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> I know this is an unpopular opinion here, but I get a lot more value out of targeted social media ads than I ever did billboards or TV commercials. They actually...show me niche …

You're not wrong. Even simple "page hit counters" became a target of manipulation once they were common. Human nature is tough at scale.

Facebook then wasn't what facebook is today. The social media of the early internet was largely a digital expansion of otherwise healthy social norms. Then the internet blew up. No…

I mean that's one of the value propositions these folks have to weigh into their product offerings. At some point you either have a reputation for delivering accurate responses or …

first time?

Has a LOT to do with how it's configured and what plugins are installed.

>I say all this as a parent of an almost 6 year old boy, doing everything I can to shield him from the wacky parenting style that seems to be the norm and provide him places of com…

As a long time gamer, I can anecdotally corroborate your theory with my early experiences playing FPS games using a dial-up connection. Average ping was about 200ms which allowed f…

Correct me if I'm wrong but you basically just described good logging practices, yea?

This entire thread is an epiphany for me and I can vouch your bit as something I share as well.

Sounds like a great personality type for a platform engineer..

The only real "trickle down" that actually exists, heh. Invent cool stuff, protect yourself from having it stolen, eventually give into the ridiculous sums the giants will throw at…

The ceremony just undoes the efficiency in most cases; That's the rub.

You are saying dumb shit.

I think you missed the point here -- people synonymize googling with searching and therefore aren't choosing to google -- they're choosing to search but ending up using google desp…

All this granular bullshit is entirely too much overhead and an unnecessary layer to "manage" imo. "Tech debt" and handling it should be part of your culture and by default include…

This is tech debt.

Seem being the key word. The messaging is poor, the idea has quite a bit of merit.

How daft can you be to think that scale makes no difference? You can drink water and be hydrated or you can drink too much water and die. Scale is critical in determining appropria…

Sure. Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and any other celebrity do not employ the same nefariously data driven agenda on a scale that begins to come anywhere close to that of Facebook; The…

False equivalence is an easy fallacy to fall prey to -- this is not the same thing. It is similar and in the same domain, but hardly equal.

Elsewhere at their own expense? Yea that's gonna be a no from me.

> The Walton family can't throw my in prison. In fact, they can't do much of anything to me besides perhaps denying me a Sam's Club membership. They most certainly can. They simply…