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Lead out in cuffs posted:a return to 4:3 aspect ratio. What the gently caress
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Lady Naga posted:What the gently caress Vertical screen space is way more useful when editing documents, writing code, etc. 16:9 is better for watching videos. I've seen a nonzero number of coders complain that almost all screens are too short to see as much of their work as they'd like.
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Aug 7, 2016 18:21
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Arglebargle III posted:Have you ever heard of that beetle that will have sex with discarded brown bottles until it dies, because attractive=large&shiny&brown and female beetles can't compete? Kanye West?
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Aug 7, 2016 18:21
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Uncle Enzo posted:. I've seen a nonzero number of coders complain that almost all screens are too short to see as much of their work as they'd like. Holy poo poo, that Just Eggs story is corrupt, and the company exploits its workers as well! Truly a worthy addition to this thread. I had actually been rooting for them. I am left wondering "Doesn't anybody know how to play this game?"
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Aug 7, 2016 18:32
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Uncle Enzo posted:Vertical screen space is way more useful when editing documents, writing code, etc. 16:9 is better for watching videos. I've seen a nonzero number of coders complain that almost all screens are too short to see as much of their work as they'd like. That's just because they follow code width "standards" like sheeple. Be a rebel and inline those functions, you'll fill a widescreen in no time.
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Aug 7, 2016 18:40
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Artificially inflating sales figures by buying your own product happens all the time in the publishing industry. It's not surprising that startups would try the same thing.
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Aug 7, 2016 22:19
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Konstantin posted:Artificially inflating sales figures by buying your own product happens all the time in the publishing industry. It's not surprising that startups would try the same thing. Politicians love this. Have your campaign buy a lot of copies of your book to hand out and you can push yourself up the bestseller list while also diverting campaign contributions to yourself and your publisher.
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Aug 8, 2016 01:30
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withak posted:Politicians love this. Have your campaign buy a lot of copies of your book to hand out and you can push yourself up the bestseller list while also diverting campaign contributions to yourself and your publisher. The likes of Rush and Hannity do it as well. If memory serves the NYT best seller list had to change the rules to stop wealthy right wing poo poo bags from shoving themselves into the top ratings regularly. I think one of the biggest drivers of that was the complete garbage that O'Reilly wrote. I could drunkenly fart a better book than he can write and I keep a copy of Those Who Trespass only because it's the single worst book I've ever read. It isn't even "so bad it's good" or anything like that. It's on the level of "if you want to learn how to write read this book and then do the exact opposite of what O'Reilly did."
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Aug 8, 2016 02:34
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The likes of Rush and Hannity do it as well. If memory serves the NYT best seller list had to change the rules to stop wealthy right wing poo poo bags from shoving themselves into the top ratings regularly. I think one of the biggest drivers of that was the complete garbage that O'Reilly wrote. I could drunkenly fart a better book than he can write and I keep a copy of Those Who Trespass only because it's the single worst book I've ever read. It isn't even "so bad it's good" or anything like that. It's on the level of "if you want to learn how to write read this book and then do the exact opposite of what O'Reilly did." Masochism can be dangerous op
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Aug 8, 2016 04:56
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Walmart buys Jet.com, an e-commerce website launched just 1 year ago and "expected to reach profitability by 2020", for $3 billion Good idea?
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Aug 8, 2016 17:58
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parcs posted:Walmart buys Jet.com, an e-commerce website launched just 1 year ago and "expected to reach profitability by 2020", for $3 billion Terrible idea but Walmart is desperate because their online efforts keep (edit)flopping hard. Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Aug 8, 2016 |
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Aug 8, 2016 18:12
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Walmart in general is having issues because everybody hates them.
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Aug 8, 2016 18:23
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parcs posted:Walmart buys Jet.com, an e-commerce website launched just 1 year ago and "expected to reach profitability by 2020", for $3 billion Jet.com won't be around it 2020. They have some pretty great deals on stuff now but I can't see them being able to compete with amazon while still being able to turn a profit.
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Aug 8, 2016 18:24
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Jumpingmanjim posted:hehe I'm really surprised that the grocery stores didn't notice something was up, given the amount of trend analysis they perform on purchases.
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Aug 8, 2016 18:36
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Solkanar512 posted:I'm really surprised that the grocery stores didn't notice something was up, given the amount of trend analysis they perform on purchases. They probably did, but didn't complain since people were buying the stuff at retail prices and not on credit.
