mcfunley

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by mcfunley 13y ago
That's actually a remarkable feat of not scaling.
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How long will your experiment take?(experimentcalculator.com)
2 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcfunley 13y ago
Depends: if you're small, then you might have low-hanging fruit and bigger conversion increases might be possible. If that happens to be true then measuring things is tractable.
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by mcfunley 13y ago
You scooped mine by like 20 minutes, which is weird, so I'll just put this here: http://www.experimentcalculator.com/ *edit: yours is awesome. Nice work.
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How Etsy Increased Diversity in Its Engineering Department [video](youtube.com)
1 points by mcfunley 13y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin is a Ponzi Scheme(slate.com)
21 points by mcfunley 14y ago|8 comments
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Do Paid Search Ads Work?(slate.com)
1 points by mcfunley 14y ago|0 comments
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Programming is not Math [video](marakana.com)
3 points by mcfunley 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcfunley 14y ago
What stops the employee and the inventors from just agreeing to use the patent offensively? And if they can do that then what stops the company from just compelling the employee to agree? I know the IPA says they have to obtain the permissi
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by mcfunley 14y ago
1_COOL_GUY was #1 on bnet for a long while using the reaver drop coupled with the map hack. Not sure if he invented this either, but this was before Zileas (a legit player) came along. (Can't believe I remember these details.)
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There's Nothing Pink About Interviews at Etsy(laraswanson.com)
3 points by mcfunley 14y ago|0 comments
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Do something useful with those recruiting emails(medium.com)
3 points by mcfunley 14y ago|0 comments
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Etsy Acquires Mixel(etsy.com)
10 points by mcfunley 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcfunley 14y ago
You raise a bunch of good and valid points. Please do finish your article. I don't view "how not to run an A/B test" as the final authority on this without qualifications, either.
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by mcfunley 14y ago
Totally possible
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by mcfunley 14y ago
It's pretty common for us to look at new vs. returning users and Etsy sellers vs. others (sellers are obviously really engaged users, and behave differently). Occasionally one group will stand out, but not in this case.
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by mcfunley 14y ago
> The amount of stuff that users are buying should be pretty much the _only_ metric you care about. Generally yes, we would trade an increase purchases for anything else. The test was a negative effect because we forced people to stop u
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Google's Michael Jones on How Maps Became Personal(theatlantic.com)
2 points by mcfunley 14y ago|0 comments
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Availability: Nuance as a Service(kitchensoap.com)
2 points by mcfunley 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcfunley 14y ago
Yes, that's a great point. Although that test runs on our search pages, so 0.46% of that traffic is about 4,000 registrations. And the difference between 0.46% and 0.42% is about 300 registrations.
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Kerning Etsy(vimeo.com)
1 points by mcfunley 14y ago|0 comments
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Effective Web Experimentation as a Homo Narrans(mcfunley.com)
9 points by mcfunley 14y ago|2 comments
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Who Really Benefits from "Big Data?"(slate.com)
2 points by mcfunley 14y ago|1 comments
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A Little Perspective(dadhacker.com)
2 points by mcfunley 14y ago|0 comments
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Why MongoDB Never Worked Out at Etsy(mcfunley.com)
137 points by mcfunley 14y ago|70 comments
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Freshdirect's Domain Expires(networksolutions.com)
3 points by mcfunley 14y ago|1 comments
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by mcfunley 14y ago
Apparently what's true is more important to me than what can be exploited? I don't know, I find that to be kind of a ridiculous question.
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by mcfunley 14y ago
A thousand times no. I was asked to take one of these at my first job out of college and loudly refused. > The framework itself has barely changed since Katharine Cook Myers and Isabel Briggs created it decades ago One could take this a
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by mcfunley 14y ago
[2008]
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C++ Quirks, Remembered(robey.lag.net)
6 points by mcfunley 14y ago|1 comments

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