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by rahoulb 14y ago
Years ago I read the Allen Carr "Easy way to give up smoking" book and managed to change from having 30/day to 3 on a Sunday evening in the pub. But if I didn't get to the pub on Sunday evening it ate me up inside - I NEEDED those 3 cigaret
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by rahoulb 14y ago
After Android changed from being Blackberry-like to being iPhone-like, Eric Schmidt stopped attending Apple board meetings where the iPhone was discussed due to conflicts of interest. I'm sure that this is where Steve Jobs' "Android is stol
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by rahoulb 14y ago
That's because you're not a biz person. I've had business types say exactly the same to me about tech jargon.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Back in those days, Apple was all about open-source - I still have an OSX 10.2 (Jaguar) box somewhere where the main headline is about Apple and open-source. (Just found this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenf/5393674266/ ) I guess ther
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by rahoulb 14y ago
http://www.edibleapple.com/2011/10/22/steve-jobs-advice-to-l...
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Ruby may be slow but my apps still spend more time waiting on complex database queries than anything else (unless I'm using the Jbuilder gem to build JSON outputs, in which case I might as well make a cup of tea waiting for a call to return
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by rahoulb 14y ago
>It seems simpler, especially on a conceptual level, to just initialize the the duck with everything it could possibly need to be a duck, rather than adding things dynamically. Yes, it is simpler conceptually. But, in Rails especially
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by rahoulb 14y ago
To Jesse who emailed me; we had an outage with the EmberAds support system, so I lost your details - please mail me at ycombinator at madeofstone.net please.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
It depends. Is your app CPU-bound? If so, then DCI probably isn't a great idea for you. In fact, building it in Ruby may not be the best idea. But if your app is IO-bound (like most Rails apps), huge and it takes new developers weeks to ge
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I have a long term client where initially I took over maintenance of a Rails-written brochure site as their existing freelancer was moving on. From there the relationship developed and I now have built a suite of inter-related apps (and man
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I find it more like HDTV. I wasn't unhappy with standard definition, but I ended up watching more and more HD over time. Now, when I watch SD, I notice it - not enough to put me off, but enough that it's ever-so slightly annoying.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Forgive me if I've misunderstood, but Chrome Sync is off by default, and there are alternatives, such as XMarks, that you can install instead. Same goes for iCloud Sync in Safari and Firefox Sync too.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
As someone who nods my head in agreement to RMS most of the time (although I use proprietary software extensively), when I actually went to see him speak in person, I ended up feeling that he had weakened his case with the way he presented
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by rahoulb 14y ago
The key thing is the App Store makes it a single click to pay that subscription. I know I only tried out the Magazine because it was so simple to subscribe - and just as importantly, I knew how easy it would be to cancel if I didn't like it
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Depending upon your provider, it can be trivial to transfer VMs from one host to another. So if you want more resources than the physical host has available, or there is a hardware failure you can be up and running again in minutes (and at
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by rahoulb 14y ago
But this is the same plan Apple has followed for over ten years - the plan that's taken them from "Apple is dying" to "Apple is the 800lb gorilla". Compare an iPod Classic to the original iPod - it's just an iteration on the same design. Co
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Rails doesn't enforce anything - but it does encourage you to follow a RESTful style (not necessarily REST itself). But the point of this is to strip out the defaults in Rails that are included because they are convenient in full-blown apps
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Of course this is purely anecdotal, but I've seen a few Windows-only places become mixed Windows and Mac. Yes, it may only be 10% Mac today but that's from 0% two years ago. And the macs are seen as desirable, so I wouldn't be surprised if
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by rahoulb 14y ago
It's not just the stock apps - there is a culture amongst Apple 3rd party developers to discuss, refine and push design and interaction forwards. The only time I've seen it amongst Android devs is for that alarm clock app [1], whereas it's
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by rahoulb 14y ago
> Drag and drop load and save This. Open/Save dialogues simply aren't necessary with a proper desktop metaphor. Shame no-one uses them any more.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Heh - yeah. We chose our name ages ago (no real reason behind it other than the domain was available), but we figured there wasn't much overlap (we did rename our main javascript file from ember.js to pineapple.js just to reduce potential
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Slightly OT, but there are many different layers to advertising. We do CPA - which means you don't earn without performing an action (normally buying something). But your family probably uses Colgate because of brand awareness advertising
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by rahoulb 14y ago
The code is built for non-english and international sites - if you visit from the US, we show US-relevant ads, if you visit from Germany, we show german-relevant ads - and the matching is language agnostic. But, inventory-wise, we have conc
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by rahoulb 14y ago
We try to do this automatically. If a product attracts clicks but doesn't convert then we disable it temporarily, to give other products a chance to be shown in their spot. So if the retailer is cheating, then their products should not b
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by rahoulb 14y ago
We have a custom import written for each individual network/feed, so we try to iron out any "quirks" as early as possible. And for the matching itself, that again is custom-written. I'll be honest - I don't fully understand the maths of it
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by rahoulb 14y ago
It's showing ads now :-)
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by rahoulb 14y ago
It depends a bit on the industry - for example gaming/betting (which I guess won't be relevant to the US, but is in the UK) pays out significant amounts for each conversion, which works out very well for the publishers. Part of the reason w
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by rahoulb 14y ago
We are built on top of the feeds from the affiliate networks - and yes, there are issues with some of the data :-) We have about 9 million products in our system (although not all are active) and we regularly inspect it and blacklist prod
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by rahoulb 14y ago
No, we insert iFrames into the DOM.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Yes. We track the clicks and if a product shown on an advert is getting lots of clicks but zero conversions, we swap it out and show alternatives instead. So we try to make sure that only stuff that will convert is shown.

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