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by mobjack 7y ago
The way you deal with a "no" guy is to ask for forgiveness instead of permission. Put the responsibility on yourself to make the decision instead of passing it off to others.
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by mobjack 7y ago
Good lawyers figure out how to say yes while minimizing legal risks.
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by mobjack 7y ago
Wifi tethering is cumbersome to set up and is a janky experience. I want to take a picture of someone at a party and share it with them in a few seconds like I can do on my phone. It is the main reason I don't use a DSLR much at all an
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by mobjack 7y ago
If they don't see a referer, then they can assume that you typed in the URL or bookmarked the page. That could signal higher intent than someone clicking a random clickbait link to your site. Other events could prevent the referer from
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by mobjack 7y ago
It is more like paying for a service where you can eat unlimited apples for a flat fee each month. If you want the ability to give apples to friends to eat, then it will costs extra.
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by mobjack 7y ago
A lot of IKEA's products are highly modular and you have to buy the individual parts to create a full product. Their pricing strategy is to set base products relatively cheaply, but the have higher markups on additional accessories for
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by mobjack 7y ago
I used to build Access applications and never had data corruption issues while supporting 20 concurrent users. The key is separating the database and front end in different files. While I have many gripes with Access, it is a highly underra
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by mobjack 7y ago
The tests will involve 5 mocked dependencies just to test a simple if statement. They test the implemention and are a waste of time. Isolated units that are well tested usually don't need to be updated in my experience so they rarely b
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by mobjack 7y ago
95% of the time when a unit test fails for me, it is the test that need fixing instead of my code. It hardly inspires confidence.
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by mobjack 7y ago
An attacker can use a botnet to try to login your site from a list of username/passwords from the latest big data breach. They will get likely access of a small percentage of those accounts and you have to do damage control.
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by mobjack 7y ago
This is the type of thing that you can run a controlled experiment on by running a simple AB test. People often say that these type of tactics turn them off, evidence usually shows that they are still effective. Maybe it does turn off some
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by mobjack 7y ago
There are still tradeoffs to be made no matter your skill level. Good engineers choose between the minimal acceptable quality vs high quality code. Bad engineers struggle to get create minimal acceptable quality in the first place.
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by mobjack 7y ago
Bugs get missed in testing because developers can't anticipate all the ways users can break it. That is why beta testing exists. There are also bugs that are rare and take lots of effort to fix. You can first see how often that bug act
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by mobjack 7y ago
I find from my AB testing is that mobile users are much sensitive to changes to checkout. A big one page checkout could work on desktop machines since they have the real estate to work with. This can be a poor experience on mobile as you ne
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by mobjack 7y ago
Such data is usually so noisy and incomplete that you cant get any actionable value from it. The more complex a method is at tracking someone, the less reliable it is. People fear too much of what can be done with the fancy ways of tracking
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by mobjack 7y ago
I really dont know how well that will work against a dedicated attacker. I am much more confident in ReCAPTCHA of stopping bots compared to any roll your own solution. I dont want to hope that an alternative is good enough for my needs. I w
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by mobjack 7y ago
Tracking still mainly relies on unique identifiers on cookies and mobile apps. The main thing I see fingerprinting used for is tracking users between mobile apps and websites. That mainly relies on IP addresses. The best way to track users
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by mobjack 7y ago
Many third party analytics tools can be configured to track user behavior anonymously without any PII data. It is a feature because at least some developers want a solution to protect users privacy while still being able to gather data to i
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by mobjack 7y ago
Google makes lots of money from search ads from Firefox users. Even with these changes, there are still lots of ways for Google to track you and monetize ads.
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by mobjack 7y ago
It looks like these changes only affect third party cookies, while most analytics software relies on first party cookies. These changes make it harder for analytics companies to track users across domains, but still allows site owners to an
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by mobjack 7y ago
If you are seeing ads for stuff you already purchased, it could be that the ad network tracked that you have viewed the item but didn't properly track the purchase. The tracking isn't perfect and not every targeted ad you see is i
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by mobjack 7y ago
The money could have been eaten up by the advertiser. If the untargeted ads lead to less valuable placements, then it will hurt the revenue of the advertiser. Short term, both the ad network and publisher can get away with bad placement and
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by mobjack 7y ago
Unless you use some obscure browser, it is better to use your real user agent. If you keep your browser and operating system up to date, chances are it will be one of the most popular ones. Your UA will correlate with other means of fingerp
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by mobjack 7y ago
If you have experience and follow best practices, you should produce decent quality code in the same amount of time as producing bad quality code. In those cases, the gains from improving the code further are not always worth the costs sinc
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by mobjack 7y ago
The unsubscribe link is more effective at stopping unwanted emails. I automatically unsubscribe people who mark email as spam but lots of marketers dont do that so you will still receive emails. Most legitimate companies will respect the un
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by mobjack 7y ago
It doesn't have to be a pure science interest. If you want to use the results from one test to inform what to test next, then A/B tests are better optimizing for truth. Most website changes dont make a significant difference in co
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by mobjack 7y ago
Cookies still work on mobile and ITP can be bypassed. Cookies are still king. It is just that trackers are relying more on first party cookies than 3rd party ones.
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by mobjack 7y ago
Fingerprinting has its limitations and is not a practical way to pass data from the advertiser to the ad network. Plain old cookies and unique url parameters are the bread and butter of ad tracking. It is a much more accurate and practical
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by mobjack 7y ago
Click attribution can be handled completely server side. The browser can't protect you. If you don't want to be tracked, then don't click on the ads.
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by mobjack 7y ago
There is a lot of technical debt you can leave in the system without consequence. Tech debt mainly becomes an issue when making changes to the code. If no changes are needed in the code and it is working correctly, it is best to leave the d

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