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Aug 8, 2016 19:25
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Solkanar512 posted:I'm really surprised that the grocery stores didn't notice something was up, given the amount of trend analysis they perform on purchases. i work at a startup in this market and retailers and vendors (especially vendors) have almost zero ability to do any kind of analysis on trends like this. we have gigantic multinational customers that are amazed we can even aggregate sales by product category or by arbitrary labels. their in house analysis is interns and new grads making $30k and working with garbage excel spreadsheets if they have any in house analysis at all
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Aug 8, 2016 19:27
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Roger Craig posted:Jet.com won't be around it 2020. They have some pretty great deals on stuff now but I can't see them being able to compete with amazon while still being able to turn a profit. Wasn't Jet the one that was literally buying stuff from Amazon if they couldn't stock the customer's request, then charging a lower price and taking a loss on the item?
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Aug 8, 2016 19:55
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the talent deficit posted:i work at a startup in this market and retailers and vendors (especially vendors) have almost zero ability to do any kind of analysis on trends like this. we have gigantic multinational customers that are amazed we can even aggregate sales by product category or by arbitrary labels. their in house analysis is interns and new grads making $30k and working with garbage excel spreadsheets if they have any in house analysis at all Given the nature and amount of data they gather, that is absolutely astounding.
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Aug 8, 2016 21:19
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the talent deficit posted:i work at a startup in this market and retailers and vendors (especially vendors) have almost zero ability to do any kind of analysis on trends like this. we have gigantic multinational customers that are amazed we can even aggregate sales by product category or by arbitrary labels. their in house analysis is interns and new grads making $30k and working with garbage excel spreadsheets if they have any in house analysis at all Wait, so does that mean that somehow Target is unique in their ability to predict future purchases? You know, the whole "sending women coupons for pregnancy related items before most folks would know" thing that came out a few years back?
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Aug 8, 2016 21:22
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Given the nature and amount of data they gather, that is absolutely astounding. one of our clients once was (major national bank you've definitely heard of and probably have an account with) and their senior VPs in the division we were contracting with did their departmental analysis on an unencrypted excel file that they just emailed to each other
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Aug 8, 2016 21:30
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That scares me. Please tell me someone pointed out the security risks?
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Aug 8, 2016 21:32
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Solkanar512 posted:Wait, so does that mean that somehow Target is unique in their ability to predict future purchases? You know, the whole "sending women coupons for pregnancy related items before most folks would know" thing that came out a few years back? Target is so unique in this regard that Amazon opened a downtown Minneapolis office right across a skyway bridge from Target's analytics guys and all but hung a sign in the bridge saying "FREE RSUs!"
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Aug 8, 2016 21:33
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It is hard to understate how much room there is to roll out analytics to the world, coupled with how little of it will ever be rolled out due to cost and Excel-inertia.
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Aug 8, 2016 21:36
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Well, that's why they say that having big data isn't the solution, it's kind of a problem 
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Aug 8, 2016 21:36
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ocrumsprug posted:It is hard to understate how much room there is to roll out analytics to the world, coupled with how little of it will ever be rolled out due to cost and Excel-interia. yup if you're wondering how and why microsoft is still as profitable as apple despite apple dominating the consumer gadget market and microsoft releasing increasingly obnoxious operating systems and little else, it's because microsoft captured like 95% of the white collar office software market and it's extremely difficult to dislodge that you can swap iphone for android pretty easy. sherry from marketing will keep an iron grip on Outlook until she retires
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Aug 8, 2016 21:41
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Popular Thug Drink posted:yup also apple is more expensive
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Aug 8, 2016 21:49
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Popular Thug Drink posted:one of our clients once was (major national bank you've definitely heard of and probably have an account with) and their senior VPs in the division we were contracting with did their departmental analysis on an unencrypted excel file that they just emailed to each other this is amazing
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Aug 8, 2016 21:51
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Arsenic Lupin posted:My husband just bought a vertical monitor. It makes him v happy. I think they played pretty well. If they hadn't cheated the contractors (if you're doing shady poo poo reward the people who are doing it for you should be rule #1 in the startup handbook (Rule 0 is you're going to do shady poo poo)) they'd probably have gotten away with it.
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Aug 8, 2016 22:00
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Popular Thug Drink posted:one of our clients once was (major national bank you've definitely heard of and probably have an account with) and their senior VPs in the division we were contracting with did their departmental analysis on an unencrypted excel file that they just emailed to each other Yep. This sounds about right.
