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by kilian 17y ago
People think they understand them, but piecharts are hard to understand because you can't differentiate between a 24% and a 25% slice. Read a far better explanation here: http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intel... The
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by kilian 17y ago
The example page has 25 graphs it tries to generate all onload, IE can't handle that at once. It could be fixed using a queueing function but I haven't written one yet. IE can handle it fine (slower, but fine) if you use just a couple of gr
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by kilian 17y ago
Good idea, just did so :)
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Dear HN: I wrote an SVG charting library. What do you think?(kilianvalkhof.com)
52 points by kilian 17y ago|26 comments
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by kilian 17y ago
You realize it's a catch-22 to upvote you? ;) People want to be heard. People want to know others care about their opinion. That's how humans work. You can pretend to be above it, but you still just wrote 7 paragraphs arguing your point in
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The choice for Theora, by Fronteers(fronteers.nl)
21 points by kilian 17y ago|3 comments
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by kilian 17y ago
I completely suck at turn-talking, even when actively trying to anticipate when my 'antagonist' wants to say something. Does anyone have actual tips for improving this?
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JavaScript running on the GPU (jetpack/Firefox)(ajaxian.com)
4 points by kilian 17y ago|0 comments
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by kilian 17y ago
Part 2: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/using-svg-for-flexible-sc...
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Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I(alistapart.com)
1 points by kilian 17y ago|1 comments
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by kilian 17y ago
Because everyone knows having a kid type in 'oral sex' into Google is a much better idea than him looking it up in a school dictionary. ahem.
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The problem with SVG and Canvas(kilianvalkhof.com)
1 points by kilian 17y ago|0 comments
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by kilian 17y ago
If one is to believe psychologist Peter Lovatt, three factors influence how confidently an individual moves on the dance floor -- and how attractive the other gender finds the performance. Those factors are age, gender and genes. Age, Gen
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by kilian 17y ago
Wakemate is really handling this situation poorly. Yes, delays due to hardware are a good reason. But introducing pay-for features as compensation for those delays is not. It seems that this is a classic case of engineers doing bizdev. Thos
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by kilian 17y ago
I wouldn't agree. The choice between a patent-encumbered h264 or an improving open standard? If you read this part: http://www.diveintohtml5.org/video.html#licensing it becomes clear that h264 isn't really a viable option for an open web.
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by kilian 17y ago
You're right, but I was also talking about the general playlists, top, latest etc. which seem to have disappeared in favor of the model they used to have for moods.
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by kilian 17y ago
It's a shame they're not offering ogg theora (thus excluding firefox) but a step in the right direction nonetheless!
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by kilian 17y ago
very slick new design, but I'm missing a lot of things that made thesixtyone so awesome. Where are the playlists? now every next song is a gamble. Two songs further might be an acousting version or a cover of a song i'd love to hear. And wh
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Should you use JavaScript library CDNs?(zoompf.com)
1 points by kilian 17y ago|0 comments
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by kilian 17y ago
Microsoft handed those (well, not the 'double' one) out a couple of years ago as Silverlight/Expression swag, pretty sweet toy and fun to play with. You can make a continuous folding 2d variant with paper fairly easily as well, though I don
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by kilian 17y ago
Somehow this reminds me of "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo... ) which I also can't wrap my head around :)
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by kilian 17y ago
Compiz, guake, two screens and awn :) plenty of space and commands to see everything and switch between them. I'm thinking of ditching awn. Though to be honest, I do have a small dock with the notification area, it's hidden most of the time
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by kilian 17y ago
One of the most joyful things for me is see someone try working with my pc (ubuntu, no panels, gnome-do and compiz). It often results in a fair number of shrieks. Before I had my macbook I had a lot of people, including mac users, assuming
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Larry Lessig on Copyright (video)(blip.tv)
1 points by kilian 17y ago|0 comments
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by kilian 17y ago
http://www.firstpersontetris.com - the no-www gives me a domain squatter page :( way too addicting, btw.
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Ways to Visualize Changes Over Time(flowingdata.com)
2 points by kilian 17y ago|0 comments
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The Third & The Seventh (CG film, uncanny valley is getting smaller)(vimeo.com)
6 points by kilian 17y ago|0 comments
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by kilian 17y ago
You're right, my apologies. The names must have gotten me confused.
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by kilian 17y ago
The way I see it, this is just an entrepreneur being very passionate about his product, and some too-cool-for-school kids make jokes about it. I submitted the (full) source article to HN a couple of hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by kilian 17y ago
Though controlling an RC heli with your iPhone is about as awesome as it gets, more interesting is the fact that it runs Linux and that they're releasing an SDK :) http://www.ardrone.org/parrot-ar-drone/dev/developers

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