago
There are hucksters in every industry, and if you ask me, crypto has some next-level hucksterism. The core of advertising is just getting some message about your product or service to a relevant audience. A lot of companies offer that servi
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Genuine social proof is always the best. Smart marketers don't try to get you to buy from an ad click. They want to move you one step down the funnel, which is usually getting your email/contact info if it's the type of produ
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by katzgrau 5y ago
People track conversions - click through URLs contain tracking query params which track the source. If you convert (download a resource, request a demo, start a trial, buy a product) it gets reported back to Facebook. There's definite
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Digital marketing performance is increasingly measurable and there's more data than ever proving that it can be extremely effective. You can certainly waste a lot of money doing it too. Getting the right message in front of the right u
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Agreed, and something to add in the explanation of what to do is the "why." When someone (or you) is reading the code later, you see a method call and know exactly what it does. This prevents you from having to click in or find it
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by katzgrau 6y ago
> long after advertisers are gone May have sounded nice, but successful creators eventually become advertisers. As long as they have money to spend on marketing, they'll spend it to get in front of the right people
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I'd argue we already connected ourselves to computers, and we're just using the safest but slowest adapters available right now.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
If you feel motivated to improve, then do it. The greatest strides I ever made was when I realized that I needed to level up to fit in with my new team. That means studying their code, structure, habits and emulating those. Every time you r
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by katzgrau 6y ago
I can't imagine a lot of close minded arrogant westerners doing a lot of travel to begin with. I think it's more likely that they want you to feel more at home. I was visiting an overseas team in Bangalore for a week and the team
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by katzgrau 6y ago
And then they move up the corporate ladder, loved by all? Read OP's original description, not the same. Driver spy is not a counterpoint.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Doesn't quite fit the image of perfection described above
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by katzgrau 6y ago
An engineer with a great pedigree and work background and social finesse who passes all interviews and interaction without detection... Willing to take on a high risk role... All for the good of the homeland? I think you're describing
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Solo founder for years, but eventually grew to the point where I hired a small team that can handle 95% of issues. I was at the point where I had to or I'd lose my mind with the control it had over my personal life. Hiring yourself out
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by katzgrau 6y ago
The disheartening thing, at least for me, is that there are always plenty of people who disagree with the lie. But their voices are discredited/downvoted/etc. Just try calling anything commonly considered to be "science"
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by katzgrau 6y ago
We'll always be naive, because there will always be really important things we don't know and therefore can't account for.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
My dad yelled at me for spending all day on the computer learning visual basic. He didn't know the first thing about computers but got one because schools were starting strongly suggest essays were typed. Wanted me to focus on school w
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by katzgrau 6y ago
The first customers were definitely the hardest. I didn't do any classic marketing, just cold calls and emails. It took a few months to get the first paying user. I did target a specific niche. I then went in a road trip around the nor
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by katzgrau 6y ago
> Don't promise features you are not planning to build and align your prospects expectations with. As an engineer turned sales for my own indie company (15 employees today, had 0 when I started doing sales) - I partially agree with
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by katzgrau 6y ago
No one said identify fraud, I said flag potential fraud. There are some people who think it's a useful heuristic for uncovering potential oddities. Academics may not think so, but perhaps people who are professional analysts do. Ulti
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by katzgrau 6y ago
It depends on what you consider anti-conservative. I've had a few friends mention that any links to something regarding "Benfords Law" (some forensic tool used for flagging potential fraud) gets an immediate "disputed&qu
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Of course I have conservative (and pretty reasonable) friends who have made a declaration on FB that they're moving to Parler because they're concerned about "big tech's" controls on free speech. I checked it out an
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Right, you'll just be twice as stressed and anxious tomorrow unless you like to keep the party going. And then you've got a bigger problem.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
Super cynical interpretation, but an interpretation nonetheless. A more positive view: The story is about celebrating the good (his brother/son came back!) and not focusing on perceived injustices. In other words, gratitude.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
It's hard not to read this as satire, because XPath is so inelegant. Not that CSS selectors are a model of elegance, but it gets the job done (most of the time) and is easy enough for rookie devs and designers to pick up.
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by katzgrau 6y ago
> there's a remarkable dearth of evidence that humans do something qualitatively different. Perhaps now, but if history is any indication, when we (as humans) think we have a good grip on how something really works (like human intel
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by katzgrau 6y ago
"The code is 100 % ours and do not contain any copyright [sic] material please check again" Laughed at loud, especially at "please check again." Something a developer would definitely say.

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