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It feels as though prices haven't fallen relatively here in Canada, at least not on the west coast.
(112.9c CAD / litre in Victoria, BC)
You'll likely need to offer something tantalizing in return...
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I've dealt with outsourcing to India before and share many of the same headaches mentioned in these comments.
I know it's a generalization, but I believe it's fairer to generalize about Indian outsourcing businesses than about Indian individuals: these businesses are doing their best to maximize profits, like any business does. They hire very low, mark up quite a bit and (in my experience) misrepresent their talent pool.
Conversely, I've worked with a number of brilliant Indians at a large corp here in North America.
The good individuals leave after a couple of years or less. The turnover is really high. They leave for the same reasons anyone would: better opportunities, mentorship, culture, money, etc.
In reality, it's a smoke and mirrors game where the outsourcers mostly win. Indian individuals get a bad rap.
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The only thing that I can come up with is that I happened across a malicious page that did a drive-by install of some malware that magically disappeared upon browser restart (which both the lastpass installer and uninstaller force in order to get their extensions registered).
At least, that's what I'm hoping, or I've still got malware on my system!
Like I said, however - the issues disappeared upon uninstallation of the lastpass browser extension pack for OSX, and it certainly seemed to appear on its installation.
For everyone's sake, let's all hope I was idiotic at some prior point and somehow had a different drive-by install...
I don't think their product is affected, just what gets installed is <nasty>.
Instead of just serving Adsense ads, you can set up various kinds of bidding (or manually create ads to start with) falling back on Adsense when inventory 'runs out'.
Basically, it will end up being a manageable/overridable layer between your site and Adsense, which you currently use.
I've thought of adding in support for pushing bulk index request data to redis (for example) so that an Elasticsearch river could pull from it; this would decouple the app somewhat - but not completely as you've noted. It would likely help with throughput however, and still provide you with the ability to do pre-processing on the data as needed within your app's/project's context.
The Elasticsearch JDBC river isn't as flexible for processing data if I'm not mistaken, as it doesn't have context for the data? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it's somewhat limited?
I created a Django app to help with this syncing - check it out at https://github.com/jaddison/django-simple-elasticsearch. I love feedback and pull requests!