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by physcab 11y ago
It absolutely does. I know what life was like before Tableau (MS Excel + webquery, custom highcharts, cobbling together graphs from multiple SaaS services, custom python+R code) and I can say it probably saves 5 hours in a day or two.
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by physcab 11y ago
Less moving parts. If I get a request from a PM, I quickly open up Tableau, select a datasource or write some SQL and deploy. Sometimes data asks that they think would take 24 hours or more can be turned around in under an hour with Tableau
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by physcab 11y ago
The price is expensive but if I'm charging $100 - $150 / hr and it takes me twice as long to do something in PowerBI that it does in Tableau, Tableau quickly pays for itself for the desktop software. Then you can multiply that acr
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by physcab 11y ago
Never heard of DevExpress but just by going to the website it feels far less intuitive than Tableau. Tableau is so freaking easy that you don't need to be experienced in BI to be user.
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by physcab 11y ago
Tableau is a good product. I use it daily. There simply is no better alternative for quick ad-hoc, enterprise-level, intuitive graph and dashboard making. I've been at large orgs where we evaluated all the cloud services like Mixpanel
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by physcab 11y ago
I couldn't edit my comment but you're right. I meant $5M-$10M per month. But the mobile gaming industry as a whole is a huge revenue driver, probably 20%-30% of FB's quarterly rev.
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by physcab 11y ago
Here's an exercise. Go to the App Store, click on Top Grossing. Out of the 150 apps displayed, how many are gaming-related? I counted 113. Thats 75%. I don't have the charts but you can compare this to a year ago period. My guess
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by physcab 11y ago
Supercell, like most big mobile gaming companies, make their money on in-app purchases. Someone leaked SC's internal dashboard 2 years ago [1]. At the time they were making $5M a day in rev just in CoC. You can get App Annie estimates
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by physcab 11y ago
If you run a gaming company, you're most likely tracking everything you possibly can about who is spending in your game. If you are running a facebook campaign, you will buy either on volume (don't care what the price is, just giv
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by physcab 11y ago
Here's the thing that most people don't know unless they are in the "industry": * The gaming industry is most likely driving a lot of this growth. I'm sure Machine Zone and Supercell are doing between $5M - $10M a d
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by physcab 11y ago
Amazon handling its own logistics is going to be a big problem for UPS. I have a friend who works for the AP and recently visited a large distribution facility for a story. He said UPS does over 1M packages a day and anecdotally he said it
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by physcab 11y ago
Thanks for putting this together. I peruse HN pretty much everyday and I haven't heard of half of these products. Pretty neat.
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by physcab 11y ago
It wasn't immediately clear to me that I had to bring my own database. That makes this product less appealing. I would love it if I could instrument Segment and get a redshift endpoint to query my data, but didn't have to set it
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by physcab 11y ago
> The problem is with a big trend in society that we want to be listened to and watched, because it makes life more convenient on a personal level. I would argue that it isn't convenience that attracts people, its narcissism. Societ
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by physcab 11y ago
There is a lot of bad advice in this thread so let's start with the beginning: 1. Why did you create this app and how is it different than your competitors? Do you know what your competitors metrics are? Taking a quick look at your app
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Show HN: A little side project to offer printable fax cover sheets(ifaxcoversheet.com)
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by physcab 11y ago
It should be no surprise that decreasing the tutorial from 6 pages to 2 will increase number of users "registered" from 40% to 80% (or more). In my experience, tutorial dropoff follows a power law, that is, every new hurdle you pl
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by physcab 11y ago
Its interesting reading about their decision making process with regards to their business model. Then we tried a subscription model. It was super easy to understand, which enabled us to sign up 10,000 paying pros—great! But in the long ru
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by physcab 11y ago
So a little story about Thumbtack. My girlfriend is a chef and she and her chef friends have all turned to Thumbtack at one time or another to seek out private clients. There's a ton of them here in SF since lots of people have money
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by physcab 11y ago
SF absolutely needs to build more housing. SF also needs to build taller (more skyscrapers). I have trouble believing AirBnB helps SF. Anecdotally, I know a few people who rent their places on AirBnB. All live in rent controlled units and e
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by physcab 11y ago
I like this idea. I took the Triplebyte quiz mostly out of curiosity and then decided to stop when I was prompted for a phone interview. I like the idea of "pre-qualifying" myself for a job even before I'm ready, so that when
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by physcab 11y ago
Really glad you got to see Josh, Travis. I too remember "this too shall pass" and all the optimism he shared. I'm a bit jealous you got pitched by Josh to join Grooveshark because by the time I joined, I had to pitch him! And
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by physcab 11y ago
I was laid off once, and although it was a horrible experience, I do not think I would feel as bad if it happened again. The reason is that the first time you get laid off, you think to yourself you are absolutely fucked and there is no way
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by physcab 11y ago
This is a naive question, but what's the difference between GitLab and Github?
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by physcab 11y ago
Purchasing domain names is the most frustrating experience. Why there is no transparent market is beyond me. Mehta's tactics are clearly abusive, but if someone was holding onto a domain name for 16 years and not doing anything with it
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by physcab 11y ago
You can get Abbyy OCR Cloud SDK and its $0.10 per page (goes down with volume). http://ocrsdk.com/plans-and-pricing/
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by physcab 11y ago
I tried using Tesseract and could not get it to work reliably. I tried a bunch of different pre-processing techniques and it turned into a very frustrating experience. When I compared Tesseract to Abbyy, the difference was night and day. Ab
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by physcab 11y ago
This is an aside but I like the author's writing style. Not only is he clear but also describes why he's doing what he's doing and how it's important to him and others. Really helps me give the ideas more thought!
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by physcab 11y ago
While I don't really understand the differences between CBT and DBT, I've been seeing a therapist who has prescribed a lot of the treatments the author mentions. It never occurred to me that I suffered with anxiety but through a s
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by physcab 11y ago
"By that measure, Slack is a real and large innovation. It is not as eye-catching as self-driving cars or implantable chips — it is not basic research-y kind of stuff. But, for organizations that adopt it, there will be a dramatic shif

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