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by brockf 14y ago
I'm not so sure. By that logic, no experiment has random assignment. I know when I place subject X in condition Y that I do so because I need Z people in condition Y. Thus, I have some information about where I've placed other people. T
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by brockf 14y ago
In this case, because you are measuring conversion vs. no-conversion, the underlying distribution would actually be binomial. With a large enough sample size, it looks similar to a Gaussian distribution, but still slightly different. Also,
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by brockf 14y ago
I do appreciate that. It's just that I, as a rule of thumb, take reviews from stakeholders with a grain of salt.
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by brockf 14y ago
It's funny in a discussion of ethics to end with a sidenote about how the author wasn't making any money off paid referrals from his (inflated?) positive review of the system.
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by brockf 14y ago
What are the boundary conditions here? I'm a young developer (23) who's made over half a million USD$ from web apps while in school - would many companies be interested in hiring even with programming languages I have little to no experien
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by brockf 15y ago
To me, this reads as a guide of what not to do. There are two classic mistakes suggested here: (1) Hastily build something of questionable underlying quality because you know it will be discarded, and (2) Once you have clients, swap out yo
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by brockf 15y ago
> Is college really a scam? Most likely, no. Might want to re-title your article then.
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by brockf 15y ago
Quite frankly, I'm shocked this was published anywhere. What sort of a distribution would they have expected? A normal distribution where the average filesize was 5GB? And to then infer that this has to do with mental constraints... t
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by brockf 15y ago
This is one of the most ludicrous inferences I've ever seen made from a set of data. Theorizing from Weber-Fechner law to this hypothesis might be fun at a bar after a few drinks, but as serious science? Come on.
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Anyone have any marketing or SEO expert recommendations?
1 points by brockf 15y ago|1 comments
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Avoid Recurly et al. integrations. Use Hero + the eCommerce add-on(heroframework.com)
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by brockf 15y ago
<plug> Run your own Spreedly and stop adding service fees to your payment processing fees! http://www.opengateway.net/ </plug>
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Job: Looking to hire a part-time PHP developer and support tech - hackers only(electricfunction.theresumator.com)
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by brockf 15y ago
I'd love if you could try a quick install of http://www.heroframework.com (open source) and tell us (a) how did the install go and (b) do you know what to do next to build your website with the product? :)
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by brockf 15y ago
I am the single founder of Electric Function, Inc. ( http://www.electricfunction.com ). We have a few software products: Hero ( http://www.heroframework.com - an open source PHP CMS and web app framework built on CodeIgniter), OpenGateway
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Hero PHP Framework(heroframework.com)
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by brockf 15y ago
Haha downvoted, really? Anyone want to enlighten me as to why?
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by brockf 15y ago
http://store.terrapass.com/store/c/18-Carbon-offsets.html I know South Park-style anti-liberalism can be fun, but we don't have to let the word "green" be sucked up by big business. Offset your carbon for this little adventure of yours, p
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by brockf 15y ago
Any plans for carbon offset? Please?
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by brockf 15y ago
Supposed to be a "Tell HN: " announcement, but that was stripped. We're really excited, and would love to get some feedback from the HN crowd! The product is a CMS and rapid PHP web application development platform built on CodeIgnite
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My company re-released our flagship PHP app as open-source(heroframework.com)
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by brockf 15y ago
I have to say, I attribute most of my success to my ability to take a project from an idea through planning, designing, coding, and yes even server configuration, deployment strategies, etc. I could never have done what I've done without,
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by brockf 15y ago
No - they also take phone numbers from your phone and upload them to Facebook (if you use a mobile Facebook app).
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Ask HN: Simple multi-currency bookkeeping on a Mac - impossible?
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by brockf 15y ago
This is a sample largely consisting of web developers, and people who know that you can have more than one account. That conclusion doesn't follow, in my opinion.
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by brockf 15y ago
Most of her research doesn't discuss external social behaviours, but rather the core cognitive systems and responses to external phenomena. So, in a heavily controlled experimental lab session with just you looking at stimuli, your percept
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by brockf 15y ago
It's meant to bring about the same "what the ?!?!" and "how the ?!?!?" response you experienced. *She's pointing to something which we would all say "it's just culture!" and explains how it is (might be) language.
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by brockf 15y ago
Right, I think we're in agreement then. Statistical learning is the domain-general tool. Or one of them. It's the domain specific tools that are up in the air, though, and what I'm interested in.
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by brockf 15y ago
Just to clarify my position (as it is misunderstood above): I believe it is one of the most important factors in acquiring language. 100%. However, I personally believe that it's a domain-general tool exploited by a domain-specific langu
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by brockf 15y ago
This is where the debates really begin :) I think that most people who believe in some form of the motor theory of speech perception will also believe that speech evolved from manual gesture. Others scoff at the motor theory. In fact, I'd

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