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Hey!

I'm Ely, the maker of Landing Page Specialist.
We are a service that is mainly focused on small businesses and start-ups to help improve their current landing page, website or design to generate more conversion.

In short; We start with a 15 minute intake talk to learn more about your business, based on the AIDA sales funnel we define your goals, create the ideas, create your design and test the new ideas and report on that.

Any feedback is welcome as I am looking to improve.

Cheers,
Ely

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Here is some more background information if you are interested:

Inspiration
The main motivating factor was that I could not find an interesting business that offers cheap and simplified solutions to improve conversion. It always starts with expensive consulting, deep reporting and long execution before getting results. I know it's a tricky business with a wide range of tasks and tweaks but if you take the right approach there is a way to offer good things for a lower price.

Problem
I used to work at companies that offer conversion rate optimization. We had to refuse many smaller customers because our prices were too high. We could not lower our prices or offer a custom price because of the workload we had when using our processes to improve their websites. Small businesses and start-ups often need to search on Google to find solutions on how to fix their landing page to generate more conversion. There is a ton of tools out there but not everyone has the know-how how to use them or even execute the results.

Solution
I put a lot of effort and time into this service to come up with a way to offer 3 types of solutions for small prices and give a big return.
They kind of did explain it. If they cashed it in then there would be coverage about who won it and the fact that they were American and were placing bets with a system would have surfaced. So basically they could make more money by continuing to slowly siphon money off then they could with a big win like that.
Capitalism is about personal responsibility, corporations are about avoiding (some) personal responsibility.

If certain types of companies commonly failed harshly because of indictments then people would be reluctant to get jobs with those types of companies. So ideally the companies would have to pay more to outweigh the risk.
Let's say the USB standard mandated that all USB-C cables be fully-featured, such that they can't be manufactured for less than $10 each. What's to stop a vendor from selling cheap "cell phone charger" cables? They could print "Compare to Belkin USB-C cable* *not affiliated with Belkin or licensed by the USB Implementers Forum" on the box, and maybe even be able to survive a lawsuit. And even if they're not in the clear legally, these cheaper cables would be found in every "black-market" outlet, which these days includes Amazon, your local gas station, and many big box stores. How long would the USB-IF be able to maintain that stance, while their licensees clamor to be allowed to sell cheaper authorized cables?

I think the solution is to improve branding. When I look at the USB-C cables in my bag, I can't tell at a glance which ones are full-featured: one of them has a tiny logo that maybe indicates something like that, but it's not obvious or prominent. I tend to end up plugging in the wrong one and discovering that the device isn't charging, performing as well as expected, etc. If the USB spec defined consistent, prominent branding for full-featured cables, this would be much less likely to occur. (yes, I know I should replace the inferior cables, but I only use them when I work away from home, which is infrequent enough that it hasn't crossed the threshold to be worth the time)
> Which doesn't work for table names, or for building up where clauses gradually, etc. SQLAlchemy makes those much more trivial to deal w/ the SQL Expression bits. (Though technically, that's not an ORM.)

Thin SQL wrappers/dsl's like the SQLAlchemy expression library are great. IMO those thin wrappers are what most people should reach for first, over a full blown ORM. A good mimimal sql wrapper will:

* Save people from pain, problems, and security issues involved in building queries through string manipulation.

* Map very closely to raw SQL

* Make it easy to compose query expressions and queries, using language native features.

* Help devs develop their SQL skills. Learning the wrapper IS learning SQL, for the most part.

I have a hard time seeing many good reasons to add any more layers of abstraction on top. That last point is particularly important to me. My first exposure to many advanced SQL techniques, was through such libraries. Since the code maps to sql quite naturally, that learning can be applied in a much wider variety of contexts. Teach someone how to do aggregations using Django's ORM, and you've taught them to do aggregations in Django's ORM, and basically nowhere else.
And more to your point - The iPhone 7 is currently 450$ brand new and is nearly 3 years old. Not only has it received feature updates for those 3 years, but all it's predecessors down to the 5S have been receiving feature updates (ends this year unfortunately) - we should be able to expect the iPhone 7 to at least get another year or two of feature updates.
> If they're able to beat Google's lawyer army and actually prosecute them, then Google will take a whopping fine in the millions of dollars that'll be more than covered by their daily revs.

This is why the 4% of global annual revenue fine option exists. A few of those add up quick.
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should make the input 1st focus and jump to the next in fewer seconds (or after double enter)
I’m interested in this as well. I’m work for different clients frequently and it seems like there is always so much time wasted on knowledge transfer when the client already has a system for recording these types of things.

