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Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by jaybosamiya »

digi_owl wrote: post #70
baby wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking at the same thing today reading some tutorial. You have these serious ass tutorials that are an horror to read. And then you have these gems, these very informal tutorials with jokes and slangs and ... and reading them is a pleasure. I guess if you're a serious company like Apple, you can't really have that kind of tutorial for iOS dev. But that would really help.

I find myself reminded of the "for dummies" series of books. they are written in a humorous tone, and intersperse joke drawings between the chapters.

So are the "Head First" series of books. I would definitely recommend taking a look at them :)

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by dyscrete »

Awesome and hilarious article. Id just like to note `for (;;);` is not to prevent users from using bad JSON parsers like `eval` but prevent older browsers with little to no cross domain policy from loading it with a script tag and doing evil XSS by overriding Array or Object constructors or prototypes to pull that data

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by traviscj »

digi_owl wrote: post #70
baby wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking at the same thing today reading some tutorial. You have these serious ass tutorials that are an horror to read. And then you have these gems, these very informal tutorials with jokes and slangs and ... and reading them is a pleasure. I guess if you're a serious company like Apple, you can't really have that kind of tutorial for iOS dev. But that would really help.

I find myself reminded of the "for dummies" series of books. they are written in a humorous tone, and intersperse joke drawings between the chapters.

I have wanted to write a series of "X for mathematically inclined idiots" for several years. If you're going to pick a baseline...

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by tajen »

ceocoder wrote: post #59

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”…

Tho only drawback I see with nvd3.js is that we can't generate png images of the graphs, server-side, for email of PDF export. Is there an nvd3-js-to-png.java ;)?

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by Symbiote »

cargo8 wrote: post #25
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.

This was the funniest writing style since the WAT talks lol

I decided the guy was British, but he's probably Australian. (His Github profile says so. Would you lie?)

Lots of casual self-deprecation. I'd recommend well known comedians, but I'm no good at remembering names.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by Symbiote »

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.

This is standard British (also Australian, NZ) humour. Make fun of yourself, if it's slightly hurtful so much the better.

Example, which I'd not seem before: https://youtu.be/taTSxDVEHRM

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by zuck9 »

mariust wrote: post #107

This is crazy, I had this idea like 1 month ago and I thought I will find some free time to make this happen by the end of this month, I guess I should thank you :) Nice story by the way :)

I had the idea a month ago too. I even started working on this yesterday but got distracted. Thought I would do it today, but woke up to see this. This is even crazier.

Re: Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

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Post by jacalata »

Symbiote wrote: post #108
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.

This is standard British (also Australian, NZ) humour. Make fun of yourself, if it's slightly hurtful so much the better. Example, which I'd not seem before: https://youtu.be/taTSxDVEHRM

hilariously, I'm British/Australian, so perhaps I've been overexposed to it.
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