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5 items tagged “richskrenta”

2008

The real reason Google’s clicks are flat. Rich Skrenta explains that Google’s recent reduction of the clicable area in Adsense ads, while reducing click-throughs by 60%, will eventually balance out due to non-accidental click-throughs being worth more to advertisers. # 4th March 2008, 4:34 am

The thing that disrupts you is always uglier and worse in some way. Less features, less developed. But if there’s a 10X price win in there somewhere, the cheap rickety thing wins in the end.

Rich Skrenta # 18th January 2008, 10:59 pm

2007

Kosmos Distributed File System (via) New open source distributed filesystem similar to Google’s GFS. # 28th September 2007, 9:12 am

Some thoughts on Mahalo. Rich Skrenta with notes on running a large site that lives and dies by SEO traffic. # 20th August 2007, 5:23 pm

’tie’ considered harmful (via) Rich Skrenta on the disadvantages of abstractions like Perl’s tie, which lets you create hash data structures that aren’t actually hashes. Operator overloading (as seen in Python) suffers the same problems. # 30th May 2007, 11:11 pm