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Comment by caseyohara | Hacker News Reader

When you hover over the languages in the bar chart, the descriptions are pretty wonky...

Python: 100; Description: C is used to write software where speed and flexibility is important, such as in embedded systems or high-performance computing.

C: 96.8; Description: An object-oriented language that creates code intended to be run on a virtual machine, allowing it to run on different platforms with little or no modification. Java is a popular choice for Web applications.

C++: 88.58; Description: An object-oriented, interpreted language that gains much of its power from a large constellation of libraries, including popular modules for machine learning and scientific computing.

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Hey, I'm the author. Nice catch! Somehow the descriptions of the first five languages got permuted somewhere towards the end of our process, likely because they lived in a separate doc from the data and then merged in the presentation engine we use to make our interactive charts. The fix should propagate shortly. Many thanks, S.

Also you can't get descriptions for languages at the bottom with no bar. Hover should have been triggered on label instead.

It's just the first four that are mangled (maybe from last year's list or something?). But after that it seems okay again

looks like 0 index issue. For nth item they are showing n+1th items description

That's what I thought happened too: that I had slipped by one combining the descriptions with the numerical data, but it turns out that the first five were permuted when I looked in the data for the presentation engine! Don't quite know how that happened, I suspect a sort went awry at some point and the data and the descriptions fell out of synch. In previous years we just shoveled it all into the interactive app's logic and let it sort it out, but now we preprocess it for reasons explained in the accompanying article. Cheers, S (author of article)

Check again, its wonkier then that. E.g. C (#2) shows a description for Java (#5)

off-by-one

I was seeing this as well, it looks like it was just fixed

No, it's still wrong.

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