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"non-solution to a non-problem" reminds me of a similar quote by James May on Top Gear, "a brilliant solution to a problem that should never have existed"

• iamwil 17y ago
  What if WA had NBA stats? How about prices of similar cameras over time? Would the same stupid people want visualizations for that? I wonder if that would that then turn it into a "non-solution to a problem"?
  • scott_s 17y ago
    The author's point is that the users know they want, say, NBA stats, or price comparisons, so they should be able to ask for those.
    • iamwil 17y ago
      Right. That much I got. The part about "non-solution to a non-problem" refers how the author thought that not only is the interface a non-solution, but that having datasets and visualizations would be useless to lay people (a non-problem). I was asking the question whether it's really a non-problem. I figured that a nutritional label is a bad example, and that if WA had sports stats or product comparison data, the lay person might be very interesting, hence upgrading WA to a "non-solution to a problem"
      • ori_b 17y ago
        I gathered that the "non-problem" that was being discussed was the need for natural language input, not the actual visualization.