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Kyle Neath started following the problem "Double encoding of HTML entities" in Dribbble.
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Kyle Neath asked a question in RescueTime on March 07, 2009 04:59:
Why did the graphs change?Before I begin, I'm going to preface this with the fact that I am obsessive about graphs, and spend a lot of time thinking about the appropriate graph to show. So keep in mind I probably come off far more serious than it really is...
I loved the old RescueTime graphs. My important metric is each-day — so I loved being able to log into the dashboard and see a bar chart showing me the 'working' tag, 'browsing' tag and total time spent each day. It was glorious. The bar graphs were correct — they aggregated time spent in a vertical graphic, grouped by each non-numerical day (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...).
But now we've got line graphs. Why the change? These line graphs are much worse. A line graph should be used when you have two incremental axis which to graph by. Velocity vs Time, for example. Velocity increments: 0mph, 1mph, 2mph... etc. Time increments: 0s, 1s, 2s. When you shade the area under the Velocity vs Time graph, you get a meaningful metric - mph*s — distance. But in the context of RescueTime, it makes no sense. There is no incremental difference between Monday and Tuesday (what is Monday and a half? Or Tuesday.622 ?). The area under the curve also become useless, day*s or time squared.
This is only exasterbated by the fact that the points on the line graph are meaningless as well! If I follow the twhirl graph shown below, I'm lead to believe I spent 7 hours (!) on Wednesday on twhirl. The reality is that I spent 1h 44m on whirl. Increasing the frustration, the slopes between the lines are meaningless! You'll see on Monday -> Tuesday it looks like I spent *more* time on whirl (slope is positive). The reality is that it was actually negative by quite a bit (-26%). All of this traces back to the fact that you've forced bar graphs into line graphs.
Another startling thing is that by the screenshot above you'd be lead to believe I spend most of my time on twhirl -- when the reality is I spend most of my time on Textmate (notice the *bar* graphs to the right that reveal the truth).
Please consider reverting them :) It was much, much better. -
Kyle Neath shared an idea in The Cosmic Machine on November 26, 2008 08:28:
Dragging & Dropping of Twitter Statuses (or anything)So, one of the few things I actually did like about Twitterific was the ability to drag & drop tweets places. This is pretty useful to me personally since I use Propane(http://propaneapp.com/) every day and can drag/drop URLS as auto Twictures (http:///twictur.es) into our Campfire room.
It'd be really cool if EventBox did this -- when you drag a tweet out of the app put it on the pasteboard as a URL. Not a high priority request by any means, but would be a nice bit of polish :)
You could also extend this to other services, so you could say drag a flickr picture from EventBox to Adium -> send a link to whoever you're chatting with. -
Kyle Neath replied on November 25, 2008 20:41 to the idea "Keyboard Commands" in The Cosmic Machine:
Sweet! :) -
Kyle Neath replied on November 25, 2008 19:22 to the idea "Keyboard Commands" in The Cosmic Machine:
Yep, exactly. -
Kyle Neath replied on November 25, 2008 19:15 to the idea "Keyboard Commands" in The Cosmic Machine:
Oh, I'm definitely not saying get rid of Keyboard navigation -- just the non-modified keys that throw you out of the app. In fact, this makes it much harder to navigate with the keyboard for me since I routinely accidentally get kicked out of the app while I'm using the arrow keys. -
Kyle Neath shared an idea in The Cosmic Machine on November 25, 2008 06:23:
Keyboard CommandsRight now if you press the right arrow while an item is selected, you go to that item. I know this functionality is modeled after Twitterific, but it's about as big of a bucket of FAIL as I can imagine. It's one of the top 3 reasons I don't use Twitterific. No un-modified key (with the exception of enter/return under special circumstances) should ever take you out of focus of an app in my opinion, and I think you'd struggle to find this interaction in another other application.
My preferred method for opening up out-of-app links would be a middle-click, command-click, and command-return (as you would open a new tab in any browser) -
Kyle Neath shared an idea in The Cosmic Machine on November 25, 2008 06:19:
Add Recent Activity to FlickrThe screen I use most in Flickr (aside from my contact's photos) is the screen showing me involvement in my photos & photos I've commented on (pictured below).
I'd love if I could get this in EventBox somehow. -
Kyle Neath shared an idea in The Cosmic Machine on November 25, 2008 06:14:
Remove duplicate entries for Facebook users with Twitter syncA good number of my Twitter followers have twitter sync to their Facebook account. What happens is that I get double-notified like the image below.
I'd love it if you could hack around this in some form -- maybe delete status messages that match text and are posted within a minute or two of each other. -
Josh Owens' reply to "suggestion: don't send direct message instructions every single time?" was just promoted to the most useful! Kyle Neath and 6 other people think it's one of the best replies.
I agree. We all know we can text for instructions... Why not put a smart filter in place and say after the first 20 or 40 direct messages to a phone, remove the helper text.
I leave direct messages on for SMS and I bet 50% of my tweets end up being split into two messages, despite the core message only being 140 chars. -
Kyle Neath replied on August 29, 2008 03:31 to the idea "suggestion: don't send direct message instructions every single time?" in Twitter:
Yes, PLEASE fix this :( It seems optional (the help text isn't really needed at all, if you turn on SMS, you know how to use twitter) and is making my experience worse. I would estimate about 90% of my direct messages fall into 2 messages due directly to this text. About 30% due just to that damn 'hi' text.
My ideal message would read:
"DM via username: This text can be shortened by a whoping 24 + username length! That's a 17% minimum optimization!" -
Kyle Neath started following the idea "suggestion: don't send direct message instructions every single time?" in Twitter.
