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fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

i just clicked on this thread for the first time in over a year and lol

# ? Jul 26, 2015 15:35

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 03:14

Agile Vector: May 21, 2007; scrum bored

Incomplete Fish posted:

It's been like 9 years.

i was going to make a graph of your post quality over time but the whole of statpedia worked against me

chiding me for entering data into an open field because i didnt name the table? ux 101, gold star

giving someone plotting time 78 checkboxes of years? sounds good

randomly plotting a table after vaguely giving an incomplete message, only to delete the data? lol just lol

# ? Jul 26, 2015 15:36

30 TO 50 FERAL HOG: Mar 2, 2005

Incomplete Fish posted:

I came here to mention the HDHomerun DVR kickstarter by silicon dust wherein they promised a bunch of poo poo, ignore beta user feedback, and are most likely gonna release a terrible product people pledged a lot of money for in a couple months but it's w/e. I was reading a few pages back in the thread and got acquainted with the Derek Smart of Statistic's grating personality, noticed hes pushed a kickstarter three times so far without really adding anything to it, and thinks he knows better than the couple of people who actually offered some good feedback, so I'm gonna unload on this out of touch nerd who is trying to monetize reinventing multiple wheels

Let me preface this by saying I don't usually post here, but I do lurk, and I don't think anyone is gonna chide me for roasting the lovely-Web App Guy. (there was a goatse a couple posts ago). Also, let me say that I am probably in your demographic of "people you desperately wish would give you their research for free". I don't want to divulge a bunch of personal information on myself but I guess I can cut it down to Upper Level University Student Who Uses R a lot.

All those people who said that "university research belongs to the university" are unequivocally true. Not only that, your rebuttal was.... what about undergrads? aughhh

Let me get to my main point though. I spent maybe 20-30 min pushing buttons on your convoluted, unintuitive interface in a vain attempt to just coax SOME usability out of it. Nope, try copy pasting something directly from excel into your lovely Create Table thing.

How come the "Select Source" dropdown.... shows other users previous searches? Is this intended behaviour? It's not even helpful most of the time its raw URLs. Do you intend to store every search ever queried just incase someone types a magic combination of words that tricks your thing into doing something useful?

I also find it hilarious that you've mentioned working at Wolfram but cannot get your thing to interface with it in a meaningful way other than directly sending it my query and then showing me exactly what I would see if I had went to W-A myself after watching it load for 10+ seconds. If do a search for something that returns nothing but a set, why can't I make a table right from the search screen w/ that data? I'm going to stop before I accidentally give you constructive feedback.

You would think one failed kickstarter would be enough. But it took you three to steal a measly $500 from people quite possibly dumber and more out of touch with academia than yourself. There is no emergent need for this to exist at all. Now, I know you're gonna rebut this with "Features cost money", "not done yet", "take your meds", etc etc but I would like to close with one final point. You have probably noticed that a lot of people in this thread have yelled at you for asking goons to offer suggestions on your Expensive Mess and have been told that nobody works for free; yet the entire basis of your little time waster project is to get other people to give you their work for free so you can wrap it in your lovely blue-n-white style sheet and eventually make money off of others work.

Theres already a wonderful (already successful) organization focused on making peer reviewed user submitted content accessible to the world, you are twelve years too late. The only other thing your web app offers beyond that is quite possibly the worst set of tools for visually representing data that I have ever seen. I don't get it. FFS Word 2003 produces more visually appealing graphs/tables/plots because they actually let you /change how they look/. I suggest that you put the entire thing on github or something and use it as resume fodder. It's glaringly obvious you've done this entire thing yourself. You use more extraneous commas on your about/feedback/sales/terms pages than I have in this entire vitriolic, spittle-covered hate post. Also: http://statpedia.com/index.php/buisness BUISNESS

Don't quit your day job. Really. In fact if you ask me you should get a kickstarter going for a new college degree and try something else. Just not statistics.

edit: holy moly hes been posting about this thing in this thread since '12 and its still no better.

edit again: im sorry, but this whole thing is like an onion. You worked as a "User Experience Designer", at Wolfram? My god, if this site is your best showing no wonder you only lasted that long.

please don't realpost in yospos

especially in regards to a guy who literally has schizophrenia

# ? Jul 26, 2015 16:46

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

bipolar maybe, probs not schizophrenia

# ? Jul 26, 2015 19:50

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

a tragic cocktail of bipolar and dunning-krueger

# ? Jul 26, 2015 19:51

qntm: Jun 17, 2009

I doubt that post did anybody any good other than it was fun to write

much like etc. etc.

