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by wdr1 6y ago
TL;DR: Apple's move will help the big guys & hurt the smaller ones.
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> Why should platform makers consult the advertising industry? Any given platform succeeds or dies based on its applications. In the case of mobile, many of those applications survive based on advertising.
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by wdr1 6y ago
I would have loved this in 2008 for the Beijing Olympics. My team created the point of sale, which included printing specialized tickets on specialized printers. These were going to be deployed across 1,000+ Bank of China locations, inclu
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by wdr1 6y ago
That's a bit of understatement. - As others have pointed out, you can't background it during a 100G download. It continues to capture keystrokes. - There's no way to mute the annoying music. So forget about passing the time
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by wdr1 6y ago
Epic should have done this a week or two before the hearing.
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> Nothing could paint a clearer picture than this: America is no longer a place that smart people want to move to Poppycock. That runs counter to the article's statement there were a record number of applications. Something happened
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by wdr1 6y ago
"Impossible" is a strange way to say you're unwilling to forge convenience and live the life we all had in the 90s.
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by wdr1 6y ago
> Facebook, as a platform, has enabled mass amounts of misinformation, hatred, and groupthink, to the point of becoming a serious concern for our democracy I don't disagree, but I've wondered why that doesn't lead to peopl
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by wdr1 6y ago
> The short answer is that he can't. It depends upon what you mean by "can't." If you mean legal authority to block a specific app, no. If you mean use his authority to influence & effectively make it happen, he c
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by wdr1 6y ago
TL;DR: spam detection is hard
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I learned this lesson the hard way. A lot of ticketing platform for the 2008 Olympics was Perl, and I was responsible for one of the engineering teams. The first on-sale basically flopped because our load testing environment had a different
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by wdr1 6y ago
Its ironic how upset people get over the use of "irregardless."
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It doesn't have to be surprising to be outrageous.
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by wdr1 6y ago
Barbara Walters, Martin Luther King & Anne Frank were all born in the same year. To your point, what we think of as "history" wasn't that long ago.
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by wdr1 6y ago
> I don't understand the nostalgia for these planes. I see a big plane and I think "cattle car." Perhaps. But flying business class in the upper deck is definitely not cattle car material.
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by wdr1 6y ago
I left my Kindle on an Emirates flight to HYD. I thought it was lost forever, but on the last day of my trip, a coworker mentioned I should just get to the airport a little early and ask. It took maybe 30 minutes, but at the end of it, my
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by wdr1 6y ago
Not that this excuses it, but I wonder if it had anything to do with his FB post versus remarketing. My suspicion is that, following his diagnouses, he visited a website that is being a bit shady with its userlists.
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by wdr1 6y ago
I wear a mask. I encourage all my friends to wear a mask. It's a very low cost, with large potential upside. There's no good reason not to wear a mask. But I am also interested in the pure science & am asking strictly fro
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by wdr1 6y ago
The image resolution on (2) is too low to clearly see everything, but it also looks like they're including more & more (sub-?)industries over the year. E.g., SEO wasn't included in 2011 but is in 2020.
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Ironically, adding it would also fix their Apple store woes.
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If you read the Socratic dialogues, you'll get a sense of it. Sophists would typically teach just a series of "facts." Feynman ran into something similar when he taught in Brazil. There's a difference between "kno
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by wdr1 6y ago
He wasn't a professional trader or anything like that. He was a kid with no income. Was they did they allow him access to so much leverage?
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by wdr1 6y ago
You're working at the wrong place. I've worked at startups that had more of the culture you desire, as well as places that have the culture you're current describing. During the interview process you need to ask the right set
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by wdr1 6y ago
I worry it's a shitty slogan that will undercut real change. Many will think it's no police, hence no police brutality, only to learn it's really just a re-organization of the police. Potentially a minor one, as many (most
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by wdr1 6y ago
Milton Friedman said one of the most important aspect of capitalism, more than the profit motive, was that bad companies are allowed to fail & better company can fill the need.
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by wdr1 6y ago
Any insight into Spotify's podcast buying spree?
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I just commented on a few of my videos & it's still there?
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Interesting. I also live in a beach town near Los Angeles (Santa Monica), but I'm seeing prices hold as steady as ever, if not slightly up. That said, inventory here has been extremely tight for a while.
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> These are states where people take pride in driving big gas guzzling trucks and the government supports them in that. Stereotypes like this are ridiculous. Do these people exist in those states? Absolutely. Do they also exist in Calif
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> Take an audience of X people. Divide them in two. Show ads to your test group, don't show to control. That works for the simplest of advertiser campaigns, but doesn't scale. How do you break down your audience across platform

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