malcolmmcc
Joined 15 years ago
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Member since
May 15
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Comment · 12 years ago
Ironically, I only make Google money through YouTube when I'm not a registered user, because when I am I have AdBlock on and it's only when I'm in an incognito mode or different browser/profile that the ads get shown.
So yeah, users not necessarily the most relevant metric there. Which, upon reflection, makes YouTube even more of a steal than it looks in the chart.
Comment · 13 years ago
Did you even watch any of the videos? They're like 10 seconds and not edited. If you're not spending more than 10 seconds on your actual activity... I... don't even.
Comment · 13 years ago
Wow, you made a new account just for this?
I think what Give It 100 does is that they take away a lot of the overhead from documenting so that you can focus more on the doing. Like, it lets you be publicly accountable for your progress in a simple and enjoyable way, without needing like... a youtube account?
Comment · 13 years ago
"The [Waterloo] Region's population was 507,096 as of the 2011 census."
Comment · 13 years ago
If you want to make the challenge even more intense, you can try a service like Beeminder that'll charge you if you don't commit every day. It can hook into Github, I believe.
https://www.beeminder.com/gitminder
The founders actually use this themselves, making a mandatory UVI (user-visible improvement) every day, inspired by pg's advice "startups rarely die mid-keystroke... so keep typing!" See here for more on that: http://blog.beeminder.com/rails/
Comment · 13 years ago
Gwern posts articles, but not in blog format. If you look on the sidebar for this page, for example, you'll see it was originally published in 2011, and just recently modified.
This is the closest thing to what you're looking for: http://www.gwern.net/Changelog
Comment · 13 years ago
Reminds me of this, in board game form: http://drtechniko.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
Comment · 13 years ago
huh, both work for me.
Comment · 13 years ago
See also https://www.scigit.com/
Comment · 13 years ago
This is just how Medium is. Of debatable merit.
Comment · 13 years ago
My prior on that is extremely low, so my guess is that's like, of the posts that make front-page? Or of the top posts. What this really reflects, therefore, is something more like how up-votey people are.
Comment · 13 years ago
> "Dogs" occurs more times in titles in r/aww than "cats" or "kittens"
That can be a fact.
> Despite their internet popularity cats are not submitted nearly as many times on this cuddly SubReddit.
Or dogs are rare enough that they're worth naming, because cats are default. Seriously, run whatever calculations you want, but be careful about what conclusions you draw from the numbers.
Comment · 13 years ago
Huh? He wasn't married before. But yeah, he left his girlfriend to keep her safe. Apparently she knew absolutely nothing until he blew the whistle.
Comment · 13 years ago
Typed "fav". Hit Tab. Did not complete. Wat.
Comment · 13 years ago
I typically dance to music that makes me feel cool while walking to job interviews. So far it has worked really well.
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