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Rule #1 of Presentations is this: know thy audience.

When Steve Jobs used pie charts in his keynotes, he was addressing an audience of developers, consumers, and loyalists. These were people he needed to keep impressed, and a great way to impress people is to make the data seem really BIG and compelling and outsized. (Remember that one presentation with the graph that expanded its axes and "zoomed out" in real time? That's serious data showmanship right there).

Pie charts may not be the most accurate way to represent data, but when your goal is to sell a story, they can do the job nicely. That even nontechnical consumers are used to seeing them makes them easily digestible, too; in this sense, pie charts are a form of universally recognizable data language. Pie may be junk food of a sort, but it's comfort food all the same.

You seem to believe that there is a "best" way to represent data, but therein lies the assumption that all audiences are largely homogenous. I disagree. There are certainly universal principles for good presentation design, but data representation is a tough one. The sophistication and expectations of the audience play a huge role in how you should speak to that audience.
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I was just wishing for this. Sign me up! I hope this becomes a reality. I'd love to stream while I work. I just need to figure out a way to keep things like our api and secret keys private.
But is it even planned to come to IE11? IE12? When can we expect it from IE?

On html5test.com IE9 still seems to score about half as any other Windows browser, so hopefully IE10 will try to catch-up with them in more HTML5 functionality. They say they want to support HTML5 but so far they are supporting it the least.
Totally. The shift for XP users is really really big.
Are you referring to one of these? :/
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Superb article. In fact when i first used NoSQL I realized that the real benefit was that I could avoid taking complicated joins.
> Remember, if both parties aren't better off, why would the trade even happen?

That certainly is true for goods and services, but it just seems awfully abstract from, say, high frequency trading as a profession. How much value is that adding to the world, compared with, say, going out and creating something? I'm not saying it should be banned or anything along those lines, just that I'm not convinced that it's adding much to the world. Even things like games or movies make people happy, even if they're not 'productive'.
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Love the idea. Would definitely use it!
I hate 'me too' comments, but this is where I'll jump in - I think it's a great idea, and would have saved me a lot of browsing/googling. Especially useful when you go to less explored areas in Europe, say East Europe, that have unknown airports, unknown airlines.
Possibly two features to add on once the service is up:
- Search for connecting flights
- Have an option to select all airports within X miles.
All that really matters is how much you get paid per hour right? If high paying hours were easier to come by through salaried work, you could just work at a job with a salary for a year and then quit.
I and several family members have had success with http://www.gaps.me/ which is a variation of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet.
I agree, there has to be a feature so that when a particular sequence of characters gets entered, the screen blurs it out. But even then, it would take many other people using it, and the functionality working, for me to trust it.
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I just have to say that the bar chart you show is so small that I can hardly read the numbers, so based on that I would say the pie chart won. As you mentioned in your other article, if you can't read it (aka 3d charts) then it is pretty much useless.
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Great idea! When I watched that livestreaming from Notch, I thought about this and I almost bought the domain name http://watchmecode.net. I am curious to see how well this is going to be executed!
I agree totally...just pointing out that the site is useless to us living outside of the USA. Hard to get excited about something that is, from a European resident's perspective, useless.
@Trevor - NB that gilded turd may not always be a bad thing..
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...than if they sell it direct through the online store, perhaps. I would imagine the overall margins to Apple on an iPad sold in a Best Buy and an iPad sold in an Apple Store are similar, because Apple Stores are typically located on extremely expensive real estate and have much higher running costs than Best Buy stores.

Apple obviously would prefer you to buy it in an Apple Store, because they have more control over the consumer relationship and experience - but running a physical retail store is not cheap, and that's a cost Apple has to cover if they sell direct, which they don't if they sell via Best Buy.
Couldn't really see it from my phone but is that a comma next to 'handle'? Looks like wrong use of a comma.
Obviously, replacing a sitting desk with a standing desk is not the answer. The answer is (surprise! surprise!) do pauses after each hour and take 10-15 min. active recreation. Exactly the same as it was in a school or college. It is not about sitting or standing still all day long, it is all about moving!

