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by gabemart 13y ago
If it is inside node-webkit, I'll be curious to see how they got native windows menus support. There are some pretty serious bugs in NW's handling of windows native menus.
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by gabemart 13y ago
When you say "invited to a bonfire at Ocean Beach", that doesn't mean you're going to burn a big heap of branded trash on the beach, right? Or am I just being a spoil-sport?
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by gabemart 13y ago
I've only played the Android version, but I never found the collision detection anything less than pixel-perfect. If I'd felt the collision detection was poor, I'm fairly sure I wouldn't have enjoyed playing it as much a
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by gabemart 13y ago
Gah, this reminds me so strongly of undergraduate Economics, where all the textual information and explanation was completely clear to me and all the manipulation of formulae was completely impenetrable to me. I deeply regret not studying m
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by gabemart 13y ago
> A p-value cutoff of 5% says that you have a 5% probability that you're wrong in rejecting the Null Hypothesis. I don't think this is right. A p-value cutoff of 0.05 doesn't, by itself, indicate anything about the underly
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by gabemart 13y ago
I don't follow. Why would we expect 5% of those 90 cases to be false positives, and what relationship does the estimate of 5% have to p-value? I don't understand how p-value could ever be used to predict the number of false positi
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by gabemart 13y ago
> We know that that, occasionally, a test will generate a > false positive due to random chance - we can’t avoid that. > By convention we normally fix this probability at 5%. You > might have heard this called the sig
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by gabemart 13y ago
Can you tell us a bit about how you managed your list? How often did you send out emails, and what kind of topics did you cover? Thanks!
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by gabemart 13y ago
Thanks for your reply! Did you offer exclusivity for the "launch" as an entity, or for a certain time period?
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by gabemart 13y ago
How important do you think the offer of exclusivity was to the LifeHacker journo? More widely to anyone reading this, how standard is it to offer exclusivity when soliciting coverage from the press? It's something I've never tried
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by gabemart 13y ago
Indeed. For the curious, it should be NASA Blueshift [1] [1] http://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/outreach/podcast/wordpress...
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by gabemart 13y ago
It's funny, I was watching House of Cards last night and during one scene there are crickets in the background and I found it very relaxing so I was just thinking about adding this sound. I'll have a hunt for some appropriate samp
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by gabemart 13y ago
Thanks very much for using it! I built it because I wanted it to exist. I got tired of jury rigging three instances of VLC together on my laptop every time I wanted some background noise.
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by gabemart 13y ago
Sure. I didn't mean to suggest that if your product is a good fit it will definitely get a lot of traffic. Just that, if your product isn't a good fit, it definitely won't get a lot of traffic.
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by gabemart 13y ago
Thanks very much! It's still a big novelty and great pleasure for me to hear positive feedback. I really appreciate it.
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by gabemart 13y ago
Hey, thanks! I have actually wondered about the name thing. It is a little whimsical, and I guess it would be easy to mix up with lots of similar descriptions like "a quiet buzz" or "a gentle burble". From that perspecti
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by gabemart 13y ago
I haven't done any promotion for http://asoftmurmur.com besides posting to reddit and HN, and it now has 400-500 regular daily users. It depends entirely on what type of product or service you're offering. Another key
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by gabemart 13y ago
That was also my first thought. A real achievement for this kind of launch. I would be super, super interested to hear some rough stats for referral traffic if they founders would be willing to share.
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by gabemart 13y ago
I've looked at it, but the features don't match my needs very well. On the input side, I don't need much more than basic text editing. On the backend, Scrivener has versioning, but I feel like git is more robust. There's
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by gabemart 13y ago
I'm in the middle of using github to write a science fiction novel (about 60% through, currently). Git isn't perfect for text, but it's the least problematic of all systems I've tried. It keeps everything by default. It
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by gabemart 13y ago
The good: they put examples right at the top. When I search for a css selector or an html5 tag, 99% of the time I'm looking for a quick, easy-to-read example that demonstrates the syntax. I have no way of measuring my average-time-on-p
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by gabemart 13y ago
I was recently trying to explain Bayesian logic to a friend, and came up with the following analogy. I would be interested to hear feedback on it. --- Imagine everyone in the USA gets sudden amnesia. We want to find out who the President is
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by gabemart 13y ago
That is neat. I pasted in the first part of Big Two-Hearted River [1] and it scored a little "worse" than the first part of the novel I'm working on, suggesting it's not a perfect metric for how "Hemingway-like&quot
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by gabemart 13y ago
It used to be that it was possible to take a snapshot of a DO droplet without shutting down the droplet, provided the droplet had 1GB of ram or higher. Does anyone know if this is still the case?
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by gabemart 13y ago
It reminds of the tension for professional athletes between playing simply to win and playing to put on a good show for the audience. Of course, athletes have a more direct commercial relationship with their fans, so have a greater degree o
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by gabemart 13y ago
> Facebook's per-user revenue for US users was $4.19 as of last October Revenue per user over what time period?
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by gabemart 13y ago
I've not heard it described as such, but he did once say: > Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. He also once said: > For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wro
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by gabemart 13y ago
I think the story of this game exemplifies the fact that content needs a minimum amount of attention to reveal it's true value. The journey of Flappy Bird appears to me like this: Stage 1: Almost no attention, almost no growth Stage 2:
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by gabemart 13y ago
Am I correct in thinking that browser plugins like flash, java and silverlight will not use the browser proxy and will leak data?
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by gabemart 13y ago
> Seeing your five hit attack miss five times at 5% miss > chance per attack will induce true frustration. I was curious, so I worked out the chances of this happening. For a given five hit attack the chance is 0.00003125%,

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