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Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by sjwright »

kngspook wrote: post #65
ceworthington wrote: post #2

If anyone would like to see, use or contribute to the code we used to build the Dashboard, we're on GitHub: https://github.com/GSA/analytics.usa.gov And also open-sourced the adapter we use to get the data out of Google Analytics and into a nice clean JSON API for our client-side static app to consume: https://github.com/18F/analytics-reporter

JFYI, under operating systems, "Macintosh" should be "OS X". Macs are the hardware, OS X is the operating system that runs on the hardware. :)

Also, Apple hasn't called their product line "Macintosh" for over fifteen years. It's an anachronism as blatant as replacing Windows with "IBM PC".

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by hackmiester »

joedavison wrote: post #62
DanBC wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love to see the stats for HN for browser use.

On February 20, I had a story hit the front page of HN on a brand-new blog that didn't receive traffic from anywhere else. Here are some screen shots from my analytics. OS: http://i.imgur.com/oZNOxCK.png Browser: http://i.imgur.com/84DGWHz.png

For the amount of *nix people I see showing out on here, I'm surprised that it's only 10% - although for the Web in general, that's an absurdly high number, still!

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by nitrogen »

hackmiester wrote: post #82
joedavison wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On February 20, I had a story hit the front page of HN on a brand-new blog that didn't receive traffic from anywhere else. Here are some screen shots from my analytics. OS: http://i.imgur.com/oZNOxCK.png Browser: http://i.imgur.com/84DGWHz.png

For the amount of *nix people I see showing out on here, I'm surprised that it's only 10% - although for the Web in general, that's an absurdly high number, still!

Some percentage of Windows visits could be browsing at work, maybe?

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by nitrogen »

NeutronBoy wrote: post #67
dublinben wrote: post #53

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>stability and cost If this were truly the case, they wouldn't be using Windows. It's mostly inertia in large organizations and for the general public.

I'm not a sys admin by any means, so I may be out of the loop here - but is there a viable alternative for management of tens of thousands of systems and users, outside of Active Directory? As good as *nix/Apple stuff is, is it really feasible to run it at scale across an org, without building custom deployment tools each time?

There were giant UNIX networks before there were giant Windows networks, using things with names like NIS/YP and NFS. IMO building custom deployment tools is kind of the point of using not-Windows, but I'd wager Canonical, RedHat, and/or Oracle have something for central management and deployment of Linux systems.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by hackmiester »

nitrogen wrote: post #83
hackmiester wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the amount of *nix people I see showing out on here, I'm surprised that it's only 10% - although for the Web in general, that's an absurdly high number, still!

Some percentage of Windows visits could be browsing at work, maybe?

Hmm...

HN could use the user's ISP to guess whether they were home or at work, then correlate that with OS data.

That's actually an interesting idea!

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by mortehu »

minikites wrote: post #76
mortehu wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Add the ~8% spent by the employer for Medicare and Social Security, and the 31% effective rate becomes ~39%, doesn't it? For income above $200K, there's also an "Additional Medicare Tax" of 0.9%.

I always hear this comical assumption that the employee would automatically receive the matching Social Security and Medicare tax amounts if they were repealed but do you honestly believe that to be true and it wouldn't just go towards padding margins or buying more office supplies? Employers by definition want to pay employees as little as possible, only enough so they stay.

I think you may have failed to think of freelancers, who are often employed by their own company.

Secondly, the specific effects of repealing a tax doesn't make it any less real.

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