mason: July 2008 Archives

I read Edward Tufte's book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and afterwards I was burning to visualize some data. I settled on charting the time of day that I make phone calls at.

As a software engineer with experience doing web development, I hear a lot of people with ideas for hot new websites. In most of these situations where there's an idea looking for someone to implement it, I get the sense that the software engineer's point of view isn't understood. Here's my edited response to a request for someone with spare time to implement an idea that was described at the level of detail of requiring community features and that users be able to upload content: