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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

That means I get to spend loads and loads of time across many industry verticals, see many many campaigns, translate many many foreign websites (thanks Google Chrome for auto-translate!) Sophisticated Search Engine Optimization is mandatory in our world of Bing / Yandex / Baidu / Google. Life is a lot more complex (and sexy!).

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The future of food production – reasons to be hopeful

The Equity Kicker

Going forward here are three new technologies that should help maintain this trend: Genetically engineered crops: In 1996 there were 1.7 This 87-fold increase in hectares makes genetically engineered seeds the fastest-adopted crop technology in the history of modern agriculture.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.