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by epe 11y ago
Sadly this isn't entirely new news: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_fra... http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html
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by epe 12y ago
I find this: http://martin.kleppmann.com/2014/11/25/hermitage-testing-the... a more informative read on essentially the same topic.
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by epe 12y ago
Seems like classic Hawthorne effect...
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by epe 14y ago
I'd assumed it was a reference to jwz's "how will this software get my users laid": http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html Maybe I'm giving them too much credit...
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by epe 14y ago
I don't know if it's any simpler, but I tend to do: git init . git remote add origin git://github.com/eentzel/dotfiles.git git checkout -t origin master
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by epe 14y ago
Go has a great solution for this in the binary package: http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/binary/#Read I've been working on some code to parse the shapefile format, which specifies some fields in big-endian and some in little (I have no idea
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by epe 14y ago
I'll just leave this here in case anyone still cares... http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch...
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by epe 15y ago
Apparently it's managed to destroy even the minimal level of talent needed to construct a readable PNG.
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by epe 15y ago
Agreed that the web doesn't have any "magical properties", but it has the "Worse is Better" survival characteristic; or at least it did in its early days. I think the web's continued dominance depends on the extent to which it retains those
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by epe 16y ago
I think the snake-oil nature of (much of) SEO stems from the fact that it's difficult or impossible to measure in an accurate, unambiguous way. Since A/B testing includes measurement by its very nature, I suspect it will be more resistant t
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by epe 16y ago
The clearest explanation I've ever seen of this method is here: http://www.evanmiller.org/rank-hotness-with-newtons-law-of-c...
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by epe 16y ago
Wouldn't simply excluding any http request whose user agent contains "googlebot" from the displayed count make it dramatically more accurate without needing a switch to JS-based analytics?
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by epe 16y ago
This is my November Startup Sprint[0] project, inspired by a StackExchange question[1] from this HN thread[2]. The idea is that the app creates a unique email address for you, and any emails of the form "Lunch with Bill Tuesday at 12:30"
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Ask HN: Review my webapp - www.myeventbot.com(myeventbot.com)
2 points by epe 16y ago|1 comments
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by epe 16y ago
It appears to be down at the moment, but there's a site called Wrong Tomorrow ( http://wrongtomorrow.com/ ) that seems to me like a good start in this direction. Here's the blog post announcing it: http://www.idlewords.com/2009/04/wrong_t
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Firefox’s proposed Resource Packages spec blows(unscriptable.com)
2 points by epe 16y ago|0 comments
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by epe 16y ago
Even better review of an earlier book of Friedman's by the same reviewer: http://www.nypress.com/article-11419-flathead.html
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by epe 16y ago
I don't believe it's any Javascript overhead for non-IE browsers. It's just a single line of CSS: behavior: url(path/to/PIE.htc); that non-IE browsers will simply ignore.
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by epe 16y ago
http://projecteuler.net/
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Logarithmic calendar view(marco.org)
200 points by epe 16y ago|50 comments
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by epe 16y ago
There is certainly a case to be made that the U.S. school system was designed to make "drones or conformists": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system Or for a more detailed argument: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/under
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In the Lair of the Cycle-Eaters(timothyfitz.wordpress.com)
1 points by epe 17y ago|0 comments
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by epe 17y ago
Care to share the name of the bank?
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by epe 17y ago
On http://www.sticket.net/request/ if I type "denver, co" in the first field and hit tab, the field gets blanked out. Safari 4 on OSX 10.5.
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by epe 17y ago
You might be interested in this article that made it to HN about a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=481392 I found it fascinating even though my interest in the NBA is lukewarm at best.
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by epe 17y ago
Good question -- I am. I created a poll here to see if other are as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1101191
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by epe 17y ago
yes
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by epe 17y ago
yes, but not on HN please
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by epe 17y ago
no
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Poll: Are HN users interested in sports analytics?
16 points by epe 17y ago|20 comments

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