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The platform lets you create stories in familiar universes, but you can’t just write your way to an instant win. Now in early access!

We made a micro-story creator that allows generation and remixing of stories!

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It's actually because Twitter rate limits the oembed endpoint by IP, so the app caches the oembed codes and uses those if it gets limited. I've been meaning to flip that bit to the…

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Only women have to prove that they are engineers enough to matter to HN. Men get that for free.

This isn't a problem with guys or with developers in general. The vast majority of people who participate in conference are good people. However, it only takes one person (out of t…

Thanks. I just deployed this update. Have fun!

It's a play on "duck duck goose", the children's game. The similarity to duckduckgo was unintentional, but I like it. I actually wanted to call it "bookroulette", but all permutati…

Yes! This was really just to establish the base case -- is randomly 'walking' through all books available interesting?

Both, actually. The API is too slow to use live for this app.

To be clear, I'm not knowledgeable about online advertising. I do understand that the incentives of the advertisers and the users are often opposed, but I was highlighting this as …

In most data analysis work, we assume that the data resides in some database and that you have the luxury of iterating over that data as many times as you like to get to a final re…

Don't read too much into that example -- I chose it as a humorous metaphor, not a mathematical argument, and I messed up the delivery in the talk, anyway. I'll refine the example f…

I started this job before "data scientist" was in common usage. My title was scientist. Then we hired more scientists, so I got a promotion. :) We build systems on top of the bitly…

The video is on sale for $14.99 today w/code DDMAS. And let me know if you have any questions!

I'm happy to e-mail the PPT with notes and image attribution URLs, too. Ping me at h@bit.ly!

Yes. I didn't know about the Chrome extension when I created this project or I would have chosen another name.

This is at bit.ly world headquarters in NYC. I'm looking forward to seeing you there!

Thanks! I'm trying to use the model of the unix command line -- each script is useful and simple on its own, but in combination they become incredibly powerful.

I agree. For example, why do we look at email ranked chronologically? I'd much rather rank it by relevance or importance (or my likelihood to actually answer it). The feature set i…