[JoachimSchipper]

> folks overestimate my skill at hacking

Actually, I was under the impression that you were mainly known for BCC, which doesn't look that technically sophisticated (of course, it does require good marketing/SEO/etc, and your candid posts and expertise are very welcome).

Care to brag a little?

[patio11]

Most of BCC (and AR, and my day job work, and my client work) is fairly pedestrian, programming-wise. I can usually eventually get code to function to accomplish arbitrary objectives most of the time. Yay.

My limited claim to fame with regards to programming is that I am good at designing and passable at implementing systems/code which improve marketing outcomes: A/B testing, various types of optimization, scalable content generation, conversion tracking and optimization, etc. It turns out that this is a) not nearly as common as being good at programming and b) anywhere from "spiffy" at BCC scales to "changed the way we did business" (quoth a rather happy client, who you've all heard of).

[tptacek]

The Bingo Card Generator is not the part of BCC that is technically sophisticated.

[JoachimSchipper]

Didn't you describe it as a "hello world project hooked up to a random number generator" at some point? ;-)

I do recall that Patrick has written a supposedly-neat A/B testing framework - is that what you're referring to?

[I'm not trolling, just honestly curious!]

[tptacek]

The bingo card generator is, in a sense, "hello world" hooked up to a random number generator. The mechanisms built around that small piece of software to demonstrate and provide value are what's sophisticated about BCC.