anthony_franco

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by anthony_franco 16y ago
"no QA at all, zero" As someone who develops on top of the Facebook Platform, I'm not surprised. Huge, obvious bugs that affect many applications are released far too often.
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
"AT&T needs users to switch to Verizon"? You raise your prices to deal with the demand for your services. You don't secretly wish your competitor snatches them away.
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
There are different forms of communication depending on the type of relationship you have with a person. Using the author's logic, email/texting would be the only form of communication we'd use since it solves the "stress" and "vanity" prob
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What StarCraft Can Teach You about Being Productive(francogments.com)
3 points by anthony_franco 16y ago|1 comments
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
It's groupon... backwards.
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
Not sure if there's any benchmarks out there. But I had your similar setup when my app went viral. Switching to Unicorn w/REE replaced an expensive engineyard setup. Learned about it from github ( https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn ) But s
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
What's your main bottleneck? What's driving that high CPU? Without knowing more about your setup I'd offload assets to S3 and switch from Passenger to Unicorn.
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How Much Do You Yearn to Succeed? [video](youtube.com)
5 points by anthony_franco 16y ago|0 comments
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
The basic problem is that FB models the social graph with a rigid, undirected graph when in fact we live in multiple, constantly-evolving, weighted graphs of social connections. The newsfeed-ranking algorithm, privacy controls, friend lists
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
They generate a unique image for each email and track when the image has been accessed. As others have mentioned, many email clients automatically block image downloads by default. So this way of tracking, at first glance, seems pretty limi
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
I think there are a few. BigString was the most popular I heard about.
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Late night coders rejoice: Science indicates it's smart to stay up late(psychologytoday.com)
13 points by anthony_franco 16y ago|5 comments
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
This is really good advice. I'm surprised these big sites aren't using something like CloudFront to serve their files.
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
+1 on Dreamhost. They also throw in free domain privacy so your personal details aren't plastered all over the net.
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
Yeah, PayPal can be a pretty big pain. We've had our accounts locked out by them a few times. But eventually they are satisfied and leave you alone. Here's some general tips I'd follow if you do go down the PayPal route. 1) Use your full le
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
I could not agree with you more here. And they are using InnoDB since it's Rails-based. Wrapping up all the INSERTs into a single query or transaction would really help. I'd also say consolidating the validations into a single SELECT would
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
I disagree. On that same reasoning, giving a free 30-day trial of a service would be detrimental to a business by anchoring the customer to a 'free' price point. On the contrary, giving the customer a taste makes them come back for more. As
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
First, make sure that your customer feedback methodologies are valid. Make sure you're solving a problem and that it's not just something that's "nice to have". After that you have to face the brutal possibility that the "very traditional m
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
Social Gold (recently acquired by Google) handles subscriptions. Although they take a 10% cut.
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by anthony_franco 16y ago
We've experienced this issue in the past. If you're gonna use PayPal, here are some tips: 1) Use your full legal name when creating the account. 2) If you're creating the account for a company, make sure the owner of the account is an offic
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by anthony_franco 17y ago
We've always dealt with abusive users in a polite manner. A lot of times they just love the attention and drama. But time and time again, once we fed them the attention they craved, they became some of our biggest allies in the community.
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by anthony_franco 17y ago
They got a great team over there. I expect nothing less from them. Jam on!