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by putlake 11y ago
I run an Alexa top 10K website with an ad-based revenue model. iOS content blocking has not materially impacted overall revenue because 1. Even though mobile accounts for about 50% of traffic, it only accounts for 25% of revenue anyway. 2.
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by putlake 11y ago
Excellent digging -- thanks!
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RPM (revenue per 1000 pageviews) varies wildly by site, geo and platform (desktop/mobile). If you're a site with cat photos it's about $1. If you're about mortgage refinancing or roofing, it could be $15. The first pagev
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by putlake 11y ago
How many civilian deaths are "too many"?
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by putlake 11y ago
Sequel Pro for MySQL is better because it's a more mature product. I've been using it for a while so there is a little familiarity bias. I have also paid for Postico (before they launched on the Mac App Store). As far as Postgres
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An easy way to detect is to see if an ad div is visible and > 0px tall. Edit: Clarification: Most ad blockers collapse the divs where ads would have appeared. That's the tell I use to detect ad blockers. There are other, more sophis
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by putlake 11y ago
I manage a consumer website with 4-5 million unique visitors a month, monetized solely via ads. About 25% of our desktop users use an ad blocker. The site's desktop audience is 56% U.S., 8% India, 7% UK, 5% Canada. When we detect the u
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HTTP2 only works for HTTPS sites. For a myriad of reasons, that is not practical for a lot of websites. HTTP 1 best practices are going to be needed for a long time.
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by putlake 11y ago
Slightly OT but BigQuery has another fascinating and useful public dataset: the HTTP Archive. https://www.igvita.com/2013/06/20/http-archive-bigquery-web-...
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The author makes an assumption that the cause of the bad scroll was the ad at the top of the page. I have seen many pages on mobile and tablet that have broken scrolling like this, and many have nothing to do with ads. I have also seen refl
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by putlake 11y ago
Who are you migrating to? I've been happy with Mongodirector (scalegrid)
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This is good stuff. There is also a SaaS offering to do this for mobile apps. It's called AppSheet [1] and they let you create iOS and Android apps from spreadsheets -- Google Sheets or Excel. Disclaimer: I don't work for them but
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There are theories that our own universe is more likely to be a simulation than "real". e.g. http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
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by putlake 11y ago
Repatriation is somewhat of a red herring. Money is fungible. Even if it is technically (on the books) "overseas", it can be (and usually is) invested in U.S. markets.
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NailO, a Customizable Thumbnail Trackpad for Interacting with Digital Devices(laughingsquid.com)
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by putlake 12y ago
Perhaps not costly, but definitely cumbersome. What's more, it will have the opposite consequence. In his book "Influence", Robert Cialdini wrote that making CEO pay public had the effect of raising exec pay across the board
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by putlake 12y ago
This article is bad journalism. I worked in that industry for about 10 years and the way this operates is the company lays off 100 workers and replaces them with 120 contractors, 90 of which are offshore and only 30 are in the U.S. These 30
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by putlake 12y ago
If any professional can sign up, how do clients feel confident that the professionals listed on the site are indeed the best?
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by putlake 12y ago
Here's a video of the author's presentation at Scale Conf on migrating Wikipedia to HHVM: http://www.dev-metal.com/migrating-wikipedia-hhvm-scale-conf...
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That is not true. You can be on H1B and not work for a business as an employee but can own a business. Making money on ads on a blog is perfectly legal.
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As bad as some of these stories are, H1-B is way better than an L1 visa. Talk about indentured servitude. With an H1-B visa, an employee can at least change jobs and find another employer to work for. All the other employer has to do is tra
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by putlake 12y ago
I don't know who is buying all these tablets Gartner is reporting. Tablet traffic to my website (Alexa top 10K) has stagnated at under 10% for over a year now. Apple is not wrong to look at usage share rather than simply at units shipp
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Easiest Diet Plan Ever (Dilbert Blog)(dilbert.com)
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One way to optimize Adsense earnings is to look at Google Analytics data (you have to link the two but that is trivial to do). For example, look at eCPM by screen resolution to see if your ad placements are working correctly on all screen s
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by putlake 12y ago
I'd love to be able to use jpegoptim or mozjpeg but the trouble is choosing the right quality level. As Steve Souders says in his comment on TFA, it's not possible to experiment with varying quality levels when you have hundreds o
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What I'd really love to see is debug support for scripts loaded asynchronously with jQuery's $.getScript. Afaik none of the major browsers support this yet.
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In recent years research has found more and more evidence of genetic determinism. i.e. certain types of brains are more prone to violent behavior. Psychopaths also have a certain brain "signature" [1] I wonder if the legal system
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by putlake 12y ago
Great stuff from Ilya as usual. But this tip is only important when you'd like Javascript execution to happen as fast as possible. The problem with async is that JS executes as soon as it is downloaded, and that may be before the page
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by putlake 12y ago
You are right that it's not enough to have ToS; the users should actively accept them. But what was plain wrong about my post? It said typically this is how it's supposed to work, in which the wiki has a right to change its licens
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by putlake 12y ago
No argument there. My post said "Typically how this is supposed to work". It doesn't mean TVTropes works like that. Their current terms of use also have no bearing on their legal right to change the licensing from CC-BY-SA to

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