I Can't Decide • Hacker News Board

Re: I Can't Decide

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Post by mattmaroon » Mon, Dec 08, 2008, 7:52 AM UTC

drusenko wrote: post #20

jwilliams wrote: post #3

Seems to be overloaded at the moment... Took ages to load and then said I was answering too quickly?

this is a perfect example of premature optimization. same thing happened to me. i'm not sure how you could screw up a web app this simple. they seem to have gone in and tried to institute some form of rate limiting, and it's actually kicking out legitimate users with that error, now.

I'm getting the impression that it's not rate limiting, it's just running out of questions since not many people are asking them. It says something like that, and even if I fill it out slowly I never make it through.

Re: I Can't Decide

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Post by evilneanderthal » Mon, Dec 08, 2008, 7:54 AM UTC

btw0 wrote: post #19

One thing, on the stats page i.e. http://icantdeci.de/mostvotes/today , different heights of the pairs of two option divs would mislead people to think the heights are proportional to number of votes, which I later found is not true.

also, it doesn't show the actual number of votes.

so, on a choice with many votes, if it's 50-50 with an odd number of votes you can't tell which one wins.

Re: I Can't Decide

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Post by jrockway » Mon, Dec 08, 2008, 7:57 AM UTC

FWIW, a similar site called doxory.com (do x or y) has been around for ages. If this site is overloaded, try out doxory.

Re: I Can't Decide

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Post by mapleoin » Mon, Dec 08, 2008, 8:40 AM UTC

I'm surprised how nobody said that this was A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME!, yet...

Re: I Can't Decide

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Post by streety » Mon, Dec 08, 2008, 8:44 AM UTC

aquateen wrote: post #9

I remember a site similar to this, giving you two options and you choose one of them. The only thing distinct about this one was the options were placed on the text of each button, and sometimes they'd get pretty long. Anyone know the url? I remember having a laugh reading some of them.

jrockway mentioned doxory.com

Might be what you're looking for.

Re: I Can't Decide

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Post by sireat » Mon, Dec 08, 2008, 9:27 AM UTC

Very addictive, very KISS. Small gripe though, after about 10 answers I got a repeat question ("a or b"). Might have been a good idea to seed the site with about 100-200 questions before even releasing to public.

Re: I Can't Decide

#27

Post by Angostura » Mon, Dec 08, 2008, 9:56 AM UTC

Anyone know what the 'star' functionality is meant to be for? Clicking the question mark next to it simply selected the star. Mouseover didn't giove any helpful tooltips either.

Re: I Can't Decide

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Post by mattjung » Mon, Dec 08, 2008, 10:35 AM UTC

If you can't decide or look for alternatives, you might also want to try my solution to that problem: http://dezidr.com

Re: I Can't Decide

#29

Post by ashleyw » Mon, Dec 08, 2008, 11:09 AM UTC

    2^10
      or
    ((10*101)+(((2^3)*2)-2))

Ummm...

Vert cool, like the design, layout, and how it works! :)

Re: I Can't Decide

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Post by delackner » Mon, Dec 08, 2008, 11:10 AM UTC

d0mine wrote: post #6

`to be or not to be` seems to be working

The question is, do we live in an age where someone (admittedly someone in a very strange place mentally) might actually take the response seriously, or is that age just a few years or months away?