n8agrin

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by n8agrin 8mo ago
I think an organization's governance structure being successful has more to do with how the people in the organization want to be governed than whether it's building an app or feeding the poor.
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by n8agrin 8mo ago
With full respect to your right to criticize, I don't understand what differentiates an organization trying to build a social networking app around biodiversity data from an organization feeding the poor, and those organizations'
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by n8agrin 8mo ago
Sociocracy is a theory of governance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy
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by n8agrin 1y ago
I've had similar thoughts. Any interest in sharing notes? Generally I've been thinking there should be a standard declarative format for data vis. This should be inspired by prior art like ggplot, Grammar of Graphics, Vega, VegaLi
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by n8agrin 4y ago
:) Ty for being part of the community
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by n8agrin 4y ago
:heart:
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by n8agrin 4y ago
:heart:
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by n8agrin 4y ago
Look for "A Little History": https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/about
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by n8agrin 4y ago
https://www.inaturalist.org/ While I deserve no credit for its current success, it's been used by millions to: * catalogue millions of plants and animals around the world * tagged image data has become critical for com
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by n8agrin 7y ago
iNaturalist was the final product of my Master's degree thesis team. I haven't contributed to it since school, about 11 years, so I don't deserve any credit for its success. The folks who have kept it alive are personal heros
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Kepler.gl, a powerful open source geospatial tool for large-scale data sets(uber.github.io)
2 points by n8agrin 8y ago|0 comments
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by n8agrin 8y ago
In the context of a large client application, I often advise engineers that if we're optimizing things like the types of `for` loops we use, we've won the performance lottery. That is, I've never found a critical performance
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Angular-data: data store and caching for Angular.js(angular-data.pseudobry.com)
164 points by n8agrin 12y ago|45 comments
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by n8agrin 13y ago
For those curious, this is the law which allows you to sue the police: 42 U.S.C. § 1983 "Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subj
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by n8agrin 14y ago
I couldn't agree with you more, that's why I linked the paper.
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by n8agrin 14y ago
Here's a good paper about animated transitions in stats graphs and their effectiveness. http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2007-AnimatedTransitions-InfoV...
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by n8agrin 14y ago
@nnnnnick this looks great. I work with d3 on a daily basis and while I think that it's a great toolchain, the need for something small, fast and canvas based was absolutely needed. Well done.
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Seven Dirty Secrets of Data Visualisation(netmagazine.com)
11 points by n8agrin 14y ago|0 comments
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by n8agrin 14y ago
What's old is always new, especially on the Internet. I'm constantly reminded of the "Simpsons' did it" South Park episode whenever I'm reading press briefs about new startups.
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by n8agrin 14y ago
I want no local storage anywhere near me other than maybe caches. No disks, no state, my world entirely in the network. Storage needs to be backed up and maintained, which should be someone else's problem, one I'm happy to pay to have them
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by n8agrin 14y ago
I actually think both of you are right. It's not about exclusively communicating with your friends or exclusively following celebs, it's about both. What you care about combined with a personal audience to discuss it with. The kid you found
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Prototype 1.7.1 Released(prototypejs.org)
4 points by n8agrin 14y ago|0 comments
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Wirecutter creator, Brian Lam, on starting over and doing what you love.(gigaom.com)
1 points by n8agrin 14y ago|0 comments
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Software Eats Software Development - Levine on Github funding(peter.a16z.com)
3 points by n8agrin 14y ago|0 comments
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Easy 6502 - Learn the 6502 Assembly Language(skilldrick.github.com)
179 points by n8agrin 14y ago|78 comments
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by n8agrin 14y ago
Hand by hand chip counts http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?rr=5&grid...
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by n8agrin 14y ago
This is great work and it's still early days. Looking forward to seeing the code clean up and having more extensible options for things like legends and fewer properties tightly coupled to chart instances.
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How we Learned to Stop Worrying and Love JavaScript(speakerdeck.com)
2 points by n8agrin 14y ago|0 comments
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by n8agrin 14y ago
I posted it immediately after it was announced. It got ~20 quick up votes but never landed on the home page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4040049
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Improving Performance on Twitter.com(engineering.twitter.com)
57 points by n8agrin 14y ago|2 comments

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