mikkelewis | 5 years ago | on: Things I Didn't Learn in 2020
imo the folks involved in a company fighting for survival during a pandemic are the exact crowd that need some sweet and funny distractions here and there.
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mikkelewis | 5 years ago | on: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations
What gives you the low degree of confidence MS engineers couldn't do a complete scan of TikTok's codebase?
mikkelewis | 7 years ago | on: SurveyMonkey S-1
I promise you that there is a palpable undercurrent as a company grows where you go from "everything is so easy, just be scrappy and talk to the person next to you" to "wow, there are all these scaling edge cases, not everyone is a senior dev/design/marketing/hr who has worked at the company since it's infancy, communication is hard and not everyone is like you" such that you need to spend money on hiring/infrastructure to solve this as the efficiency per person/project/team goes down.
Good luck.
mikkelewis | 8 years ago | on: Joining Google to better explain search
Fair to say that it'll be similar to what the public was used to with Matt Cutts? imo his departure left a hole between Google Search <-> public.
mikkelewis | 10 years ago | on: Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals
I'm sorry you've been rubbed the wrong way to be so bitter on just a term.
mikkelewis | 10 years ago | on: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
What was the increase in conversions? Right now it's just hand wavy :)
mikkelewis | 10 years ago | on: Atlassian files for IPO
Wow, the founders still hold a combined 75% of equity.
mikkelewis | 11 years ago | on: Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program
"we have some spies", funny :)
mikkelewis | 11 years ago | on: How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014
"if you need it"
mikkelewis | 11 years ago | on: The Greatest Double Agent in History
While this is an extremely interesting story, I'm curious how much these blog posts help in generating sales for priceonomics. It's one thing to write blog posts relating to your core product, but this seems way off base. I'm not complaining, though... this story in particular is fascinating, I agree it should be made into a movie :)
mikkelewis | 12 years ago | on: I do it for the money
Luckily passion and money in this industry aren't mutually exclusive, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
mikkelewis | 12 years ago | on: Google and Facebook Team Up to Modernize Old-School Databases
Currently under what circumstances will we see performance increases, and by how much?
mikkelewis | 12 years ago | on: Making ActiveRecord 2x faster
Will this work for Rails 3.2?
mikkelewis | 12 years ago | on: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
Twitter also does this:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s74/sh/d88e4751-964e-464b-aef...
mikkelewis | 12 years ago | on: Amazon’s holiday success and UPS’ holiday fail
Awesome! Are there any articles about this?
mikkelewis | 12 years ago | on: Amazon’s holiday success and UPS’ holiday fail
I have a feeling Amazon is going to develop their own shipping solution. I bet a fairly large percentage of boxes that UPS ships are from Amazon. UPS could be turning into a bottleneck for them...
mikkelewis | 12 years ago | on: Has RapGenius been getting away with cloaking?
Override your user agent with Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html). You'll see that both a regular user and a google bot are getting served a 301. So I don't think it's cloaking by definition anymore. However if you go to:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
You'll see that you get redirected. But disable javascript in your dev tools, and you'll see that you no longer get redirected :)
mikkelewis | 12 years ago | on: Has RapGenius been getting away with cloaking?
This was cloaking. Prior to link scheme fiasco they used a javascript redirect on the lyric page, effectively making the the lyric page different from what the user sees and what the bot sees.
I think the 301s are actually their response to Google's ban hammer.
mikkelewis | 12 years ago | on: Ruby 2.1 Released
Other than the new generational GC, I'm most excited about String#scrub and String#freeze.
String#scrub: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/1e8a05c1dfee94db9b6b825097...
String#freeze example:
mikkelewis | 12 years ago | on: RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed
Asking people to manually put links in their blog post doesn't seem scalable. In order to rank high for those keywords, you'll need many more backlinks than just a few blog posts.
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