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It actually looks pretty good to me, I'm on the hunt so I'll give it a shot lol.

Basically zero effort/intelligence compared to a lot of these, but the business wanted backup records from our CMS (of sorts), because they were gun shy of catastrophic losses after spending like 250 human hours on manual entry the last time. Thing was, the API provided zero means for export, either mass or individual.

Motivated to prove myself, I ended up writing a crawler with all kinds of contingencies for the crap UI, which would press the "Download" button that downloaded each record as a JSON file (couple thousand of these). Then my little node app would shoot the JSON files to an S3 bucket for safekeeping, parse them, and save each record in DynamoDB I believe it was.

Doesn't take a genius to come up with the idea to write a crawler, but no one else did, and the business was entering a state of frantic desperation re: this issue, so I felt pretty smart for a bit.

Then a few months later they abandoned the CMS and all it's corresponding data.

I had no idea nuclear power had been miniaturized to this extent, wow.

Right? If it can't react, how is it any different than cruise control?

I didn't really read it as him having an obsession with beating her—

It struck me more that this was his reckoning with the inevitable regression of his own cognition, in the context of comparison to the developing cognition of his daughter. Like racing the clock even if you have competitors on the track.

Sure, there was some disconcert over the fact he was "getting lapped" and he knew it, but I think that realistically we'd all feel that way at least a little. Even if it was our kid. Not because we're jealous of them, but rather because they are forcing us to face our own decline.

Not that I am necessarily correct. Just a thought.

I was really hoping I was about to see the Exia fixing trains here lol

Great, now we gotta figure out what a "bodybuilder" is!

Oh man, so this was relatively recent no less. Hopefully you did!

> give anything to replace macOS with Linux (or even Windows)

I agree that this was a fair, measured post, but I find it bizarre that a Linux enthusiast would ever want to replace their Mac OS with Windows when the biggest complaint is... window management? I feel like they left something out here.

that is almost cartoonishly nightmarish

This is great— I have envisioned and even considered making this exact thing myself before. I'll definitely be using this, thank you.

you better not be sad!

The idea is because it's happening at scale. If you're getting hundreds or thousands of customers per day, the likelihood of this happening gets lower by some statistical proportion, especially if you don't have the organic exposure.

Also, definition of working: You make more than you spend, and if you stop the ads, you stop making as much.

That said, I'm not arguing for 100% accuracy either. It's certainly not. Simply that it's possible to be more accurate than not, which leads to profitability.

One more also- a comment above about how I failed to mention I'm not talking about paid search ads so much as other types like FB, YouTube, banners, etc.

You are totally correct, thank you— I addressed this to jjulius above, since they pointed out the same thing. Sometimes one must be reminded not to be flippant on the internet, it's all too easy, and I don't want to be that person.

>Instead of making fun of people for not knowing something that they shouldn't need to know about, why not corner the market by providing non-insulting services to get them the results they need? Or at the least, be able to point people in the direction of where to get those services?

You're right. We all know the value of the person who makes complaints without offering solutions.

If anyone reads this and would like some honest help in this area, send and email to the address in the 'about' on my profile, and I'll try to point you in the right direction (It only looks sketchy because it's a forwarding address, I'm sure you understand.)

No you're right, as someone who takes these things seriously, I should hold myself to a higher standard than to paint in such broad strokes. Thanks for checking me there.

Allow me to rephrase from a more compassionate perspective:

I don't expect any of these people to devote the type of effort that I have into this knowledge.

But I do wish they knew this stuff, because with even a little bit of this knowledge, they could have the power to make their own restaurant/software shop/insert_small_business more successful than it otherwise could have been... which may even be the difference between them successfully running said business vs. having to take a job they don't like.

Ultimately, it's a be the change you wish to see situation, I suppose.