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Re: Sharing Secrets with AWS Lambda Using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

Diego Scataglini — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:18:06 -0000

Almost all of these YAML files are not correctly indented.
When you try to use them to build the stack they also don't work

Re: MemCachier and New Relic Together!

Diego Scataglini — Tue, 17 May 2022 16:44:11 -0000

Looks like this feature is not supported anymore. Is that correct?

Re: Baltimore Sun Reporter Saved From Mob By Store Owner Armed With Shotgun

Diego Scataglini — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:03:52 -0000

Apparently they didn't bother checking with @justin_fenton. In reply to a similar article from the NRA "NO. A group of gang members surrounded me, saying they were protecting me. The guy with shotgun was protecting his business" https://twitter.com/justin_...

Re: <i>The League</i>: “The Heavenly Fowler”

Diego Scataglini — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:31:23 -0000

What does Taco say at the end? I can't understand the words in his pussy joke.

Re: The World's Most Terrifying Waterslide is Coming to Kansas City

Diego Scataglini — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:30:55 -0000

If you like enemas that'd be a great idea. Great value at a 2 4 1. Scares the shit out of you and then of course you shit yourself. Love it!

Re: What technology should my startup use? - Matt Aimonetti

Diego Scataglini — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:29:29 -0000

Do you really feel you're getting the same development speed of python/ruby with Golang?

Re: What technology should my startup use? - Matt Aimonetti

Diego Scataglini — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:17:29 -0000

Elixir is definitely a prettier erlang. I used briefly erlang for a few months. While I loved the concepts behind it and the power of it, the syntax really bothered me at the time. (ca 2004, I might like it better now)
The one main reason I haven't gotten back to it has always been the lack of libraries. (I am not going to write my own mysql/postgres adapter, html parser, etc…)

It's probably why not a lot of startup use Haskell for ex. (There is an interesting talk on infoq about this lack of libraries in haskell where the startup owner wrote or rewrote half a libraries you'd expect to exists) Although even that field is getting better.
Elixir/Erlang is the right answer to some jobs. When it comes to concurrency and distributed systems I can't imagine much being better than the Erlang vm. (disclaimer, not as fast as jvm/go)

Re: Love Letter from a horse to another

Diego Scataglini — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:50:28 -0000

This was written as a reaction to this okcupid profile http://www.okcupid.com/prof...

Re: Riding Rails: Rails version 3.2.4 has been released!

Diego Scataglini — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:55:03 -0000

am I the only one getting 404 from those links to the changelogs?

Re: {{bind}} and {{bindAttr}} Apr 6 2012

Diego Scataglini — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:09:04 -0000

Instead of using start/end tokens which I can't believe they're easy to process. Why didn't you guys opted to create your custom tag using createElement("ember-placeholder")
Wouldn't that approach have made first-child/last-child ... still work.

Re: What Is Going On?

Diego Scataglini — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:05:09 -0000

The problem as I see it is that the post office is not evolving.
With the resources that they have/had I think it's incredible that companies like Fedex/UPS/<other> are eating their lunch.They cannot expect for their business to get better without at least reacting to change.Change business model & service type then retrain the postal workers.
People are not going to stop shipping goods. You can't email a tv/guitar.
Market those people.

Re: Petition against Apple to make the subscriptions service optional

Diego Scataglini — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:36:29 -0000

I think if netflix, rhapsody, amazon & hulu would pull their apps it would probably be enough for apple to back off.
Funny enough those apps, which are in clear violation of the new policies, were not rejected by apple.
Apple knows better to reject apps that are clearly a selling point for the Ipad.

I know about a dozen people that bought the ipad solely to watch netflix and read kindle books (and probably now watching also hulu plus).

Re: App Developers Unhappy With Apple’s New Subscription Service

Diego Scataglini — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:37:37 -0000

Sure the way you can do it is for ex: if your product is $7/mo.
You can have 2 subscriptions:
1 for $7/mo with access everywhere else but IOS devices.
1 for $10/mo with access everywhere including IOS or $10/mo for access only to IOS.
If that market exists everybody will be happy.
Unless the company's contracts with the content providers are based on the subscription price, in that case new contracts needs to be drawn or the price for IOS access would have to be higher than $10.

(I am still not 100% sure you can do what I am talking about, the ToS are ambiguous to me on which subscriptions needs to be offered on itunes as well)

Re: App Developers Unhappy With Apple’s New Subscription Service

Diego Scataglini — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:06:36 -0000

I don't think that if netflix/rhapsody/etc would pull out a competitor could have a field day because they (the competitors) would most likely operate at a loss.
It would just muscle certain business types out of the platform. Certain businesses operate on very low margins because the customer is not willing to pay more than a certain amount.

Iphone-only subscription could be sold at a premium so that they would not be the same subscription sold on the website which in turn would be affordable only to a smaller customer base.
Then again the ToS are so vague and open to interpretation that even that might be ground for rejection.
If that's the case there will just be less apps for IOS and the platform and users will suffer.

Btw, I think that Steve Jobs knows that this is not going to fly, he's trying to win a different battle that we're not seeing yet.
This is just a chess type move to achieve a different goal.

He's done this types of move multiple times.
The same way he did last year when he bashed java for being so out of date and buggy and that it would not be supported anymore on the mac.
He never mentioned that it was so out of date and buggy because Apple was responsible for the maintenance of it and didn't allocate enough resources to it.
He bashed it because it didn't want to spend the money to develop it anymore and knew that if he bad mouthed it enough Oracle would have picked up the slack, which they did.

