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>Keshif will present your data in its effective visual design

What criteria does it use to decide which visual design pattern to use?

I always think of Michael Lewis' Moneyball story when I read such things. When everybody else is scouting for 200k players, why not pick promising fresh graduates? You might have to spend more time mentoring, but you get extra cash to lengthen your runway.

Good point!

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PRODUCT: A marketplace for Squarespace templates - http://www.square-mart.com/

STAGE: Launched a few weeks ago, but no sales yet. Bootstrapped.

EXPERTISE: Deep expertise with Squarespace developer platform (used to work there).

NEED: Help with template design and marketing. Most helpful would be someone who's created templates on other CMS platforms.

SPLIT: Depends on how we split overall responsibilities. I put up a rough breakdown here - http://www.square-mart.com/join-us/

You can get in touch with me at riyaz@rshaikh.me

>A lot of the design problems have been solved already

This is partly true. Design problems have been solved for isolated cases. You still require designers to choose the right combination of solutions that work for particular use cases. And in my experience, all too often those "solutions" start conflicting with each other, resulting in new design problems!

Commoditization is definitely happening in design, but the design problems are not going away anytime soon.

Disclaimer/plug: I work on Squarespace design templates - http://www.square-mart.com

Well, this was ironic... the article focuses on the ubiquity of data, but lacks the UI design to get its message through.

Nice visualization! Maybe they should have limited the colors to just the primary ones. I had a hard time figuring out the gradients in the middle.

Is it normal to issue a recall for a problem that has not been reliably reproducible?

This was probably in response to the onion crisis a few years back when onions were more expensive than gasoline

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Petrol-cheaper-t...

I was comparing importing Web Components using HTML imports vs. static inlining the web component code within initial markup sent to browser.

Putting it another way - whats the advantage of HTML imports over server side imports?

Server side imports may increase the initial payload, but that will still be quicker compared to extra fetch requests for the web component.

@nostrademons is right that http2 will level the playing field for this battle... so definitely keeping an eye out for it!

I had the exact same thoughts when I first read about web components, or rather HTML imports in particular. The extra requests and latency introduced are not worth the benefits of having pluggable components. I can already imagine people writing server side code to include these "web components" inline into the static markup sent to browser, which somewhat defeats the purpose of having these components be dynamically interpreted by the browser.

Or maybe the correct way of using web components would be to create component "rollups" on server side, to reduce the latency effect of the extra requests. Or the browser might start caching common components between page requests.

Maybe the current web component spec is just the first step to get the reusable web started...

Nice idea. Wonder if it's responsive to touch devices... would be great to be able to write books for ipad this easily.

I agree. It's kind of ironic that after all these efforts at making web development easier, it's still difficult for a non-technical person to figure out how to get a simple store online. The learning curve associated with products like Wordpress, Magento, et al is quite high, even for a web dev like myself. Tools like these are very much appreciated.

Disclaimer: I work with http://www.squarespace.com, a competitor for most of the products above.

I agree. There is a lot of constructive criticism in the article, and I'm sure Khan Academy would love this kind of feedback to help improve the platform. Hell, even I learned a couple of syntax usages just watching videos of the learning interface!

Link to original source - http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/09/freefall-adjusted-for-in...

Another good read is "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia. Its about the birth and death of an entire family line, flowing through the wars, migrations and incest that revolved around it (atleast thats my interpretation :)).

Then it might be possible to bypass paywalls by reading from google's cached version.

In my case, it's ironic that I feel lethargic right after breaking fast (probably due to digestive system kicking in), while the rest of the day is a breezy peacefulness.

> Stu is quite memorable as a voice actor in the role of Human Peon, where his rendition of a downtrodden brute-laborer was comedic genius.

Nice to finally know the person behind the still-funny-in-my-head warcraft phrases - "Yes me lord", "Who me", "Uhuhuh"

Pretty cool... sort of a "crawler meets selenium" approach. I wonder if they support css3 - cant find out much from their docs.

We had a slightly different approach to solve this problem of fairness vs. (encouraging) self-interest:

Anyone who contributes and sticks with the project till the end, has a stake equal to number of hours put in multiplied by number of users/sales that resulted in (divided by everyone's hours of course). Anyone who contributes but doesnt stick till the end i.e. raising capital, doesnt get a stake but gets compensated at twice the market rate for that skill (when we raise capital).

Ok, I was really curious, so here's what I found so far:

http://www.channelsurfing.net/

http://atdhe.net/

http://www.rojadirecta.org/

http://www.firstrow.net/

http://ilemi.com/

Most were video streaming websites.

Anybody else curious about these "seized domains" Homeland Security is trying to "protect" us from?

Same here... although the "misapplied computer expertise" stigma would be hard to shake off when launching something like cashenvoy.com