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   by mceachen 16y ago

   I think you'd need a pretty large sample set before you came to any reasonable conclusion. I've been running ~10 nodes for AdGrok for the last 3 months, and we've already had one node fail (in that it wouldn't respond to any ec2 cli command
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   by mceachen 16y ago

   Yes, it's in the specs page that there's a speakerphone and a mike. Walk around with a wifi hotspot dongle and an ipod touch and seems like you've got an iphone4 and unlimited VOIP calls.
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   by mceachen 16y ago

   It's an SEO trick. By linking to your home page from your home page, the googlebot falls into infinite recursion and your pagerank exceeds google. Soon, all search queries will lead to AdGrok. </dry-nerd-humor>
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   by mceachen 16y ago

   We're beta-testing our pricing model at the same time we're beta-testing our product. There's historical evidence in the ad space that people are willing to shell out 15-20% of their spend on agencies. We're shooting for a pricing structure
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   AdGrok (YC S10) is out to replace the 'craptacular' Google AdWords interface(xconomy.com)

   47 points by mceachen 16y ago|22 comments
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   by mceachen 16y ago

   I'm one of the founders of http://AdGrok.com -- we're in the current YC batch. I just turned 40 (one week before demo day!), have a wife (we just celebrated our 16th anniversary), and two kids (8 and 10). I'd look carefully at your situat
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   AdGrok (YC S10) Simplifies Keyword Bidding And More On Google AdWords(techcrunch.com)

   82 points by mceachen 16y ago|28 comments
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   by mceachen 16y ago

   So do we!
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   by mceachen 16y ago

   Having done a bunch of user studies in the past, one of the big issues I've seen is the Hawthorne Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect ) -- just the fact that the user knows they are being watched, they change their beha
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    by mceachen 16y ago

    I'm finding RubyMine to be great for rails webapp development. Hopping through a project to method or class or migration definitions, the "view model dependency diagram", and good git integration make for a pretty nice IDE. The main good th
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    by mceachen 16y ago

    It looks like the only diff is in activepack: http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/2-3-stable/actionpack/CHA... 2.3.8 (May 24, 2010) * HTML safety: fix compatibility without the optional rails_xss plugin. 2.3.7 (May 24, 2010) * HTML s
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    Awesome animation of Dan Pink's talk about Drive: What Motivates Us(youtube.com)

    7 points by mceachen 16y ago|1 comments
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    by mceachen 16y ago

    Here here! After witnessing N software fads with the pendulum of complexity and convention and configuration swinging to and fro, I firmly believe software crafting is much more similar to writing a book than constructing a bridge. Preferab
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    Stanford's Autonomous Car Learns to Slide Park(fastcompany.com)

    1 points by mceachen 16y ago|0 comments
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    by mceachen 17y ago

    +1 to running -- I used to run with music, but find it more clarifying to run with only the distraction of being where ever I am.
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    by mceachen 17y ago

    Even in the scope of business logic, though, there's almost always multiple implementations that will result in a functionally correct output.
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    Defensibility as an touchstone for development decisions « Hints and Kinks(matthew.mceachen.us)

    2 points by mceachen 17y ago|2 comments
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    by mceachen 17y ago

    I agree--this is just noise. The comment in the parent post saying "I run datacenters, and things don't fail" should be crossposted to thedailywtf. EVERYTHING fails. Plan for it.