# ? Jul 26, 2015 20:31

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

poo poo pee pee doody

# ? Jul 27, 2015 01:01

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

minivanmegafun posted:

omg that's amazing. I wonder how much of it depends on fiddling with the scope's scales and timing and how much is just straight sound plotting

it is entirely just sound plotting on a scope in xy mode. there are libraries to make this trivial, like that doom on an oscilloscope (or whatever dumb old fps it was) used

# ? Jul 27, 2015 03:19

ahmeni: May 1, 2005; It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.; Grimey Drawer

Ian have you considered improving your software with test driven development?? here is your first test:

[ ] does anyone want to use my turd

# ? Jul 27, 2015 08:19

unpacked robinhood: Feb 18, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

works for me

# ? Jul 27, 2015 10:23

cool biRd pics: Aug 28, 2009; you will feel ashamed of your words & deeds

# ? Jul 27, 2015 12:36

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

well at least they're honest

# ? Jul 27, 2015 12:40

moron izzard: Nov 17, 2006; Grimey Drawer

Looks aight to me

# ? Jul 27, 2015 13:14

Ian McLean: Sep 9, 2012; statpedia.org
Post Stats on Anything

Incomplete Fish,

Haven't you seen the updated Business page post? http://msjup4.axshare.com/#p=businesspage

Clearly not a very good lurker! If I gamify it, who says I can't do it with real money revenue sharing?

Ever think maybe I went to Wolfram to create better UX while obtaining valuable experience? Did you see the post on the free UCI Machine Learning data?? Mr. "I work in R" la tee da

I don't think he gets how vast the statistics realm is. A 10 year old can come along and make a stat about how many pieces of fresh fruit they have each day over a year.

Statpedia is going to allow d3js charts to be embedded and will have the API so that one doesn't have to interact with the interface at all.

Seriously a hater.

and just for the record, I like blue and white. It is peaceful; reminds me of skies, clouds and oceans.

Yes, Dr. Honked and others have posted content that is actually relevant and helpful, yours on the other hand was a complete waste of time reading.

# ? Jul 27, 2015 13:48

froward: Jun 2, 2014; by Azathoth

Ian McLean posted:

Incomplete Fish,

Haven't you seen the updated Business page post? http://msjup4.axshare.com/#p=businesspage

Clearly not a very good lurker! If I gamify it, who says I can't do it with real money revenue sharing?

Ever think maybe I went to Wolfram to create better UX while obtaining valuable experience? Did you see the post on the free UCI Machine Learning data?? Mr. "I work in R" la tee da

I don't think he gets how vast the statistics realm is. A 10 year old can come along and make a stat about how many pieces of fresh fruit they have each day over a year.

Statpedia is going to allow d3js charts to be embedded and will have the API so that one doesn't have to interact with the interface at all.

Seriously a hater.

and just for the record, I like blue and white. It is peaceful; reminds me of skies, clouds and oceans.

Yes, Dr. Honked and others have posted content that is actually relevant and helpful, yours on the other hand was a complete waste of time reading.

what the gently caress is going on in this thread

BiohazrD posted:

please don't realpost in yospos

especially in regards to a guy who literally has schizophrenia

# ? Jul 27, 2015 13:54

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

ian i've asked you like 10 times, but:

1. who is your site aimed at?
2. why would they pay for it?
3. how is losethos coming along these days?

