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Big box markup

Posted on March 23, 2017July 12, 2022 Author cysix Comment(0)

Best Buy memory card priced at $89. Walked out if the store with it for $23 after a B&H Photo price check/match! It pays to do your online research. Also gives you an idea of the markup at big box stores.

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Google won’t go down without a fight

Posted on March 17, 2017July 12, 2022 Author cysix

Watching Google I/O live. Amazon made a huge impact with their Echo (aka Alexa). But Google isn’t going down without a fight. They’re ramping Google Assistant up with “Google Lens” to combine both audio/voice context with image recognition. The demo is showing some amazing stuff on the way. Just goes to show… when giants truly […]

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Engineers isolated from customers

Posted on February 18, 2018July 24, 2022 Author cysix

For the techie folks out there: Reading an article regarding Amazon’s success implementing a distributed micro-services architecture and I came across this success factor bullet. “Developers should spend some time with customer service every two years. Their they’ll actually listen to customer service calls, answer customer service e-mails, and really understand the impact of the […]