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901.
by viggity 16y ago
This shows you exactly what not to do with your info-viz. They show about 100 milk jugs of gray gradient and say, imagine if there were 184 million of them? Whoa Whoa Whoa. HOLD THE BOAT. You (CNBC) are telling me that the oil spill is 184
902.
The worst visualization I've ever seen (CNBC on the oil spill)(cnbc.com)
133 points by viggity 16y ago|47 comments
903.
by viggity 16y ago
I recently had a friend from college commit suicide. Please, Please, Please find some help, I'm sure you are drastically underestimating how many people would miss you dearly. There are plenty of organizations that will talk to you for free
904.
Dollar Sign(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by viggity 16y ago|0 comments
905.
by viggity 16y ago
I'm not saying that you can't build large complex applications in Ruby. You can. You could also write them in Brainfuck. Having static typing helps tremendously when you have a team of 50 developers and 15 BAs. There are so many moving part
906.
by viggity 16y ago
I'm not saying that there haven't been gigantic applications written in dynamic languages. But the number of gigantic apps built on Ruby pales in comparison to .Net or Java. Having static typing helps prevent these massive apps from becomin
907.
by viggity 16y ago
Perhaps my article was a little fluffy, but I guess I wanted to take a second to stick up for .Net. It takes a lot of bashing (some of it deservingly), but a lot of the criticism too is one sided - .Net has to support a lot more types of ap
908.
by viggity 16y ago
Yeah, I was a little unsure whether or not to include the last paragraph, but I did up with the idea for the post not thinking about how I could use it to pimp my stuff.
909.
by viggity 16y ago
Admittedly, this is part flamebait, but I think I make some pretty reasonable assertions.
910.
Ruby and .Net Developers solve two different kinds of problems(blog.nitriq.com)
11 points by viggity 16y ago|37 comments
911.
by viggity 16y ago
I just looked up my alma mater on this website. It is so fucking sad that websites like this exist, it is just toxic. The vile and the vitriol, I mean wtf?
912.
by viggity 16y ago
If anyone is interested in the "aircraft carrier made out of ice", you can find out more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete
913.
by viggity 16y ago
I'm not so sure, marketing has a lot to do with how many people use a product/feature
914.
by viggity 16y ago
the Ecuadorians love their hats, don't they?
915.
by viggity 16y ago
would you rather have a mayonnaise sandwich or "Pig's knuckles with carrots, celery and parsnips". I think I may go for the mayonnaise sandwich.
916.
by viggity 16y ago
The idea is really neat. If you want a really nice visualization of how the whole thing works you can find it on his website: http://www.groasis.com/page/uk/principle.php
917.
by viggity 16y ago
Apparently it was just some sort of partnership deal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woot
918.
by viggity 16y ago
I thought woot was purchased by Yahoo not too long ago?
919.
by viggity 16y ago
I totally understand this in southwest states like Arizona and New Mexico, where water conservation is really important. But the bulk of the country essentially has infinite, cheap water. It doesn't make sense to me why you would need this
920.
by viggity 16y ago
Warren is obviously free to do whatever he wants with his money, I mean, he is the billionaire and I'm just some schmuck. But I think his money is already going a great service for the world - ie it is staying in the hands of lots of corpor
921.
by viggity 16y ago
just flag this submission, I certainly did
922.
by viggity 16y ago
Clickable links: http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=567 http://www.nitriq.com http://www.getatomiq.com
923.
Tell HN: I'm on DotNetRocks talking about my two products
4 points by viggity 16y ago|2 comments
924.
by viggity 16y ago
Iraq had the 4th largest army before Gulf War I. We obliterated it in less than 100 hours. And Iraq's technology was infinitely superior to that the North Koreans. The largest thing that is preventing us from killing these assholes is that
925.
by viggity 16y ago
How exactly can I be free when the government - under the threat of force - extracts money that I have earned to give it to another third party?
926.
by viggity 16y ago
When the entire population is living in such complete misery, I don't really think that a guerrilla war would happen. The North Koreans aren't religious fanatics with some "higher cause" that would motivate them into a protracted insurgency
927.
by viggity 16y ago
DinglePharb? Are you fucking kidding me? Anyone who believes that a company named DINGLEPHARB is successful deserves to be conned. Further proof that a fool and his money are easily separated.
928.
by viggity 16y ago
If you don't like the job because it doesn't use version control or is forcing you to work 80 hours per week, then find another job. It really is that simple. No unions required.
929.
by viggity 16y ago
This has to be one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Unions breed laziness and rob its members of motivation to work because the union will always protect them to the most dizzying degree. Simply look at this flowchart to see the steps re
930.
by viggity 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulers_identity

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