alanlamm

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by alanlamm 6y ago
I am surprised that of the pages and pages of comments that I have read (about 500+ comments), few discuss the potential implications of (a) having virtually all of a business's communication (not just the emails and such, but now also
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by alanlamm 6y ago
The financial times has a covid tracker with log vs linear, daily vs cumulative and absolute vs per capita toggles. I understand log scales and even so, changing these settings really makes me look at the data differently. For example - loo
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by alanlamm 7y ago
one pet peeve of mine is if in the candidate's portfolio they place login screens or introductory carrousel screens prominently.
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by alanlamm 7y ago
why was this flagged? I'm no fan of communism, but it appears to be a valid response to the parent.
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by alanlamm 8y ago
the objective of the tax would not be to eliminate the unemployed, but rather to put them to work
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by alanlamm 8y ago
Yes, or even better, for all that surplus lard on your body!
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by alanlamm 8y ago
While we are at it, lets tax the vacant hours of the unemployed - those evil speculators who are consipiring to restrict the supply of labor. That will encourage them to work and thereby be able to afford all that brand new housing!
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by alanlamm 8y ago
some of the things we have had censored by fb (even after appealing) 1. illustrations of cupid on valentines day, genitals covered, for nudity. 2. illustrations of a (non sexually provocative) mouth when the logo of our product was a mouth.
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by alanlamm 8y ago
note- strategic adversaries is a more appropriate term than competitors, and it is interesting how language used by nation states now fits the relation between companies so well.
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by alanlamm 8y ago
> Facebook doesn't want these companies sending users' personal data to them without their knowledge. Rubbish. If they didn't want the data, they wouldn't build & offer developers a first class analytics package f
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by alanlamm 8y ago
I hve never been to China but in my experience american airport security and immigration is nasty as compared to other perfectly free and democratic countries.
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by alanlamm 8y ago
I am surprised at how few of the comments here say - if parents and/or kids want to make non-sexual videos public, fine. If paedophiles are aroused by them nometheless, fine too (as long as they do so privately and don't harrass t
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by alanlamm 8y ago
Thank you for the answer. I have to admit it doesn't quite sway me, for reasons such as those below, but thank you. e.g. yes I realise they are different search problems, but I'd presume that Google is nonetheless well-equipped t
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by alanlamm 8y ago
To be a bit contrarian here, I'm not sure that any question you ask after an offer (over and above what you knew/have learned before) will actually improve the quality of your decision that much. as an exageration, how do you answ
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by alanlamm 8y ago
curious: how big is the Firestore team? what about the team for the Firebase products as a whole?
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by alanlamm 8y ago
Curious - what do you use? any suggestions of good serverless NoSQL? with the built in auth and extras Google/Firebase offer? What about relational? I've used Back4App, but with it being small and FB having killed Parse, it wasn&#
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by alanlamm 8y ago
Paying Firestore user here. 1. Disappointing that it has gone to GA without providing proper search (after a long beta). Can anybody explain why a service run by the worlds #1 search company continues to point users to third party services
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by alanlamm 8y ago
not necessarily - the data could be used to understand overall usage patterns and preferences in the target population as a whole - much in the same way as traditional surveys and focus groups. If indeed it is put into ML which then tries t
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by alanlamm 8y ago
Sorry to disappoint, but I think this is just one of many ways. example - as an iOS dev u want to advertise on fb. for that to be effective u want to track conversions. easiest way to do that, esp. for a small dev - add the facebook sdk to
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by alanlamm 8y ago
Based on direct involvement in the process of writing one such policy for one such big internet co., my view is that the confusion and vagueness is largely deliberate. A small part of it is the result of too many people involved pulling in
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by alanlamm 8y ago
yes, but 'inside the company' and 'testing' are vague. On one hand u have Larry Page testing the latest version of Gmail app - clearly eithin bounds - but what if its a contractor using an app filled with analytics that
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by alanlamm 8y ago
I think they mean the research data won't be used directly to target ads or try to make sales to you (standard guideline for market research), rather than the second order effect of allowing them to improve their overall ad targeting w
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by alanlamm 8y ago
1. Based on personal experience, I don't really buy the many comments here that say the web is boring bc most people are boring vs some fun geeky outlier elite. I remember IT class 20 years ago and everybody - including the most mainst
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by alanlamm 8y ago
but conversely you might have the contrarian town geniuses also interacting where they would not previously. so I guess it depends on the relative size of the 2 groups and their respective probability of being ostracised in their home envir
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by alanlamm 8y ago
fun fact - I changed my hometown to Timbuktu on facebook. yet when I click on Why Am i seeing This Ad, I am told it is because the advertiser wants to reach people who live in (not are in or have been in) my actual home town. huh.
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by alanlamm 8y ago
a smartphone equivalent of a nokia 1110.
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by alanlamm 8y ago
The estimates in the study are for liberal arts college students (likely relatively Wwealthy vs US users as a whole), and if I’m not mistaken, US Facebook users have ARPU of as much as 10x other regions. If the WTP is also distributed like
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by alanlamm 8y ago
Or, concretely, if I’m sitting in my midwestern liberal arts college...
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by alanlamm 8y ago
Hmm cigarettes with analytics...
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by alanlamm 8y ago
The article does not provide evidence that the users are fake (may well be true, but presumption of innocence applies). If they are not fake, and reports of copyright violation to the platform are duly considered, then it would appear to co

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