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by mpeg 10y ago
Ok this guy has a 2% CTR which is pretty good for what I assume is a super low quality app / content. I would bet you that he's doing something dodgy that breaks the FAN tos, I assume he's hiding ads within content or nudging
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by mpeg 10y ago
80% CTR would be stupidly high, mobile app or not, anything over 5% would already be incredibly good. The 80% figure is fill rate (AKA the percentage of impressions to requested placements), the 1.80-2.00% figure is the CTR, which matches t
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by mpeg 10y ago
They're one of the only acquisitions that have been kept running pretty much the same way. There was no integration with force.com or anything like that. I don't think they're even colocated in SFDC datacenters, I think they
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by mpeg 10y ago
Heroku has been owned by Salesforce since 2010, and it's very loved in the SFDC family. No chance of it shutting down anytime soon.
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by mpeg 10y ago
Note that this is very outdated. Modern fingerprinting techniques can identify you much more accurately than panopticlick can.
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by mpeg 10y ago
That most definitely helped her get early clients and commercial success, but I think it's still very cool that a young girl was able to plan, build and execute a business idea. Most 16 year olds are just using their phones to send sil
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by mpeg 10y ago
I'm more surprised Facebook didn't withhold access to information for TechCrunch after that. News embargoes are a thing, journalists are not supposed to publish things like this ahead of time
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by mpeg 10y ago
And for a limited time, you get a free set of Japanese cooking knives with every purchase.
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by mpeg 10y ago
bar(foo) When you're not writing shell, just use the tools the language gives you. For the matter, I think a shell script is cleaner than a python script for devops; but I don't think the composability of unix tools is that much o
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by mpeg 10y ago
The thing is no one respects the CAN-SPAM act in high touch b2b sales, and no one cares about it. Most people that are getting email addresses in this way are using it as a cheaper and more effective alternative to LinkedIn inmail, cold ema
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by mpeg 10y ago
Used to close a comment thread for more user-friendly browsing
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by mpeg 10y ago
Thanks for this, I've been looking for something to use in long flights and was resorting to building docs from source when available — this is much better. Might even take a look to see how hard it'd be to add Elm support to the
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by mpeg 10y ago
As an ex-SFDC employee, I'd be surprised if Bret is still there in 2 years. Not that there's anything wrong with it; Salesforce is a great place to work in many ways, but like many big companies they have trouble retaining key emp
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by mpeg 10y ago
Well, in my experience it was done in a case-by-case basis and led through the great work of NGO "Thorn" (the one founded by Ashton Kutchen & Demi Moore) I don't know about accountability, but we provided support in a pro
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by mpeg 10y ago
Kinda, but then the random values just become a flag for "has x browser extension installed" and the trackers will still use the things you can't change, like the OS networking stack, GPU, audio, etc. to track you. It's
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by mpeg 10y ago
There's browser extensions that will fake all of those to a standard value. The tricky part is that with fingerprinting, depending on your chosen faked value you could end up being more identifiable, if not enough people use it. For in
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by mpeg 10y ago
In the EU there's a proposal to extend the law around consent for storage (AKA the cookie consent law) to fingerprinting, whether or not it accesses device storage. The law even has exemptions for security-related applications — your b
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by mpeg 10y ago
It's a big book, so have only skimmed through, but it seems very good, well researched and useful. Most of the book is applicable regardless of what the OS is, as it seems to teach you the fundamentals of reading ASM and recognising co
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by mpeg 10y ago
MFA for the end site, not for lastpass. This bug would still have been exploitable with lastpass MFA.
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by mpeg 10y ago
There's a high degree of bullshit and opportunism around blockchains. Some people want to believe blockchains are a solution for everything because they are not technical. Like the guy in the video, when all you have is a hammer... If
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by mpeg 10y ago
In the EU the e-money regulation applies to any kind of electronic cash transaction. If you become an Electronic Money Institution, in most cases you'll still have to follow KYC and AML laws. Bitcoin companies in the EU all do after ce
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by mpeg 10y ago
> Maybe the populations of France, Spain, Italy et al will accept that they can't fund welfare states by borrowing in perpetuity and stop voting in radical left-wing governments. Spain has never had a left-wing government, let alone
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by mpeg 10y ago
They do, in lots of companies, have "Software Developer I", "II", "III" ... Or MTS/SMTS/LMTS/PMTS with a gazillion different levels for each
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by mpeg 10y ago
I find elixir incredibly good for CRUD-type applications, macros and pattern matching alone get rid of most of the duplication and hard to follow logic that plagues most web frameworks. Phoenix is quite popular but if you look at the source
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by mpeg 10y ago
Lots of countries in the world allow underage kids (think 14-16) to work, it's actually a very valid alternative to higher education.
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by mpeg 10y ago
Can hardly call it luck when Valve runs the largest PC game content delivery platform in the world. They can definitely set the terms of that kind of partnership.
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by mpeg 10y ago
The DAO was dodgy to begin with, the problem with Ethereum is that most people investing have no understanding of the tech behind, beyond thinking that Vitalik is some sort of genius and that it's "zero risk". That's jus
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by mpeg 10y ago
He's calling it a "scraper" but it just seems to call public API endpoints, so it's perfectly fine to run and use.
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by mpeg 10y ago
Sorry, I should probably edit my comment to say "over the years" and not necessarily recently. I think my point was more that the conservative approach Bitcoin takes works better on the long term, and there's still proposals
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by mpeg 10y ago
This is what really annoys me about the Ethereum VM, there was no need for turing completeness. Bitcoin has a perfectly good scripting system that they keep adding opcodes to, and is not vulnerable to some of these kind of attacks.

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