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.
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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.
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.
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...
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.
This is a tradeoff, not an all-around win.
I see this as more of a no-brainer for a software download than a standout example of brilliant UX.
This article, like most things from uxmovement.com, would be a lot easier to stomach with data backing up the author's preferences.
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.
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.
(Ready = DOM is ready, load = page elements are loaded)
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!)
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.
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
First customer here.
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.
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.
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.
"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?
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.
Hope you meet lots of interesting people!
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?
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.
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.