Interestingly it seems some teams from within a company use the tools more effectively. I think it’s largely about building a culture around sharing information. Confluence is the tool I’ve seen most commonly used. I don’t have strong opinions one way or the other about it, but would like to see what tools effective teams are using
YouTube fined $170m in US over children's privacy violation
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Your analogy is probably better, yes, except that a luxury sedan is more than just 'a bit' pricier compared to a Corolla. I'm not a car expert, but it looks like BMW's entry level 3 series is about double the cost of a Corolla.
The site you link to even claims that it is a myth:

"This change (to the red suit) is often mistakenly attributed to... the Coca-Cola Company...the red suit was shown on the covers of Harper's Weekly at least forty years before".

Coca Cola can however probably be given a fair amount of credited for making this the ubiquitous look.
The first GDPR fines handed down by the ICO have been hundreds of millions of pounds for negligent breaches - I don't think it would be out of the realm of possibility for breaches by _design_ to result in multi-billion pound fines.
- my initial reaction is to blame GDPR, yes, because it's just security theater that does so little to actually ensure privacy. Sure Google is at fault but GDPR was supposed to regulate this and it is clearly failing to do so. And if you want to boycott it you're welcome to but they've built an empire with their cloud, search, email, etc to the point where that would be pretty difficult and annoying to the average consumer. They're effectively too big to be boycotted at this point.

- It doesn't explicitly force them to do that. And most sites aren't explicitly sharing the data either; i.e. almost every site uses Google analytics which doesn't really comply with do not track all too well, and Google will then share their data with everybody else (which is part of their violations in this article). Also saying "no" doesn't do much either as most of these big sites either already stored the cookie or won't do much to delete it. And it's not that they'll try to work around it, they either don't put forth the effort because GDPR is like a pebble for them, or they already worked around it in a way that changes nothing. Their business model is still the exact same.

I think the spirit of this law is fine, but the actual law does nothing and is just privacy theater. Google isn't buying time, almost 4 years later nothing has changed -- they just know they can't be touched.

- They're not going to sink, they'll just grow much slower and thus won't be an alternative to the big data abusers you hate so much. And they're not failing to handle your data, most of the time startups aren't selling you out they're just trying to figure out who their customer is internally. To do this they collect some data that is usually optional and very much with your consent; GDPR just puts a bunch of hoops in front of this so that it's an enormous pain to do so. I run a startup that collects basically no data (literally, we do not have a database for 2 of our products). It was a pain for us to become GDPR compliant because that disables our metrics entirely and requires a bunch of banners and checkboxes everywhere even though we literally store nothing.

I'm all for the spirit of the law. I just think the execution sucks and they definitely didn't think it through enough. I think the evidence for this is clear based on the sheer number of privacy violations we've had since GDPR was enacted alone, and how little enforcement and regulation has actually gone on.
Q4 2018 earnings were around $40 billion. EU will have to try significantly harder.
In context, "relatively bigger" would mean something like a progressive tax bracket. $20MM up to $500MM rev, 4% up to $1BB rev, 5% up to $2BB rev, 6% up to $5BB rev, etc...

A straight 4% would be absolutely bigger, but relatively the same (once beyond $500M).
See also the Russian Perimeter system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
Founder here. If the website was down, please retry. We just fixed some issues and everything should work well now.
What odds are you offering?
I spend 40 hours a week using web-based applications and I saw no performance difference after switching to Firefox.
I don't think it is.
If we talk using the browser of one of the worlds foremost data collecting companies vs. mostly no tracking, if privacy is important it should outrank most small to medium convenience factors. Especially the ones that can easily be overcome by customization or familiarity.

While I think everyone should value their privacy, I did not mean that as an attack on you, but if a menu you never need to access once you learn some shortcuts is just as important a factor as being tracked on everything you do, you should reevaluate how important privacy really is to you.
Doesn't this presume that the structures which prop up the government are already an intrinsic good? Consider the frequently seen sentiment that no matter who is in office, it is the office itself that does not serve the people, the government is not for the people, and the foundations of the government work against the people and will continue to do so even if a ruler is dismissed and another brought in. To use a more crude example, a slave does not cease to be a slave just because he can vote out his old master - rather it is the institution of slavery that must change, not merely adding the ability to choose.

