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The table of contents seems to have a whole chapter on "AI and ML" before starting the next chapter with "What is a byte?". Funny.
Stunningly beautiful landing page. I would never normally comment on the aesthetics of anything in the dev sphere but that completely blew me away. I'll preorder for sure. I'd echo the other comment mentioning that a coffee-table version of this would be great.
Agreed, it's aesthetically beautiful. It should be a coffee table book. But for the web, it has terrible usability. Really, really terrible in multiple ways. My comments will be harsh, but since the creator is obviously very skilled, he should know better. Why multicolumn text? So it looks like an old printed manual? At first view, it's not clear where the first column ends. This is not something we see on the web (b…
And pegs the CPU and drains the battery.
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Looks like it might have been VisualLand.net, which isn't around anymore. Looking at the archive of the site ( https://web.archive.org/web/20130811073141/http%3A//www.visu... ), most of their animations / diagrams were Flash, so no longer run, and don't seem to work with archive.org's emulator either.
No, that's not it unfortunately. It was a single page with a style of diagrams that shows a high-level format of something, with arrows to a zoomed-in version that details the structure of the fields. I remember its colour scheme being dominated by light blue and green, IIRC.
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I agree that they are beautiful and detailed, clearly illustrating the point. I really, really love them. I'd love to have them on my wall. That's not my problem. My problem is that they never stop animating. For me and many other people, when something is moving in our visual field, it is very, very difficult to read the text next to it. Full disclosure: I'm autistic. I was wondering whether I should mention that. A…
I’m not autistic and I agree that nonstop animations are distracting and detrimental.
Very nice. The design reminds me of a website that I forgot to bookmark a long while ago, it was about explaining network protocols at the wire level, and it had some of the most amazing visuals that I ever saw. It's a shame that I forgot what it was, and googling doesn't help. If anyone knows what I'm talking about please share the link.
[1] https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-way-things-work-newly-revise...
How old is this? Copyright at the bottom of the page says "1990".
Also, maybe the author meant to say he started thinking about this book since 1990, too.
Either way the copyright year doesn't matter. You can put anything
Looks like form-over-function to me. Cool looks, little content.
This reminds me aesthetically of The Way Things Work [1] which was one of my favorite books as a kid. Having a similar wordly reference as an adult has been a goal for a while. [1] https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-way-things-work-newly-revise...