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Aug 8, 2016 22:13
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consistently it's the largest organizations we work with that have the most problems and the most hosed up god awful procedures and idiotic trouble spots that could easily be avoided, because small fish are either competent or they go out of business another one of our clients is a tiny non-profit and they have the most on point IT/Server team, like whenever a ticket comes in from them you know they've found a bug or something it's not all doom though, i've worked with (large firm you've probably heard of, especially if you have a white collar career) and their development team might have been literal wizards (not in the virgin sense) but by and large the larger a company is the more they can tolerate or even encourage incompetence and inefficiency in their ranks
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Aug 8, 2016 22:17
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Peztopiary posted:I think they played pretty well. If they hadn't cheated the contractors (if you're doing shady poo poo reward the people who are doing it for you should be rule #1 in the startup handbook (Rule 0 is you're going to do shady poo poo)) they'd probably have gotten away with it. Their accountants couldn't spot it? What am I saying, accountants' customers are the corporations, not the shareholders.
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Aug 8, 2016 22:19
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Baby Babbeh posted:Yep. This sounds about right. If there isn't a rolling intern manually populating the sheet with the weekly numbers, this would be a pretty sophisticated setup. ~~~ If you can come up with a data management solution that can 1) quickly (cheaply) integrate with custom built sales databases, 2) provide a ready made analytics package that can be used to easily build BI queries, 3) and can populate a pivot table in Excel with that information. You probably have a $50 billion idea that your sales team will only be able to capture $30 million from, and most of that will be from point 3.
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Aug 8, 2016 22:26
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ocrumsprug posted:If there isn't a rolling intern manually populating the sheet with the weekly numbers, this would be a pretty sophisticated setup. this is so depressingly true. we spend 80% of our development resources on a front end to our ETL pipeline no one uses. like 95% of our users just use our 'export to excel' feature also 'emailing around an excel file' is pretty sophisticated as far as the industry goes. we have one customer that is a major fashion brand you have guaranteed owned something from and they decide production targets based on meetings where they get together and debate how much they 'feel' something will sell. they have no analytics at all apart from a pilot project with us they haven't rolled out yet
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Aug 8, 2016 22:35
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the talent deficit posted:we have one customer that is a major fashion brand you have guaranteed owned something from and they decide production targets based on meetings where they get together and debate how much they 'feel' something will sell. they have no analytics at all apart from a pilot project with us they haven't rolled out yet
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Aug 8, 2016 22:45
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I think a lot of companies have problems with big data poo poo because they collect garbage data that doesn't reflect reality, and the first time the forecast fucks up they go back to using whatever method they had before
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Aug 9, 2016 00:29
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Roger Craig posted:Jet.com won't be around it 2020. They have some pretty great deals on stuff now but I can't see them being able to compete with amazon while still being able to turn a profit. Well if you have no expenses, they can't be more than the no profits you have, which means profitability! Sundae posted:Wasn't Jet the one that was literally buying stuff from Amazon if they couldn't stock the customer's request, then charging a lower price and taking a loss on the item? Oh, the pets.com business model. duz fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Aug 9, 2016 |
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Aug 9, 2016 00:54
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Sundae posted:Wasn't Jet the one that was literally buying stuff from Amazon if they couldn't stock the customer's request, then charging a lower price and taking a loss on the item? This is even funnier because setting up a dropship account with Amazon is so dead-easy SaH moms do it for their mommyblogs.
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Aug 9, 2016 01:00
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rscott posted:I think a lot of companies have problems with big data poo poo because they collect garbage data that doesn't reflect reality, and the first time the forecast fucks up they go back to using whatever method they had before Big Garbage In, Big Garbage Out.
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Aug 9, 2016 01:21
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I've worked with companies before who could tell you the weather that was outside when someone bought a product but not if they were a memeber of the store. I got a data system approved 17 months faster than scheduled by telling a vp if she installed a data management system she could stop being targeted by her own companies ads.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:You are reminding me of the spring when the fashion industry decreed that we would all be wearing lemon yellow, lime green, and tangerine. That poo poo stayed right on the racks where they put it. I remember reading an article a several years ago about how the fashion industry decides what colours we'll be wearing (and buying all sorts of household and other goods in), and it's all down to the Color Marketing Group which is a sort of international designer cartel which sets this sort of thing every so often. There was one comment that said it was like finding out the Illuminati had a graphics design and fashion division.
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