the8bit

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by the8bit 4y ago
m6.12xl are 48 vCPU systems. 25 million cores is a hilariously huge amount of compute to use to run a site of twitter size, which I guess does point to how much tech debt they have ignored over time.
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by the8bit 5y ago
Pretty sure Google hasn't used 'bitshift puzzle' interview questions for ~10y now. It really is just a meme thing from long ago. My interview there ~6y ago was basically the same as ones I've done at a handful of other c
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by the8bit 5y ago
The problem here is really just general flaws in capitalism. The main thing I hate about ads is the broken corporate incentive -- companies want to earn as much as possible and the feedback loop of worse customer experience is weak. So anno
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by the8bit 5y ago
Each ad serve is not worth that much to start with, facebooks CPMs are about $7-8, so they are getting $0.007 per serve with extensive targeting. The falloff is something around 10x+ for completely non targeted ads which for most sites push
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by the8bit 5y ago
If you remove pay models, a vast majority of the internet will just disappear. (I think you) in a previous comment mention that it is 'cheap' to run a site, which is generally true on a per user basis for primarily text sites. But
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by the8bit 6y ago
It is really for people coming in 1-2 days a week. Very impractical to have 5x desk space for 5 people who all come in one day a week.
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by the8bit 6y ago
My google team didn't even _have_ a PM for most of my tenure there.
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by the8bit 6y ago
Google actually pays Zurich engineers more than Bay Area, something like +15% IIRC. I was close to moving out there at one point and know a few people who did.
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by the8bit 6y ago
Reddit already has an 'honest' business model (awards) and people rage about that all day too. I think mostly people just want the service but dont want to pay for it in any way.
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by the8bit 6y ago
Yep, reddit ads CPC is 2-5x cheaper than FB / Google. So assuming half of it is real fraud, the likely outcome of removing the fraud is just that CPC would double. Still better as misleading metrics are bad, but likely no real net chan
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by the8bit 6y ago
The most common causes of false ad clicks on the web isnt fraud but unintended maliciousness. Eg. there are extensions around that 'click' and load pages or click through posts to cache contents, etc. Plenty of people write web sc
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by the8bit 6y ago
People do click them but unsurprisingly the rate is pretty low. Often times ~0.5% - 1% for a reasonably well targeted ad. So 1 in 100-200.
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by the8bit 6y ago
Ads are not just charged by click. Some campaigns pay by impression served and some pay by conversion. It depends on what the advertiser is trying to accomplish. Pepsi might pay per impression because their goal is brand awareness. Local Pi
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by the8bit 10y ago
While sometimes this does get tricky with resources that are clearly owned or associated with multiple things, often times a resource only has one real owner and it is unambiguous. It does make moving things a bit weird though, as moving a
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by the8bit 10y ago
A lot of people make TL within 5-7 years, its not that uncommon (although we are talking about top 1-5% of programmers). Saving $1MM on west coast salary in 10 years is really doable. I am on track to do it in effectively 7 years or so.