mcfunley

21 ms·

181.
by mcfunley 12y ago
Basically just "/listing/<a number>/<some ignored text> goes to listing.php", multiplied by a thousand pages or so. There's overhead associated with doing the bookkeeping necessary to compute the ro
182.
by mcfunley 12y ago
FWIW at Etsy I built and subsequently helped completely dismantle a minimal PHP routing framework. We just used .htaccess and php files. PHP/Apache affords you a fast, simple alternative, and what you gain with a framework (route looku
183.
What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google(youtube.com)
5 points by mcfunley 12y ago|0 comments
184.
by mcfunley 12y ago
MVC has some nice properties but the thing that always bothered me about it is that it introduces a mental hurdle that shouldn't really be there. "We use MVC, therefore the kinds of objects I can write are models, views, and contr
185.
On Piketty on Capital(tbray.org)
11 points by mcfunley 12y ago|0 comments
186.
Why Etsy’s Future Depends on Redefining ‘Handmade’(wired.com)
2 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
187.
Advanced Topics in Continuous Deployment(slideshare.net)
3 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
188.
by mcfunley 13y ago
They were all investment bankers. Originally they were competing with Factset and Thomson, not so much Bloomberg.
189.
by mcfunley 13y ago
> Didn't get the job. You dodged a bullet. I worked for CIQ from 2003-2007, it was not such a great time. (I recently reminisced a bit here: http://mcfunley.com/manual-delivery ) At one point I was offered a job with
190.
by mcfunley 13y ago
So I take it that the poster is also the one who gets worked up when people use git pull? This person is criminally insane and I feel for his colleagues.
191.
Manual Delivery(mcfunley.com)
1 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
192.
Recruiting Designers – By the Numbers(blog.capwatkins.com)
2 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
193.
by mcfunley 13y ago
One other unforced error with c.j was having almost every function take a dictionary of args instead of a sane argument list. That left "grep the codebase" and "read the entire function definition and god help you if it passe
194.
Scalding at Etsy(mcfunley.com)
74 points by mcfunley 13y ago|19 comments
195.
by mcfunley 13y ago
> "At one point, data from Facebook indicated his ads had delivered 606,000 clicks, but the site itself registered only 160,000 incoming clicks" My initial reaction is that this guy is confusing "clicks" with "vi
196.
A/B Testing Framework: Build or Buy?(blog.redfin.com)
1 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
197.
We Don't Sell Saddles Here(medium.com)
9 points by mcfunley 13y ago|2 comments
198.
by mcfunley 13y ago
You're disregarding the necessity of a "small non-profit" not wasting time running broken tests, which is not necessarily optimized by complicating the bejeezus out of everything.
199.
The Case for Secrecy in Web Experiments(mcfunley.com)
4 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
200.
by mcfunley 13y ago
You should certainly click through and just look at the data: http://home.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/556 Basically nobody takes this test. I think producing a finely detailed list of observations like "no females took t
201.
by mcfunley 13y ago
> In an online marketplace it's far far easier to accept bitcoins than credit cards because you have no fraud risk, which is a HUGE problem in online retail. I currently work for a large online marketplace. A very typical fraud scen
202.
The Etsy Management Challenge: Building Sales While Protecting Culture(inc.com)
5 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
203.
by mcfunley 13y ago
Automated tests trigger automated security, all admins are banned, user groups are automatically notified that certain admins are no longer admins.
204.
by mcfunley 13y ago
The story seems to be that these companies want to do ad attribution across devices. Example: I click on an Adword on my phone, and come to your site. I then come back later on my desktop computer and buy something. Google would like you to
205.
Eject, eject(dadhacker.com)
9 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
206.
Complaint against DPR detailing $80K contract on Silk Road employee [pdf](ia601904.us.archive.org)
3 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
207.
Eight Ways You've Misconfigured Your A/B Test(drjasondavis.com)
3 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
208.
by mcfunley 13y ago
You will be a solo founder next time because anyone who Googles you will realize you are the kind of moron who throws his former cofounders under the bus.
209.
Atomic Deploys at Etsy(codeascraft.com)
1 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
210.
A Corollary to experimentcalculator.com, With Examples(drjasondavis.com)
1 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments

More ›