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samt

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About samt

Interesting work on computational advertising, order automation and RTB at the Rubicon Project. Contact at sam (at) structure28 (dot) com.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45133694

    Por que no los dos? (why not both)

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    Comment #40817587

    Yes. As usual the worst fraud is completely legal and right there for all to see.

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    Comment #20073056

    There is immense variation in programmatic ad pricing by publisher. Drawing conclusions about the market as a whole, or about publishers not exactly like the one studied, would be …

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    Comment #20072130

    Agree. It's absurd how many conclusions have been drawn from one flawed study of a single publisher.

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    Comment #20071886

    Agree that tfa is clueless. However even second price auctions cannot explain the data they claim to see. Any ad exchange these days has data showing publisher revenue delta of far…

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    Comment #18790732

    Where do you get that IDFA is unique to the publisher?

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    Comment #9972753

    Yes it is highly offensive to many English speaking individuals in the US. It has historically been used as a highly derogatory term for disabled individuals.

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    Comment #8230863

    Let's nip this trend in the butt. Outside the organization in question we really have no idea what's going on and who is or is not responsible for a particular poor outcome. It's n…

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    Comment #7557643

    Either double down and ask for a shit-ton more equity, or quit and find a better job. Life is too short.

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    Comment #6292731

    The end state here is clearly that everybody will be endorsed for everything.

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    Comment #5488192

    I've found this to be like serious sports in high school or college. When there are no choices to be made in your life, you do not make bad choices.

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    Comment #5312562

    Yes, see jailbreaking. iPhones were hacked before a native SDK was officially available.

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    Comment #5117015

    Usually you would throw in some radomization, ie, 5% of the time the barometer would tell you the opposite of what it really thinks you should do.

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    Comment #5117014

    Usually you would throw in some radomization, ie, 5% of the time the barometer would tell you the opposite of what it really thinks you should do.

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    Comment #5065626

    Or, it's like so many things in life and it is what you make of it.

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    Comment #4879588

    Let's face it, "teach big business a lesson" is a convenient press tactic. First Round is a bunch of capitalists like the rest of us.

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    Comment #4768764

    Save only the hash, or use a data structure like a bloom filter.

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    Comment #4501529

    It's a bit like choosing your local credit union instead of BofA. Go Daddy is too big to fail but there is no Federal Reserve backing them up.

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    Comment #4499887

    Ha, I bought the domain montereyscoast.com as soon as I noticed it was available.

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    Comment #4415862

    Yes, any self respecting ad network will provide targeting by OS!

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    Comment #4271138

    Yes this works. Just get all the headers correct.

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    Comment #4207776

    zorked send me a note at sam@rubiconproject.com. I'm happy to walk you through the industry a bit. We could definitely work with you.

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    Comment #4207684

    CyrusL: could you send me an email (sam@rubiconproject.com)? Can't find an email from your profile.

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    Comment #4120907

    I had an econ professor who would phrase that as, "if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"

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    Comment #3859464

    Brilliant for you, yes. But when does amazon begin to consider this a bug, not a feature? I worry for the day that some new feature is introduced in .azw files that will break lega…