Most of really good ideas have been discovered long long ago. ^_^
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I Love the idea.
Or a private button to push in order to be off air for a while.
is it just me or does the background music make this demo seem like a movie preview?
seems like Joel is about to meet his long lost brother, who at first, completely ruins his life, but in the end makes him learn a lot more about himself!
Interesting detail: I saw this link in an email I got very recently about VimConf. At the bottom it says "Copyright 30 Cubits LLC"—the contact email at 30 Cubits' page[1] is for Joey, I'd assume it's the same Joey as the guy behind VimConf. Man's on a roll!

[1] http://30cubits.com/
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Oh, good, now I can't just ignore IE users when making rich HTML5 apps. Thanks, Microsoft.
Yes, it's also harder because it requires leaders with strength of character, willing to be misunderstood, willing to go against the grain, willing to stand alone at times, even in the face of opposition.

Weak leaders who don't do evil, but who also fail to do good, or fail to actively advocate and define doing good, are as much part of the problem because they fail in their responsibility of teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in matters of service.

You would only need to "spin it as being in the company's best interests" if the employer truly believes that business on any basis other than service is the most profitable.
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That is true.

Yet I constantly think about the various companies that hype their Windows-powered tablets which never are released. Due to that happening a number of times with HP, and others, I've been expecting Microsoft to one-up the hardware companies and make their own tablet. Just get done with it. Or, stop the idiots from hyping incomplete products.

That's why I mixed issues like that together.
Pretty much completely off topic, but Bassano del Grappa was the first place I went in Italy the first time I came here. Beautiful town and a nice area, with the mountains to the north, and the plains of the Veneto to the south.
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WTF? Why is this being down-voted?
Yea, didn't see it coming. Fixed now.
I lived there for 4 years, which is when I started work on FlightM8. It's the only place other than New Zealand that's ever felt like home.

I miss it a lot. I'm off for a visit there this weekend however, which should be nice.
BTW, I realize now this could be read sarcastically. I didn't meant it that way at all. I know from the blog post it took 9 months, but I'm also curious the composition of the team that built it.
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Good one! Like the idea. The UI needs some hard thinking but for a prototype it's very good. If you had a vision to actually make this happen and include all other transport options I think you wouldn't have too much trouble finding someone to throw money your way.
The beard confirms. Great ideas indeed.
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There's a half baked feature in development at the time I shelved this to find connecting flights with any airline. The hope was that backpackers (for example) could plan cheap flights around the world, flying from say the UK to Australia with budget airlines all the way.
Judging from the advertisements in local phone stores here, I'd say that Samsung and Motorola appeal much more to the young folks, while HTC is more of a premium brand for executives and uber-geeks who want to fiddle with the bootloader.

I think Apple is still sort of both... it still has the "cool" factor inherited from the iPod. But I know a bunch of 13, 14 year old kids (I work at an university, and we have a school) who have iPhones, and not one who owns an Android.

But YMMV
Why would we need this? I don't get it.
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Well, party A says "I will be hurt if the price of this asset falls" and party B says "Well, I don't think it will, so if you pay me a smaller fee upfront, I'll cover any losses you make for the next T time". Multiply by thousands of assets (which a big mutual fund may well hold) and thousands of updates a second as everyone else in the market trades to their own ends, and you have the essence of HFT.
Unfortunately I don't believe there is a way to install this on Windows 7... Rubbish! Was hoping to see some of my websites render as expected on IE!
That question and its history would need many pages to be properly explained. I'll just say that a country that looks very similar to yours can do some things in a surprisingly different manner.
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Every release since IE 8 has been so insanely far ahead of the previous one- you can't really blame the current team since they haven't stopped yet. They really do want to support HTML5, they just have a lot more ground to make up than everyone else.
That's maybe the best way to drive a 12 year old _AWAY_ from software development. What's really interesting is building stuff and seeing how it runs. When working alone you don't need to design with models/diagrams (heck, you probably don't even need that in a team most of the time). You don't need unit tests or a deployment strategy or a schedule. Just build stuff, have fun and try to learn something.

