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Stats; proposal for new unit for link love: the Raymond

Sebastian writes that a link from Huffpo is worth about five hits; a link from Brady is worth about one. My most popular non-Raymond Chen posts are all of the “how to hard reset a device” variety. How to hard reset a Touch Dual is worth from 50-60 hits a day. How to hard reset an HTC Touch is worth 30-40 hits a day. Zune 2 hard reset? 10-20. ipaq 110 classic hard reset is worth 5-10 (this means every owner is hard reseting every day, and forgetting how to do so! Ha! Ha!). These aren’t one-day hits; for the leaderboard there, it’s all Raymond Chen.

Raymond Chen is worth more residual traffic (20 hits a day) than Instanpundit, Say Uncle, or Joe (all at ~0 residual hits). A link from Chen is worth a couple thousand hits in a few hours (right around 0700). A link from Glenn is worth a thousand or so hits over a few more hours. A link from Uncle, while gratifying, is hidden by the daily fluctuation of “Touch Dual” hits. A link from Joe is about 1/3rd an Uncle; however, since Joe is close to me on many axis, I suspect we share subscribers.

To put some scale to this, a link from Instapundit has 0 residual and is worth about 1/4 of a link from Chen initially (about half the hits over about twice the timespan).

Huffpo would rank up there on my all-time hits for Aluminum Foam. An article with one hit, ever? Area 29 Snomobile Maps.

Because I hate that every scandal is post-fixed with “gate” and every expression of link love is a “-lanche”, I propose a new unit for directed unique user visits: the Raymond, which I define as 2,674 uniques per hour.

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Written by Ry Jones

23 May 2008 at 0:19

Posted in Meta, Quotable Raymond

If you’re looking for Raymond Chen

Here you go.

Here’s one other link.

Written by Ry Jones

17 March 2008 at 10:11

Posted in Microsoft, Quotable Raymond

Product Development

The answer to “Why doesn’t this feature exist?” is usually “By default features don’t exist. Somebody has to implement them.”

It’s not like every feature you can think of comes out of your brain fully tested and implemented, and then some PM somewhere files a bug to have your feature removed. Features start out nonexistent and somebody has to make them happen.

Raymond Chen
23-JUN-2005

Written by Ry Jones

12 July 2005 at 23:11

Posted in Quotable Raymond

Quotable Raymond

Raymond Chen is one of the two guys I really missed in my time away from Microsoft (the other was Mike Blaszczak). Why? The spice they add to internal mailing lists. Examples:

How to make a good doc bug report:
1. Don’t embed pictures. … This isn’t Highlights magazine.
Raymond Chen
19 APR 2005

And (a little longer, sorry):

Q: Is there a way to determine at compile time, whether a C# project/code is being built within the VS.NET IDE (versus being built on the command line using csc.exe)?
A: This is bad engineering practice that is sure to make your successor hang you in effigy.
Build lab: “We are hitting a BVT failure in XYZ.”
Developer: “It works fine on my machine.”
Build lab: “It’s not working here, though, Please come down and investigate it.”
Developer heads over to the build lab, confirms that XYZ is failing, takes bits from developer’s machine, runs them on BVT machine, those bits work. Developer painstakingly [diffs] bits on both clients, windiffs them, they’re all identical — yet one set of binaries works and the other does. Four hours later, they discover your little hack that makes the code behave differently depending on how the compiler was invoked. The developer uses the IDE to build; the build lab uses nmake.

Raymond Chen
01 APR 2005

I will add others as they pop up.

Written by Ry Jones

6 July 2005 at 20:25

Posted in Quotable Raymond

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