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So, I am assuming you are native?


I think they are commenting on the OP being in Ireland


Reddit is leaking.


It is, but the original post itself is also pretty funny. So it fits quite nicely


Am I the only one who doesn’t like it?


I think it's visually ok but kind of hard to follow other than in the abstract. Mousing over players names is basically a crapshoot.

But, it gives the overall sense of the data. It's a bit more style over substance.

As to how it's made, looks like a simple canvas animation.


I mean, it needs to be sped up, but if you sped it up, made mouse overs more informative, it can be a fast way to express large data sets.

I run a simulated football game, visualizations like this can be helpful over large datasets.


It's fun, but slow. And a little frivolous since it could just be a table.


Couldn't most visualizations just be a table unless the row count is too high?

Edit: This is one possible strategy that used to be employed to progressively enhance table into info graphics or data vis. Proposing a table as the best solution seems needlessly reductionist.


I mispoke, there's the rank dimension, which would make this a big table. Still I think the animation took too long to settle, I was bored waiting and annoyance didn't add enough value to final infographic for me. It would be more justifiable if datapoints/balls dropped with the time axis since there'a might be an interesting story there that would warrant animation.


It’s infuriating.

Execs at company I worked for wanted to send data to another company. They asked us to work with their vendor who used AI to map data and fix it………the vendor had a bunch of MBAs and no devs. They kept saying AI without any substance and were completely useless and time wasters. Eventually we reached out to the original company and mapped the data ourselves in a day…no AI needed.


I had a very similar experience with SnapLogic. It was much easier to just do the integration ourselves. We needed to integrate with a service that had a great Open API Spec, but were initially encouraged to use SnapLogic because it could do this magically for us. Turns out, you save money and time doing the integration yourself.


SnapLogic looks great in sales demos I am sure...

But their Snap Dev docs leave much to be desired, the model seems over complicated[0] and training materials flipped a Bozo Bit for me.

Frankly it is 'consultant ready software'.

[0] - I mean Pekko Streams is easier to reason about from a FAFO level anyway and you aren't having to write a bunch of weird shims everywhere.


Turns out they are already geolocking. EU and US have different app stores. When I visited Poland I needed to install an app to install eSIM for my phone and couldn’t do it.

Had to change the country on my account and it dropped all my subscriptions. Then I had issue when I came back with apps not updating. So I had to fiddle with it again.

Extremely annoying.


I haven’t tried this yet but apparently easier way is to create a separate account, log into it to download required app then log back into your main account.

My pain hinges between EV charging apps and family sharing.


Interestingly, this exact problem would be solved if they really allowed side loading. This is not an issue at all on desktop platforms and it shouldn't be on mobile.


Not everyone spends crazy amount of time on other social media. As you noted you too use social media, it just happens to be this.

I think HN is decent but it also is a tech echo chamber.


I wish every dev would try projects and things completely unrelated to computers.

I enjoy being outside.

These headlines “projects every dev should try” really annoy me. I try to put in enough effort at work, and that’s tough. But I have been messing with computers for over 20 years now.


We're on Hacker News. Do you go to a fitness community and say "I wish every gym bro would put down a dumbell and pick up a book?"

But if you're curious, I hike, am learning Japanese, and want to eventually clean up and pick back up my saxophone once I can get the money to get it fixed. Tech is a big but not the only part of my life.


I think it’s important that those who want a 9-5-only are able to get it, and those who want to make it their calling in life are also able to have that


I don't really understand how this comment relates to anyone but you.

Nerding on a computer and doing outdoor things are not mutually exclusive. They may be for you, but that's... well... you.


A strange sentiment for someone who's wasting time heckling articles on HN.

Of course nobody said don't go outside or pursue non tech interests.


I just do both.


Can you please elaborate what do you mean by " completely unrelated to computers" ?


Woodworking, blacksmithing, gardening, etc

Things that don't take computers to create


*makig music


> I enjoy being outside.

I don't. It's cold outside!


Caribbean is nice this time of year.



Agreed. This site selects for people who have made computers their entire life. Consider this an unsolicited reminder to touch grass.


>This site selects for people who have made computers their entire life

isn't it the other way around? The site allows anyone to post on nearly any topic, but the longest standing audience veers tech. there still is quite a few topics on medicine, transportation, economics, and politics as well.


> Consider this an unsolicited reminder to touch grass.

Do you find yourself personally attacked by someone doing something that you don’t enjoy? Or is the notion of them having fun AND improving their direct skill?


I used uBlock to completely remove shorts from my browser. I have been getting sucked into shorts as I am thirsty male :(.


You mix an average male with an attractive model and something decent may come out. Plus she could afford surgeries.


Outside of ones feelings for Trump ...Ivana holds the standard of beauty. Those who loathe him prior to their dislike of him ..those ppl and the majority of them thought the same about her looks. That she is natural beauty even prior to any plastic surgery.

Attractiveness runs in Trumps family. He afterall was the Paris Hilton / Kardashians of the 80s and early 90s. Those types of socialites have beauty and wealth and society loves to follow them because of it.


It’s most likely a mix of things. Life in US is really fucking expensive once you have a child and a home.

Our daycare for one kid is $1600. Same as mortgage, luckily we put down a large down payment and bought at low rates.

Also, if you have health issue, that also makes things pretty extreme. Healthcare is just brutal in US for low income people. Insurance can cost anywhere from $0 to $3000+. Depending on employment and family situation.

Personal finance education is also pretty bad. I know many people who are absolutely awful with finances and don’t do basic math. They don’t think how money can generate more money but what they can buy. 20% of luxury goods buyers are making under $50k. This isn’t always the case though.

If you make little money and don’t have connections it is really hard to get ahead. Once you start using credit cards and loans to eat and pay for housing the finance charges eat you alive.

I was pretty poor and even used food stamps when I went back to school in my 20s. It wasn’t until I made connections with people in high places when getting jobs and opportunities became easy. I’m lazier than I was before, I work less than I worked before, yet make much more money.


>20% of luxury goods buyers are making under $50k.

source?


It's also a misleading statistic if true.

Part of it is that luxury goods have a wide variety of prices. A $100 watch might be classified as a "luxury good" or a $200 pair of earrings. Part of it is it was about buyers, not total purchases or dollar value.

The people who stretch to buy a pair of $300 jeans as a Christmas present are on equal footing in that statistic to the people who dress head to toe in Gucci and never wear the same thing twice.

So, yeah, 1/5 people buying a luxury good making it the item they splurge on while making under $50,000 is reasonable.


If air Jordan’s are luxury products then yeah easy to see how that is


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