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I figured it was alluding to more conventional approaches to learning them. Reads like you’re making assumptions and defending instead of engaging with criticism in good faith.

Where does the commenter say it was only a glance? I share the feeling.

https://tenki.so is a tabular representation of the 7-day weather forecast across Japan, which I made for traveling opportunistically.

After the JMA updated their 7-day forecast to be harder to read at a glance, I started pulling and processing the data hourly using Cloudflare workers and trying to present it densely and intuitively using Flareact. It’s been fun exercising the limits of workers (streaming XML at first), organizing the data effectively, and playing with visualization… as well as having a great way to pick a destination when a spell of dark weather is approaching home.

Mega thanks for making and posting this. I've been searching for a tool to "destructure" exactly this way... not necessarily down to radicals, but to any part that has meaning by itself.

Thank you for citing your sources too. As others have mentioned, much of the fun of learning is developing the tools, and this thread helps fill a gaping hole in mine.

How is viewing Chernobyl from that angle useful in this context?

The Houston Ship Channel has the potential to become an environmental disaster similar to Chernobyl, but affecting the fourth-largest population and economic center in the US.

It's not hyperbole -- if you drive down 225 and 146 from Houston to Galveston, it feels like you're in the Sonic the Hedgehog Chemical Plant Zone... it just goes on and on at an unbelievable scale. It self-perpetuates partially because expanding existing petrochemical complexes seems to meet less opposition than building new ones.

https://www.google.com/search?q=houston+ship+channel+plants&...

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7348066,-95.1345542,13223m/d...

Not minimalism. Information density. Visibility.

Representing time with colored spaces decreases information density. Green & red blocks aren't enough -- the primary data, the numbers, are still required labels, and are made smaller to accommodate the new elements.

Shrinking the primary data decreases visibility, so you, with decent eyesight, need to be closer. My grandmother will have an even harder time resolving it.

Visibility hasn't been addressed, but deserves to be in any conversation about signage.

Graphically representing all times wastes space, making the rules easier to understand for those who can read them, but decreasing legibility.

This is a tradeoff, not an all-around win.

Wcd's quality (most recordings are posted in multiple formats including FLAC and 320 & v0 mp3) is assured -- the community is serious and self-policing about encoding. Is the same true of Soulseek?

This has been done for a long time on many sites. The Firefox download is one that comes to mind.

I see this as more of a no-brainer for a software download than a standout example of brilliant UX.

Tufte, who we all seem to worship, would praise separation of elements with whitespace instead of dividing lines.

This article, like most things from uxmovement.com, would be a lot easier to stomach with data backing up the author's preferences.

Not surprising at all. Conventional layout wisdom says give the eye a clear path in a direction it knows.

A multi-dimensional grid takes you in a Z shape, whereas a vertical lineup's images and text are all aligned and easier to distinguish.

That body text is borderline illegible, even rendered on a Mac. Horrible choice.

The 20-year-old office clerk at a Beijing cosmetics manufacturer knows it could set him back more than $1,000. He'll have to save for months. But he said it would be money well spent. "As a man, you must have one of those bags," he said. "It will bring you status, dignity and boost your image."

Petrifying though that may be, that's only months. We saddle ourselves with six years of payments for the status symbols we can't afford.

Wouldn't it be better to put this in load instead of ready so it won't slow down the loading of visible images or other resources?

(Ready = DOM is ready, load = page elements are loaded)

Another painfully obvious, no-data article from uxmovement.com.

A minute of Googling gave me a more researched article with more comprehensive suggestions. See 3.5 on p. 390.

http://core.ecu.edu/engl/tpc/MennoMenno/ftp/williams%202000.... (Link fixed, thanks!)

I've been planning to give up my iPhone for a 4G VZW Android, but it's easy to take a direct update channel for granted.

So, iOS 4 has 90 percent share amongst iOS device owners. What about Android 2.3? 0.4 percent, as of a couple weeks ago. Yes, that’s zero point four percent.

