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Because the author, probably not the submitter, decided to do that in their article on their website. Also, as trivial as it may be to get revenue and employee
by jimueller 12y ago
Because the author, probably not the submitter, decided to do that in their article on their website. Also, as trivial as it may be to get revenue and employee numbers from annual reports, it only takes a few seconds to do in Wolfram Alpha.
- cwyers 12y agoI feel like most of the time savings were eaten up by making a bunch of little screen grabs to show us it was done in Wolfram Alpha. And it makes the information take up about five times as much space as it would if it was just written out in a sentence, and since the alt-text for each PNG is "Wofram IBM Apple Revenue" and "Wolfram IBM Apple Profit" the information is entirely lost for, among others, search engine bots, blind people using screen readers and any cached copies that have the text but not the associated images.
- nizmow 12y agoI came here for a bit of expert commentary on the article. I can only assume it must be pretty water-tight if we're sitting around arguing about this...