weareschizo's comments

weareschizo | 8 years ago | on: The Merge

Take public transportation during rush hour and look at what people are doing on their phones. Yes, you are an outlier. And good on you.

weareschizo | 9 years ago | on: Faulty Reward Functions in the Wild

This reminds me of how metric-driven companies can go off the rails when they over-optimized for metrics that almost, but not perfectly describe their actual goals.

weareschizo | 10 years ago | on: Introducing the World’s First Electronic Ink Tattoo

If you're going to make a fake video, at least get the tracking between the tattoo and the arm correct.

weareschizo | 12 years ago | on: Scrap Your Cake Pattern Boilerplate: Dependency Injection Using the Reader Monad

I've been thinking about using scalaz for a while now. My main concern about the above pattern is the type complexity that will arise. I would love to learn more about monad transformers and how they help out with that issue.

weareschizo | 13 years ago

It doesn't matter what you search, it's broken.

weareschizo | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2013)

As an engineer at Originate, I'd like to jump in and say I appreciate the extremely flexible working environment (location, times, and vacation are all quite flexible).

If you have any questions about what it's like to work here as an engineer, let me know.

weareschizo | 13 years ago | on: JQuery Crop - Cropping images with jCrop

I've used JCrop pretty extensively, and my only issue with it is that it returns slightly different coordinates on different browsers. It's even possible to coax it into returning coordinates outside of an image.

Aside from that, it's pretty awesome, easy to use, and customizable.

weareschizo | 15 years ago | on: Maker of free games suggests how much to donate with fun visualization

I would like to see an A/B test with and without that chart to see what the difference in donation rates is. I think the chart probably helps, but always better to gather data right?