This is frequently found in political philosophy that goes well beyond Popper's liberal egalitarianism. It's very strange to see this in the context of a country which is ostensibly (but not actually) democratic, such as China.
I don't deny that these other systems may be better than the US's, but you do a disservice to your own argument when you intentionally leave out parts of the US money transfer system that don't help your argument. We all know about debit cards, credit cards, venmo, zelle, the fed wire, &c. No need to pretend that the US is just a bunch of people handing paper checks over to one-another.
> To my surprise I found Sun Yat-sen is still revered in China.

He was one of the most important figures that helped to end the Qing Dynasty. Of course he's revered by communists.
If you negotiated 20% higher starting salary then you earn 20% more for the same work than the person who didn't. I don't know of many companies where you can't negotiate for a 20% higher starting salary so I don't really think this would cause a large reputation hit.
The article is about investment banks. Not retail banks. US investment banks are ahead of the US ones but the retails banks in the US outrageously outdated.
Sure you didn't mean to say that what's actually sad is that the US federal government/DoJ doesn't take real action?
Good or bad? That's what op-ed is for.

That aside, we're talking about the cartel that crashed the WORLD economy just 10ish years ago. If that isn't cause for pause I'm not sure what is. There's more to life than convenience.
From gdpr.eu:

"The more serious infringements go against the very principles of the right to privacy and the right to be forgotten that are at the heart of the GDPR. These types of infringements could result in a fine of up to €20 million, or 4% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher."

For Google that would be 4% of its worldwide annual revenue, I'd assume. Taking into account that it's not one infringement but multiple that could mean a pretty hefty fine.
What don't you love about Confluence? I saw a lot of teams use it, but many more complain about it. I personally have not tried it yet.
That really depends on the workload though. x264 benefits massively from hyper threading for example. Way more than the 6% performance you get from more overclocking headroom.
Don't forget that it's not only about spotting a bad deal when you see it.
We're not talking about a deal between two individuals. To oppose the deals, you need political power. I.e convincing the populus.
These deals are backed with enormous investments in propoganda to neutralize the masses, and corruption to neutralize the politicians.
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Yes please! I would absolutely rather use ReasonML than TypeScript or JavaScript; so I hope it gains a lot of traction.

I'd still rather use ClojureScript, though.
> "A lack of diversity isn't in and of itself a sign of a lack of meritocracy"

I disagree. At least for the majority of cases. It's possible that there are skills or jobs where the talent to excel is extremely rare in certain demographic groups, but I think those cases are extremely rare. For the vast majority of cases, a lack of representation of certain demographic groups would be very strong indication that something is preventing those groups from participating on an equal basis.

> "nor is simply increasing diversity a sign of meritocracy."

That is absolutely true. There are definitely wrong ways to increase diversity that are contrary to meritocracy, but there are also correct ways to do it.

> "uplifting poor families through things like training or scholarship programs so their kids have a better shot at life."

An excellent example of what should be done more.

But even if merely increasing diversity for its own sake does not improve meritocracy, it can actually help meritocracy indirectly: research has shown that people hiring for a job are inclined to hire people who look like the people already in that job. So if a certain industry is dominated by white men, they are inclined to hire more white men for that job. Even if the person hiring for that job is not a white man, and even if they are aware of this issue. So simply increasing diversity can make it easier for talent from minority groups to get recognised for their merit and get hired.

But I think anyone who has any amount of work experience will be under no illusions about the meritocracy in the corporate world. There are plenty of incompetent people getting hired or promoted over more competent people, and that's certainly not a new development. Meritocracy is mostly a fantasy, and I think people who consider diversity a threat to meritocracy are confusing it with aristocracy: the old aristocracy would also claim that they were obviously inherently more suited to rule. They may have claimed to have merit, but the whole point of meritocracy is that it opposed that, and that anyone should be able to rise to the top. Meritocracy and diversity should be going hand in hand. If they're not, you're probably confusing something else for meritocracy.
> "The civets are taken from the wild and have to endure horrific conditions. They fight to stay together but they are separated and have to bear a very poor diet in very small cages. There is a high mortality rate and for some species of civet, there's a real conservation risk. It's spiralling out of control. But there's not much public awareness of how it's actually made. People need to be aware that tens of thousands of civets are being kept in these conditions. It would put people off their coffee if they knew"'.

> In the coffee industry, kopi luwak is widely regarded as a gimmick or novelty item.[18] The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) states that there is a "general consensus within the industry ... it just tastes bad".
5 billion is peanuts to google. if the fine is low enough that it can be written off as a cost of business, it's too low. effective fines devastate profit margins rather than merely crimping them.
Less competition is bad for most people.i suppose it's a utilitarian viewpoint.
And then you are depending on a proprietary connection and authentication protocol instead of being able to use the standard MySQL/Postgres drivers.

