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by rubergly 16y ago
If there are enough data points (which it seems like there is), and each UI is chosen a random 1/4 of the time, then it will be very easy to isolate and determine the effect of the slider UI. Problems would arise if the slider was chosen 60
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by rubergly 16y ago
An alternative idea would be to display a link to a page where the data will be displayed once it is ready. I agree that just getting a "Science thanks you" message feels a little like being cheated, but it didn't bother me because I knew I
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by rubergly 16y ago
I'm particularly interested in seeing if there are significant differences in the presentation. Good luck, and I look forward to seeing the results.
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by rubergly 16y ago
I was expecting the philosopher, but was pleasantly surprised when it was the Lost character. That being said, this article is more of a funny article about Lost targeted at programmers than it is an article about important software develop
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by rubergly 16y ago
Do you really think the portion of the userbase that uses Twitter for work is really that small? I'm thinking of all the businesses, news networks, marketing, etc. that is done through the service. I don't think it's worth splitting up curr
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by rubergly 16y ago
I think this is meant to be a joke more than than a serious matter. Though I could see it upsetting an extra-paranoid person who moved away from Google to DDG for privacy reasons.
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by rubergly 16y ago
I don't think this argument really applies to TV, where viewers really haven't had any voting power about ads. Until very recently, they either watched TV or didn't, and I doubt people ever stopped watching TV and stopped digesting TV media
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by rubergly 16y ago
I'm significantly confused. The article seems to be talking about the distinction that OS X has between closing a window and quitting an application, and talking about how this behavior exists on Windows and Ubuntu as well. I must be missin
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by rubergly 16y ago
Sounds like a good decision for now. Although I wonder if it's smart in the long run to be blocking out root redirect to optimize.ly, which is the URL many users may attempt to reach, in order to have shortened URLs of that form in tweets,
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by rubergly 16y ago
I do think that a .com is better than a .ly because we've grown sick of "cute" domain names, but we've (at least I've) mostly grown sick of non .com's because they often tack on top-level domains to create nonsensical English words (see:
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by rubergly 16y ago
Everything about these looks amazing and they look like they do a perfect job of maximizing both visual pleasure and practical purpose.
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by rubergly 16y ago
I still think it's going to fail because they've made it clear, before a user base has been 'hooked', that their main focus is data mining. Usually users are getting utility before they're aware of the privacy issues, and at that point they
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by rubergly 16y ago
It's a little strange that, with a name ending in 'ly', they don't have the .ly domain name.
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by rubergly 16y ago
I agree that instapaper is fantastic, but the article formatting only works for me about 95% of the time. There seem to be some sites that it occasionally gets wrong in a really annoying way (like including some odd dump of the site's sideb
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by rubergly 16y ago
This reminded me of a dream that I've had for there to be a website that you check to basically look up the "street cred" of a language/framework/library and see what important/influential people use that language/framework/library and what
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by rubergly 16y ago
I love Instapaper, and always find what he has to say interesting, but it baffles me that every one of his blog posts seems to reach the front page of HN almost immediately. It makes me wonder if people wait for RSS notifications of his ent
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by rubergly 16y ago
I'm surprised there hasn't been more reaction to that comment. Maybe Nguyen wasn't actually making as big of a deal about that as the article made it seem by ending on that dramatic note, but this seems extremely creepy and I really can't s
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by rubergly 16y ago
I've used Sublime when I haven't felt like setting up Vim or Emacs on Windows. are there major benefits to Sublime 2 over the original?
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by rubergly 16y ago
Sometimes I've wondered if the vision of Khan Academy executed to its fullest would be to have a Stack Overflow-like up-/down-voting system for user-submitted videos. Khan Academy is amazing (note: I'll be interning with them this summer, a
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by rubergly 16y ago
looking at this site almost made me regret already having a really awesome internship lined up for the summer.
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by rubergly 16y ago
this site looks really cool; I've been wondering for a while if a site like this existed, and this one seems really fleshed out.
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by rubergly 16y ago
I agree. At first glance, I thought that the NbrofA/AA/etc names were just gibberish. The most nonsensical part to me is starting the for-loop iterator at zero, and then only executing the function if the iterator is non-zero.
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by rubergly 16y ago
I've always had to resort to right-clicking the title bar and hitting "Resize"; this shortcut to do the same thing is very helpful. But I agree with everyone else in that it shouldn't be necessary to go through this just to resize windows,