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Jasber

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Jasber··on Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
Absolutely––this is high on the priority list.
Jasber··on Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
Try your left/right keyboard keys––they should be very quick.

I'll try to make it more clear you can do this on the landing page.

Jasber··on Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
This shouldn't be a problem––at the very least I can add it as a keyboard shortcut.
Jasber··on Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
Wanted to clarify this isn't officially from SubltePatterns. I reached out to Atle (the creator) and got his permission to create this.

He deserves 100% of the credit for the patterns, I just created the bookmarklet. And I agree, SubtlePatterns does rock :)

Jasber··on Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
Thanks, I'll add this as an advanced option since I agree the default "body" selector doesn't always work.
Jasber··on Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
I'll get this corrected tonight–-thanks for pointing it out.
Jasber··on Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
This is a little bookmarklet I built that lets you preview the great patterns from http://subtlepatterns.com directly on your website.

Feedback and comments welcome :)

Jasber··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2013)
SEEKING WORK - Triangle, NC or REMOTE

Full-stack developer + "business guy" with 10+ years of experience

Specialize in conversion rate optimization (making you more money).

Resume: http://bradjasper.com/resume/

Latest Mobile App: http://bradjasper.com/perfectpitchpiano/

Latest Web App: http://domaingroovy.com/

Latest Side Project: http://bradjasper.com/subtle-patterns-bookmarklet/

I love building cool stuff, e-mail me :)

Jasber··on A/B testing mistakes
I recently implemented A/B testing on a client's site using one of these Javascript-based A/B testing tools (but not this one).

I hadn't used one before, so wanted to verify the data would actually be accurate.

I did an A/A test, basically testing the same exact page––expecting the results would be the same.

Not only were the results not the same, but they were off by a wide margin.

Given this, I don't know how I'm supposed to trust any of the data.

Has anyone else had experiences like this? Is A/B testing in Javascript just not as reliable?

Jasber··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2013)
SEEKING WORK - Raleigh, NC or Remote

Full-stack developer (web/mobile) with strong business sense. I love customer development, inbound marketing and funnel optimization.

10+ years of writing code and building product. If you need someone who can code and knows business––I may be your guy.

Resume: http://bradjasper.com/resume/

Contact: contact@bradjasper.com

Jasber··on Root Domain Website Hosting for Amazon S3
Shouldn't be a huge issue, but for search I think it's best practices to have one redirect to the other.
Jasber··on Show HN: Preview Subtle Patterns on Your Website (bookmarklet)
This is quick bookmarklet I hacked together to preview patterns from http://subtlepatterns.com on your website (or any website for that matter).
Jasber··on Show HN: High Quality Available Domain Names For Your Startup
This is a side project I had launched under a different name a long time ago. Recently I spent some time fixing it up and relaunched it on the home page of DomainGroovy.

Would love some feedback on what it would take to get to 10/10.

Jasber··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2012)
SEEKING WORK - Raleigh, NC (remote/travel are fine)

I'm a fullstack software developer with over 10 years of experience.

I primarily work in Python/Django, Objective-C and HTML/CSS/Javsscript.

I love business, marketing, branding and customer development.

I've built everything from million dollar eCommerce systems and large distributed systems to full-responsive designs and complex frontend UIs (using Knockout/jQuery).

View my portfolio at: http://bradjasper.com/

Contact me at: contact@bradjasper.com

Jasber··on Want good programmers? Then pay them.
Out of curiosity why would you rather be a garbage man than write Python for a living?
Jasber··on Simplicity Matters By Rich Hickey (Keynote at RailsConf 2012)
Has anyone watched both? Are they significantly different?
Jasber··on Show HN: Punch - A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites
I think he means for the dynamically rendered parts, like "GitHub Watchers".
Jasber··on I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer
I don't think requiring employees to take time off is a bad thing.

If you really don't want to you don't have to.

But the point is to allow employees to take time off without feeling guilty, while still allowing them to control their own schedule.

Jasber··on I Guess I'm Not A 501 Developer
I also enjoy this environment, but it does have a big drawback.

I always felt like I was letting my team down when I was taking time off. So I took a lot less time off.

Ideally I'd prefer an environment that had an open schedule and also expected employees to take a certain amount of time off every year.

Jasber··on Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement
I think this is what he was talking about: http://twitter.github.com/
Jasber··on Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement
It might hurt your chances of being acquired if the acquiring company doesn't want the restrictions on the patents (greedy patent troll or not).

I could see investors having a problem with this.

Jasber··on Yahoo Crosses The Line
This sounds like a good setup (and workaround the name+tag issue). Can regular Gmail handle a catch all or is this a paid feature?
Jasber··on Awful Recruiters
I expected this to be a Coding Horror for bad recruiters. Now that would be interesting :)
Jasber··on Splash screens == sloth
About loading screens, I've always wondered why games don't try to get rid of these (maybe they do?).

Anyone familiar with why you have to have loading screens in games? Would it be possible to pre-load a level while you're playing?

Jasber··on Basecamp Next: UI Preview
Are you pre-caching or just caching after the first hit?
Jasber··on Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor
This just pushed me into signing up too. I thought it would be a long complicated process. It wasn't. Definitely worth it.
Jasber··on Quick Salary Tip for Software Engineers
You should be careful here:

I bet you work from home too sometimes, so deduct a %age of your rent and utilities.

This is usually a big red flag for IRS audits. It's my understanding you have to have a dedicated area just for work. So lounging on your couch wouldn't count. A corner desk or separate office is fine I think.

Jasber··on A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
Why not post them somewhere and transfer them to someone who might use them?
Jasber··on My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)
It's been mentioned, but check out Alfred. I'm a big fan.
Jasber··on Jon Stewart skewers Freemium iOS Games [video]
I'm not sure that's true, I just think that's the most prevalent/profitable type of freemium game–one based on accelerating constraints.

Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc, then offer premium priced value added services or an enhanced version of your service to your customer base.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2006/03/the_freemium_bu.html

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