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by req2 17y ago
I'm interested.
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by req2 17y ago
So what's the problem with the link that shows up in the google search? itpints is giving me twitter, boston.com, and the guardian, among others. The feature you seem to like is the ability and lack of self-consciousness for people to say '
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by req2 17y ago
Though you say google doesn't do live search, it took less than 18 minutes for it to get this post. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&...
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by req2 17y ago
I think in your search for a contrary example, you're looking at it in the wrong way. The focus of the unlucky pessimist will lead them unerringly to the stairs, whether or not that's the best option. The lucky optimist won't foolishly do w
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by req2 17y ago
Those who don't indiscriminately click links may like to know that this is a DHTML clone of the original Lemmings.
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by req2 17y ago
Joshua Greene's thesis provides us with some ways to think about how we think about these problems. There's some nice excerpting, and ensuing discussion, at lesswrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/10f/the_terrible_horrible_no_good_ve...
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by req2 17y ago
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003775.h... suggests your fervency is misplaced.
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by req2 17y ago
But that doesn't mean everyone who didn't have a technically inclined college experience and doesn't have a hacking job should give up on the whole concept of cofounders.
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by req2 17y ago
The fact that your counterexample doesn't work- patio11 has shown that his direct-marketing type sales letter gets more conversions with each additional 'above the fold' actionable element. It's also an unusual onus to expect him to update
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by req2 17y ago
Relationships and politics aren't the best examples - even the "experts" on all of these topics fail to demonstrate that they actually know what they're saying. Even in topics like psychological research or evolutionary biology, people are
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by req2 17y ago
This doesn't immediately require pg's input - generate a sufficiently unusual string per user and authenticate only the users that have that hash in their HN 'about' page.
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by req2 17y ago
I'm sad to see that no one else has upvoted you; you seem to be the only one here that has had the experience to weigh in on the issue.
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by req2 17y ago
I figure because you roundly condemn Nielsen, providing but a single nebulous example that is debunked by patio11's experience.
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by req2 17y ago
Too bad you have your own false certainty. I'll point out that patio11's bingo card creator gets more conversions for every single order button he's added, even as they get to the point where they're "above the fold". Your own criticism i
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by req2 17y ago
I'm curious as to what their test protocol is that it has dispelled every other posting on this topic. A person told to buy shoes at Amazon.com isn't going to be stifled by a scrollbar, but someone who isn't being directly told to interact
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by req2 17y ago
You could maintain the same professor-student ratio, but you wouldn't be able to retain the same professors. If Harvard expanded, it would be less able to maintain the 'superstar professor'-professor ratio because other colleges would be ab
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by req2 17y ago
How does an accelerated (e.g., psyco enabled) version of the python compare? The Java one would probably still win, but an easy two lines may bring them closer to parity.
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by req2 17y ago
White's rules improve unenjoyable prose.
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by req2 17y ago
Strunk & White devote a lot of time to misrepresenting grammar and presenting rules that don't mean much. Both of these distract an author from writing with irrelevant questions of passive voices and adjectives. Pullum points out how si
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by req2 17y ago
You are using terms in a loose and nontraditional way. The argument isn't logical so much as it is valid. It isn't sound, based on the untrue premises, but it preserves the truth of the premises. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundness Occ
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by req2 17y ago
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=847620
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by req2 17y ago
"Cognitive tasks, as well as emotional tasks such as regulating your emotions, can deplete your self-regulatory capacity to exercise," A distinction made more clear by the non-blogspam linked in the comments here, but perfectly evident in
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by req2 17y ago
The Stroop test is a fairly standard and well-respected test. To claim otherwise takes a post with a lot more substance than the one you have offered. Care to explain why the test or metric is subjective or questionable, or why you are qual
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by req2 17y ago
Roy Baumeister has done a lot of the early work on ego depletion. Wikipedia has a good background of reading material: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion
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by req2 17y ago
Memorable passwords don't need to be simple, dictionary, or insecure. MySonPlaysLittleLeague is a password that someone can easily remember, but few people get pointed in the direction of good sentence passwords, and most password policies
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by req2 17y ago
Um, oops. Apologies. That shortened URL and generic name got me. :(
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by req2 17y ago
Inane or not, you should be aware of the false analogy you've presented: rails is not obviously cyclical, as spring is.
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by req2 17y ago
Dup. http://searchyc.com/sidewiki
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by req2 17y ago
Norvig's article on experiment design is valuable, and a more targeted discussion of sample size with respect to the size of the effect being studied can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_power , and in some of the refer
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by req2 17y ago
re 'homebrew theories' on risk: "That’s an important first clue to how culture uses men. Culture has plenty of tradeoffs, in which it needs people to do dangerous or risky things, and so it offers big rewards to motivate people to take thos

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