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Ah good old Rocket Internet. Used to deal quite a lot with them back in the days.

For all the ethically ambiguous things they do, I still remember fondly their creative ways of using AdTech.

I completely second the Marketing part, it is full of spreadsheets of hell

Signed up, curious to see how the sausage is made.

That presentation was refreshingly honest and interesting to boot with.

>If you're very attractive, yes. But if you're aren't very attractive and you're sending bad messages, how is that more successful than sending good messages? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you. By "low effort messages" do you mean "bad messages" or do you mean "fluid messages without overthinking or too much detail"

They switched from TCP to UDP because speed/reach is more efficient (in their mind) than deliverability/customisation

That last anecdote gave us the verb baragouiner (which means speaking unintelligibly) that came from Bara and Gwinn which respectively means bread and wine.

The Bretons, unable to speak French, were only communicating in their own language and sometimes thought as being German. Terrible combo on the Eastern Front

I use Grymoire as my goto sed / awk reference.

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

Here's the source if you want to tinker with it : https://github.com/ncase/loopy

I do suffer from a similar condition, being able to get in the mood can be quite challenging.

I found that whenever I need to get started on some brain intensive task, be it writing or designing a piece of software architecture, being out and about in a social space (a coffee shop, a pub) works wonders.

I have both a lack of distractions (mobile on silent and out of sight) and a drive to do something instead of staring at folks awkwardly.

What's more surprising for me is even in a noisy environment, I still maintain my focus. I tend to favour pubs, so maybe it's the alcohol working its magic :)

How do I know I can trust the numbers you give me as an Advertiser?

Hey thanks for the reply.

I've done a few things with Scrapy but never really poked under the hood, so I'll take your word for it.

If I get you right, it's more targeted towards precise extraction than website crawling?

Last point : why the tight integration with an app? Monolith approach?

Dude, are you a Go bot written to promote Go?

Have you considered that maybe not every one wants have anything to do with the 8th wonder of the world that is Go?

Take it easy pal, let people enjoy things.

Can happen for sure. Have seen it happen in other places too.

But this going on for up to 7 years? Yeah, I'm less than impressed by FB.

Had a less than stellar opinion of them before, they are definitely hitting the Mariana trench now.

Looks interesting but I'm struggling to see (at quick glance) what makes it unique / better than the alternatives out there.

Because it goes very much against the constant growth required by the economy?

Yeah, make a (PS/other image editors) plugin that shove it into the API and return the mask that you can correct when needed, that seems the way to go.

FWIW, Google is about to put more ads[0] in the Image search results

https://www.blog.google/products/ads/shopping-google-images/

I think -and it depends on the corporate culture / industry- the value of culling toil, ergo using tech as force multiplier for tech problems, is both beyond their grasp and is a threat to the status quo.

Much like the type of fuel injection used in a combustion engine is irrelevant to most people that use their car.

If you are managing a hauling company and a brand type of fuel allows you to save 20%, you can see the value but you also know that it means updating your fleet, infra and all the costs and hassle associated with that. Which means that while you are keen on making those savings, you probably will not roll out fleet update ASAP.

I think this is how in companies which are not pure IT players, management might see those situations. Yes there is some value in reducing the toil but the perceived costs are too high for them to be fully on board, and I guess it's because their perspective is too rooted in the physical world (i.e my example).

Not that there are no costs when automating toil management in IT, it just doesn't map 1 to 1 to the real world equivalents.

Agreed, predictability is huge.

I think our systems can handle an extra few characters :)

You're missing the point of what makes Python attractive (to me at the very least):

-> Easy to pick up

-> Ecosystem of libs : whatever domain specific problem you're dealing with, there's probably something out there to help you.

-> Ecosystem of users : be it for hiring or simply stack overflowing your issues, there's plenty of people.

All of this contributes to make Python the best Swiss Army knife of programming.

If you go chopping some wood, I'd recommend using an axe / chainsaw / saw but for the day to day, your generalist tool does the trick.

You made it to 7 years, that in itself is worth celebrating. I'm 3 months in and I'm already shitting bricks as to what it's going to look like if we have to fold.

Take a break, wander for a bit, get your mojo back. As many others have said here, your experience, while uncommon is valuable to some folks.

Yeah, it has more power than one can think.

Every-time I go for groceries in one of the Costco equivalent here, they have an alley to funnel you into the self-service machines area. This path has on both sides sweets and at the very end the bakery stuff before you are free to do your checkout.

Every single time, despite being well aware of the trap, I can't help but grab either some muffins or cookies.

Click rates (CTR) are usually quite low, if you get 2% you can open the champagne. Or at the very least, keep it at the ready and look at your conversion rate.

"ApproveAPI uses HTTP Basic Authentication where the username is your API key and the password is blank."

I'm not too fond of the lack of API password tbh. Cool idea otherwise.

Nah, at 6 they're back on the piss ;)

We probably got started with the van later than 11 actually, they were around from 11 to help get stuff out of the flat. But my point still stands.

Could it be that this general truth about the difficulty of maintaining close bonds as we grow older clashes with the myth of social media -which is to be more connected to people that matter to you?

I think the superficiality of such tools is becoming more and more apparent. It has become so effortless participate in the social game (for a lack of a better word) such as wishing an happy birthday or some words of support for grieving folks that it's getting hard to gauge whether people do actually care about you. It's about the work you put in.

Personal anecdote: Had to hire a guy with a van on a public holiday as I was moving to a different part of the city (Dublin). Asked my fellow French friends for help and sure enough we were loading the van at 11 am. The driver admitted that he wouldn't have had as much help if he had asked his own -Irish- friends because they'd be too hangover to bother.

I found that quite sad, especially given that all my friends are not lifelong friends, we've know each other for 5 years or less.

What do you mean by websites that pay Brave? Isn't that supposed to be the other way around? -- That's a serious question btw.

This isn't going anywhere :

People that don't "care" -in the sense HN does- about privacy will stay in the free tier. Why should they pay now?

People that do care have either stopped using the platform or will be not be trusting FB enough to bother.

Well actually I think it's going to be different.

SMBs will only leverage Google, Facebook and other big platforms because I believe they'll have the ability to keep being relevant given their "walled-garden" model despite GDPR-like legal framework.

Every small publisher, aka 99% of them will likely collapse one way or another.

As counter intuitive as it might seem, while this would hurt their bottom line, Google and FB would benefit the most from this.

I'd rather see indie ad-networks with an emphasis on anonymity -no PII / control -delete profiles who works with publishers in a fair trade like model. But I'm not naive :(

This isn't just about trusting the traffic, it's about being able to optimize which creative is the most effective, what's the optimal threshold of #ads served for a user to convert - and conversely, being able to not overspend on someone who's clearly not interested.

The other part of that is those kinds of ads (dumb ads as you say) are going to be mostly useful for branding. Which is fine when you are Apple or Coke, but if you're a smaller player, you'd rather make sure your ads only get in front of the right eyeballs.

Like Baidu? I know there's also a Youtube equivalent.

This ship has long sailed I'm afraid.