mind map

My, what a pretty visualization. I wonder what all the symbol encodings mean. Size seems to be tied to number of connections and color to clusters (people who are mostly friends with each other). I don't know what the brackets and position mean.


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Edit: Hey, I just noticed that some of my mutual friends aren't here. I wonder what's up with that, given that some who are very loosely connected (clique size 1) do show up.

documentation: the assumptions behind presentation

A coworker and I had one of those mutual "you believe what?!" moments, and it was surprisingly educational and non-heated. Nifty.

We were talking about documentation that's meant to be viewed online. My favored format there is HTML; he was advocating PDF. And when we had peeled away the surface issues, it turned out that our user models are fundamentally different.

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