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mocamoca··on Attribution is dying, clicks are dying
I've got the same feeling as you!

Do you enjoy going through your mail account and unsubscribe all useless newsletters? Use email aliases? are wary of all ads and brand claims you see on social media and prefer doing our own research? hate clicking on SEA results: usually the landing page is a weird, summed up version of the full website (we want the full thing)

But i guess that's a particularity of hackers and tinkerers :)

For many different reasons make people click and buy: discounted prices, FOMO, clever retargeting, funny ads, hidden ads (sponsored/influence/fake news),...

mocamoca··on Attribution is dying, clicks are dying
I run statistically-sound AB tests on Meta* and can tell you that people click, click more than you think and buy more than you think from clicking on ads!

The same goes for email and Whatsapp marketing. People love these messages.

* We do not use their built-in ab test tools of course...

mocamoca··on Ask HN: How to finish last 30% of a side project?
Users are my main motivation drivers. Can you get any? Even if that's you!

If not: why?

mocamoca··on Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
Just to balance things a little

Sometimes the cost of an offer is not linear with some metric or easily predictable.

And sometimes the offering company is not Salesforce and just does not have resources or existing similar customers to model price adequately

mocamoca··on After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
If someone from Shopify's backend team is around, i would love to know how difficult it is to maintain/improve the GraphQL API It looks like Shopify is deprecating REST in favor of GraphQl so is the developer UX that good for Shopify developers? And btw some features are missing from the GraphQL related to REST. I wonder if that's related to hard-to-implement features or good-occasion-to-delete features (Eg Checkout)
mocamoca··on How to Start Google
The core advice is to produce instead of consume. And the second one is to study.

However, packaging it under a "being a mere employee is lame" mantra... Is lame!

But I'm curious. Why do you think that doing something which is maybe not study related is a bad idea?

("Maybe not" because ie. john Mayer is both a rockstar and a Berkelee grad)

mocamoca··on Raising Children on the Eve of AI
I don't mean to show a lack of respect for parents and their good will.

However, could we say that "you at least have to play to not lose" is a particularly selfish reason for having children?

Here, "Playing" is making sure the parents will have caregivers, not that the children will live happy.

If the current situation is not worrying enough to rule out having happy kids, what would be the threshold? (Not a rhetorical question)

mocamoca··on Cloud Egress Costs
I got confused too at first.

But it makes sense because the counters get reset each month.

So if you consume "101TB" over a year, distributed as 90TB in January and then 1TB per month... You could get hit pretty hard in January and have free bandwidth for the rest of the year.

mocamoca··on Cloud Egress Costs
OVHCloud is free https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/faq/

As a data company we really benefit from Scaleway, Hetzner and Ovh.

However, Scale way has no plans to add an US infra

And I don't know if Hetzner has US présence?

mocamoca··on How big is YouTube?
I agree.

Proving that using cheats and auto complete does not break sample independence and keeps sampling as random as possible would be needed here for stats beginners such as me!

Drunk dialing but having a human operator that each time tries to help you connect with someone, even if you mistyped the number... Doesn't look random to me.

However I did not read the 85 pages paper... Maybe it's addressed there.

mocamoca··on Topo magazine uses comics to tell the news to French teens
Maybe in an other language. But in French (and in this context) a "topo" is a summary or a synopsys.

I guess it comes from "topographie", a sort of map.

mocamoca··on Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year
I also wonder about the sound design which is very well done, but seems to be a very different field than 3D?
mocamoca··on Adtech is built on a privacy fault line
There is a shelf-space issue.

Let's assume most of high-quality ad-spaces are available for "broader campaigns". Once each small business broadcasts ads here, they will compete for space. Price of space-unit goes up.

Then some ad-space-seller opens Pandora's box: "hey I can allow you to narrow the audience by location targeting. Each unit is more expensive but conversion rate is higher so you will end up with a better margin overall"

mocamoca··on Adtech is built on a privacy fault line
Intrusion-wise I agree, those communication channels are more "pull" than "push"

Even though the search engine is ad-funded (I don't know any free search engine) and can be more or less intrusive (IE. Duckduckgo is not)

Which channels have been intentionally nerfed?

mocamoca··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)
Quantic Factory | Tunis, Tunisia; ONSITE | Full-time Dedicated to Shopify brands, Quanticfy is the marketing attribution application that tells you straight how you’re performing.

The end of third-party cookies and multiple privacy legislations make analytics and especially attribution very hard to nail. But we do :)

We are hiring for a Staff Engineer / VP Engineering in Tunis. If you are willing to manage a dozen motivated developers, working with Golang and Machine Learning (no python <3 ) - and work with very seasoned data scientists, you will have fun with us! Bonus pour. If you want to speak English: we start addressing the US Market.

Our tech stack: Go, and other fancy things. But we really love Go.

https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/quanticfy/jo...

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