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watfiv
17y ago
I believe his account is somewhat outdated: when you search for "Better Keyboard" on the Market--at least in Android 1.6--the first thing that comes up is the app. But I do remember a time when what he said was true and finding the app on
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watfiv
19y ago
It might not be quite so solid a fact. I've worked on websites with closer to 20m visits a month, and they've been able to swing deals for slightly better CPMs. I suspect that many sites with over 100m visits would probably see advertisin
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watfiv
19y ago
Basically: more precisely, that modern database APIs (not just ORMs) can hide much of the complexity of using an sql database, so that it seems neither "elaborate" nor "a higher order of magnitude" more complex to the programmer to build,
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watfiv
19y ago
That's hardly true in all cases. Depending on the situation, the "layer of complexity" introduced by your having to build your own data structures is often far worse than whatever is introduced by using an sql database. If you're using a