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Can Analytics Help Fix Your Love Life?

Posted by samzenpus on from the 13%-increase-in-kissing-this-month dept.

d2ncal wrote in to tell us about a new service that takes all the guess work out of a relationship by providing you with timely feedback, and charts to see how your affection is trending. TheIcebreak was created by Christina Brodbeck and Dwipal Desai, who gave up their jobs at YouTube to create the relationship quantifying service. The pair have gone to great lengths to become relationship experts by doing things such as: reading books on relationships, and enlisting the help of a couples therapist, to ensure that the data collected is useful to your long term love life. The service is free now, and Android and iPhone apps are coming soon."

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  1. This software must be broken by elrous0 · · Score: 2

    I entered all my info and now all it ever responds with is "Outlook not so good" every time I ask it for advice on improving my love life.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  2. Obvious answer by Nidi62 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you have to use an analytics app to gauge how your relationship is doing and get suggestions, then you are probably already beyond help.

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    The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
    1. Re:Obvious answer by archen · · Score: 2

      I'd actually think the reverse is true. Relationships which are most doomed to fail are the ones where people refuse to fix their problems. For that matter these people are often delusional and tell themselves that everything is just fine. Just because a relationship appears healthy doesn't mean there are things lurking beneath the surface which will doom it. Occasionally asking yourself if there are signs of danger, or what you can improve upon is a good thing to do but often not obvious. Sometimes listening to outside advice is a good thing. Usually this duty is relegated to friends and relatives, but many people fall into traps so common that a computer really could warn people about some of them.

  3. Will you get married? by Culture20 · · Score: 2

    Text your name and your crush's name to 555-uztupid! Brought to you by the people that think you're stupid enough to buy a ringtone you heard on TV for $5.

  4. 10 easy steps to a fruitful love life... by DemonGenius · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) Hold yourself to a high standard (hygiene, fashion, confidence [the real kind, not the knock-all-others-down-a-peg kind], health, well-roundedness [have lots of other things to do than obsess over girls and sex])

    2) Pay attention to her every nuance, her reactions to what you say and do, her favorite ice-cream or wine, where she likes to be touched, anything. Everything she does is data to be stored in your internal database. Pay attention to detail like you do with code, it's an underrated talent that programmers have but don't apply to anything else IRL.

    3) Do not internalize, you will only shoot yourself down

    4) Make her miss you, be available, but not too available, YMMV depending on her interest

    5) Know when to call it quits and move on, some girls will appreciate your company while others will give an inch while they take your mile.

    6) Don't be negative and don't rant about shit she obviously isn't interested in. Some girls DO think nerds are cute, even hot ones, but don't want to hear a long-winded passage about the Prime Directive (whatever that is, I'm a Star Wars fan :p)

    7) Layman's terms, layman's terms, layman's terms, I can't stress this enough. You can't connect with a girl if you can't relate to her. Even with layman's terms, most of our professions are still to complicated to understand. They are just fine with hearing that you really love your job and consider it like an art form and how your work helps people (depending on the profession, that is).

    8) Clean your house, make it spotless and keep it that way. Your living quarters are a reflection of who you are as a person, and girls pick up on this.

    9) Money is (almost) no object, IF the girl appreciates it. Don't look cheap, but don't look desperate either. Pay for her dinner, get her good seats to the hockey game, etc. Be wary of gold diggers (see #5)

    10) Get help from someone more experienced than you who is willing to help you (someone who isn't a PUA who only cares about getting into panties anyway, they fail at just about everything else regarding women). Search the internet, but be wary of the sources. Advice from men has priority over advice from women by a huge margin. Ignore tips from movies, TV, romance novels, your mom at all possible costs!

    *Coming from 15+ years experience of being an abject failure at romance, and finally getting some well deserved poetic justice :)

  5. Re:Some problems can't be fixed. by grimmjeeper · · Score: 2

    I speak multiple languages, even ones that are made up. I can tell you everything you never wanted to know about the history of the Jeep. I can write code that makes a computer get up and dance. I can quote Monty Python off the top of my head for days without repeating myself. How much more excellence can there be in one man? And why can the women not see this excellence?

    And yes, this bit of sarcasm was brought to you in order to emphasize the joke that was my first post...