But for the sake of this being slightly more fair, let’s compare iOS 4 to Android 2.2 — an OS which came out well before iOS 4. The adoption rate there? 51.8 percent. That’s still pretty pathetic.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/17/ios-android-breakdown/

How many type foundries do you think would be trumpeting their fonts' inclusion in the HTML5 logo?

One of the many reasons I love Hoefler & Frere Jones.

Gotham + Mercury + Knockout, all from @h_fj, make the HTML-5 logo. http://www.w3.org/html/logo/ #next #stop, #webfonts http://twitter.com/H_FJ/status/27369279905071104

Don't like it? Branch Chromium and retain H.264 support.

First customer here.

Because, according to him, >90% of what you'll do in the gym isn't necessary.

So he offers training programs for a bunch of different goals (speed, strength, vertical, etc) while citing elite coaches that work with some of the most extraordinary and accomplished athletes for each case.

4HB reads like a hacker's book, and that's why I loved it.

Conventional wisdom says you kill yourself at the gym to bulk up. But a muscle isn't strengthened by fatigue -- it's strengthened by the body's response to that fatigue. So shouldn't your goal be triggering the response?

That makes for an exciting read. The book is full of it -- tracking down the extraordinarily successful in a given field, taking their advice himself, and sharing the results.

"In speaking with a few colleagues, it appears Twitter is using the 301 redirect on the short URL to provide the mouseover with the full URL."

Is this just a non-technical person attempting to inject a little detail into the article? My first thought was, "How would I do this in JS?" and it took me a second to decipher that sentence.

Dude, need is a pretty strong word. Excellent caching plugins exist, and I'd venture that most WP blogs don't need them (or stand to gain much from Postgres).

"Of course none of the old plugins would work. But is that really a problem?"

WP has an incredible plugin & theme ecosystem. Whether or not you'd like to leave it behind, you can't just dismiss it like that.

Sounds like what you want is quite different from WP. Why use it?

My blog comment to the effect of, "This is policy everywhere, and while customer service could have been friendlier, this is your bad," was deleted. Classy.

Shadowcrew was an awesome place. You could get pretty much anything there. The marketplace was built on reputation -- you'd send a new offering to the senior members, who'd review you.

The coolest guy there was MacGyver. He knew everything about everything. You'd ask for feedback on the new SSN cards you were selling and he'd casually drop that the SSA used band printers back when your card would have been issued, so there should be little marks here or there.

From what I could tell, he never profited from any activity there, but being a senior member and receiving goods for review, receiving credit card blanks and numbers was enough to put him away. By the time it occurred to me I could send him a letter in prison, he was already out.

Sure, he was indirectly contributing to illegal activity, but to a kid looking for fake ID info, he was a god.

Awesome! I'm heading to Japan over Thanksgiving. We talked about visiting Shikoku again, so if I'm in the area I'll drop you a line.

Hope you meet lots of interesting people!

The price I'd be willing to pay for a powerful MacBook Air sickens me.

And I hate to think what more they could include if they weren't so obsessed with the tapered edge. More than 4 GB of RAM? A real SSD? WWAN?

Sony crams an i7, a gorgeous 1920x1080 high-gamut display, quad RAIDed SSDs, and an optical drive into a 13.1" 3-lb. package with great battery life. That's impressive.

http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Special/Computer/Vaio/Z/index.ht... (quad SSDs available only in Japan)

I love OS X, but I feel like a retard for sticking with Apple hardware when they're outfitting "the next generation of Macs" with the previous generation of processors.

I find the new pricing chart to be misleading. By listing the free account next to their customer-enabled plans, at first glance I expect it to allow me to serve customers.

http://chargify.com/pricing-and-signup/

Took me a minute to realize I get nothing (except the ability to integrate... SCORE!) by signing up. Smart to drive signups this way, but I think expectations are being set incorrectly.

Agreed. Let me clarify: hover can help, but it's not a solution.

Yawn. Jakob Nielsen scooped you by ten years.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000416.html