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drew

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    Comment #13235962

    Yeah, in my org we have a dedicated data engineering team that owns the pipeline and production data systems plus an analytics team that owns reporting and making data available to…

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    Comment #13234214

    The problem is DS is really 2-3 different disciplines under one nebulous title. What you're describing is folks who are prototyping and productionizing models. That's definitely in…

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    Comment #7174158

    We track clicks on each of the four login methods, and compare it with successful sign in events with each of them. So we know completion rates for each type, plus which types are …

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    Comment #7173781

    You can see how we communicate it on our site if you're curious. Basically it's a modal dialog with four options: * Facebook * Google * Twitter * Email We don't use the persona mes…

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    Comment #7172303

    The paradox here is that people are more familiar with the appearance of home-grown-style login systems and are more willing to follow through on those than the novel Persona flow,…

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    Comment #7172260

    The gmail case is special, actually. For a few domains (gmail, yahoo, not sure which others) it will fall back to a flow that's more like OAuth. But for unknown domains it sends yo…

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    Comment #7170770

    In principle, Persona is great. Not storing passwords is awesome, a non-FB/Google/Twitter identity option is important. I would encourage you, though, to look carefully at your log…

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    Comment #3330631

    Very cool! Excited to see what comes next. Is there anything people looking forward to these features should know to plan? Like, I was about to start doing some load balancing stuf…

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    Comment #3330600

    I'd love to know too, but I haven't had much luck getting profiling to work super well with node. I think I mostly just don't know what I'm doing and someone who did could answer t…

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    Comment #3330446

    This is obviously not super precise, but the CPU pegs (load average 1.0, 100% usage) once we get above ~9k messages/second. I don't know how much overhead there is on socket in ter…

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    Comment #2580173

    Unfortunately, this isn't just a question of interpretation. Legally, there's no differentiation between those two categories. One is more ethically problematic than the other for …

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    Comment #2578972

    (disclosure: one of the authors) We're definitely not interested in business success in any sense. In some ways, anti-success is more interesting to us as researchers because acade…

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    Comment #2578949

    The thing is, cp includes self shots of people under 18. There is TONS of that on /b/, of both genders. It's awfully hard to tell 19 from 17 when you're taking a topless picture of…