Dick's is just a regional (Seattle-area) fast-food burger chain, vaguely similar to In-N-Out. They make really good, cheap burgers (for fast food), have incredibly greasy fries, support the community and all that good small local business stuff.
It also lets you make an incredible amount of jokes about eating Dicks that makes non-Seattle people look at you funny.
I am a developer with PM experience that can help with every phase of product development. I have experience with product consulting & planning, prototyping, development (both individual and as a cross-disciplinary team lead), product launch, and scaling.
I have worked on a variety of projects:
- Built and maintain an expert-tier fantasy sports provider, ottoneu Fantasy Sports (http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com)
- Built and sold a daily fantasy baseball game to SB Nation / Vox Media
- Led the cross-disciplinary team that developed Vox Media's custom display advertising and native advertising platforms
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I am a developer with PM experience that can help with every phase of product development. I have experience with product consulting & planning, prototyping, development (both individual and as a cross-disciplinary team lead), product launch, and scaling.
I have worked on a variety of projects:
- Built and maintain an expert-tier fantasy sports provider, ottoneu Fantasy Sports (http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com)
- Built and sold a daily fantasy baseball game to SB Nation / Vox Media
- Led the cross-disciplinary team that developed Vox Media's custom display advertising and native advertising platforms
My website has more details and a link to my LinkedIn profile. I look forward to working with you!
I am a developer with PM experience that can help you with every phase of product development. I have experience with product consulting & planning, prototyping, development (both individual and as a cross-disciplinary team lead), product launch, and scaling. My website has more details and a link to my LinkedIn profile. I look forward to working with you!
> Greylisting still works amazingly well. With a long, long whitelist and greylisting plus DNSBL, I don't even bother running a spam filter, since the little bit of spam and emails from new senders ends up in its own directory as it came from a non-whitelisted sender.
Any good tips on this section in particular? If I'm running my own mail server, how would I get started making sure this is in order?
I have been running exim4 for years, but I'm in the process of moving to postfix, as postfix is considerably easier to set up all the DKIM, etc., machinery that is now required. Inbound email comes through procmail and is mainly read in emacs (mh-e), which is kind of old fashioned. I have a small script that makes a new email address within my domain for each new use. I sign up for a lot of mailing lists and groups, and my /etc/aliases is more than 5300 lines. I can track if domainA's address starts coming from domainB and disable that address, but that doesn't happen very often, which is a pleasant surprise.
I also have a small script that puts a new sender on my whitelist of sender email addresses. My whitelist is 12000+ lines right now, collected over many years. Procmail sorts to mailing lists and vendor folders, and finally puts things that are not on the whitelist into a "possible spam" folder. From the five or ten items a day, it is easy to spot legitimate emails and I add those to the whitelist. The majority of spam is blocked by the combination of greylisting and DNSBL lists, as the delay of greylisting (ten minutes for me) is enough for them to make the blackhole list, if they happen to ever attempt delivery again.
I was thinking recently that I should be collecting statistics on the use of a lot of those aliases and whitelisted emails, and maybe start garbage collecting my lists.
There are various reputation reports and services that can tell you how your mail is doing in the major ISPs, but a lot of those require higher traffic than a personal or small business generates. There is one service, DMARC[1], that is free and can give you some visibility into how email from your domain is being processed. I put the txt record in my DNS, and Google, Facebook, Comcast, Yahoo, Fastmail, and a few others send me reports about email they have processed from my domain. It's not that interesting at the moment because things are working, but it might help to debug issues if your email was being rejected. At least I see a few spammers are trying to use my domain from their servers.
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I strongly agree that adtech has overstepped bounds in a number of ways, but articles like this seem more interested in claiming the moral high ground for ad blockers, equating them with consumer activism. However, ad blockers are clearly not a boycott - websites are still being "dealt with" (i.e. content is being consumed) to use the definition language, they are just not being paid.
Disclaimer/Context: I was the Product Manager for Ad Products at Vox Media for 2+ years
If you put something out there for consumption on a public forum in a medium that allows me to determine how I consume it, then you are a fool if you believe you have any say in how I do consume it. You don't have any control in this matter and you have tied yourself to a business model that requires you to be able to dictate the terms of consumption.
I pay for my expensive bandwidth. If you attempt to pollute the bandwidth I pay for do not be surprised if I cut out the crap you try to force feed me.
If you can't support your business that's your problem. After all, the down side from all these businesses folding is that we go back to a web when such parasitic practacies didn't exist, well that sound like a deal to me!
I don't know what you get for calling it a boycott or not (can I pay with my moral high ground?), it is clearly a mass rejection of targeted advertising in all its forms and that seems to be the important part.
If I take a free newspaper and don't bother to read the ads, the publisher has still been paid for the ad spots, so why should it be different for a Web site publisher? The advertiser should pay a negotiated, fixed amount and the consideration that site visitors may or may not use an adblocker to skip the ad should not enter the equation.
In a similar vein, if I take a free newspaper, no-one follows me round and refuses to let me turn the page unless I confirm that I have looked at all the ads on the current one.
noun 1. a punitive ban that forbids relations with certain groups, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods.
In the sense of "cooperation with a policy", this certainly is in fact a boycott. Also, a bit of a stretch, but blocking adds is forbidding relation with a certain group (advertisers).
Further, a boycott may or may not include suppliers (or any other group associated with target). For instance when some restaurant chain is being boycotted, you don't often hear "also don't buy $X apples, they sell things to the evil chain".
The point being - it is consumer activism, people are saying "I like your site, but I won't be involved in the unreadable mess that it becomes with ads popping up everywhere." That's a pretty strong message, and far more pointed than just avoiding a site. In the later case, the message is unclear... is the problem the site content itself? Is it the ads? Is it something else like the layout?
