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by darrennix 12y ago
I had to disable Ghostery and AdBlock to get your editor to load properly; I'd recommend taking a look at what resources you're depending on that they're blocking.
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by darrennix 12y ago
Just finished: Ready Player One and The Riftwar Saga (both very enjoyable) Reading: Predictably Irrational (more substance than most business books I've read)
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How not to do tech support or ‘When Evernote acts like Comcast’(darrennix.com)
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Remember when your desk was cluttered with stuff you actually used?(bestreviews.com)
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by darrennix 12y ago
No. It will read the subject first and only if the subject is empty will it read the body.
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by darrennix 12y ago
I thought about this and I'm building a safety net: each email will include an attachment with a CSV of your historical data so in the worst case scenario that the service shuts down, you'll have a built-in archive ready to go.
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by darrennix 12y ago
Hmm. Great suggestion. Will add.
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by darrennix 12y ago
That makes sense; I toyed with the idea of implementing this. For now you can send two different stats in the same email subject line and you'll get two separate charts back in the replies. I'll probably work on combining the two
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by darrennix 12y ago
Ah; it supports this already (I call it "relative stats"). Just send subject line "Stat +2" and "Stat +1" and you'll get 3 as the result.
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Show HN: Use email subject lines to save personal stats and chart them(statlogger.com)
90 points by darrennix 12y ago|31 comments
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Trolling recruiters who harass our engineers(blog.42floors.com)
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The Absurdity of LinkedIn(blog.42floors.com)
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How to proxy inbound phone calls using Twilio and Rails(rvmenu.com)
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by darrennix 12y ago
I'm bored. The technical side is done and now it needs a sales guy to make it successful.
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by darrennix 12y ago
This is just KDice, is it not?
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by darrennix 12y ago
http://RVmenu.com is hotels.com for RV rentals. High conversion rate but very little traffic. Needs lots of SEO love.
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by darrennix 12y ago
The reason why most brokers, landlords, and veteran office searchers prefer $/sqft rather than $total is that $/sqft allows for easier comparison of price efficiency between spaces of different sizes. Using $/sqft is also pr
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The absurdity of LinkedIn(blog.42floors.com)
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by darrennix 13y ago
The actual conversion numbers are higher because, as I noted in the article, I'm only reporting number for web forms in order to keep things simple. There's also email and phone inquiries to count so you can basically multiply by
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by darrennix 13y ago
We use Chartio for all our long-lived reporting but we use custom charts for A/B test reporting since we need to combine data from several sources in one chart e.g. Twilio, Mixpanel, GA, local DB.
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by darrennix 13y ago
No, we don't have a specific number we're shooting for. We're just trying everything we can think of and seeing what sticks. We expect that we'll rapidly exhaust the supply of radical ideas and then we'll be left w
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by darrennix 13y ago
You're right. When a design wins, we have no idea why. We've decided that, for now, we'd rather leave our curiosity unsatisfied rather than slow down the pace of experimentation by 4-6x, which is what would happen if we iso
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Our homegrown A/B testing framework(blog.42floors.com)
46 points by darrennix 13y ago|24 comments
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Planet Labs will launch 100 minisats to reimage Earth daily(nytimes.com)
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Ebay shuts down Epinions.com citing "a challenging 2013" (pastebin.com)
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by darrennix 13y ago
I agree that conversion rate is the best metric. I'm going to restart the tests using three domains and let them run over an extended period so that I can see whether I am, in fact, getting users who're searching for meals vs rent
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by darrennix 13y ago
My office mate said the same thing. :) The numbers were crystal clear though: bounce rate was the same for all the domains indicating that users were getting what they expected after clicking through.
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by darrennix 13y ago
Interesting. As a thought experiment, what if I had run a sample size estimator beforehand and concluded that I needed 4,000 data points and estimated it would take 6 days. In this alternate reality, I began the experiment on January 2 and
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by darrennix 13y ago
When we rolled out hover2 in production it looked significantly different from Google, so we were concerned that we might lose the lift. But we didn't. So we chalked the lift up to the hover UX paradigm rather than the visual similar
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by darrennix 13y ago
This explanation does not address the fact that all three of the original designs had a heavy map emphasis including the ability in Unified View to make the map full screen. Keep in mind that the split test was 9-way in that each variation

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