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I'd imagine that airlines tend to give out free checked bags on these flights also changes the calculus.

Interestingly, I think we're seeing less people grow up with general purpose computers, and instead just have an iPad or an android tablet, or a chromebook. I wonder what things wi…

Not the OP, but the people I've seen this do it DIY have all done it with Ubiquiti products. A single link can get a mile of range with clear LoS. Depending on how far out you are,…

One thing you may encounter is that a large company may be using it for many things internally, and that still shows up as just a handful of clones, because they have some central …

Essentially this is a way to lets you push all of the weird feature requests your customers might have off into one place. From a customer point of view, maybe you need to rewrite …

I had written it this way because the OP had specifically ruled out using Django. Point taken though.

Why not start out by using the Django Admin features? That allows you to start with next to no code, but you can easily add a little business logic anywhere you need it eventually,…

Almost every ad network does give you some type of API like what you're talking about, but unfortunately they usually actively discourage use of it.

Facebook will be pitching to your Marketing folks that's exactly where you need it. Facebook want data on what actions users took before signing up, which users actually signed up …

At my job, we evaluated moving from AWS hosted ES to several of the Elastic offerings. Many of them were more expensive than AWS was before taking hardware into account (as in comp…

If dollars have no value, you should be willing to give away any dollars you have to anyone, no matter how they are using them, right? Dollars don't have a direct value in gold, bu…

Those types of errors are usually pretty easy for humans to find and fix.

I (sort of) work in the advertising industry. I'm really excited to see this change, but the major players in the industry just weren't ready for it, and it would have been very ch…

If the problem is that there aren't enough acceptable quality housing with good public transit access, it seems like building more transportation and housing would be a good soluti…

What I would do in your situation is try to measure the incremental value of future messages, the likelihood that a given message causes an unsubscribe, and the value of the curren…

A good manager should be doing a lot more than just asking you for status updates in your 1:1s. At a minimum they should be: 1) Providing updates on things going on with the rest o…

I did an online food ordering startup a ways back, and it was very surprising how few of the restaurant owners we talked to had clearly thought through pricing strategy for things …

My understanding is that the prices are set by Instacart, based on estimates on what they've seen the store charge in the past, plus some markup for price change risk, and probably…

Not an expert on Houston, but did spend the past weekend there. There's definitely a big car factor there. I had reserved a mid sized rental car to get to and from the airport and …

This essentially happens in Boston to this day (though the date is September 1st).

This is definitely true.

Most of the online gambling operators in New Jersey take PayPal, though you usually have to use either a bank account linked with ACH or a balance you already have in PayPal.

We did actually get to use it at work, to real performance benefit. We have a leaderboard with a list of users, which is normally a list of users totalling between 2 to 50,0000, bu…

Also not an accountant or lawyer, but I think that if you're paying someone by the hour, and directing them as to how they should do they job, they need to be classified as an empl…