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by mobjack 7y ago
Often times if something needs to be rewritten, it means that the feature became popular enough that it needs to scale up. It is not a bad problem to have. Even well written code might not scale or be flexible to changing requirements. The
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by mobjack 7y ago
Before devs had to have the insight to implement the force update feature in the first release of the app. If you didn't do that, then you really couldn't force the updates to the old versions.
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by mobjack 7y ago
Pausing the TV every 10 minutes is much harder as a parent on many different levels. Commercials can teach kids about long term instant gratification when it comes to toys. If they want something they see on TV, then they can wait until the
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by mobjack 7y ago
They probably aren't literally watching the TV the whole time. Some parents have the TV on in the background but the children are distracted with other tasks. For example, I will watch the news while my daughter plays in the same room
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by mobjack 7y ago
Organizing and executing sucks with ADHD, but it helps in executing without much organization. It could be a good thing in the right environment like a startup. Trying to organize then execute something could take a month of back and forth
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by mobjack 7y ago
99.9% of those on the web have JavaScript enabled. The audience who disables it is incredibly small and doesnt want to be tracked anyways. It shouldn't be a factor in your analytics solution unless you want to track bots too.
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by mobjack 7y ago
In this case the smart lock was just on the front door of the building and people could punch in a code in a keypad as an alternative. Individual apartments still required a physical key to access. This is not much different than my old apa
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by mobjack 7y ago
Inheritance usually looks more natural when it comes to toy examples. It the real world, a few edge cases can break down an elegant inheritance hierarchy and composition is often the better solution.
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by mobjack 7y ago
Email marketers would just stop having text in <a> tags that dont look like URLs to get around it. They already do that anyways for the most part. Phishing attempts will mimic real emails, so they will do the same.
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by mobjack 7y ago
Browser fingerprinting has been overhyped and is not a reliable method of tracking. If it was useful, it would be much more prevalent but too many people have the same fingerprint. IP address is a better method of tracking for comparison.
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by mobjack 7y ago
User agents are not that great of tracking. If you use a common device and browser kept up to date to the latest versions, then you are not going to be unique. Using Safari on an iPhone will make you similar to 30% of web traffic. Browsers
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by mobjack 7y ago
The perception of complexity matters more than actual complexity. At my job we made the product more complex and in rushing to release it, we didn't include an onboarding process like the old one. The new product ended up winning the A
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by mobjack 8y ago
Google Analytics does not transmit page content like your account balance. It can see that you viewed the account balance url but knows nothing about what is displayed. There are however other trackers that could send such information if th
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by mobjack 8y ago
From my experience, having less information on a landing page increases the email capture rate. Keep it simple with a single message all above the fold and it can improve the conversion rate by over 50%. At the same time, it doesn't ma
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by mobjack 8y ago
Google's core business is letting people pay to be the top of search result.
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by mobjack 8y ago
I display the full password reset link in the email body which makes each email have unique content. It still threads the email, but the last one will show up when clicking on it.
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by mobjack 8y ago
It is rare that deep learning performs better than simple analysis and statistics. It is a lot more common that a data anomaly is caused by a bug in implementing a web framework.
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by mobjack 8y ago
Java is a bad language until your project reaches a certain scale and its structure starts becoming an advantage.
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by mobjack 8y ago
There is a difference between code quality and software quality. Users dont care about the code quality at all as long as it meets their needs and requirements. You should strive for both but if you had to choose one, quality software writt
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by mobjack 8y ago
What practical problems can 4000 CPUs solve that 16 CPUs can't? You get less and less been benefit for each additional CPU you add to the problem, unless the CPU is the main bottleneck. Also if something requires 4000 CPUs, it is going
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by mobjack 8y ago
The skill that matters is realizing that those wanting 99.999% solution don't know what they are asking for. Most of the time they will be satisfied with an 80% solution.
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by mobjack 8y ago
Having grandparents help raise kids saves a ton of money in childcare costs. It can be the difference between someone being a stay at home mom/dad vs providing a second income stream for their family. The financial impact is that big.
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by mobjack 8y ago
There is also a lot unnecessary fear of change when it comes to design and UI. I used to have the same fears, but after working with analytics and AB testing, I realize that they are mostly unfounded. 90% of the time the changes are not goi
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by mobjack 8y ago
You don't need to know all the details behind the types of SQL indexes. It is more important to know when to use an index. You can look up the details then.
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by mobjack 8y ago
There are users who prefer to use a desktop web application than a mobile app. Many types of task are better on a large screen with a mouse and keyboard. It depends on the type of app and target audience.
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by mobjack 8y ago
Testing is not always the right tool for the job. For many types of businesses, once a website design is good enough, it is really hard to gain meaningful improvements from further changes. Chances are that changing the color or position of
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by mobjack 8y ago
It will only differ 5% of the time if you have an adequate sample size and only check for significance once the sample size is reached. If you end the test the moment the data reaches 95% significance, it will show a difference about 50% of
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by mobjack 8y ago
Is it really that big of an inconvenience if they don't include gender pronouns in automated email responses? How much revenue would Google be losing over such a decision? Even if something only affects 2% of the population, the cost o
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by mobjack 8y ago
Project management requires a more generalist skill set compared a senior programmer. Specialization is good to a point, but then it can be more valuable to branch into other areas. After you learn how to program, you will need to learn wha
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by mobjack 8y ago
AB test have humbled me many times in the past and now accept that careful planning is overrated. Instead of spending time trying to come up with the perfect idea, I work on finding the best way to test many half baked ideas.

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