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by chaz 14y ago
The author is expecting that all 54k fans should see the page's posts, and that fewer impressions are feeling like extortion. That expectation is both incorrect and unreasonable. There will always be users who don't log in each day. Even if
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by chaz 14y ago
If you're posting 10-16 posts a day and you forcibly put each of these into 100% of your fans, you're going to shrink your base. If you did that to me, I'm going to hide or Unlike your page. If you emailed me those posts, I'd be hitting uns
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by chaz 14y ago
The guys selling umbrellas on the street are not creating a brand -- they're direct response advertising. As you mentioned, they're anonymous and disappear when you don't need them. Brand is different. I don't turn on the TV when I'm ready
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by chaz 14y ago
Good question, but the medium has changed. That's a media invitation card, that is guaranteed to be carried by online tech sites, but we'll likely never see in Mad Man era TV or print.
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by chaz 14y ago
Google's revenue is very closely tied to the amount that people use the web in general. So much so, that they will make more money simply by encouraging people to use the web more. As a result, their strategy is largely to reduce the barrie
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by chaz 14y ago
Great to see. But the headline is misleading. There's some cost savings from software licensing, but it appears that the real savings is the transition from in-person services to web services. The article below cites how the "Digital by Def
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by chaz 14y ago
Also, if you're looking for a longer-term commitment but want to get out of it, their Reserved Instances can now be bought and sold. Great for if your plans change and you want to recoup some of your costs. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserv
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by chaz 14y ago
Thanks for outlining a lot of details here, but a full writeup would also be great.
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Hubway Data Visualization Challenge(hubwaydatachallenge.org)
1 points by chaz 14y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 14y ago
SAG came about in an era when there were relatively few studios who produced the vast majority of movies. As a result, the options for skilled workers was low, and you had no choice but to endure poor conditions for low pay because your opt
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by chaz 14y ago
TaxCloud posted sample code for Zencart in December 2010, and it appears to me that the variable names were already established. Some of it is below. // func.taxcloud.php function verifyAddress($address, &$err) { global $cli
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by chaz 14y ago
Your second post was promoted to friends of the first post, with their name and photos attached to it, saying that they like your page. So someone from Indonesia who entered the contest ended up being a conduit by which your page was promot
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by chaz 14y ago
This is happening because the promoted post is for a giveaway. A lot of incoming traffic can happen when you do a giveaway because freebie/contest blogs all cross-post it, and you can get a surprising amount of traffic if the prize is juicy
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by chaz 14y ago
You're right -- thanks. They've been slowly increasing their ad load every year since they've launched, and it looks like they're doing three ads in a break now for some shows.
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by chaz 14y ago
The major difference is ad load. Watch a 1-hour show on Hulu, and you'll see that the content is typically ~42 minutes long. Which means that on-air, it's 18 minutes of ads that fill the balance. But online is showing way less ads than 18 m
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Architecting the Future of Recurly(blog.recurly.com)
3 points by chaz 14y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 14y ago
The launch coverage was too clinical. 1,800 employees behind the company and they must be absolutely ecstatic right now. There were very brief audio snippets where you could hear cheering, but it would have been great to have gotten to feel
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Touch gestures(bijansabet.com)
1 points by chaz 14y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 14y ago
Google Maps for Android has an offline cache, which is a huge advantage, especially for those traveling in subways without a data connection. Would love to see that show up on iOS.
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Show HN: Milled - Aggregates emailed offers to unclutter your inbox(milled.com)
1 points by chaz 14y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 14y ago
I zoomed in on the area around the author's location and I'm seeing a fair amount of detail surfacing, as well as most of the same locations that are visible on the iOS 6 map. Is it possible that Apple is showing more detail farther away wh
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by chaz 14y ago
Clicking on any link will make you a monthly active user on that destination site's metrics.
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by chaz 14y ago
Their most recent infrastructure blog post was from January 2012, and shows that they're using Postgres 9, Cassandra 0.8, and local disk only (no more EBS). I'm curious if the recently-announced provisioned IOPS would enable them to go back
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Petition: Allow Uber to continue to operate [in Boston](change.org)
1 points by chaz 14y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 14y ago
It shouldn't be our burden to be verify the accuracy or integrity of cab meters, gas pumps, or deli scales. When's the last time you brought your own jug or scale? Common consumer protections like these are what the government should be doi
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by chaz 14y ago
Original story from MIT News Office w/ video: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/autonomous-robotic-plane-...
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by chaz 14y ago
Agree that best tool for the job is important, and that node.js may be the right tool if your app is very realtime-focused. But no need to go node.js if all you need is a progress indicator. I think the modern web stack does need an easy wa
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by chaz 14y ago
You're not counting satellite, which has been taking market share away from cable. As of 2011, 60.4% of households have cable, and 31.1% of households have "alternative distribution systems," almost all of which is satellite, like DirecTV a
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by chaz 14y ago
Spotify on iPhone works this way as well. Tap a song while playing a different one, and the new song immediately starts to play. Swipe to the right and press the playlist icon and it gets added to the queue. I've messed up song requests, to
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by chaz 14y ago
I buy a new MacBook Pro every year, and the dilemma here is similar to Anand's. I bought the high-resolution display on my current 15.4" MBP at 1680x1050. The resolution can be scaled to 1680x1050 or 1920x1200, but I'd like to know how blur

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