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by teej 10y ago
Customer Life Time Value. It's the average amount of revenue he can expect from a particular type of customer (trial users) over some time window (X months from signup, typically 12-36)
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by teej 10y ago
AWS-cli only really got robust S3 support in the last 18 months or so. For a long time it couldn't handle multipart uploads and didn't support a bunch of corner cases (versioning, glacier, cross-account, etc)
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by teej 10y ago
At least back in 2010, Facebook and Twitter were both reportedly using torrents to do code deploys. https://blog.twitter.com/2010/murder-fast-datacenter-code-de... https://torrentfreak.com/facebook-uses
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by teej 10y ago
Or maybe it takes 3-5 years to "make it".
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by teej 10y ago
I always state as relative change. I find that people can get really confused if you were to say "X ran in 110% in the time of Y" even though it is stated in a clear way. My preferred way of communicating this concept is "we
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by teej 10y ago
I use this extensively in schlepping data around for analytics work. Any data that moves over the network going into or out of a data store gets compressed with pigz.
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by teej 10y ago
The credit card companies still get paid on transaction fees, which is where your rewards come from. They collect $150 from the merchant and pass $75 on to you. They are arguably making just as much money on you as someone with low transact
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by teej 10y ago
1.day is not a native Ruby concept, it is a method monkeypatched into the Numeric class by Rails' ActiveSupport. See http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Numeric.html#method-i-day and https://ruby-doc.org
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by teej 10y ago
Well, for a long time, letting "Python be Python" required dealing with absolutely terrible time zone support. As an example, Python's strptime only got timezone support (in %z) in version 3.2 in 2011.
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by teej 10y ago
Figure 1 isn't really the same thing. It's not a diagnostic tool, it doesn't store PHI, and a human reviews every image before it's visible in the app. Figure 1 is closer to Instagram than it is to the Watson stuff which
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by teej 10y ago
Erm, in the United States we have HIPAA which directly makes "a third-party cloud service" "legally obliged to respect the privacy of their patients and the confidentiality of medical data". Besides, using AI doesn'
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by teej 10y ago
I mean, the way WalMart manages their supply chain, there's no guarantee it will continue to pass. If I remember correctly, Great Value Parmesan cheese was rated the worst (highest) level of wood pulp additives when tested vs other maj
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by teej 10y ago
Most AWS limitations can be increased by asking support.
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by teej 10y ago
> Hulu has always seemed like its primary goal is to serve the incumbent television providers, and not their viewers Err, maybe because Hulu is literally owned by the incumbent television providers? "... It is a subsidiary of Hulu
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by teej 10y ago
The primary source as far as I can tell is this? http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20160804/k10010621901000.htm... . Somewhere elsewhere said that the article says that Watson diagnosed her with "secondary
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by teej 10y ago
A major difference between a 3 month window and a 10 month window is that with the former, you "get" to purchase lottery tickets. With the latter you have massively reduced downside risk.
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by teej 10y ago
Search "abandoned cart promotion" and you'll find plenty of them.
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by teej 10y ago
If you're looking for recommendations for time series data, this thread still holds up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8368509 I'd consider taking a look at KDB+
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by teej 10y ago
I just tried to place an ad for /r/pics and /r/gaming and had no problem getting to "pending ad approval" EDIT: I'm an idiot.
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by teej 10y ago
Could to into more detail about what techniques NASA specifically used to achieve quality software? I'm honestly very interested. I feel like you didn't answer the spirit of the question "How did NASA build highly reliable so
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by teej 10y ago
Ok, sure. That lets me strike Google Analytics from the list. And of all the vendors on that list, Google is the one I distrust the least. The reality is that to compete, we need to measure changes to our product, we need to buy advertising
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by teej 10y ago
If this existed, I would implement it today . Even better then that, I would insist that our tag manager implement it. This goes beyond display ads. Your standard ecommerce site is littered with tags from all sorts of things and each one c
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by teej 10y ago
1) Typos happen 2) That's why geocoder is in quotes. It's a system that performs an operation similar to a geocoder.
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by teej 10y ago
Why exactly? It says that the company was inferring location based on nearby wireless networks. Does your quote not accurately reflect that?
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by teej 10y ago
For those confused like myself, this is about Eve, an excel-like development environment from the person who brought you LightTable. This is not about Eve Online.
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by teej 10y ago
All model 2018 cars are mandated to have them in the US, so there will be even less of a market for this with new cars.
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by teej 10y ago
Yes, but if you have 10 million bakeries, you can afford a team of 10 software engineers to increase your efficiency to produce the same output with 7 million bakeries and 10 million bakers.
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by teej 10y ago
Isn't $200k the free market cost? The government isn't pocketing that money. That's the price you would expect from an asset that generates income with a limited supply. Edit: why am I down voted to max? The government limits
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by teej 10y ago
It's called the English Rule. People argue that implementing it could disincentivize people bringing forth valid cases and that it could lower the liklihood of settling, increasing legal and court costs for cases that do go through. I
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by teej 10y ago
The rationale that Facebook is using is chat isn't chat anymore, chat is a platform. You have Line/QQ/WeChat to thank for that. Cut the edges to funnel into the "core", and soup it up with platform features to compe

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