Detrus

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by Detrus 16y ago
Yea, like getting rid of refreshes and swapping content, counting that as a pageview. Or measuring if user is gradually scrolling, as you'd have to for reading. Or swapping display ads and counting that as impressions, which is what they re
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yea I only click on The Deck and similar ad formats once a month. They have relevant content for designers and developers. The landing pages are usually fast and simple HTML, no fancy flash with preloaders. The format requires the display a
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by Detrus 16y ago
Nice rant. A/B testing helped a few products take off that would otherwise be lost in obscurity, but yea it's easy to fall into the obsession. It's one of those traps to keep yourself busy and avoid thinking. Mobile apps are similar. Google
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by Detrus 16y ago
An aesthetic sense takes a while to develop, it's one of those 10,000 hour skills. Many designers never really get it, just as many working programmers are not "hackers." That said it might be useful to check out good art and design inspira
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yes, more people would die from stress than terrorists could kill.
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by Detrus 16y ago
The "design" of the original Google search page was not so much in the aesthetics as the loading time. Every other search engine piled on decoration and most users had 56K connections. She was the one who convinced the founders not to imita
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by Detrus 16y ago
He was just setting an example for people
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yes, but it's only a matter of time until it gets gamed. Google could index it to find less spammy content for a while. Ultimately you need to know who is who, who is posting what. Is that what their internet ID lobbying is about?
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yea this is basically the system suicide bombers are in. Only there, the point is to make the suicide useful for political goals, here it is to make miserable life useful for said goals.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Isn't there an OSX app that does this? I remember people on an extremely distracting forum using it, ultimately it doesn't work. Those same people are still spending a lot of time on that forum, they've stopped turning it on.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Where to begin. I was a designer/artist, my work from 2006 http://detrus.nivr.net/ When I seriously started at the too late(?) age of 23 I had a lot of motivation, plunged ahead into semi-serious programming projects like a Flash 3D engi
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by Detrus 16y ago
http://jsperf.com/ That service can benchmark multiple browsers and compare the results. Example http://jsperf.com/instanceof-htmlelement-vs-tagname-equals
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by Detrus 16y ago
As Dick Cheney eloquently put when asked about about approval ratings: "So?"
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by Detrus 16y ago
That feedback button on the left is very distracting. I love the irony.
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by Detrus 16y ago
Nice, just needs prettier screenshots.
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by Detrus 16y ago
>the fact that these methods have improved dramatically. That article shows that bubbles are not exclusive to markets, they happen in academia, even in areas where empirical data should be easier to collect than in psychology and social
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by Detrus 16y ago
29 But I don't care what it means and don't buy the autism hype. "The Truth Wears Off" http://crayz.org/science.pdf seems relevant here. Many early studies and experiments based on fresh theories produce dramatic results, but decades late
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by Detrus 16y ago
Direct link to essay http://www.hnn.us/articles/133910.html "The Truth Wears Off" http://crayz.org/science.pdf seems like a relevant comparison. Many early studies and experiments based on fresh theories produce dramatic results, but de
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by Detrus 16y ago
It was from here http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/hunting-hidden-dimensio... Summary from http://thethinkingmother.blogspot.com/2010/02/fractals-hunti... "Another story of interest was that the tallest tree in a rainforest was studi
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by Detrus 16y ago
Well I was hoping for something more developed. I thought about this stuff too, fractals seem like a good explanation for complex systems. There seems to be a fractal pattern in how people behave that reflects the pattern of how neurons beh
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by Detrus 16y ago
So this guy proving his innocence by exposing corruption does not prove their corruption? There must be some fun technicalities there.
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by Detrus 16y ago
What are the typical consequences to the corrupt prosecutor and police department in a case like this?
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by Detrus 16y ago
Tabs are one of those design decisions where everyone else is doing it, so it must be smart. I don't bother with tabs myself, most of my projects are small enough that I can find the files in the file list on the side in TextMate, Eclipse,
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Making of Image Bookmarking Service Designspiration.net(blog.iso50.com)
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by Detrus 16y ago
Sometimes tweets show up as top stories on HN. A tweet takes a few seconds to read and vote on. So the timer idea would not allow tweet stories to get to the top unless the timer knew the story was a tweet. But most stories are not tweets a
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yes and tweets have the same problem. A thorough fix would scrape the article and measure the length.
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by Detrus 16y ago
I'm voting for the discussion here. Mechanisms are worth a try. Votes from people who haven't clicked the article should be weighted differently. Also worth trying is a timer after you click the article. If the user skims the article in 20
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by Detrus 16y ago
You can make up your own bullshit or choose from the variety of available flavors. Big businesses act without consent of the governed as the norm, breaking the social contract. Assange is just new to the party so he gets a disproportionate
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by Detrus 16y ago
It's useful as a user interface experiment. Most blogs require signing up before posting. This lets people post first, maybe get some traffic, then you can gradually suggest new features based on how each user uses it. I doubt you'll get en
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by Detrus 16y ago
Yea it's interesting. When human organizations grow big they usually opt for dictatorial control. Rome got an emperor because the senate became dysfunctional as the empire grew. China was unified under one kingdom, one emperor. It must have

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