ignostic

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by ignostic 4y ago
I disagree. I never saw an ad for gmail. The initial exclusivity was a gimmick, but it was dropped pretty quickly. As I recall any user could invite 10 people, including their own email accounts. Also I got like 25 more invites for reasons
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by ignostic 4y ago
Hotmail and Yahoo mail were the primary contenders at the time. Both featured banner ads at the top. Because CSS and HTML were in their infancy, the height was generally fixed, and on smaller monitors it could take up 1/3 of the screen
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by ignostic 4y ago
Not leaving Twitter, just not reading or posting and using alternative platforms. Not to play word police, but I think that's what people meant when they said 'leaving'. But if you mean that it's not necessarily forever,
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by ignostic 5y ago
> of which the PI even calls for reproducibility You mean like every study I've ever read? I can't recall the last time the conclusion didn't say something like, "In our study X appears to be associated with Y, but mo
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by ignostic 5y ago
If the state law and city law conflict, shouldn't state law take precedence? I'm actually not too upset about what the sheriff did. How many people do you think would do differently if they had to take out a $150k loan to cover th
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by ignostic 6y ago
Only on HN would you find people seriously arguing that focusing on product development is a good reason to remove analytics from a site. I've worked almost exclusively at companies where the product is the website, and initially this
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by ignostic 6y ago
Long story short, Google is using its search dominance to provide unfair advantage to other Google and Alphabet products. This is primarily done through features or "snippets" competitors cannot earn or even pay for. Many of the d
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by ignostic 6y ago
I think you're confusing internet marketing with the people who talk about internet marketing. Marketing done right is basically the 'what people want' in 'build things people want' with a focus on what they're
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by ignostic 8y ago
I know this is a bit cheeky, but HN sometimes has this comically simplistic view of other professions. It's as bad as the older C_Os who refer to all of dev and IT as "computer people." As someone who is both a developer and
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by ignostic 9y ago
It speaks to a poor understand of kids, schools, and reality. I think we often underestimate kids and their intellectual capacity, but this is just ridiculous. I started outlining how bad this would be for kids, but the list was getting so
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by ignostic 9y ago
There's a big button to switch. https://championtraveler.com/travel-weather-map/travel-weath...
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by ignostic 9y ago
I'm not sure many people would be interested, but I'd have no problem doing a write up with the relevant source. I'll try to get to it next week after fixing all these bugs people are finding.
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by ignostic 9y ago
No, sadly. I had to use a scraper. I think that's part of the reason the tourist volume data was sub-par, so I really need to find a better data source.
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by ignostic 9y ago
Very helpful, thank you. I will look into these.
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by ignostic 9y ago
Ooops... looks like the scale on my graph somehow got thrown off. Thanks for the find! I've fixed Cuba manually but will go back through looking for the source of this problem.
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by ignostic 9y ago
Yeah, you've uncovered one where the average month in Google was not reported. Generally that means few people searching. In a few cases, sadly, that may be because the hotels are all full and there's no point to searching. As I&#
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by ignostic 9y ago
That's great! May I ask where you're getting your data?
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by ignostic 9y ago
The search needs some work :) Sadly it is not popularity-based at all.
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by ignostic 9y ago
Hmm, sorry about that. I'll look into that, but for now the nearby cities of Amagasaki and Sakai are probably very similar. https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-amagas... https://champi
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by ignostic 9y ago
Thanks! Most places actually give far more specific date ranges, but San Diego is so temperate just listing the months made more sense. "Powder" I guess is not the word I should be using in places like this, but the dates are usua
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by ignostic 9y ago
> what are your factors for deciding the best time to visit? I used almost exclusively weather data. My scoring process is linked to near the date ranges I provide, so hopefully that is clear. I would love to make better use of the numbe
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by ignostic 9y ago
> It's says the daily highs in the summer are low 60s Temperature numbers show the average for the week. E.g. the "high" on the dot is not the highest average day, but the average high. I double checked and these look corr
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by ignostic 9y ago
Thank you! I am very glad others find the algorithm finding the "best times" to be accurate as well. This was definitely the hardest problem to solve as some places have two seasons, some have one, and I'm trying to find the
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by ignostic 9y ago
Thanks! I agree on the search functionality. Right now this is just a WordPress search, but it would probably be wise to use Google's location API to help find the right place or the closest place to it. I have no experience here, but
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Show HN: The best time to visit any city
395 points by ignostic 9y ago|118 comments
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by ignostic 9y ago
Okay, this is really interesting. I'm pretty skeptical of their methodology for assessing "statistical training." The setup could result in studying a different correlation entirely. For example, we might instead be studying
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by ignostic 9y ago
But I so badly wanted to share my opinion on /r/askhn rehashing commonly-held beliefs..
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by ignostic 9y ago
> Am I pressuring myself too much to make the switch? How did you do it? It sounds to me like you feel pressure to do this because someone told you that you should be a creator. So in that sense, yes, that's foolish. Instead pressur
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by ignostic 10y ago
I thought this was a neat tool, and also an excellent demonstration of ReactJS working quickly. In full disclosure I know the developer who built this, so I may be biased.
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2016's Best US Cities to Live and Work Remotely(highspeedinternet.com)
2 points by ignostic 10y ago|1 comments

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