JacobJans

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by JacobJans 13y ago
If an animation tricks you into buying something, then it must incredibly magical. I'm imagining the animation somehow inducing you to open your wallet, get out your credit card, type in the credit card number, and your billing address
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> your using an ad-blocker when you weren't in the target demographic for the ads anyway ... makes no more difference to the site than your voting in a non-swing state makes to the results of an election. Good luck creating an ad bl
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by JacobJans 13y ago
In addition to blocking ads, I suggest anyone implementing this also blocks all websites containing ads. Why? When you "say goodbye to ads" you're also saying goodbye to the source of income that pays the people who made the
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Wow, this is great. I'm shocked that I am finally enjoying something related to regular expressions.
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Is there actually less demand for print books? According to Amazon, print book sales are still growing. http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/pu...
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I've been using this thinking recently to great advantage. My basic strategy has been to make the design more beautiful, and if the conversion rate stays the same or improves, I've succeeded. This way, I've been able to signi
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In my experience, sometimes a focus on A/B testing can extremely limit you. How? Because sometimes you need a change in strategy, and A/B testing is more about changes in implementation of strategy. For example, sometimes you need
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"Understand the trade-offs being made and the factors that led to them." As a user of Facebook, this quote explains a lot. I run a Facebook page with 90k+ likes, and have grown to expect it to simply not load completely without refreshing i
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You're absolutely right about weight. One of the big concerns of an industrial food system is shipping. The other big concern is shelf life. Neither of these are nearly as big of a concern if you get your food from a local farmer. The healt
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This article points to the very obvious problem that it is very profitable to sell unhealthy foods in the US. There are a number of reasons for this, but one of them is caused by the government. We subsidize the growing of industrial corn,
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by JacobJans 14y ago
No, it's not pointless. It lets us plan, alerts us to potential consequences, and motivates us to take action that might have a long term impact, among many other things.
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Here's the truth: Lucid Chart hasn't figured out how to do social media properly. Now they're making excuses. The fact is, many business are making a lot of money with their social media efforts. My little company has tripled revenues since
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Well, they actually copy and host almost the entire internet, without permission. But maybe that's another story.
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Yes, your point of view is naive. On many of my sites, I earn at least 12 cents per pageview, on average, and sometimes as much as 50 cents. Because I don't charge our users, I don't have to deal with customer service, payment processing, a
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by JacobJans 14y ago
We try to build a positive, two-way, relationship with our readers, but if someone removes the ads from our website, they are directly attacking our ability to stay in business. Not cool. Removing ads from a website is no different than pir
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by JacobJans 14y ago
Mitch, I appreciate the sentiment, but I can't stake my livelihood on promises made on an internet forum. I want to be a Digital Ocean user, but I'm going to base that decision on the legal agreements first. I do hope this will encourage yo
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by JacobJans 14y ago
I would be very leery of hosting any serious business on Digital Ocean. Their terms of service are simply too strict. For example, you can't send email to your users without double opt-in. Yikes! Not to mention the ambiguous language bannin
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If this wasn't about removing ads, they would have been reformatted to be beautiful too. Removing ads is effectively the same as pirating software: You're getting what you want without paying for it.
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Now the Chinese Government Hackers can be at your birthday party too!
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Are you assuming I'm chalking student performance solely up to teachers? Are you saying that a teacher's supervisor (the principle) shouldn't be in charge of evaluating their performance? Are you assuming that I think administrators and sch
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Well, that should be the job of the principle in charge of the school. One of the big problems is that it is very difficult to fire bad teachers, even if it is obvious they are not performing well. Right now, union rules make it very diffic
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Any teacher worth half their salt will know how well the kids are doing. It takes literally 30 seconds of looking at a piece of student writing, for example, to have a pretty accurate assessment of their writing ability. The problem is that
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I think this might be exactly what I need for working with the freelance writers that I hire. I'm looking forward to giving it a try!
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I think there will be a lot to learn by how people respond to this. (There's already been quite a few revealing comments.)
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Analytics only matter if they help you make better decisions. Anything else, is, indeed, just vanity.