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Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by baby »

542458 wrote: post #3

Some people might take issue with it, but the writing for this had me in stitches. I very much agree with the author on graphing libraries - there are a few good simple ones, but as soon as you want anything unusual you have to jump to these big, hard to configure monstrosities. More than once I've just given up and written my own server-side generator.

I don't know why I swear by gnuplot and tikz. I feel like the more you use them, the more you will know how to use them, and the faster you will be.

But then I use some wysiwyg and I make something much nicer in no time... Should I really give up on these tools :(?

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

#52

Post by baby »

jacalata wrote: post #50

As someone who is not personally humiliated by my interest in computers/tech/programming, I wasn't really entertained by the constant "oh yea lol it's cause I'm a waste of oxygen that I know that, don't you hate me as much as I hate myself?" Maybe I know too many nerds with actual self esteem issues to find it funny.

Maybe you should go out more?

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

#53

Post by defaultnamehere »

huckyaus wrote: post #46
542458 wrote: post #3

Some people might take issue with it, but the writing for this had me in stitches. I very much agree with the author on graphing libraries - there are a few good simple ones, but as soon as you want anything unusual you have to jump to these big, hard to configure monstrosities. More than once I've just given up and written my own server-side generator.

If you found the article funny you may also enjoy one of the author's other projects, Swagify[0]. The source code[1] for said project is pretty great. Kind regards, [24x7BLAZEIT]XxXhUCkYau$XxX [0] http://swagify.net/ [1] http://swagify.net/static/js/swagify.js

Uh oh they know

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

#54

Post by jacalata »

baby wrote: post #52
jacalata wrote: post #50

As someone who is not personally humiliated by my interest in computers/tech/programming, I wasn't really entertained by the constant "oh yea lol it's cause I'm a waste of oxygen that I know that, don't you hate me as much as I hate myself?" Maybe I know too many nerds with actual self esteem issues to find it funny.

Maybe you should go out more?

Were you equally aggravated by the people who said how much they liked the writing style? Sorry, won't be able to get into a long conversation, I'm heading to a bar.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

#55

Post by defaultnamehere »

baby wrote: post #51
542458 wrote: post #3

Some people might take issue with it, but the writing for this had me in stitches. I very much agree with the author on graphing libraries - there are a few good simple ones, but as soon as you want anything unusual you have to jump to these big, hard to configure monstrosities. More than once I've just given up and written my own server-side generator.

I don't know why I swear by gnuplot and tikz. I feel like the more you use them, the more you will know how to use them, and the faster you will be. But then I use some wysiwyg and I make something much nicer in no time... Should I really give up on these tools :(?

Depends how far you're Stockholm-Syndrome'd into using them =]

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

#56

Post by baby »

gengkev wrote: post #28

I don't have a Facebook account, but is there really no way to not share your available status to your friends? In Gmail you can simply sign out of Hangouts. On a side note, > If you’re wondering why the response starts with “for (;;);”, it’s to, among other things, encourage developers to use a quality JSON decoder, instead of like, y’know, eval(). This is wrong, as I commented on the linked StackOverflow post, perh…

If you don't link to your answer many people are just going to discard your comment.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by baby »

defaultnamehere wrote: post #55
baby wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know why I swear by gnuplot and tikz. I feel like the more you use them, the more you will know how to use them, and the faster you will be. But then I use some wysiwyg and I make something much nicer in no time... Should I really give up on these tools :(?

Depends how far you're Stockholm-Syndrome'd into using them =]

ಠ~ಠ

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

#59

Post by ceocoder »

My favorite part -

> This friend recommended nvd3.js, presumably because you’re not making real graphs in 2016 unless your graphing library is .js and requires at LEAST one other .js as a dependency. Everyone looks at you like “what, you DON’T already use .js? Jeez say goodbye to your Hacker News karma. Just apt-get install npm && npm install bower && bower install-” NO STOP IT THIS ISN’T WHAT TIM BERNERS-LEE WANTED”.

edit: as huckyaus mentioned in a different thread, author did http://swagify.net/ as well. In completely unrelated news, I'm changing my handle to [Tr1Ck$h0t][LEGIT][60x7]$$$C30C0DER$$$, that will make me really popular among the cool kids.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

> If you reload the page you’ll see approximately fifty-bajillion network requests go off as Facebook desperately tries to load all the junk that it needs to display facebook.com.

I like this part. As a developer I've often looked at the network usage of large websites / web applications and it's always surprising to me just how...unoptimized it is as far as network connections go.

I mean Facebook loads decently enough and all I'm just surprised the first load isn't condensed into a small, handful of network calls to save on latency.

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