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Almost every company that's out there runs some form of A/B tests to measure the success/failure of their features. Typically, A/B tests span a few weeks (2-3). Is that timeframe enough to make critical decisions? What's your take on short lived A/B tests? I found the paper interesting. Has anyone tried this/something similar outside of Google?

Ask HN: Proven ways to run on-page SEO experiments at scale

What techniques do you use to run on-page SEO experiments at scale?Apart from the content on the page, there are a few things on the page that can add SEO value. Getting the right title, meta tags and enough links pointing to a page.But how do we measure the significance of each of the factors?In most cases, we'll have more than 1 experiment running on a page. Some experiments are meant for...

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Re:Ask HN: What did you build with your RaspberryPI? on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:40PM (#16769419)
Built a Media Player using Kodi. Then Netflix happened.
ha! got it. http://htmlmuncher.com/ does similar stuff.

Ask HN: Confused Software Engineer

I am in need for help but not sure whom to ask. To be honest, my other developer friends are also on the same boat. So, I hope somebody out here can help me. I am 30yr old software developer with 9+ yrs of experience in Java/J2EE. I have worked throughout the stack. I have managed mid sized teams and I have also worked as an individual contributor. I have reasonable exposure to Python and R. I...

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