# ? Jul 27, 2015 14:10

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Sweevo posted:

ian i've asked you like 10 times, but:

1. who is your site aimed at?
2. why would they pay for it?
3. how is losethos coming along these days?

i think the answer to the first question is 10-year-old migrant farm workers

# ? Jul 27, 2015 14:29

Vicas: Dec 9, 2009; Sweet tricks, mom.

i don't understand why anyone responds to ian at this point

# ? Jul 27, 2015 14:44

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK: Sep 11, 2008; Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola
-Cheap Trick; Nap Ghost

Vicas posted:

i don't understand why anyone responds to ian at this point

were gamifying the response

# ? Jul 27, 2015 14:58

axolotl farmer: May 17, 2007; Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

is statpedia going to get stats from mining public data repositories, or is it all expected to be entered by users?

# ? Jul 27, 2015 15:03

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

lets make some magic, ian

# ? Jul 27, 2015 15:04

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

axolotl farmer posted:

is statpedia going to get stats from mining public data repositories, or is it all expected to be entered by users?

ian is going to employ a team of two to enter the stats manually.

i can only assume that's what the mumbai team in his original business plan was for anyway

# ? Jul 27, 2015 15:23

Incomplete Fish: Apr 22, 2006; Grimey Drawer

Ian McLean posted:

Incomplete Fish,

oh man he finally replied back ive been waiting for this
shutup nerd

# ? Jul 27, 2015 15:34

OhsH: Jan 12, 2008

Ian McLean posted:

was a complete waste of time reading.

Dsyp

# ? Jul 27, 2015 15:34

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Ian McLean posted:

Statpedia is going to allow d3js charts to be embedded and will have the API so that one doesn't have to interact with the interface at all.

you're going to let members of the public embed js on a site you host?

# ? Jul 27, 2015 17:17

Ian McLean: Sep 9, 2012; statpedia.org
Post Stats on Anything

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

you're going to let members of the public embed js on a site you host?

Yes and you are clearly retarded. http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/

# ? Jul 27, 2015 17:40

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

lol

# ? Jul 27, 2015 18:12

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

take your meds, ian

# ? Jul 27, 2015 18:39

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Ian McLean posted:

Yes and you are clearly retarded. http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/

this link is totally irrelevant

as for developmental delay, i'm not the one talking about hosting user-contributed js lol

# ? Jul 27, 2015 18:47

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

i prefer http://c3js.org/

# ? Jul 27, 2015 18:54

Ian McLean: Sep 9, 2012; statpedia.org
Post Stats on Anything

lol @

# ? Jul 27, 2015 19:12

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

pleasurekevins patreon

# ? Jul 27, 2015 19:13

Dixie Cretin Seaman: Jan 22, 2008; all hat and one catte; Hot Rope Guy

Ian do you really work for Wolfram?
can you add one of those character-like curve definitions to Wolfram alpha?
I suspect YOSPOS will dedicate a considerable sum to statpedia if you make Wolfram alpha correctly define and plot a "goatse-like curve". must have sufficient fidelity to identify both rings. we await your response!

# ? Jul 27, 2015 20:45

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

Ian McLean posted:

lol @

lol

# ? Jul 27, 2015 20:49

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

ian owns. i love ian. follow your dreams, ian

# ? Jul 27, 2015 20:49

Dr. Honked: Jan 9, 2011; eat it you slaaaaaaag

Ian McLean posted:

lol @

oh that pleasurekevin

# ? Jul 27, 2015 20:50

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

Ian McLean posted:

lol @

im going to have to vote 5 as my thread in is this pic, however im not going to like it

# ? Jul 28, 2015 02:59

minivanmegafun: Jul 27, 2004

bobbilljim posted:

im going to have to vote 5 as my thread in is this pic, however im not going to like it

We threw your vote into the pile.

# ? Jul 28, 2015 03:02

cyberia: Jun 24, 2011; Do not call me that!
Snuffles was my slave name.
You shall now call me Snowball; because my fur is pretty and white.

What if we made bitcoin but without the mining?

# ? Jul 28, 2015 04:28

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theflyingorc: Jun 28, 2008; ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS; Young Orc

cyberia posted:

What if we made bitcoin but without the mining?

quote:

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Rimbit will be distributed upon receipt of your purchase and email correspondence with your wallet address. This is subject upon us reaching our funding goal and will occur at the end of the campaign

hmmm a risk and challenges section that doesn't list any risks, that's a good sign

# ? Jul 28, 2015 04:40

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