The UI seems hugely wasteful in terms of both screen real estate and user interaction. Why not a table with columns of checkboxes? Then we'd be able to sort and filter and count and compare. You could select a row and there could be a sidebar with lots more information about that company.
What's the point of the circle icon indicating the number of revenue categories? Until you look at a few it'd be easy to imagine it's a pie chart. All it indicates is a cardinality, so why not simply display a number? Except even that doesn't make sense because (a) we can already see at a glance how many revenue-bubbles are highlighted, and (b) how is that a meaningful number anyway?
I shouldn't have to click on the "x" to dismiss a popup info card. That's a small target, which slows me down when I want to click through a bunch of the "bottle caps". Clicking anywhere outside the card should dismiss it. This is a common idiom on the web. Better yet, clicking on any "bottle cap" should immediately pop up the "baseball card" for that company, without my having to first dismiss the previously shown "baseball card".
The link goes to the mobile version of the article, which (at least on my desktop Safari) doesn't show two elements, an image and a video, which are really needed for the text to make sense.
If it's possible to edit the link, I recommend replacing it with the non-mobile version:
I often find Charlie Rose annoying but I'm liking this interview too. I think it's that Charlie sits back and lets Isaacson give his full, fleshed-out answers, instead of interrupting.
> If you want to learn to code and build stuff and you’re starting by asking someone else what you should do, you’re already thinking about it the wrong way.
If someone asks for help and this is the first thing you say, you're already thinking about it the wrong way.
What is their background? Their aptitude? Why do they want to learn? How do they learn best? Are their expectations reasonable? In short, what would be the smartest way to help this individual? One suboptimal way is to post essentially a multi-paragraph lmgtfy and assume that everybody will hound down the knowledge they need with the same geeky obsessiveness you would.
Edit: I meant to mention that remark about getting a Mac. "Embarrassed" to have considered anything else? I'm a big Mac fan (Cocoa developer) but that is ridiculous enough that I'm tempted to see the whole post as a joke.
Number one deterrent to me using Word: no support for emacs navigation keystrokes, which are near-universal on the Mac. I don't use actual emacs, but I've come to rely heavily on those keystrokes.
Physical environment: quiet, comfortable, well lit, with the ability to have privacy as I need it for phone calls and just plain thinking. A personal whiteboard. And, silly as it may sound, a good bathroom.
The question strikes me as a link-baiting deliberate obtuseness. If we're in a post-industrial age, why do we still have factories? If my Mac is a "personal" computer, why can other people have accounts on it?
"Post" means "after". It usually connotes some sense of replacement, but does not necessarily imply wholesale obsoleting of the thing that came before it.
I think "post-PC" is a calculated marketing term, but to criticize it based on the most absurd possible interpretation is, well, absurd.
What's the point of the circle icon indicating the number of revenue categories? Until you look at a few it'd be easy to imagine it's a pie chart. All it indicates is a cardinality, so why not simply display a number? Except even that doesn't make sense because (a) we can already see at a glance how many revenue-bubbles are highlighted, and (b) how is that a meaningful number anyway?
I shouldn't have to click on the "x" to dismiss a popup info card. That's a small target, which slows me down when I want to click through a bunch of the "bottle caps". Clicking anywhere outside the card should dismiss it. This is a common idiom on the web. Better yet, clicking on any "bottle cap" should immediately pop up the "baseball card" for that company, without my having to first dismiss the previously shown "baseball card".