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ssarah··on Napoleon Was the Best General Ever
There is some math missing. I don't remember the name now, but when something has a 2:1 positive to negative ratio of votes but only has 3 votes, and another thing also has a 2:1 ratio but has 400 votes, it's not the same ratio.

My money is still on Hannibal and Alexander as being the best generals. They both fought and won battles against huge odds. And invented amazing tactics. You know that saying: "how much a smartphone costs? A few billion for the first one in research, and few hundred for all the others." The only thing that I heard Napoleon invented was that defeat in detail thing. I invented that on my own when playing starcraft as a kid :/ I think napoleon truly took advantage of the idea of the republic where each man owned himself and had to serve for citizenship. But I'm no expert, so yeh: some math seems to be missing.

ssarah··on Show HN: Randomly generate ascii animals
what you mean random generate? it seems it goes and fetches a random txt file and prints it?
ssarah··on Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets
Since the results are stacked on the browser, for that particular search you typed, you could always search (:colors:)(:words/verbs:) and (:colors:)(:words/adverbs:) separately and I believe you will get the full list you want. But I really have to generate the regex and availability results before being able to apply the filters. As for the colors: yes the sets need to be improved. (: You got some suggestions?
ssarah··on Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets
Hmm, the color scheme is hard to change, but maybe I can implement a parallel symbolic scheme to help those users out. Do you have some suggestions I could use?
ssarah··on Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets
I'm sorry guys, we can't WHOIS every domain, so there will be a few false positives.
ssarah··on Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets
Working on it. Hard to get all those zones (; Thanks for your comment.
ssarah··on Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets
That's a nifty idea. Will think about it. Thanks for the feedback.
ssarah··on Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets
Because of performance and privacy concerns, we are not able to resolve a WHOIS request for all domains. Hence, there will be a few false positives. You can check our FAQs for a bit more info on this.
ssarah··on Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets
We're just two developers working solo, based in Portugal. We didn't create any public profiles, but feel free to contact us ;) As for your question concerning privacy: it was also one of my main concerns. We don't log or track anything on our servers, and we will keep it that way.
ssarah··on Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets
It yields the results of each regex element separately, so it's hard to come up with a functional implementation capped results. Still, I'll look into it. But even then, the main question is if you really want to see the head of a list of billions of combinations like you propose?