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by jiaaro 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I have it auto-advancing from 1 to 2, which I thought would demonstrate that it was interactive, but I guess it still needs work :/
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by jiaaro 14y ago
Hey guys, I created this tool and I'll be around answering questions throughout the day!
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Show HN: The Whicher: A/B test the Real World(thewhicher.com)
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by jiaaro 14y ago
I think the analogy of looking at a book for it's words is somewhat misguided. Judging a book by the words it contains is wrong if you're judging literature, but when you're choosing books to teach with, you have to consider the readers voc
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by jiaaro 14y ago
"Sloth: The lazy shall languish in obscurity. Toilers triumph." As far as I can tell this mainly applies to marketing. Haven't seen startup founders being lazy about anything more than they are about marketing – procrastinating here will ki
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by jiaaro 14y ago
I updated the post to use unsigned long long for the values (which does not overflow) I timed the calls again, but didn't bother to update the values in the post as they were within 1% of the original timings
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by jiaaro 14y ago
I agree that it'd be more correct to make the C and python code output the same answer. The important thing here is how to hook up C code to python. the benchmarks are still (mostly) valid because it's still the same number of addition oper
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by jiaaro 14y ago
Hi there, I'm the author of the post (my username matches the domain of the post =D ) The purpose is just to show an example of how to drop to C. I chose a contrived example so the reader could expend the minimum possible number of brain
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by jiaaro 14y ago
I was wondering what happened to the old mixest. I had a pretty huge favorites list before it was killed. PS - your design work looks great (on both versions of mixest as well as your portfolio)
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by jiaaro 14y ago
I like the idea of a 501c3 twitter competitor. It would be like wikipedia business-wise I guess. Centralization has it's benefits, and they could be maintained without all the crap that's happening with twitter right now.
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by jiaaro 14y ago
Their API is also down... maybe a cascading effect (probably from API to frontend, but maybe a lower level failure)?
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by jiaaro 14y ago
sounds like you just don't know what to do with the traffic to your blog posts
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by jiaaro 14y ago
I believe google adwords got around it by adding an option to optimize ad impressions by conversion value rather than click through rate or raw traffic. i.e., instead of showing ads more and more when their click-through rate goes up. They
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by jiaaro 14y ago
How do you rank the articles?
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by jiaaro 14y ago
Definitely agree! A twitter-bootstrap-popover-esque "(1) click here… (2) then here" would also be good to help the users understand how filtering works. Though, personally, I find it very intuitive already
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by jiaaro 14y ago
Where does the content come from right now? Also, can I add new "topics" for the stuff I see here?
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by jiaaro 14y ago
This is what we do with rootbuzz, and it works well. You'll want to acquaint yourself with custom segments if you take this approach too. custom segments (from the google knowledge base): http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answe
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by jiaaro 14y ago
I disagree - the instructional dialog is the whole point. I'm not sure if you can control it's position, but that is probably the only thing you'd need to solve any problems (though I strongly disagree this is more difficult for users than
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by jiaaro 14y ago
Didn't apply to YC but, I can attest to this first hand.
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by jiaaro 15y ago
you can use it on the server with nodejs - it's like a c extension, but I guess it's supposed to be easier than writing a c extension
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by jiaaro 15y ago
I wrote a little code to analyze the letter density etc: https://gist.github.com/1855582 tl;dr: DOTSIES Average density: 2.02 Vowel density: 1.52 Consonant density: 2.33 DOTSIES 3 Average density: 2.
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by jiaaro 15y ago
there are 2^5 patterns... aren't there?
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by jiaaro 15y ago
I have an idea for an improved pattern based on providing visual cues and accounting for letter frequency: http://esploded.s3.amazonaws.com/anon_data/2012/eyS/-dotsie2... Vowels touch the top and bottom of the line, visually outlining the
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by jiaaro 15y ago
What they really need is a way to link the demo and full version together in the app store. Apps with a "demo" version should have a seamless upgrade-to-paid-version experience. Some apps have done this with via in-app purchases (check out
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by jiaaro 15y ago
This will fix itself -- if he is correct that people want iOS apps (read: games) that reach parity with other handheld devices. 1. Developers will start making simpler games to maintain profitability at the $5 price point. 2. Once the v
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by jiaaro 15y ago
Very cool! I was looking for a python js interpreter just the other day, maybe I'll take a crack at it :)
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by jiaaro 15y ago
... ok, and the obvious question: "Why are .co.ke domains auto-killed?"
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by jiaaro 15y ago
This is not a good analogy -- a more apt comparison to a network admin not taking correct precautions with user data is a storage facility not activating it's security system every day. These organizations are dealing with other people's se
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by jiaaro 15y ago
but the RAM is just plain old laptop RAM. You can buy it from anywhere. Similar to the external hard drive market, anything labeled "apple compatible" costs extra, but is basically the same thing. Find the RAM you machine needs, and search
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by jiaaro 15y ago
this article is fluff the conclusions are probably correct (we'll find out soon), but the title is sensationalist

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