JoshCole

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   by JoshCole 16y ago

   Isn't this last chance sort of page just as open to A & B testing as a sign up page? Your just checking to see how many users are leaving instead of entering. To answer my own question, it seems a little different, since making it hard
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   by JoshCole 16y ago

   I fixed the bug that was stealing focus. In case your curious the problem was that the code would always think the word had changed due to trying to select the current anagram with the wrong jquery selector (div instead of span). As to allo
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   by JoshCole 16y ago

   I put up two sites this month, but I'm not sure they qualify. They don't have any chance at growing into a startup, but I'm going to list them anyway. The first is a little game that lets you try to unscramble words [1]. It's hardest word l
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   by JoshCole 16y ago

   You might consider checking out http://notpron.org/notpron/levelone.htm . It doesn't give programming puzzles, but from what I remember it was part of the inspiration behind the python site you mentioned.
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   by JoshCole 16y ago

   Completely agree, this felt more like a test of basic math skills than a test of behaviour. In real life it tends to be a lot harder to be able to calculate expected value, with some exceptions especially with card games.
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   by JoshCole 16y ago

   I've been diagnosed with apsergers and got a 32, nice!
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   A Little Bit Irrational(jcole.posterous.com)

   1 points by JoshCole 16y ago|0 comments
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   by JoshCole 16y ago

   There is a hg plugin which allows lossless communication between git and hg [1]. So in a way github already exists for mercurial, and since it already exists there is no question as to whether or not it is possible to do. 1: http://hg-git.
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   by JoshCole 16y ago

   Cool site, I've been looking for something like that for a while.
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    Painless Functional Specifications(joelonsoftware.com)

    2 points by JoshCole 16y ago|0 comments
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    Are there any sites to let people collaborate while working through these courses?
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    https://bonchat.org/cb9d007ac6e12605 pass: hacker news
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    I had considered making an app to create decision trees, but decided against it.
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    There are some terminals which support tabbed windows, and copy and paste. If you have access to those terminals, the reasons you gave for using gVim don't apply. Though I'm not really sure that being able to use the mouse for copy and past
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    Academic Earth - video courses from universities(academicearth.org)

    3 points by JoshCole 16y ago|0 comments
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    If this is the case it seems to me that things which function like readability, a bookmarklet which transforms webpages into a more readable format, should cause links to be replaced by footnotes. After all, their goal is to remove clutter
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    Eventually it would have to stop growing, but I don't know if it will cease through foresight or catastrophe.
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    I almost didn't post this, because I had assumed when I saw your explore page that you had already taken it into account , but here it goes.. It seems to me that howling something is a type of up-vote (reddit, hn, digg) or bookmark (delicio
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    What stops population growth?(gapminder.org)

    1 points by JoshCole 16y ago|0 comments
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    In the video explaining exponential growth it talked about how we would need to abandon many things we deem good in order to avoid over population. This video puts things in less grim terms by pointing out that increasing the average life e
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    Here are some notes on the speech I found after a bit of searching: http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=8539
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    Charlie Munger Speech at USC - May 2007(youtube.com)

    2 points by JoshCole 16y ago|1 comments
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    http://imgur.com/yVzSP.png
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    Ask HN: Where to report bugs in HN?

    6 points by JoshCole 16y ago|3 comments
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    Like slime for vim(technotales.wordpress.com)

    13 points by JoshCole 16y ago|6 comments
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    Ubuntu 9.04 Karmic Koala - Firefox 3.5.9: Buttons don't work. - Crome 5.0.375.29 beta: Page becomes unresponsive and crashes.
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    I've had the learning curve problem as well. So far the resource which has most helped ease the curve is http://clojure-notes.rubylearning.org/ . If you have/find anything better let me know.
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    by JoshCole 16y ago

    I just found this not ten seconds ago and didn't see it on the list: http://lotrepls.appspot.com/
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    Collective Choice: Competitive Ranking Systems(lifewithalacrity.com)

    1 points by JoshCole 16y ago|0 comments
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    Edit images from the command line(imagemagick.org)

    1 points by JoshCole 17y ago|0 comments