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Akamai is cadillac of the CDN world so more like Apples and Organic Gourmet Apples.
Part of the impairment is your complete unknowing of it happening. It's cognitively a blind spot, so to speak.
This is why drunks are dangerous - after X drinks they look at their car and think "I've got this" when in fact they are so drunk they don't know what they have anymore.
To be precise - "knowing the mainline of common and popular standard openings from the SCO..."
"figuratively.io - a metaphorical API clearinghouse"
YC15 if you want to co-found with me.
Knowing the SCO took me from 800 to 1600.
There's really not a "master" for openings. After the first dozen moves or so you'll have your first exchange and the beginning of the middle game.
It's how a beginner becomes an intermediate player.
QNX is an excellent RTOS and is already used in cars, appliances, machinery, and industry. QNX also has a serious R&D initiative for cars.
So it's no surprise that Ford is considering it. There's off the shelf products that Ford could purchase and drop into a dash tomorrow.
[Edit: had the wrong author]
So perhaps you should focus on communicating with the few who are comfortable with talking about death and consider them your target market.
By communicating naturally and openly with those who are receptive you'll also participate in an ongoing cultural change. Eventually, maybe even in your business's lifetime, culture will change and the taboo will fade.
Until the taboo fades at the cultural level you're not going to be successful at changing people's minds. As a business you won't have the time and exposure to others to remove the taboo.
Here's why - individuals react to strong taboos without reason. You want to persuade people with reason. But it's too late, they've already turned that off as soon as you say the word "death". (It similar to the saying that no one ever changed their mind by losing an argument. But taboo is even stronger.)
But there are people who are not uncomfortable. Find them, start with them, and just talk about it. Don't worry about others, they are not your market anyway. You can find the "embracers" in spiritual sub-cultures, pop self help bookstores, health care workers, and elsewhere. It's a disorganized group, and not a community.
If you want to be an activist (instead of a business) then you might take a personal one-on-one approach. Talk, listen, repeat. The more an individual considers death and talks about it, the more comfortable they will become. In years, the individual may lose the taboo altogether.
Or as some brokers call it "sell into strength".
It's about profit taking and has nothing to do with "critique of a company's actions" or objectivity.
Mind. Blown.
The "threat" is qualified in that these systems would have surely crashed or produced bad results if un-patched. They clearly needed to be fixed.
Was the threat as dire as alarmists said? Was civilization on the brink? We'll never know really, because a slew of contractors and developers audited systems, monkey patched, and upgraded. Problem solved.
Categories match up with internal structure as well, as individual people or whole departments are responsible for the products in each category. Performance of each category is measured individually and budgets and bonuses are produced.
The dirty little secret is most of e-commerce site traffic is driven by search. A good search function out performs category browsing. REI.com has a great search, for example.
About 8 years ago A/B testing starting to make retail marketing departments very excited. No longer would the whims of designers drive site decisions! We can test and pick the most profitable! We can prove that the most familiar appeals to the most common denominator! We can kill innovation, end risk taking and protect profits.
And that's the moral of the story - retail has a terribly thin margin and when your closest competitor is one tab away no one is interested in creating something new.
I'm not just being pedantic about it either. Just compare server performance of RPC over Websocket to RPC over HTTP at scale.