Superstition vs Randomness
AKA Not As Interesting An Article As The Title Might Suggest.
Here at Etheraffle, we don’t like staying still, which is handy because there is always much to be done. Plenty of development irons are currently warming in many development fires. Some large, and some small, but all important. Recently we finished one of those smaller tasks by adding in the much requested feature: The easy picking of random numbers to enter an Etheraffle draw with.
For the less superstitious among us, having ‘chosen’ numbers be at the whim of randomness is desirable — humans are notoriously bad at mimicking randomness after all. Some of our own developers in fact prefer it this way, relying on the speedier and truer (though far from perfect) randomness that computers can deliver. Others on our team however have their numbers, numbers which mean something, and that are lucky, numbers from which they will never deviate. Etheraffle of course couldn’t possibly comment on which is the better method, but whichever you prefer, Etheraffle now caters for you!
If however you are of the more superstitious variety, it may be of interest to you that that one time a developer of ours won the lottery was actually whilst testing the new random number picker function! Make of that what you will, but apparently javascript’s Math.random() function may well hold the key to winning the lottery.
Philosophical questions aside, pleased with our working implementation of a random number picker (working too well, perhaps), we quickly pushed the new build to the server for people to start using it. However, it turns out that in our haste to implement it, we may have overlooked its, well, looks. In fact, being overlooked was the main conclusion we drew from the scant feedback we received after it’s implementation. Users didn’t even notice the addition!
And so this small update is to address just that. Whether you’re the sort to use it or not, we’ve made the ‘Randomise’ button massive so at the very least you’ll hopefully not miss it from now on!
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