Wow is that ever a terrible infographic.
The right hand side of the diagram....
So you were right about the "pithy one liner".
This is the kind of one-liner that perhaps Jon Stewart would make...and while there is nothing wrong with The Daily Show, I thought that we, the HN community, are collectively better than that.
Sorry for the rant, but I'm just sick of wading through pithy one-liners on HN.
Can we discuss its poor choice of color? Its lack of visual appeal? The obvious selection of a Home Depot paint swatch to represent Google's old index, and what that means for their database technology? Not really. Not in response to "Wow is that ever a terrible infographic".
I'd be hesitant to flag everything that you don't initially understand. Cut HN some slack, we're intelligent people and we enjoy humor as much as the next man. I certainly appreciate when someone makes me chuckle in the comments, and I'd loathe HN if that went away by your hand.
Given something like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1403672 is it HN that has to change, or the person in the chair? I realize your time may be valuable, but you don't have to read everything and get offended by its presence -- including my comment.
Re my general complaint about one-liners, it could well be that I'm just not getting any of them....
Again, my apologies for jumping the gun. I shouldn't have been so forthright in saying your comment should be flagged.
Is the joke "hey this diagram looks like that diagram"?
Regardless of what pg says, there's many of us that feel that HN has slowly decreased in quality over the last two years (that's putting it diplomatically). Perhaps the time has come to fork HN.
(cf. http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html)
Ordered and color-coded, as opposed to flying around.
Caffeine is not new and has been talked in SEO community from a quite sometime. I wonder why they make it public now.
To silence iPhone 4 news? No no,just coincidence...