Putin never asked me for anything.
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Seriously how does anyone make money with a website where the actual content is so obscured by ads that users don’t bother coming back?
OAuth 2.1 draft spec emphasizes that basic auth is no longer preferred. I read that to mean: MAY, or perhaps even SHOULD NOT.
Coincidentally indeed.
"Other missing individuals have been identified by The Independent as: Christopher Morvillo, a lawyer who had represented Lynch and wife Neda Morvillo; Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley International and wife Judy Bloomer."
Oh.
The list of similarly cynical responses to great innovations and great businesses is a long one here.
At every client I emphatically insist that if they are not using Gherkin as a “Rosetta stone” for the business folks then they’re wasting their time with cucumber. Don’t go to the trouble of writing gherkin if you’re not using it as living documentation. Save yourself loads of trouble and just use an ordinary test framework.
I convinced a dev to walk me through their dynatrace console. I dug in and took screenshots then gave them to h to the business. The business demanded access to dynatrace and then was able to correlate error rates with revenue fluctuations (down to the hour of the day, people are habitual). They came up with a cost factor and figured out how much they’re losing. This led to budget being allocated for a project to solve these problems. I bid on the work but was denied. The VP of IT at this point hated me.
I swear to God this f**ing industry.
To those who want to say “use voice control” let me tell you about all the times I say “turn the fan speed up” and it turns it DOWN.
Every. Single. Time.
One time offers, limited time offers, mailing list signups, up-sells, and cross sells are time tested ways to increase sales dating as far back as radio era telephone and catalog sales.
Steve Madden is a perfect example of this. They sell undifferentiated popular shoe styles less expensive than high fashion but more expensive than knockoffs. They have to hustle you to get you on their mailing list (for 10% off your order) in the hopes that you'll make another impulse purchase later when you get a text or email from them. If they weren't as aggressive you might never make another impulse purchase with them again as there are tons of brands selling nearly identical products.
Some companies are just horrible at hustling so they actually get in the way of you completing your purchase. In a competitive market this is a self correcting problem.
Agreed. Key in the battle, not a key battle.
saved by F-18s flying CAS
That's not how the team explained it.
That's correct assuming monopolistic behavior. I believe pricing in information infra will be a race to the bottom. We've not seen a lack of competition in this space.
Agreed, but most didn't. I believe it was downplayed.
ATGMs didn't play a big role in either Iraq or Afghanistan
I said they played a "decisive" role. I should have said a "key" role. The battle of Debecka Pass is one such example.
Case in point: The public had relatively little knowledge of the battlefield performance of current gen ATGM's prior to Russia's recent offensive in Ukraine. This is in spite of the fact "current gen" dates back to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq where they played a decisive role. Today, according to the press, ATGMs are the savior of Ukraine.
This leads me to believe we're never going to get an accurate picture of the state of a weapon development program through the press. Is the F-35 program in trouble, or not? If it was why would you let your adversaries know this?
It's an interesting question to consider.
I bet it’s source IP address geo location for transactions.