Veuxdo

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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> Secondly, I get tired just thinking of the process of figuring out how to pay someone somewhere money. An invoice?
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Going by the video, I see the diagrams have lines, but unfortunately no labels. Do lines always mean "dependency"? E.g. file dependency, dependency on a database or service, etc.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
This looks more like data visualization, not system architecture visualization. Ilograph is worth a look if you want the latter.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Copyright notice says 2011, so this project almost certainly isn't active. And yes, there are much better diagrams-as-code tools anyway.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
It's a known issue with FireFox... at least it only happens on hover.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> I wish there were more options for people who don’t care that much about the camera in their smartphone. Just get a cheap phone? If you're paying $500+ for a phone, I'd estimate most of that money is going into the camera. Ju
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Very telling that the first two pictures are of the camera lenses. Is that where most of the $999 price tag is going?
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> One solution could be to price things such that any amount of tax is included in the margin so the price is standard but profitability varies in minute ways between locations Imagine you have customers in California (high taxes) and Wy
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> That should be concerning to anyone working on projects that use APIs Well, free APIs anyway. If you are paying for API access, you hopefully have a contract which gives you power.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
As noted below, the right tool for that is a sequence diagram [0]. These can be static images and read at one's own pace. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_diagram
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
If you replace the moving green boxes with arrows, you get the same information (specifically, flow direction). And if the goal is to show the order/steps, then the right tool for the job is a sequence diagram [0]. Again, the animation
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Congrats on the launch. Looks very clean. I think the core concept is flawed, though. "Animated diagrams" are great for generating engagement on social media, but in practice an animated line doesn't tell you anything an arro
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Honestly, I think you are using free (and old) diagramming tools, and you are getting why you pay for. There are plenty of tools designed specifically for documenting large systems, but they cost money.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Or, the valuable content has decamped to the apps, because the web cannot be effectively monitized anymore.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
The Apps have colonized they internet partly because ad blockers don't work on them. That's a negative outcome, for one.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> You cannot represent this model on a screen in any meaningful way. Instead you can only get certain "views" into it to understand an aspect or answer specific questions. It sounds like you're describing: https:/&#x
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Almost all of his complaints stem from using generic drag-and-drop diagramming tools. A modern take on system diagramming, like Ilograph[0], solves most of these issues (IMBO). [0] https://www.ilograph.com
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
You need to use diagramming tools that are meant for complex systems. Almost all of the complaints in this article are caused be using generic drag-and-drop diagramming tools.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Thanks, but what does this animated graph tell us? Why are there two colors of dots? Why are there dots at all? Dots that follow a line don't reveal anything the line doesn't already say.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
What am I looking at here
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Re-reading it, he did limit his rule to not using HTML for _connectors_. I can't refute that; that sounds like a bad idea for anything that isn't a toy POC (which this submission certainly is). I do think a mix of HTML (for boxes)
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> When you render the connectors using a mixture of empty divs, pseudo-content and largely arbitrary hacks, all that meaning gets lost from the _content_ (the HTML) Well, yeah. But you can commit the same sins in SVG and canvas. There&#x
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> And after a handful of years of hanging about with people more skilled than themselves, our babies—these tiny, soft-skulled creatures—can out-compete chimpanzees in all but close combat. I don't even want to ask
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
At that point I have to question what the word "app" even means. To me, this is a display setting, not an "app".
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> The article feels like it was written by an MBA, not an engineer. I'm trying to come up with a name to describe this style of writing. The key components are how hyper-confident the author is in The Future and how everyone who has
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
We have machines for that, but we don't call them computers. They don't compute anything, after all...
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
One thing I don't want computers to do is subjective analysis. I don't see how that could ever be valuable.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
I think the key difference is these are not promising a solution, just a foundation.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> I expect it to get me in the ballpark faster than I would have on my own. This is great if you are an experienced developer who can tell the difference between "in the ballpark" and fixable and "in the ballpark" but
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Also, what is the "Google" part of this?

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