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by ndefinite 13y ago
Do you know where to find the recording? Converting macros to python sounds extremely useful
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by ndefinite 13y ago
That point is really helpful. Reinforces that point that TDD is not just testing, it's forcing you to think differently. Conceiving simple tests to prove a simple piece of programming works, keeps it simple. Simple is powerful.
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by ndefinite 13y ago
The chart supports that assumption to some extent. The smartest are under estimating their percentile.
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by ndefinite 14y ago
"But what will most certainly be forgotten is there was a generation of students in the 1980s and 1990s who were encouraged to use flow charts, long after the reason for using them had disappeared." I don't know if I entirely agree with his
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by ndefinite 14y ago
He's using it to run this: http://biovisualize.github.com/d3visualization/ It's awesome what they've done to showcase the community examples
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by ndefinite 14y ago
just the TC article: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/13/mit-edu-doj-gov-w3-gov-all-...
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by ndefinite 14y ago
The mapping plugins are truly impressive but, personally, I'm looking forward to making use of the hexbin plugin and testing out the new transition chaining. As always, nice work!
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by ndefinite 14y ago
Same here. Seeing the Facebook comments was such a surprising twist to end an otherwise well argued article.
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Science.js Scientific and statistical computing in JavaScript(github.com)
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by ndefinite 14y ago
Jason Davies (frequent D3 contributor) started a standalone stats library: https://github.com/jasondavies/science.js/ Originally intended to be part of D3, he's now set it up as its own library.
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by ndefinite 14y ago
Nice work! The background information at the start covering the Stanford Visualization Group and Ben Fry's approach to Data Visualization are very nice touches
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by ndefinite 14y ago
Did anyone else pause at the $80k and think that's not very much, before continuing to read "per month"?
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by ndefinite 14y ago
I knew someone who handed these straws out in Africa a few years back: http://www.gizmag.com/go/4418/ They are simple and inexpensive but they perfectly filer out the larvae from untreated water. I'm sure he'd be super impressed to see ho
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by ndefinite 14y ago
Even if you solely consider moore's law (even if it has slowed down slightly)the post's title will hold true
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Matthew Inman: "It's interesting to watch..."(twitter.com)
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Siri says Nokia Lumia 900 the best smartphone ever | Apple - CNET News(news.cnet.com)
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Intro to Colour for Research Reporting(vcu.visioncritical.com)
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R2-D2's Other Message(youtube.com)
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New Udacity.com Website(udacity.com)
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Dark Matter Quantum Computer(kurzweilai.net)
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by ndefinite 14y ago
ah, I see. I missed that. I just checked in chrome's console and see false for both when they're strings.
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by ndefinite 14y ago
More of an observation than anything else. I don't actually use PHP but find these recent PHP focused articles are helping me learn at thing or two about languages I do use.
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by ndefinite 14y ago
It's the same with JavaScript regardless of whether you use == or === 9223372036854775807 == 9223372036854775808 true 9223372036854775807 === 9223372036854775808 true
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by ndefinite 15y ago
Ah, I completely missed that
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by ndefinite 15y ago
Their business model depends on their ability to teach and then connect students with hiring employers (in interviews they indicated their business plan is to generate revenue through recruitment). Whether accredited or not, as a student, w
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by ndefinite 15y ago
Did anyone see a sign up link?
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by ndefinite 15y ago
From an economic standpoint it's not inflation you need to factor in it's the reduction in cost of production over 500 years (assuming away any issues with the time scale the author presents). Also known as deflation which is in fact a good
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by ndefinite 15y ago
With 4 layers to the onion wouldn't it be easier to have 4 width measures? Then you could simply decide which width is most relevant to your application (outer margin, border, padding, or content). There's different use cases, without listi
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by ndefinite 15y ago
PEP 8 covers this: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
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by ndefinite 15y ago
Love it!

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