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Complexity  ·  3484 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ignore This Test

And the paradigms he boasted





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It's a meditation on

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The difficulty that there seems

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To deal with all the threaded text stuff

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That develops into streams

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I'm not sure it's relevant

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To a sleepy community

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But a raging Reddit loses

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Comprehensive unity

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I am thinking of a way

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To observe entire discussions

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From a top down overview

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From movies to historic Prussians

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Sometimes I see nodes networked

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Like a mind map interface

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With replies and themes all plotted

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Following themes the replies chase

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I am wondering if a Hubski

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API would let us play

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A JScript / Canvas interface

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With database access, let's say

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Instead of threads, a plot or map

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Of where all the replies are heading

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Like visual relationship tools

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I've seen HR keeps on spreading

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Mainly 'cause the thread concept

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Provides much lesser insight

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Into the way discussion flows

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Just branching left or right

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I know I made things difficult

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By forcing this to verse

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But now I find restriction

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Proving less than just a curse

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A part of me extemporising

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Half thought thoughtless UI thought

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And the other half a gymnast

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Spraining rhyme, not to be caught

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The essential exercise

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Is to press on without a pause

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But the clarity achieved

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Is that I understand my cause

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It's a meditation really

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On a user interface

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Where profound discussion could be spoiled

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If we have to give chase

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And it's tricky, yes, I know

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To describe UI just in words

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But to pause to diagram it

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Surely would be quite absurd

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See the thing that I was thinking

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Was, we have a paradigm

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A visual metaphor that lies

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Under our noses all the time

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The Hubwheel, dammit! Look at it!

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The centre, like a seed

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A discussion topic ringed by

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The replies we all could read

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Click upon one and it zooms to show

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Its own replies in turn

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And deeper, as discussions flow

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And ebb and seep and and boil and churn

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One could tune the render depth

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Make structure focused, or a sprawler

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But really what I'm talking of is

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A discursive fractal explorer

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Like I say it's hard to play

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UI in text's not crisp

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But I think I'm saying that it's more

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Like this:

Rather than this:

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Or even more like this, Mike made:

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The fractals there are clear

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Though navigation might be harder

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When you're nursing your fourth beer

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I guess essentially I think

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We're trapped in paradigms

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Inherited from bygone eras

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From pre modern UI times

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But now it seems I'm out of room

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And I'm typing, copy-pasting

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Firefox at its smallest zoom

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And both our time I may be wasting

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It's a foolish way to call

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For help in playing with UI's

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But if anyone has interest

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I would love to hear replies.

user-inactivated  ·  3484 days ago  ·  link  ·  

On Firefox mobile the reply links and such no longer work this far down. It's a shame considering how long it took to scroll.

I can get it through your profile though.

caelum19  ·  3482 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks to Complexity/insomnia I read that in rhyme.

On firefox for PC, the reply box doesn't show when I hit "reply" But I can still click on "Link".

Dendrophobe  ·  3483 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Needs some Zalgo text.