I know this does not help the original poster. Most books about iPhone/Android development are probably not suited for a 12 year old. Maybe starting from tutorials or little open source apps is a good way: Read the code, try to improve it, see what works. Iterate.
I think all you need are good channel descriptions, that way a novice who knows a little Python can choose to watch a stream of someone with 3-4 years Python experience rather than someone with 20 years of C experience doing linux kernel hacking.
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Stop by and say hi in Padova some time. Always up for a spritz/pizza/whatever.

Well, almost always; we just bought a new house here and it's a load of work. Send email though, and I'll see what we can do if you're ever in the area.
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Do I read this correctly in saying that for men without IHD, the ones who stood all day had their artery walls thicken by 0.33mm over four years while those who stood not at all had theirs thicken by 0.24mm? And that the nine-fold increase is only for people with ischaemic heart disease? So the article is wrong: it's not 900% but 37% in people who don't have IHD?

The idea is that thicker artery walls are associated with heart disease, right? Is there reason to believe the relationship is linear? Otherwise we can't say that because we saw a nine-fold difference in delta IMT that we expect a ninefold increase in risk.
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Actually, I assumed that VimConf was a great marketing strategy for castingcode.tv - am I wrong to think that the product came first and then the conference idea?
I've been thinking about this for the last few days, and finally got around to searching... and found this question on Stack Exchange.

In my head, I don't see it as a huge thing like OOC is with garbage collection and all, but a smaller thing that takes care of allocations and for-loops, etc. Just making the code easier to deal with, instead of radically altering it. Doing things for you that you'd do anyhow, but don't really need to see happen.
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Windows BSOD's have "always" (as long as I can remember) been localised. I would guess your assumption is correct, since it's entirely possible to install Windows without English support (I don't use OSX, but a quick search gave the impression that English is non-removable there).
I think that's an artifact of his blog shrinking both charts.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FgA0y68WIKI/TnCFePEOtYI/AAAAAAAAAz...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_3G3MdDBjCA/TnCFUbUBthI/AAAAAAAAAz...

However, I believe this is a counterexample to JGC's challenge:

http://www.failepicfail.com/epic-fail/1102/mmm-pie-pie-eaten...
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Agree - it would be nice to have a site that 'just works' though, with less/no flexibility.
These are nice for Android development:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL34F010EEF9D45FB8

He might need to learn some Java first, though. Thenewboston has some nice Java ones, too.
A lot of people are seeing this as useless- one commenter called it "function follows form."

I actually think this one's better- with "You can search for the error online: SOME_ERROR_CODE_HERE" it will overwhelm less people and get more people to a place they can find help.
Interesting - do you have a link / app name?
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I'm guessing your second point is the reason why HTC is pushing HTC Sense so hard. "Any piece of crap can run Android, but if you want a Sense phone you have to get an HTC"
Helps me to concentrate.
Can we take seriously something that discusses secure server operating systems without mentioning any of the BSDs? Nor that Linux is something OSs like Debian, RHEL et al are based on, without itself being an OS.
au contraire, they probably realized that people see the text on a BSOD, freak the fuck out, and go crazy wondering what's wrong with their computer.

now at least they expose only the most useful information to the user ("you need to restart", "here's a thing you can search for to find more information") instead of crazy stuff like "beginning physical memory dump" and STOP codes.
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How many people in your inner circle were able to make _any_ use of that information?

I'm not sure what to think about the emoticon (don't like those too much), but I don't think something valuable to the general public was lost here..
Yeah, it is a bit weird: some of the stuff from Canonical's design department is great (like scrolling indicators, getting rid of 'Quit'), and some is mediocre at best (like Unity)
It's not really closed, it's more like an "open beta" that requires registration first. I signed up just out of curiosity and submitted a bug report (which was a known issue, d'oh) and it never felt "closed".

You can sign up here https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-typeface-interest after which you will be given access to the "private" https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-font-beta-testing where you can download the beta.

edit: oh, it says all that at the top of TFA.
While there is no 'best' way to present data, per se, there are studies that show some are [much] better suited to the purpose than others (Cleveland & McGill).

About the only thing a pie chart is useful for is exposing the idea that the whole is the sum of its parts. If you care at all about those parts specifically then a pie chart fails you. Annotations help this, but at that point it's not the graphic that is conveying the information and you'd be better off removing the noise.
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I bet I have a better idea for you.

