cmaxwell

I have a OSX desktop and a Windows 10 laptop...I hate using my laptop and am thinking of dual booting with Ubuntu. I just wish I could go entirely Ubuntu but I would miss Lightroom/Photoshop and MS Office too much.

I know that there are linux alternatives but I find them awkward to use and much prefer the Adobe/MS suite.

So we burn a bunch of fat and it is cloudy all day every day?

Basically it is the same as clicking the auto buttons in Lightroom or any photo software.

Raised the exposure when needed, fixed white balance, etc...photoshop has been doing this since like 1990.

Interesting that they were generating pretty insignificant returns and their accounts got flagged.

Their bets were not that large $50... wonder what aspect of their play got them flagged.

I would assume the bookies are aware of when they are offering an odd that is above market...they also would know that this is an areas where they are potentially exposed. So maybe they report on that and see who is betting exclusively on those positions?

Confusing though - because they are often offering those odds because they want to balance their position to reduce risk...so wouldn't they want people to be on those odds?

Now that I have your attention.. my site: http://www.golfingstat.com

Should I quit it (brokeback style), spend some time making it mobile + setting a annual fee and trying to find the magic adwords amount to grow my userbase without losing money or keep on keeping on (trying to make some ad revenue with my current userbase of 150ish)

patio11 is a god...can't imagine his consulting offerings will fail.

Thanks... I introduced the popup for facebook sign-in and it didn't change my conversion for new (adwords) visitors but like 10% more signed up with facebook so I kept it.

My site posts a timeline post when a user creates a new round (unless you have turned that off). So it is kind of a free impression so I prefer facebook sign-ups. Maybe that is a project for the winter make it mobile (jquery mobile?) and implement some sort of payment system. $10/year seems fair to me. Just have to figure out an amount that will cover my hosting + adwords spend on a typical month.

I had $200 of adsense free credit. Ended up getting users (like 100).

Then I had $50 of Facebook credit and that turned into like 20-30 users.

Just don't know what to do at this point. Don't want to spend more time adding features if it is not going to lead to anything.

Was thinking of making it like $10 a year or something and trying to get paid users instead of ad users. Just not sure if anyone would even pay $10.

-$20/mo from http://www.golfingstat.com. Can't get any traffic and the traffic I do get doesn't click on ads. FML

Jump to Conclusions Mat

"Dear Mr. Woodhill, I am embarrassed for you writing such an article when GM currently has about $40 billion in cash and liquid assets in the bank and is projected to earn about $4.00 per share next year which comes to another $8 billion profit to add to it. GM currently has enough cash in the bank and liquid assets on hand to buy back ALL of it’s shares at the current market price if it chose to do so. GM’s liabilities per the balance sheet are maybe $15 billion which is very manageable for a company of GM’s size. The shortfall in the pension and benefits is estimated depending on who you check it out with between $15 and $25 billion. GM has well over $100 billion on hand in its pension trust fund and the shortfall is payable over many years into the future. There has just been a law enacted which increases the future interest rate expected on the future returns for pension plans that will significantly decrease the present value of the future obligations and GM has billions in tax deferrals to use up. It doesn’t matter if GM loses some market share as they are downsizing. What matters is how much profit they are making whether they are first in sales or not. A big problem GM had before was that they strove to be #1 regardless of their profit status or the reputation they were sacrificing to remain first in sales. I will be very happy to send you a contribution to enable you to sign up for Security Analysis 101 as it appears you have never taken that course or need a refresher." -- First Comment. This pretty much sums up the article. Bullshit.

If you skip TDD then you should make sure that you take the time to build out test cases with full coverage.

I can't tell you the number of times I have made a change then run regression testing and found unforeseen failures which I wouldn't have caught without my test cases.

Understand the idea now. It isn't so much different then the model that article sites use. Content providers post an article (provide content) and get the opportunity to link/ad back to their businesses. Then the article sites make money by having ad network ads all over the place. Maybe consider ditching the $1 and introducing your own ads. That way you will get a lot more content and you won't have to worry so much about building a relationship with your advertisers.

Also there are a million joke sites out there you would have to either pick a very specific niche that isn't already packed full or you would have to have something that differentiates you from the other million. If you could get a somewhat famous comedian to write some jokes for you and get them to plug it in their shows and/or via their social media then you might get traffic. Would probably cost you more than the traffic is worth though.

Boiling this down you are essentially talking about the same business idea that 99% of the internet runs on. Provide content and make money via advertisements.

Only difference is that you have to go through the legwork of finding your advertisers where as a typical joke site would just show affiliate ads and/or ad words.

I think the time you are spending finding advertisers to sponsor your jokes would negate any extra revenue you would get vs. just letting a ad network find the advertisers for you.

If your content is actually good and you execute this well and you manage to get traffic then you probably want to focus on your joke writing and not finding advertisers.

Also consider Facebook ads and target people who like things like Sports Pools, Online Sports Gambling, etc.

I bet you won't get a lot of direct conversions but indirectly I bet you will get more organizers getting exposed to the offering.

This is very focused on sport. Perhaps it would make sense to have something sport related on the front page. I don't run an organization but I am interested in sports and like sports pools. When I visited your site I didn't really get it and probably would have closed it not understanding it was sport related. However now that I get it I am interested it.

I would focus less on the club benefits and more on how fun it is to play. Very few people run clubs/organizations but tons of people would be interested in playing and might nudge organizers towards it.

That sounds like a lot of fun. I am glad I am not religious.

I have no problem with people having the right to do this type of stuff because I enjoy my right to laugh about it.

I can't imagine running with my phone. Fuck that noise.

I would probably consider PostgreSQL if I didn't need MySQL on my VPS for wordpress.

I give my users an option of email + password or Facebook.

Only about 1 in 3 choose the Facebook option.

Go through Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial then pick something you want to make and struggle through it.

My first project was a golf statistics/handicap site. (http://www.golfingstat.com) It took me a ton of time and it was super frustrating at times but I learned a shitload just running into a brick wall and googling/posting on StackOverflow to find answers.

What a stupid study.

If asked whether I wanted to talk about someone else for 4 cents (the maximum they offered) or myself for free I would choose to talk about myself not because I enjoy talking about myself but because I don't want 4 pennies in my pocket.

Pennies are shitty and I would guess a lot of people would see pennies as a penalty.

Using jquery on my current project throughout the site. For this reason I choose flot for my graphs...if I was to switch to rickshaw then I would need to use D3 + Rickshaw + Jquery. That is a lot of javascript library overhead. :-/

Highcharts looks slick. My weekend project is using Flot. If I ever generate some cash from it I might have to buy a Highchart license and make the jump. Looks so much better...:-)

Someone should send this to the Facebook Mobile team.

I have been using ruby-debug with 1.9.3 for a while now and have not had issues. Don't really understand why this fork was needed.

I wonder if there is anything malicious I can do with this... :-)

Or I could just kick off the HTTP endpoint with a browser favorite (even on mobile)

I still don't get it....why would I want to do this?