Re: Apple’s New Subscription Model & What it Means for Publishers

Diego Scataglini — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:42:38 -0000

Conigs,
I am sorry I didn't explain myself clearly. The ToS says that the price must be of equal of lesser value, correct.
When I read them it seems to also specify that the subscription, the quality of it cannot differ or be of a lesser value.
Whatever you sell on your site must be available on the app.
So, for ex.
Selling a subscription on your website that offer website + iphone access
is of a lesser value (not price) than
Selling a subscription on Itunes store that offer only iphone access
and therefore it'd be a no-no.

Then again I might be reading them wrong.

Re: App Developers Unhappy With Apple’s New Subscription Service

Diego Scataglini — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:34:57 -0000

The difference is that it was an agreement which both parties negotiated.
This is a unilateral decision very much like primae noctis http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: App Developers Unhappy With Apple’s New Subscription Service

Diego Scataglini — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:04:12 -0000

1) That's it's mandatory for you to spend the development money to implement it for ex, even if your typical customer would never purchase it on itunes.
2) It can literally make not profitable very quickly if your margins are less then 30%.
3) That's it's supposed to be a service & not a tax.
4) There is no correlation between the service rendered and the cut %. Might make sense for small transactions $.99-3 but what if your subscription is $1000/mo or more? Would you be ok with a $300 transaction fee? I think a 10-30% setup fee & 3% transaction fee from then on would have been a much better sell.
5) The details in terms of agreement

Re: App Developers Unhappy With Apple’s New Subscription Service

Diego Scataglini — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:49:17 -0000

My point exactly. It's an horrible precent.
Where would it stop?
I truly hope that Rhapsody, Hulu, Netflix, WSJ, Times etc, would pull their apps from the appstore.
This whole thing would be over in less then a week, there isn't any need to even start a lawsuit.

Re: App Developers Unhappy With Apple’s New Subscription Service

Diego Scataglini — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:45:59 -0000

What are you smoking? It's completely out of the ordinary.
The cut is 10x the normal & it's not negotiable. Furthermore it's mandatory.

It would be fine if it wasn't mandatory.

If I wanted to make it easier for the IOS users to purchase and I wanted to take advantage of the service (emphasis on the word "service"), sure go ahead and charge me.
When I already have a whole pipeline already setup where I get clear visibility on who purchases my product, don't tell me that I have spend another $5-25k to implement some shitty api that will send me in the red.

The strength of the IOS devices are the apps and their developers, without them they'll lose the market quickly.

The iphone is just a delivery system, just like email or normal mail.
Would you expect usps to ask you for a 30% cut on business originated from a mail piece?

What about isp providers? Since your website is delivering content through them you should also implement APIs from every ISP in the world or your domain will be black listed. If they sell your subscription they'll take 30% cut.

It's a completely unilateral and ridiculous claim.

Re: Apple’s New Subscription Model & What it Means for Publishers

Diego Scataglini — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:27:24 -0000

Paul's idea would be a violation of the terms & conditions.
The subscription needs to be of equal or greater value.

Re: Apple’s New Subscription Model & What it Means for Publishers

Diego Scataglini — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:25:33 -0000

Paul,
limiting the subscription to just the iphone and not the computer would be a violation of the new terms & conditions.
I personally think it's warrants for an antitrust lawsuit.
Beside the fact that it's completely outlandish and an horrible precedent.
At minimum the next thing is going to be that you must use Iads only for in app advertising.
Crossing over you could make an argument to apply the same rules to other delivery medium.

What apple propose is equal to the post office telling you that If you deliver your magazine/newletter by mail, you need to take the effort to offer the same subscription from the post office and they'll take 30% cut if somebody subscribes from the post office.

Re: Ode to procrastination – part 1

Diego Scataglini — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:24:51 -0000

A definition contributed by @deadprogram: getting ready to start thinking about thinking about starting to get ready.

Re: Freemium for you doesn’t mean looseium for me

Diego Scataglini — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:34:35 -0000

One more thing when doing your analytics analysis try to disprove your theory versus confirming it.

We are all too clever in finding random datapoints that confirms our theories, we'll create narratives and then look for confirmation.

The right approach is negative empiricism (http://bit.ly/9I5Lkr). Trying to disprove your theory, while painful, will get you closer to the truth faster.

Re: Freemium for you doesn’t mean looseium for me

Diego Scataglini — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:14:14 -0000

Mike,
You can actually do both. If you have a website that offer a free trial, and you have enough traffic, I would suggest to a/b test the different options.

Show 50% of the traffic the current site, that will be your baseline, and to the other 50% show the site without a free signup and purchase only option and let the experiment run for a month.
If you have enough traffic/conversion, one month should be enough, otherwise it might take longer to get a real idea of what's going on.

If you don't a/b test it, it's very hard to tell if the increase in sales it's because one options is working actually better than the other. It could be that you finally crossed the tipping point or maybe there was some 3rd party influence. For Ex.:
Let's say you switch marketing model and somebody writes a kickass review of your site, let's say on stumble upon. You might think that your increase in sales is because of the switch in marketing while it wasn't.

So I'd go with a/b test the 2 or 3 models and look at the results keeping always an eye on the source of your traffic. You want to be aware of 3rd party influences on your experiment. I recently ran a 3-way a/b test on a site where one of the landing pages was shared through a social network and received twice as much traffic. I had to make adjustments to my analysis of the results.

Re: Freemium for you doesn’t mean looseium for me

Diego Scataglini — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:12:53 -0000

Putting it in your thread