domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
Ditto, there's something very funny about the voice of god being so jaded and deadpan.
My Fav:
Tell a person you're the Metatron and they stare at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody's a theology scholar! May I continue uninterrupted?
domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: Three Years as a One-Man Startup
I very much agree with this. Maybe A/B test presenting your a simplified version of your product info in a language other than the user's browser language with a call to action to translate it.
The product feels like magic in the demo linked on medium.
domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: Steam Sales 2015
I think it depends very much on what you're trying to show. In the article the point he is making is that volume and average price have a roughly inverse relationship.
As with almost all data vis it can be misread but for showing relationships between metrics over time it's the best chart.
domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: What photos of Facebook’s new headquarters say about work
Also indicative of Facebook as a product.
Why don't we just share all of our stuff with everyone irrespective of if it negatively affects us? SHARE SHARE SHARE!!
domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: Things the media does to manufacture outrage
This sort of thing is why I think Corbyn's strategy of opening distaining the media may ultimately pay off. I'm hoping that people will tune more and more of this noise out and then start going directly to source when they want to hear what someone has to say.
domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: Novelist warns against utilitarian trends in higher education
I think the point OP is making is that the people who went to University 100-200 years ago didn't have to worry about employability because they were usually from wealthy families. What has happened in the intervening time is that higher education has extended down the income scale and as such more students need jobs at the end of their degrees.
domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: What a City Would Look Like If It Were Designed for Only Bikes
I'm curious to see the interaction between self driving cars and bicycle friendly cities. What about banning human driven cars from a city and then using the resultant savings in road space to make it more cycle friendly?
domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014
The thing is that is the employees that pay the the income tax _not_ Facebook. Facebook (and others) are still not paying the taxes on the the income they earn from operating in the UK no matter how many people they employ at high salaries.
The choice you present is a false one, the multiplier productivity effect that Facebook employees gain from operating in London as opposed to Dublin far outweighs what Facebook would end up paying in corporation tax under a more reasonable system.
domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama
It's just a representation of a collection of photons taken at a particular point in time and space.
... Context is everything
domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: Submetrics – Search for your favorite show
Yeah, its a nice idea but doesn't seem to work at the moment, give it a few months and someone may well implement it properly.
As an aside does anyone recognise what they've used for the data vis on http://www.submetrics.org/#/about ?
domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: Time-Series Database patented by GE
It may be a bit of a liberal reading of it but doesn't the database that the patent is stored in on that page violate the patent? It certainly has date stamped data which is ingested and query-able...
domfletcher
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10 years ago
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on: Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encrypted Communication
My favourite quote on this (from the UK perspective) from Ross Anderson (one of the co-authors):
“A point I would like to make to the prime minister and his circle is: whoever put the prime minister up to this should get a complete bollocking. The proposals are wrong in principle and unworkable in practice.”
There is no quicker way of alienating people who understand complex things than by pretending that you know better and have thought of a brilliant solution.
