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I made a CPU load average tracking app
- ydant 16y agoThis will rapidly turn into some bizarre form of performance art. You're going to run out of colors pretty quickly. The instructions get obscured by the user list, at least on my Linux version of Chrome.
- elliottkember 16y agoThanks - I've made the user list scroll. I do need some more colours, but as soon as I add more, they become pretty indistinguishable or too light. Still looking for a good set of hex values :)
- ydant 16y agoMore colors won't help anyway - people can only distinguish so many colors before the distinctions become meaningless. This is a great opportunity to try to visualize the info in a different way that takes advantage of the noise rather than being smothered by it. What that way is, I have no idea.
- elliottkember 16y agoWhoops, forgot the "Show HN:" - my bad!
- btucker 16y agoYou may want to think about having it store the data locally and 'phoning them in' in batches at some random interval. Otherwise it seems you're going to have some crazy concurrent requests every 5 seconds. Cool idea, though. Very whimsical.
- elliottkember 16y agoVery true. As usual, there are about a thousand ways I could've done this app better. Still, it works okay for an afternoon project :)
- ydant 16y agoNicely done, z - http://i37.tinypic.com/21llon6.jpg http://i37.tinypic.com/21llon6.jpg