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by alecperkins 15y ago
Multi-line mode should be fixed. Now the whole intercepting tab thing is actually useful.
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. First time really using Docco, and now I feel crazy for not using it before. 1. Good catch! I recently did a complete refactor as part of the docco-ification. Thought I caught everything but apparently not. I'll fix
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Author here. I'm more a designer than a coder, so pardon any bugs or other issues. Criticism and suggestions for improvement are more than welcome.
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Good point. I've been trying to avoid being obnoxious about it, but for this it's probably better to err on the side of that than too subtle.
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Well unless you are mentally disabled, remembering that command (and a couple of thousand others) is trivial. It's hardly trivial. People think and remember in different ways, even those who aren't mentally challenged. Personally, I alway
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by alecperkins 15y ago
They have to do their homework, ask around, and make the best possible guess. And more importantly, focus on the more general skills than the specific framework. If someone is getting started in a vacuum, they're doing it wrong.
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Circles aren't private groups, though. They're asymmetric. I don't have to know what circles other people have put me in. My circles are for me, not for the people I've added to them. I get Garry's point, but I think he is also overthinking
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Too complicated. Circles are damn simple, just tags with a visual wrapper. It's important that they are. I think a lot of people are over thinking what Circles are or should be. It's probably because they're so centric to the product. But t
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by alecperkins 15y ago
The way I read it, the author was explaining his expectation that Facebook would beat Google to implementing that model. This then emphasizes his misunderstanding of the point of that quote about building it before others. Even when agile a
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by alecperkins 15y ago
There aren't if used correctly. The SO questioner has a misunderstanding of how the history API and the hashbang scheme are supposed to work.
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by alecperkins 15y ago
js2cs - https://github.com/mindynamics/js2cs Though I've found doing the conversion manually is a better way to learn CoffeeScript. Plus, it is a point for optimization and refactoring since CoffeeScript allows for doing certain things mo
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Same. I think in my case it's from playing first-person-shooters. With my right hand on the mouse, the left-shift key is the only option. PS I feel compelled to go on record and say I'm very disappointed the 'For Science' badge is an image.
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by alecperkins 15y ago
My guess is they're embracing their role as the antagonist, and trying to milk it for all the attention they can get. Sounds not unlike what Trump pulled recently. …Or they're just delusional.
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News.Me, Social News Service, Debuts for iPad(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by alecperkins 16y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 16y ago
It's horribly confusing on a larger screen, too. There's no hierarchy or distinction between ad, meta-info, and actual content.
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180,000 picks in 24 hours — Pick A Number launch postmortem(craisins.alecperkins.net)
2 points by alecperkins 16y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 16y ago
Science takes time ;)
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by alecperkins 16y ago
Momentary stupidity on my part. I told it to cache the expire time instead of the actual value. Oops. Go figure, it was the one time I think "Eh, this is a small change. I don't need to go to a testing version first."
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by alecperkins 16y ago
Not yet, though IP addresses are one of the metrics for each vote. I'm still working on efficient ways of going through everything.
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by alecperkins 16y ago
How about Reddit? Total votes is 160k+. Yikes!
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by alecperkins 16y ago
After 80k votes, it seemed prudent to give those asking "so what?" a response.
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by alecperkins 16y ago
That bit of "flair" was added almost on a whim. I'm glad I did add it. I think that helped the experiment get the attention it did, especially when it got onto Reddit. It's funny how a simple factor can (probably) have such a big impact. Al
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by alecperkins 16y ago
I just updated the results page with a breakdown per-interface. There are more metrics involved, but it'll be a little while before those get pulled together. (The volume of data was unexpected, to say the least, so there weren't any stats
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by alecperkins 16y ago
It ended up getting posted to Reddit, and has been making the rounds elsewhere. (Over 100,000 uniques, holy cow!) Unfortunately, the referrer wasn't tracked. I wasn't expecting to get enough hits for it to matter. The expectation was for ma
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by alecperkins 16y ago
Thanks for submitting! The number of responses is vastly more than I expected, pushing 100k uniques now. AppEngine has handled it wonderfully. It blew past the free quota, so I did have to enable billing. But, it's still only pennies so far
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by alecperkins 16y ago
I posted a graph with the basic distribution on the results page (just hardcoded for the moment): http://nfrom1to10.appspot.com/results/ A more in depth breakdown is coming. The number of responses has been far, far beyond what I expected
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by alecperkins 16y ago
Good idea. I just added an extra message at the end. The amount of data is a bit overwhelming.
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by alecperkins 16y ago
That's why one of the metrics is time, both from start of page to picking a number, then start to hitting choose. It's not perfect, but it'll hopefully be possible to differentiate between people who pick right away, and people who think ab
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by alecperkins 16y ago
Honestly I wasn't expecting to get so many number picks so fast. The plan was to start putting together an analysis page once I got enough data, which I thought would be a couple weeks. I'm going to try and get one together as soon as possi
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by alecperkins 16y ago
Oh hahaha nicely done. Unfortunately subtlety and the Web don't mix too well.

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