JonM

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by JonM 16y ago
Nope. All approximations, but it doesn't sound crazy; considering that someone has inputted a search term and the link will be related to that term. Obviously there are loads of variables but it's probably of the right order (single percent
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by JonM 16y ago
I have problems with our adserver tags loading much slower than our pages. I often use a CSS hack to that the adserver code loads at the bottom of the page but is position in CSS at the top. However this can't be applied in 100% of situatio
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by JonM 16y ago
Agree.... the one that doesn't seem like work.. (at least to start with!).
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by JonM 16y ago
I honestly didn't know this existed.... thanks!
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by JonM 16y ago
Very interesting, I'm making this desicion at the moment. Currently settling on Chargify, but it means changing banks and setting up a new merchant account which is hassel I could do without! Should save me some time on developing my own sy
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by JonM 16y ago
I was wanting to use Twilio for UK SMS sending but the system couldn't send to my own mobile. I emailed again a few weeks back and it was still "unsupported". I'm glad it didn't work on my own mobile as I would have definitely integrated it
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by JonM 16y ago
Totally, a few days and a bit of embarrasment here is much better than ploughing months of work in with no return.
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by JonM 16y ago
We are using RBS WordPay at the moment (purely because our bank account is with RBS), but to be honest, the interface is crap, the hosted payment page is crap and the support via the phone is far from brilliant. I'm actually investigating u
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by JonM 16y ago
For any Twilio staff reading.... any plans to get UK SMS working at a reasonable price point? I signed up a good while back but it wasn't working at the time.
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by JonM 16y ago
"The official way to pronounce MySQL is 'My Ess Que Ell' (not 'my sequel'), but we do not mind if you pronounce it as 'my sequel' or in some other localized way." http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/what-is-mysql.html I only ever use M
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by JonM 16y ago
Pretty good these, the same people also do this series: http://sixtysymbols.com/ I studied Physics @ Nottingham so pretty cool to see my lecturers getting involved!
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by JonM 16y ago
Thanks for the advice. We do have a GetSatisfaction page setup but alot of our user base refuse to use it (I don't want to pay the extra monthly fee to integrate with our login system). I think it boils down to a communication problem, supp
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by JonM 16y ago
We've got this very badly wrong right now and are suffering the consequences. In short we are in the middle of a huge re-development of our core product. Unfortunately my co-founder (who isn't a developer) has been telling users various dif
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by JonM 16y ago
I used to get a £0.20 ($0.31 US) eCPM for 0.33% CTR ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136710 ), however, after getting a call from a Google account manager who had some extra inventory to shift for June, we've since been seeing (£0.39)
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by JonM 16y ago
The skill in these cases is knowing when to add exceptions and when to invest in re-factoring your code to work for the general case. I'm getting better at it, but I've generalised too early in some instances and left exceptions which soon
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by JonM 16y ago
Yeh, but it wasn't valued at that when they bought it.
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by JonM 16y ago
I don't understand the economics here. You still have to pay Authorize.net (or whatever gateway) and then ontop of that have a monthly fee to Chargify.... Surely better to drop a one-off development cost on software to sit in Chargify's pla
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by JonM 17y ago
That all sounded a bit depressing..... but very familiar! I suggest you get in the gym!
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by JonM 17y ago
Exactly ^^ Observing the phenomena would change it's state. It's one of those complete head-f ks about quantumn mechanics. You just have to accept that the quantumn world concerns probabilities (wave functions) rather than finite "location
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by JonM 17y ago
Have decided against due to a recent development, but thanks for the offer!
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by JonM 17y ago
Thanks PE. Yes, we know our agent isn't up to scratch but we are struggling for alternatives. I'll drop you an email.
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by JonM 17y ago
"Samsung should come to you". This is the exact opposite of what we are experiencing at the moment. We have reasonable traffic (500k UVs / month, 9million PVs), but regularly miss out on campaigns that would fit our site perfectly. Infact,
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by JonM 17y ago
"ramifications of poorly-constructed SQL" Surely the best defense against this is writing every query yourself rather than letting Rails do it? (As implied in the article). My argument isn't Ruby execution speed vs PHP execution speed, it's
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by JonM 17y ago
Who'd have thought that "knowing your code / sql" would be a problem when using software that writes most of it for you! I'm sure Rails is great for getting an application up quickly, but once you get some traffic and the application gets m
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Google Adsense - What CTR / eCPM did you get for Jan 10?
2 points by JonM 17y ago|0 comments