staringmonkey

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by staringmonkey 8y ago
Enigma Technologies | Director, Data Acquisition & Strategy | Open to all US cities / Remote | Full-Time Have you parsed a long-forgotten mainframe format? Scraped an ASP.net site? Visited null island? Managed an amazing team? Enig
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The United States of Zuckerberg: The Facebook Billionaire’s IRL Tour of America(qz.com)
4 points by staringmonkey 9y ago|0 comments
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Programmers are most likely to work from home(qz.com)
427 points by staringmonkey 9y ago|363 comments
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Apple fans have click-signed more than 100,000 words of legal contracts(qz.com)
4 points by staringmonkey 10y ago|2 comments
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How internet companies delete your right to own your digital purchases(qz.com)
2 points by staringmonkey 10y ago|0 comments
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When computers learn human languages, they also learn human prejudices(qz.com)
1 points by staringmonkey 10y ago|0 comments
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The modern stock market is a badly designed computer system(qz.com)
4 points by staringmonkey 10y ago|0 comments
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When does copyright expire? Quartz mapped copyright terms around the world(qz.com)
1 points by staringmonkey 11y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Web Services debuts its slowest server yet(qz.com)
2 points by staringmonkey 11y ago|0 comments
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by staringmonkey 11y ago
Yes, good point! There's a lot of crossover there and also with digital humanities folks.
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by staringmonkey 11y ago
Journalists have some problems that tend to be somewhat peculiar to their jobs. Some examples: * A mix of heterogeneous and often internally inconsistent data. * A lot of data that is categorical, free text or otherwise non-numerical. * A n
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by staringmonkey 11y ago
Hello! Author of the library here. Just want to point out that I am a journalist and very active in the data journalism community. (6+ years) Both the sites you name-check have journalists who do production online graphics that don't g
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Is Coding the New Literacy?(motherjones.com)
11 points by staringmonkey 12y ago|3 comments
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by staringmonkey 12y ago
Hey, (I'm the original author of copytext at NPR) this looks like a really nice lib. FWIW, we specifically don't do it this way, because during development we're probably refreshing our page thousands of times and we don&#x27
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Pym.js: Embed iframes responsively(blog.apps.npr.org)
2 points by staringmonkey 12y ago|0 comments
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Making Remote Work Work(source.opennews.org)
186 points by staringmonkey 13y ago|90 comments
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NPR's election coverage(election2012.npr.org)
5 points by staringmonkey 14y ago|0 comments
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by staringmonkey 15y ago
Yes.
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by staringmonkey 15y ago
@all I'm the author of the post (@onyxfish). I'm not even remotely interested in debating its merits here. You all seem well-equipped to form your own judgements. However, for the sake of clarity, I wrote a __blog__ post that got __aggregat
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by staringmonkey 16y ago
I'm the hacker in question and its the former ad I replied to. And yes, I'm quite gainfully and meaningfully employed with the Tribune. And no, I'm not full of shit (at least I wasn't on that occasion.) Glad folks are enjoying/inspired by