Ran across this article on “coupon redemption shame”.
While aspects of the article are certainly absurd, and perhaps - intentionally unintentionally funny:
…being attractive counteracts the negative perceptions of coupon redemption.
… Right, because what’s better than a cheap hot date?
The article does touch on something we do discuss around here, which is effective coupon redemption. How can [...]
Acquisition is a rather high-minded term for a simple concept - getting people through the door and buying your product or service. Congratulations! You have just “acquired” a new customer.
How will Big Red Switch address acquisition? Email is a great way to reach out to people and get their interest, but often falls short. Coupons [...]
As editors have added code folding, I’ve generally yawned and ignored it, even when my editor, the best editor in the world, VIM, added it. I’ve never really reasoned with myself why; it was just an immediate dislike of it. Of course, someone, Jeff Atwood, eventually posted that they hate it too and why. [...]
A request from dev: In CVS, there was a command ‘cvs -q up’ that showed you which files were going to be updated without actually updating. How do we do this in subversion?
From the Redbean Book, you can see that we use ’svn status -u’; items with an asterisk shows that a newer revision of [...]
A lot of people ask me how our application is different from Yelp, or setting up a Facebook or Ning page for their business.
I would say that those activities fall under the “promotion” umbrella - prospects are drawn in to your network, and provide reviews or other artifacts that serve to maintain your business profile.
Our [...]
I like interviews and some of the most interesting interviews are with musicians (actors as a group are not nearly so interesting). The good ones I’ve heard lately:
Bobby Womack (Fresh Air)
Sharon Jones (Fresh Air)
Swamp Dogg (Sound of Young America) [MP3]
There were some interesting white musicians as well but they had accents; e.g. 2 Nicks:
Nick [...]
A rundown on some good Java synchronization links I’ve run across recently:
Vector vs. Collections.synchronizedList Discusses using a Vector versus wrapping a List (usually ArrayList, but other Lists as well) with Collections.synchronizedList. The rule of thumb that’s bandied about is to use Vector when you need a synchronized list and a plain List (ArrayList) otherwise. [...]
First of all, what is a micro business?
Great question, one that I get asked more often than expected. I mean, it seems fairly apparent - businesses that are run by moonlight, early stage mom and pop stores, and the like. Everyone from the part time Etsy seller, to the eBay superstar, to the 30 employee [...]
I’m sure many of you have noticed the look and feel upgrades around here. There’s a few items to go, but in the grand scheme of things - the cake has been frosted. Time to go in and add the piping, roses, and those little chocolate dots. This is where the metaphor ends, because there’s [...]
A Java library that I’d like to see that I can’t seem to find is an exception library. Now, your first reaction might be something like, that’s silly because an exception doesn’t make sense outside of the context it’s used in. But, what got me thinking about this assumption was the general thoughtlessness [...]