I know I'm in the minority here, but I just couldn't bear the writing style. I'm sure the content is interesting, but this article tries way too hard for my tastes. I had to give up after the first couple of paragraphs.
Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
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#162Another neat FB analysis:
Data Science of the Facebook World
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/04/data-science-of-the-f...
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's striking about this writing style is that (as a junior dev) it's a lot easier to understand what he's doing. By sticking to jokes and a simple style, I never felt confused or lost in lingo.
As a not-so-junior dev, I didn't think he was all that funny half the time, and there was enough extraneous verbiage that I didn't bother parsing it all to find out what he was actually doing. I like the humorous style, but IMO this was badly in need of a once (or twice)-over to clean it up.
I agree with you. It must be an youth generation thing, I am in my mid 40s. At times, I find his writing style rather annoying, it feels like one of those TV adverts you see at 1am in the morning.
It is a pity because the content is quite interesting but we are here discussing about his writing style??
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#164You should try to add some sort of tracking of when people start to write a message to you. If that's in any way possible. It would be really stalkery if you knew whenever someone started writing a message and perhaps decided not to send the message.
pidgin[1] has a plugin ("psychic mode") that I always enable.
It opens up a chat window when somebody start typing.
It always freaks out the few people that never send the message.
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#165You should try to add some sort of tracking of when people start to write a message to you. If that's in any way possible. It would be really stalkery if you knew whenever someone started writing a message and perhaps decided not to send the message.
pidgin[1] has a plugin ("psychic mode") that I always enable. It opens up a chat window when somebody start typing. It always freaks out the few people that never send the message. [1] http://pidgin.im/
awesome, thanks!
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#166Great writing style. Hilarious.
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#167Very good and fun to read article.
Thanks for all this amazing info!
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's striking about this writing style is that (as a junior dev) it's a lot easier to understand what he's doing. By sticking to jokes and a simple style, I never felt confused or lost in lingo.
"too much medium, not enough message" The writing style works because those jokes, asides, and little mannerisms that are normally excluded from "serious" writing are part of how we think . When we refine our writing (or speaking) to - supposedly to make it less jumbled and easier to read - we usually end up removing a lot of the little details that made up the original thought. The writing may have much better gramm…
>>The best way to write will always depend on what the goals are, but in general the further away from the original thought you get, the more writing and other creative ideas tend to degrade.So very true...
Open a vein...share yourself...reveal yourself...share what you've learned and let the excitement you felt while discovering it flow...
For most writers, the majority of the time, your true audience will "get" both you and the ideas you're trying to share...
Sometimes you'll expand the size of your potential audience with raw enthusiasm, even when they have no idea what you're talking about...
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#169My 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”…
The whole article was fun. I loved it. Also to take it a step further, I wouldn't apt-get install npm, I'd first use ruby to install homebrew, then brew install nodejs, then npm install bower, then bower install. Because linux doesn't have enough package managers to manage my package managers to manage packages managed my package managers.
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#170It would be real creepy if someone does the same thing for Whatsapp, you can even predict who's talking to each other much better than Facebook. It's a bit harder to collect data from web.whatsapp.com because it's using Websockets but let me know if someone develop such tool and publish it on Github. :)
I'm interested in why you think you could do better predictions using WhatsApp?
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