Set up the same thing for watching people design. I don't design much, but I love and learn incredible amounts from watching people design. Could be any format -- web, print, architectural, etc.

Design is inherently more visual, so watching others communicates more and is probably more fun and engaging.

Also I suspect more people design than code so you probably get a bigger audience getting more from it.
Quick criticism. Please take it as points to improve:

The UI is too complicated and confusing. I can't get my head around it. Can you simplify it?

Zooming in and out of the map with the mouse wheel doesn't work.

Too many error messages. Instead of saying "you didn't pick any destination", ask me to pick one from a list or predictive textbox.

Don't show me destinations to which there are no routes. Spending five minutes clicking around to get an error message in the end is no fun.

Don't separate the to and from locations so much visually. Tabs don't feel right for that kind of thing. Anyway, it's just two fields, just show them together.

You didn't completely carry through the concept of going from place to place, rather than airport to airport. When I search for Paris as my destination, you show me a dot on Paris the city, and couple of dots for the airports. My instinct is to click on the dot for the city, not the airports. Let me select the dot for the city.

You could make this really intuitive by getting rid of the text boxes entirely. Let me just click on the map to do everything. Click to select both start and end locations.
I think this is largely true, but the converse is that the only big reason people buy iPhones IS the 'cool factor' (ie. marketing). That's why HTC want to challenge that.

In the UK at least, I see a lot of people with iPhones and also a lot with android phones (mostly HTCs). However, when people see my Nexus One, they often say 'Oh is that an iPhone?' because the word iPhone is synonymous with touchscreen phones. The iPhone has the brand and the public awareness which is what helps it sell.

If HTC or other Android partners manage to erode that, they could stand to gain heavily. A huge portion of smartphone customers really don't know or care about the differences (good or bad) between one smartphone and another.
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In my searches, I also came across a comment saying it would be silly to compile to C++ instead of just using LLVM instead.

In my case, there's a game programming library that is C++ that I wanted to use.
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Exactly, until their counterparts are all gone and they're left moving hot potatoes among themselves.
I think Jaiku is the more apt comparison, for what it's worth.
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All good points, and taken fully on board.
The problem with Google is that they don't seem interested in doing the hard work to go from 90% of the way there to a full product. It's like that with nearly everything they do. Often, it shows up as a US-only policy (flight search currently fits that bill). Other times, it's just random things. There are no Apps accounts for Google+. There's no "Tablet Optimized" section of the Android Market outside the US (and of course no books or movies either, but that's not their fault necessarily).

Most people aren't going to be interested in replacing something that works with something that sometimes works. Google might have a great flight search engine, but if I have to use Orbitz 30% of the time, I'll just use Orbitz. I already have an account set up there, and I can actually buy the ticket instead of having to find the flight, go to the airline web site, and search the flight again to buy it.
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May I suggest Deluge (http://deluge-torrent.org/)?

It's open-source, cross-platform and very similar to µTorrent in both functionality and looks.
courgette is just a binary diff algorithm -- there's nothing fancy to it (they use some really neat tricks, though), and apparently (I haven't verified) the source is in the chromium tree.

validating your updates via asymmetric crypto can be mildly expensive (http://www.verisign.com/code-signing/content-signing-certifi... lists Windows Authenticode certificates at $400/yr) but is within the realm of a small company.

setting up a Google-scale CDN and writing a reliable push update framework? that's the hard part.
Unity is awesome. I honestly find it better than OS X's desktop.
Am I the only who loathe the current trend of posting things before they are finished?

I am all for the lean approach, but this isn't a minimum viable product (that would be a player and a tagging system to find the language I was interested in) it is a website.
Another vote to be able to import and export data.
I don't think I dare to use it. I usually code and Command-Tab to HN quite often, that would be annoying for people who watch me. On a positive side, that could force me to focus.
Once the platform is up for watching people code, it could be easily generalized to other fields as long as the work gets done on a computer.
This works really well. I actually learned some syntax elements I did not know before, like :: for accessing an object's prototype (Array::slice).