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by aresant 13y ago
Hey Pud - we were avid GWO users and became converts to Optimizely and/or Visual Website Optimizer where more appropriate. Happy to walk you through a 5-min real-world tutorial. Drop me a line @ profile email if you like.
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by aresant 13y ago
a) Sorry to be a grumbler, I know how hard it is to launch anything. You rock for instantly adding these to git and I appreciate the response. b) I spent a few more mins on the site after posting the comment, the lesson content is very stro
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by aresant 13y ago
I don't find this site to be a fundamentally good example of usability. It's not TERRIBLE, but given that they're speaking from a position of high-authority, it should be better. Three examples: (1) https://develop
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by aresant 13y ago
Quick note from the comments - here's the mixed-media artist mentioned in the article http://samuelaraya.weebly.com/
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by aresant 13y ago
The IRS taxes compensation. It's hard to believe it has taken them this long to realize that hundreds (or thousands) of dollars in free food and perks a month is compensation.
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by aresant 13y ago
Which is: "Tesla’s Resale Value Guarantee allows owners to sell their Model S back to Tesla between the end of months 36 and 39, regardless of the loan’s term. The resale amount is specified at the time of delivery and is forecasted to
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by aresant 13y ago
I subscribe to the r/oculus where this is the big thread and top comment is from the team behind idea and slightly debunks the claim while suggesting they'd like to kickstart it: Hey guys, I'm from Atlantic Productions and th
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by aresant 13y ago
Speaking from experience the 11-99 is as much a badge of bullshit honor amongst "serious" car enthusiasts. Like I not only have a Porsche I have $2500 and I am a serious racer. If pricenomics had presented one piece of actual data
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by aresant 13y ago
Dating is a giant business. 10m daily users is an amazing stat. Doubling their users at that scale in <5 months is earth shattering. I know these things make for rational arguments. And still my brain has trouble processing that valuatio
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by aresant 13y ago
I understand that nobody likes a race towards the bottom with regard to pricing, but IMO Dropbox is playing their pricing a little over confidently right now given what competitors are offering. In both the comments on HN and the original t
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by aresant 13y ago
"Does Google use EXIF data from pictures as a ranking factor? Potentially, yes." This is a simple, but brilliant optimization. With the Manufacturer & Model info from the tag you could make an educated guess about professional
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by aresant 13y ago
The negative reaction to Patrick's design template is so meta. It completely proves his point the power of "wrong" design. Everybody forgot all the brilliant things Patrick said because they didn't like the design. And t
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by aresant 13y ago
I think this represents the first device to support Amazon streaming in 1080p - as far as I know Roku etc are still limited to 720p?
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by aresant 13y ago
Ok, I am over being mad at Facebook. This is huge. Abrash has been the front facing member of Valve's efforts @ VR. His "What VR could, should, and almost certainly will be within two years" (1) paper was mind boggling as an
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by aresant 13y ago
Zuck is buying his way into the next generation of consumer digital consumption. Trying the Oculus for the first time was one of those "this is going to be huge" moments in my life akin to seeing the first iPhone demo. FB's e
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by aresant 13y ago
My biggest hope w/this announcement is that DropBox responds with a stronger 500 GB offering which, presently, is $500+ a year.
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by aresant 13y ago
He says "It is btw a Ponzi game and a conduit for criminal/illegal activities" Bitcoin's first "killer app" was clearly silk road which was doing ~$40m/yr (1) and the criminal economy for drugs alone is in
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by aresant 13y ago
Apple has held the mantle for the highest profit per employee for several years - coming in 2013 @ $500k/per. Considering that takes into account ALL employee wages if you were to hone that number to "per engineer" it would b
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by aresant 13y ago
Two important items: a) Adreas is the Chief Security Officer of Blockchain and a well known / respected digital currency personality. b) The most interesting part of the article was a link to another post reviewing Coinbase's secu
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by aresant 13y ago
"How do we convince our engineering and product counterparts to care about design fit and finish?" I expected the first answer - especially from Google ventures - to be "show them through data / testing the power of gett
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by aresant 13y ago
Somebody please incubate Monkey Island 3, done in the original Lucasarts style. But seriously, the potential access to Disney IP is awesome - I wonder how they will structure that.
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by aresant 13y ago
I accidentally burned some cycles in the world of political marketing and it is incredibly rigid. The general approach is spend your money to get KNOWN party voters back to the polls. EG - make sure known republicans: (a) know you are the r
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by aresant 13y ago
PayPal's mobile payment strategy is incredibly important to PayPal's future. Here's the quote specific to the "use our own app": "It’s been brought to my attention that when testing paying with mobile at Cafe 1
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by aresant 13y ago
Several years ago at conversion voodoo we studied the impact on conversion of writing at an 8th grade reading level which is about the average American. It, of course, improved conversion and it turns out there is already quite a bit of alg
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by aresant 13y ago
"the number one key to success is dumb, blind, luck" This is a red herring. The number one key to winning the lottery is dumb, blind luck. That is true. But don't categorize the entire game industry, let alone this developer&
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by aresant 13y ago
1999 founded. 2004 first product launched. 5 years after the company and team came together. 5 years of time to hone the skills and struggle. Oh yah, and another 10 years to grow to 43 people. Simple reminder of the commitment to patience i
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by aresant 13y ago
Prime to me means "Free 2-day shipping" I am a heavy Prime user. I understand and accept the price raise, but as the article quotes "The more expensive Prime is, the more they are going to have to live up to their promises.&q
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by aresant 13y ago
I disagree that people will become comfortable with Google Glass - the primary negative reaction is the voyeuristic-rejection of having a camera always pointed at you (that may or may not be recording). To which the analogy vs. headphones i
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by aresant 13y ago
Sure http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1virfc/lets_send_t...
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by aresant 13y ago
Just a random comment on the whole "community raised 25k" In fact one self identifying bitcoin speculator contributed $20k of that after moving some bc>doge all to drive speculative in doge through the assured free press (and w

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