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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 17 Oct 2018
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      Very boring thoughts re: http://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/  1) It's refreshing to see a list of anything that isn't spread over 10 pages to optimize for CPMs. 2) It is a <table> which looks good. This is still surprising for me to see anywhere, even in 2018. Why is that?

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 17 Oct 2018
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      You can tell a lot about me philosophically from the observation that I talk to people who wonder why we aren't on Mars yet and am much, much more interested in why we can't make tables look good.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 17 Oct 2018
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      And to be fair I lack even the vocabulary to describe why it looks good. Typography something something. Maybe kerning something something. It has the character of not assaulting the eyes like almost all tabular presentations of text and numbers. You get what I mean.

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        2. Freddy Vega‏Verified account @freddier 17 Oct 2018
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          Here. This is why https://m.imgur.com/gallery/ZY8dKpA 

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        3. Matthias‏ @MattAsMate 17 Oct 2018
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          Thanks for sharing, that's a good advice

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        1. Jonas Neubert™‏ @jonemo 17 Oct 2018
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          It's clever in how it uses blocks of text and whitespace to create the impression of a grid even though all of the vertical grid lines are missing. Information design is an art.

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        1. Michael Nygard‏ @mtnygard 17 Oct 2018
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          Have you read Edward Tufte’s books? They gave me an appreciation for good display of information.

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        1. Robert Möstl‏ @rmoestl 17 Oct 2018
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          Proper use of the Gestalt Principles. One can find lots of great tips on designing tables in Stephen Few's "Show Me the Numbers" http://www.perceptualedge.com/library.php 

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        2. Jeremy Steward  🇨🇦‏ @ThatGeoGuy 17 Oct 2018
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          Tables and typesetting are tricky. Key point: what looks good in this article will not always look right. The key is the correct density for the topic in question, IMO. People will complain about formatting in academic papers, but to the initiated, it doesn't get better.

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        3. Jeremy Steward  🇨🇦‏ @ThatGeoGuy 17 Oct 2018
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          I also kind of think the correct density / breadth of a table will vary depending on the audience. Which sucks, because that means there is no global optimum. However, as expertise increases, one also tends to desire lower density info with higher entropy / information exchange.

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        1. Mike Fosker‏ @mike_fosker 18 Oct 2018
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          As suggested by @mtnygard Edward Tufte's books are a great place to learn more about this. Start with https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi … A wonderful book that is beautiful in it's own right

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