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tobr
14,338karma·2,388submissions·April 2, 2012
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This. I’ve known a TV that was in more or less daily use for over 30 years. Not sure why we stopped expecting that from electronics.
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> Just a single example of "Javascript" written on a spec sheet of some product would be enough to defend the trademark. Is that really true? Doesn’t it have to be used as a trademark? …
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> I trust my doctor and my doctor trusts their sibling, but I don't necessarily trust their sibling. Isn’t that because that’s a different type of trust? For example, you trust your doctor to …
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Happy that someone else also spotted this.
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Completely agree. It’s what Edward Tufte calls a slopegraph. His canonical example is surprisingly similar to the data used here. His one design is better than any of these 100 - it shows the actual n…
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Great write up, excellent explorables. I skimmed some parts so forgive me if this was covered, but I wonder what happens with overlapping shapes in this approach. For example, a white background with …
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The domain name? Or a trademark?
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Apologies for an insubstantial complaint, but there are just too many things called “Nova” (or its Greek counterpart, “Neo”). I get it, it’s new, but isn’t there anything more specific or unique to re…
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Safari iOS.
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That’s not the problem, although it doesn’t make it better.
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This could be a nice distraction, but unfortunately the interaction latency makes it feel so sluggish I can’t get into flow.
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> "Wait, did you really take 350 photos between May and November? That's a lot!" I can’t imagine that’s considered a lot these days? I took 13499 photos in the same period.
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The base model with 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD is $599. Upgrading to 32GB RAM is $400 and upgrading to 512GB SSD is $200, for a total of $1199. Simply buying two Mac mini is, of course, $1198. So I guess …
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That’s a great explanation, thank you! I feel like it should be possible to pinpoint why this can’t happen with a circle. Specifically, it seems to require some kind of protrusion in the shape, that e…
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Can someone explain why the second puzzle would need this fancy three-dimensional solution? The area of each strip doesn’t seem important to solving it: We need to cover the circle as efficiently as p…