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by whiletruefork 14y ago
I agree that Reddit is taking a naive view on Advertising. There is a huge amount of value to be added here, both to Reddit and the Community by an effective Advertising platform. I'll speak with examples: r/gaming, a post about Borderlands
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by whiletruefork 14y ago
Adding some type of effect to show that the shirts are actively being bought (I imagine every few seconds half a shirt 'flash') would give the sale more of an active-feeling. Right now I don't feel strongly urged to make a decision right no
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Right Media founder discusses Yahoo's Ad Future(mwalrath.tumblr.com)
1 points by whiletruefork 15y ago|0 comments
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
My name is on the no fly list (well, mine and a million others). I get 'randomly' stopped by customs every time I re-enter the country through an airport. This doesn't happen at passport control but rather at customs. I've started leaving n
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
The author states that in his time at Google he realizes it was always a company funded by ads, but that he did not have to personally feel the need for Ads in all products. That's a fair point. Where I lost him is his connection of Google+
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
Most of my work is done in Ruby or Python and deployed via Heroku or EC2. I would look for someone who can either work in those frameworks, or can rewrite it in their language of choice.
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Ask HN: How to find a remote developer
1 points by whiletruefork 15y ago|3 comments
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
This is awesome. The time/cost of legal battles deter most folks, so I am glad you are doing what other people can't.
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
It would be great to have the ability to post-pay. I can imagine finishing the book and realizing that it was worth $20, and wanting to pay more. In this case if I come back to LeanPub there would be a list of books I selected to postpay, s
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
96% of revenue in the most recent quarter came from Advertising. If Google hadn't pioneered contextually relevant advertising it would likely be bankrupt today (as no VC would front the money it costs to run and maintain the datacenters pow
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
To my knowledge complying with COPPA is a difficult and tedious process. Common sense does not apply, and in fact, in my understanding, can often put you in violation of the law (for example: stating that you are going to remove someones ac
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
545 or 550 get you into / out of SEA pretty easily from major eastside hubs.
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?#site... Daily UV's are growing pretty well. Interesting to see the age skews higher then I would have assumed.
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
Google overtook Yahoo as the largest display network last month, so it's a bit more then making a move at this point :) http://mashable.com/2011/05/26/google-yahoo-display/
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
I disagree becuase the chromebook functions under the idea that 99% of what users need to do happens within the browser. OSX makes the guess that what the users need to do happens within the Apple Entertainment Ecosystem... (Disclaimer: I u
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
I agree in principle that claiming the path to A is by doing B is generally a pyramid scheme situation. However, this author came across differently because of his specific situation. I read it more along the lines of the Randy Pausch quota
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by whiletruefork 15y ago
Also the growth is not necessarily all in engineering. For example, I think Twitter is going to be needing a sales team to help push any pending ad products.
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
Depends on the team. I worked at a few different ones at MSFT, and generally the position was - two machines. Two desktops? Ok. Desktop + Laptop? Ok. Most developers went for the desktop x2 plan. PM's almost always went desktop + laptop. Ag
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
Perhaps the type of people that would employee a man of this skillset are more likely to have a facebook account than the general population. It's also not that far off to imagine that those folks would be logged in already via cookies. For
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
I saw the exact same thing. I had something like 1.25%-1.5% CTR from the mobile network, with no conversions. It was pretty terrible, and I disabled advertising on mobile networks (on by default) to save the wasted funds. I've also now seen
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
It's easier now to travel then it has ever been before. I can wake up in the US and decide to have dinner in Paris. This versus having to tough a weeks long voyage across the Atlantic followed by months in wagons crossing unfriendly territo
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
I'd be interested to see the distribution of passports geographically across the US. Some parts of the United States just don't lend themselves to easy travelling. Other than Canada or Mexico it isn't as easy to travel abroad (or neccessary
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
Easy to catch and filter. But yes, in theory, this will improve results. The proportion of users clicking the 10th link on a page is much lower than those who click the 1st. If users clicking the 10th > 1st, then there is an assumed ran
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
I do heavy Adwords analysis with my startup. One of the more interesting things I've come to discover though is that facebook provides much higher bang for the buck in regards to CPC and CPM (based on my limited budget, I can not saturate e
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
Matt Cutts should know better. Being part of '1000 signals' does not mean all signals are weighted evenly. It does not even mean the signals are weighted the same across all query types. This is machine learning - the actual weighting is le
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Nothing unethical about Bing v Google.(roshank.posterous.com)
1 points by whiletruefork 16y ago|0 comments
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
Disagree. When did people lose faith in education? I learned significantly during college in many aspects - sciences, math, politics, philosophy. This occurred both in classes and outside - but usually within the college environment (So I a
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
CS 06
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
There is some mixing of data sources, and in my opinion that is the 'core value' of the software. By aggregating item data from many sources I can generate a much clearer opinion of what an item is - and whether or not it fits with a specif
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by whiletruefork 16y ago
Yes. I've got a BS CS & worked in industry as a developer for 4 years - mainly C & C++.

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