(Linear) A/B testing

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To understand today's xkcd, you need to know what A/B Testing is, what Linear A and Linear B are, what Aksara Kawi is, what JavaScript and some of its subtypes are, …

Mouseover title: "We wrote our site in Linear A rather than Aksara Kawi because browser testing showed that Crete script rendered faster than Java script."

Then again, today's strip may have an educational effect…



5 Comments

  1. ===Dan said,

    May 18, 2019 @ 2:05 pm

    (I always go to explainxkcd.com for the first level of explanation.)

  2. milu said,

    May 18, 2019 @ 3:45 pm

    by now i just assume it's certainly very witty and laugh anyway

  3. Gene Buckley said,

    May 18, 2019 @ 4:30 pm

    I never thought of that "Java script" meaning before. Well done.

  4. David Morris said,

    May 18, 2019 @ 5:54 pm

    JavaScript is what makes coffee shop employees mis-spell everyone's name.

  5. Gregory Kusnick said,

    May 19, 2019 @ 12:34 am

    I thought Java script was when your doctor prescribes caffeine.

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