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Compared to what exactly? Snowflake? Hiring an engineer to deploy DuckDB? A hobby project? FWIW I work at MotherDuck so obviously biased, but curious to hear what makes you say tha…

I mean, it is one thing to build things for yourself or your company this way. It's a whole other thing to dump it on the rest of the world. I'm still flabbergasted by the fact tha…

100% agree with the curators part. I think this is often implicit, but we look for signals of quality, whether that's Github stars or a person we trust. I feel the sense of what is…

I've been overwhelmed with the flood of interesting new things being released. I tried to put a number on it and across the board from Github repos to package registries to Show HN…

It’s interesting you mention linguistics because I feel a lot of the discussions around AI come back to early 20th century linguistics debates between Russel, Wittgenstein and late…

Most of our jobs consist of working with tools. Yet it’s very hard to get insights into which tools are required most, are growing in your area, etc. So I decided to keep track of …

By far the stupidest version of this to me has been Snowflake’s implementation of previews. This is a database, where people preview the content of a table, not in an app, not on a…

I agree that there is a line at using someone else’s data to make a profit, but it is kind of ironic that you mention Google, because their exact business model is scraping website…

Am I missing something? This “hack” requires you to go to his site first, then use the back button and then click on a (fake) competitor link. How is he ever going to get people to…

All you have to do is start a new country called Http, convince ICANN to adopt it as a new TLD (will need a lot of persuasion) and serve “http” as a dotless domain. But, you know, …

You’re right, but only if the company wouldn’t track whether you’ve seen or even received that message. So yes, general or even contextual messages would be allowed, but “You haven…

The current state of browser tracking preventions also means that you’re unlikely to identify conversions from the same user that saw your experiment after a week or sometimes even…

Most, or at least a lot, of the prefetching is for third party libraries (think jQuery, Google Fonts, Facebook Pixel, etc). There’s a general speed advantage for users caching comm…

There’s definitely high demand for “technical” web analysts at the moment. That usually means someone who isn’t afraid of html and JavaScript and can help less technical marketeers…

It’s true, but GA also does a pretty good job at filtering out bot traffic for example, so it depends on what your definition of more accurate is. There are also ways to send GA hi…

No, it’s stored on the user’s own computer only. You could put an expiry date in there as well so you don’t accidentally use it after, say, 90 days.

Bored marketeer here. It’s much appreciated :-D.

Nice work! Have you considered using localStorage instead of sessionStorage so it works across browser tabs as well?