bazookajoes

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by bazookajoes 12y ago
OK, it was called quickmatch, then locals, now it is called OkCupid Dating. http://www.okcupid.com/forum?tid=10204328337611738961
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
How do you know that Tinder Plus doesn't have the same swipe limit? That is not stated in the Tinder FAQ, in the BBC article or the TechCrunch article.
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
I have been told that either the hard limit is only implemented in the client, or that a specific version of the client is required to enforce the hard limit.
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
The demographics of tinder have changed over the past year. Many people on it are not looking for hookups. In this case tinder is not charging unnattractive people more. Tinder has an algorithm that shows (mostly) only attractive people to
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
When you say okcupid's tinder clone are you talking about locals?
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
okcupid is now very similar to tinder in that users can rate each other on a 0-1 scale. (It used to be 1-5). The rating algorithm is probably a lot like pagerank. Ratings by users that are rated highly matter more. The potential signals are
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
I wonder if it matters that Tinder is a service not a product. In MS Office it is possible for two people to have the same user experience. But on Tinder the people that you interact with are the product. Legally this distinction is probabl
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
OK Cupid has been price discriminating for at least a year. Does anybody know if they do it in the UK? http://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/1nkdfx/ http://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupi
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
Why do you think their odds went up? Basic tinder will still be free. Tinder plus offers little competitive advantage to paying users. The only features are Undo and Passport
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
Many people in tinder are using it for real dating, not just hookups. Many bios include "Not looking for a hookup".
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
What better methods of price discrimination do you think they should use? * Perhaps men could be charged more than women - it's sexist and a double standard but in many parts of the world men are expected to pay for dates anyway. * Per
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
I predict that people will put their real age in their bios. Many older people already do this today.
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
Hi! Is your implementation available for use? I'm curious - how did you test it for compatibility with the main K implementation?
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
I think you you might just be blowing off some steam with your comment, but i found it interesing. I found a quote on this: American police need probable cause to make an arrest, but in the United Kingdom, officers can arrest on suspicion.
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
HSBC is also not a competitive bank - they have some of worst interest rates on the planet. HSBC is telling their customers to take their business elsewhere without so many words.
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
It's not technically money laundering, but it might be bit coin laundering if the money the he received was ill-gotten.
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
The commercial banking industry has been watching TD Bank for the past few years. Banks compete in 2 main areas: interest rates and services. TD Bank has a far better service offering than Citibank, Chase, etc. TD Bank offers ATM fee reimbu
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
Questions like this can work in a phone screen if you have a shared virtual whiteboard. Otherwise it is painful for the interviewer to try to transcribe code as the candidate thinks of it and says it alout. There is also the common problem
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
Yes, I am familiar with libraries and considered building an app on the back of whatsapp until the DMCA takedowns. The fact that whatsapp is fighting against bots is part of the reason there is so little spam on whatsapp. Yes, people do cra
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
Of course you _can_ but whatsapp is actively trying to prevent you from building those bots, and they may succeed well enough in their goal to have a measurable impact. It is easy for us to say that a growth of whatsapp spam is inevitable b
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
I do understand. One of your complaints is "Mistake three - It doesn't work if your phone is not connected to the internet." That is not a mistake. It is a direct result of the fundamental insight that enabled whatsapp to bec
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
The linked article could have been titled "andre garzia does not understand that mobile messaging is not the web" jajaja ;) I am not going to comment on the chrome only and non standard API complaints. The key insight behind moder
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
That's true, but in my experience you have one at a time. For south east asia it's normal to have one SIM for your local number and one SIM for your international number. Or just SIMs for different networks so that you can get fre
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
Ok! All of this is my gut-feel with no data behind it. Caveat emptor. Here goes nothing Yippeekayay The single device strategy is to keep the whatsapp network a network of people - no bots and no spam. They are still trying to destroy Kik,
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
I suspect that the reason is that WhatsApp wants to make sure that the person behind using the web client is really the person behind the number. This is same reason Whatsapp has no api. They don't want the bot problem that tinder has.
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
This is the right move. If they say no, or don't come back with a compelling alternative this means that you don't have a strong enough relationship to be recognized for your potential future contributions. It is important that yo
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
In my opinion PG does his article a disservice by not being more specific about the great programmers should be let into the US. For example he could touched on the O-1 visa for "Aliens of extraordinary ability". Instead the conve
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
Maybe I'm off base, but in this day and age I can not imagine writing a new compiler and runtime without at least 100% branch coverage and automated fuzz testing and actually asking people to use it. It is a gut wrenching feeling when
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by bazookajoes 12y ago
> And I think global variables should just be removed altogether, as many problems as they cause. Hi, I'm curious what your thinking is? Is it because global variables make testing hard? Is it because global variables are can not be