Also, how do you handle the commercial hosted databases like Sql Server and Oracle?
I have an oldy Nikon D5000, and I really like it. The biggest bump in terms of photo quality was when I changed from auto-mode to manual mode and learned more about how the camera works and how to shoot what. It is so easy once you get a hang of it and your photos will get a lot better.
Maybe someone will finally take googles abusive practices to task.
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I’m a software engineer with over 10 years of experience. I’m mostly focused on backend development, but have been involved in a variety of projects during my career, including distributed systems, test automation, web apps and data processing pipelines. I have 2 years management experience as the Head of Engineering at a post series-A startup.

Ideally, I’m looking to join a committed team working on interesting challenges full time, but am also open to consulting opportunities.
Does blockchain need "enterprise-level" at all? I mean, really serious bugs can be found only by manual audits.
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It will have to be executive jailtime and personal fines or it will never matter.
The fine is already kinda big for GDPR (4% global rev for big companies) but Google has gotten away with way worse on way more regulated fronts i.e. their antitrust case which slapped them on the wrist.

If GDPR wants to be effective they need a ridiculous company-breaking fine for big abusers like COPPA and the like. Something like a per-user fine for violations that means they either can't do business in the EU or they have to become compliant otherwise risk being basically destroyed (for reference, violating child protection laws in the US can break and have broken companies before).

EDIT: also as for the tracking growth comment -- I agree on this, but the effects of GDPR on growth tools reach far beyond this. Even basic metrics are hard to get without a bunch of hoops. Even if you store no data you have to have a bunch of checkboxes and banners everywhere. Just for using Google Analytics that just relies on what they know about your computer (fingerprinting), and uses no PII at all, you need a banner and privacy policy. The laws are making it hard to use even basic analytics without fearing a misstep.
because an ORM has nothing to do with writing your SQL for you. You can use textual SQL with an ORM and an ORM like SQLAlchemy has a query language that mirrors the structure of SQL in any case. nobody is taking your SQL away. Additionally, you most certainly do want a tool that will write most of your DML for you, there is no deep wisdom or joy in writing the same INSERT / UPDATE statement over and over again.
Just learned about Brave for the first time. Pretty neat stuff.
Thanks for your response; I was mainly aggravated by OP's original post that's essentially propaganda with no backing evidence so commonly found on Reddit.

> however when they start to slip on payments they're offered relief in exchange for privatizing their resources and government services so capital around the world can extract rent.

Fair enough, but consider the following. China's infrastructure is also allowing Africa to expand and build their own ecosystems in fintech [1]. Furthermore, there is actually discussion about Africa leapfrogging in to green initiatives [2], "The paper uses examples of how China managed to improve initially polluting infrastructure to help Africa leapfrog directly into cleaner solutions."

Sure, I'll conceded the worries about network sovereignty, etc. But if you follow the data coming out of Africa, you'll see progress is really being made. Most people making remarks like OP literally know nothing about Africa.

[1] https://www.brinknews.com/fintech-in-sub-saharan-africa-a-po...
[2] https://saiia.org.za/research/can-africa-build-greener-infra...
That fine qualifies as a "slap in the hand" for Google if it happens infrequently enough (which is the case).
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You can get a Sony a6600 for a reasonable price given what it does. Photos with a cheap, albeit fast lens, will be vastly superior to an iPhone
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Thanks for the noticing that.
The real reason for their backdown is that Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act in US will be likely to pass. This bill will punish HK official for violating human right. And potentially forbidden the use of financial services like Visa and Mastercard.

However, it's not even a real backdown though. She just announce to start a motion to backdown, but it was still the decision of parliament to withdraw the bill, and the parliament was controlled by pro-Beijing parties. Practically even pro-Beijing parties care the voter's view so it may withdraw the bill, but it was uncertain whether there were an order from Beijing to vote down withdrawal after the protest was over, so still many uncertainty right here. Not to mention police brutality was not addressed.
I think golang is probably the canonical example of a language designed for maintenance first and greenfield development second.

But really, the engineering standards at your shop will be the prime determiner of maintainability, not the language that you use.
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Couldn't agree more. Spam is assumed to be useless at best, if not outright harmful. This is a vector that is easily shut down and should be ASAP.
> But then I dare say that faking Swiss German is an order of magnitude harder than faking English.

Someone has compared the typical cadence of Schwyzerdütsch to riding a donkey over very rough mountainous terrain, and I'm inclined to agree.