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by rfong 10y ago
BEAUTIFUL
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by rfong 10y ago
Do you know of any extensions that put googly eyes over spiders? I really want this, but ironically I am too squicked out by spiders to go acquire a training set and tweak it myself.
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Inaugural SF Stupid Hackathon – Presentations Today
13 points by rfong 11y ago|4 comments
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by rfong 13y ago
It is also entirely possible that since I have only posted this to HN and Facebook thus far, it has not yet reached its ultimate audience of idiot cyberbully trolls :(
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by rfong 13y ago
Ok, seems like it's doing pretty well in favor of positivity. I searched some common nice/nasty words in the DB and I'm seeing on the order of: - 25-70 hits for strings containing words like nice/fun/smart/kind
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by rfong 13y ago
Thanks! Added to todo list
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by rfong 13y ago
Haha I think that's my friend who is obsessed with type safety doing bug checks :)
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by rfong 13y ago
Haha, that's why I don't display numbers on the bar charts. They're just to get the most important characteristics to bubble to the top. I kept the overall aggregate counts because seeing those large numbers seems to give peo
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by rfong 13y ago
Btw, many thanks for pointing this case out. I really don't have good ideas on how to prevent this besides going the brute force route of flagging negative words.
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by rfong 13y ago
Cursorily seemed fine on my IOS7, but I did not optimize for mobile. What are you using?
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by rfong 13y ago
Ahh I see, fishing for compliments is definitely a bad use case that's hard to circumvent. Any ideas? I attempt to subtly discourage narcissistic submissions in the prompts but people will probably still do it.
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by rfong 13y ago
Clarification of analogy: if a doodle link gets posted to an internet forum (as happened with my example page), it will get spammed, but trollbait pages are irrelevant -- pages which are generated for their intended purpose do not run into
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by rfong 13y ago
Do you mean that users should be able to delete pages? I can personally delete them, but you can't.
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by rfong 13y ago
Yup. I deliberately didn't implement any authentication because I wanted it to operate more like a Doodle -- a link gets generated for a purpose of no particular celebrity and sent to respondents for low-threshold participation. I thin
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Why We Love You – aggregate positivity for your friends(whyweloveyou.com)
49 points by rfong 13y ago|27 comments
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by rfong 13y ago
Personally I'm surprised by the extremely high disapproval/approval ratio for C++. It does what you want it to, it's performant, the syntax doesn't make you jump through unnecessary hoops, and it isn't full of warty
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by rfong 13y ago
Hypotheses mostly based on my own internal biases regarding some of the languages I have experience with: haskell upvotes = theoretical mathematicians javascript upvotes = web developers ruby - javascript = functional programmers who aren&#