How is the gameplay related to the information? The connection seems pretty contrived to me.

The glowing line represents a timeline of Netlify's milestones that you have to follow in order to discover their journey. No particular reason for the physics-based gameplay except to have a bit of fun.

Why isn't SendGrid on the list? It seems to have a similar pricing level

Not to guess why it was not included, but speaking as someone from the infosec realm, it has a reputation for spam and phishing.

Honestly, I never intended to share this, I was just doing research for ourselves, but here we are. I'm sure there are others I've also left off, but ignoring Twilio's SendGrid feels like an oversight, I'll add them now.

If people want to live in rural areas, that's fine by me. They don't particularly contribute to the problems with car-centric infrastructure in the US. The main complaints are how most cities in the US are designed in ways that are hostile to anybody who doesn't have a car, such as:

- making it difficult to get around safely by bike

- zoning restrictions that force development to be clumped in certain areas

- underdeveloped public transport with infrequent stops and limited range

- parking space requirements that limit development

- food deserts where people have to drive long distances to get groceries

There are many places in the world that have solved these problems. I don't get why it's so inconceivable to solve them in the US.

Japan is awesome like this, they have amazing highways and rail. Tokyo in my option is a bit too car friendly but it’s still very walkable and rideable.

If that system existed in America, what would it take to keep it as clean and as safe? (Edit: I visited Japan and loved the train system)

Japan is an extremely small island. I don’t think a lot of their experience would apply to us. China may be a better example.

Extremely small island that stretches from New York to Atlanta..

Honshu is the 7th largest island in the world. It's area is a little more than 1/3 of texas.

The fact that it barely measures up to our second largest state would reinforce my point.

LA to San Fran could be doing a lot better is what you’re saying ?

As someone who recently bought a house (and used to live in an apartment), those were some of the reasons why I opted out of apartment life. I would prefer to live in a denser urban area if other amenities and quality of life benefits came with it, but they don’t in my city. Even if you live close to the city core, there are either extremely limited or entirely nonexistent options for groceries, fitness and recreation, coffee shops, affordable eateries, non-alcohol entertainment and art, etc in most neighborhoods. You would still have to drive most of the time anyway. Most of the denser areas closer to downtown can also be quite dangerous for pedestrians after dark. The few places that have denser housing with those amenities within (safe) walking access are exorbitantly more expensive. Meanwhile apartment and townhome developments are now springing up everywhere in my area of town, but without any amenities to go with them, leading to even more vehicle congestion on the local streets as people try to escape the neighborhood and reach the highways.

It looks like all of the templates are basically listing steps or showing a list of facts.

Most of my favorite infographics involve some sort of graph or chart that visualizes data, for example https://xkcd.com/radiation/

Ah, it looks quite complex. I'll start with simple graphics first and then attempt more complex graphics later.

for complex graphic , let AI write some data visualization code may help.

I am a big fan of xkcd and this is one of my favorite creation of his.

With this said, this chart is good to compare things that are close to each other but does not work that week IMO when comparing items that are really different.

It is more the path between, say, a dental x-ray and the yearly background dose that tells us "they are really different"

Again, the chart is great but I would maybe have preferred something visually closer to a sankey (but I did not give much thought about that).

OTOH fitting all this information and having a readable graph is a miracle Randall is a master of.

> As a photographer, I care about robustness of the visual output. Which means, as a designer, designing for the worst possible image and taking numerical metrics with a grain of salt.

I think it's kind of silly how the author pooh-poohs averages and demands that whoever is working compression algorithms should focus on the worst possible image. If you know anything about information theory, you know that is literally mathematically impossible to make a compression algorithm that always performs well in the worst possible case.

You're taking the bare definition of "worst". He was not talking about compressing random noise

The type of image shown here is a common use case. There's no arguing that it's a statistically insignificant case.

Since it's 5 minutes I'm wondering if it's just "that's how the web works by default". I remember a while ago I was doing a long-running calculation on an POST request and was trying to debug why the connection always broke after 5 minutes, and found the hard way that there's a 5 minute timeout.

What's wrong with that? If America was for some reason invaded by Chinese infantry, I would certainly prefer that the soldiers were properly trained to avoid civilian casualties.

And Google Cloud Platform

Theoretically, if you choose the first two points at random, then you have a 50-50 chance of guessing right on the third guess (the two circles from the first two guesses have at most two intersecting points) and should always get the correct answer on the 4th guess.

You can make up your own scoring system based upon the first two distances, with a high penalty (negative points) for needing the 4th guess.

It makes sense that more developed countries would have lower optimism. If the previous generation already had a decent quality-of-life, there's less reason to assume that the next generation will have it even better. Developing countries are more likely to have significant recent salient difficulties that the next generation will no longer have.

> If the previous generation already had a decent quality-of-life, there's less reason to assume that the next generation will have it even better.

I do agree that the rate of improvement may be lower for already highly developed countries. And that the difficulties solved in developing countries may have a much larger positive impact then small steps in more developed countries.

But there's no artificial upper limit to quality-of-life. You wont hit a barrier and be forced to stagnate and go down: there's so many issues in today's societies that need solving.

I imagine you are both right: the apples are farther up the tree.