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by rockostrich 10y ago
While I haven't experienced this sort of thing very often in the US, whenever it does happen Amazon has either sent another package, refunded the cost of the order, and/or offered a free month of Prime. And it usually only takes
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by rockostrich 10y ago
My friend works on WSJ for Dow Jones. Recently, he stumbled upon a query param that you can add to any article link to remove the paywall. It's ridiculous how many things have come up with WSJ to get around what I assume is one of th
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by rockostrich 10y ago
Fast? I guess the initial render for everything on the AWS console is fast and the new landing page is much nicer to look at, but many of the APIs take forever and all of the product specific pages still have a Web 1.0 UI.
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by rockostrich 10y ago
One piece of research that measures vitals instead of just asking the users which one they liked more isn't very convincing. It could even be A/B tested by measuring how long people stay on the page or bounce rate above the fold.
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by rockostrich 10y ago
I think Pebble benefitted a ton from being the first company in the space. There were definitely a ton of hiccups with the original Pebble watch. There was barely a store and when the store did come into being it was buggy as hell. The h
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by rockostrich 10y ago
But bytes/volume isn't a constant. You may be able to say a 100 PB is equal to about a shipping container now, but in 10 years it will be much smaller (probably not keeping up with Moore's Law for storage though).