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Agreed, when I looked at every JS plotting library that I could find about a year ago, those two were far and above the winners for open- and closed-source, respectively. Now plotly is free and open source and seems unmatched in its abilities.

The author also had the same experience that I had with the "reusable" libraries built on d3: none of them really work that well either because of bugs or their inflexible interface.
The OP has the wrong perspective on profits. You have to look at the personal relationships behind the numbers. Actors are indeed getting paid much much more than in the past, but that doesn't make productions any less profitable. It's that those profits aren't going where the used to.

Hollywood acting talent has moved behind the camera. Those owning and producing content have far tighter personal relationships with those on camera. They are married. The are each other's kids. That's what happens after a couple generations in a business where workers age-out of on-screen work very quickly. The days of studios treating actors like commodities are over. If a production turns zero profits, but everyone walks away with a big paycheck, that's a good day for those involved. The wishes of the stockholders are way far away. (See Goodfellas, a "not profitable" production on paper.)

Remember that game "seven degrees of kevin Bacon"? It wasn't a joke. Every wonder why the same actors end up working together year after year? Throw directors, producers and studio execs into the mix and you diagram extended families, or at least groups of tight friends, moving through the industry.
This may depend on geographical area and standards and so on, but at least here in northern Europe, much of the gasoline was made of Russian crude oil and before modern emission standards, it contained lots of sulphur and other impurities. I believe modern cars would start flagging errors with even 1980's gasoline (again, even assuming that the lead would be taken away and replaced by modern additives).
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Most recruiters I've met never stop recruiting and spend a great deal of "social" time talking to people in relevant areas and trying to figure out how to get them a job. It's usually quite obnoxious, but definitely doesn't speak to thinking of recruiting as a 9-5 job
I am bothered as-well by the "Eat, sleep, code, repeat" phrase. We must not make things complicated just to create work. Work should lead to freedom. I understand it is scary when a work is no longer relevant. But this is not a technological problem, it is a political problem.

BTW, I think Universal Base Salary is a great answer to the speed at which work gets irrelevant. UBI gives exactly the confidence to evaluate work without pressure and bias, which I believe leads to even greater freedom and productivity.
XKCD has a What If on this very topic:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/143/
The zoning laws actually help the diversity, aesthetics aside. As the laws change, the buildings change with it. Some bulky and tall, now skinny and short. The buildings of the era are influenced from the changing laws.
It is in the States as well. I don't thing the OP was saying it was an easy job to do or get, just a totally different job that would be completely refreshing. I've felt that same feeling too.
In Vancouver we would always say, "Let's meet at Eatons", or, "VPL", or, "The Bay", or heck, even, "Let's meet at Mickey Dee's" (Mcdonalds).

Do a good enough job creating an inviting public space, that people frequent, then yes, I think it's a reasonable goal to say, "Let's meet at Apple" - you've got to aspire to something, and that seems like a pretty worthwhile goal.
That doesn't change anything. Images are easy to handle while JS/CSS are usually blocking assets that require parsing.

A small but complex JS file can have a bigger effect on latency and page interactivity/performance than many large images.
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Browsing the rest of the website is also recommended. And also very depressing.
Yeah, fair. It's still early in development so those resources haven't been made available.
In 1968 Douglas Engelbart used the wonderfully space aged term "brain amplification" in his mother of all demos.

In practice, i'm not sure how it actually works. Systems work can be automated away. And it becomes brittle. Something like emacs or vim absolutely feel like iron man armor. I can't really see what vim for systems work would look like.

My vague thoughts are, maybe build systems that give lots of information about what's happening right now, and how it's different than the past. Lots of commands for introspection. some commands for intervention. At scale, picking a specific machine to remove from load balancing pool or restart or destroy and reallocate at a keystroke might be handy.

It's an interesting perspective, but the difference seems subtle in most practical contexts.
Geodesic domes are great, in theory. Once you live in one you may not subscribe to that theory anymore.

The natural cooling only works(?) until you put objects such as people, partitions & furniture in it that disrupts the efficiency of said airflow. If you seal it and heat/cool with conventional means, you get temperature layers as you rise up in multi-level units.

They leak. Period. No matter if it's shingles or rubber or any other coating, domes shrink & contract with every sunrise/sunset. Then when it rains, it rains inside your home.

Try maximizing space in a round room sometime. Sure custom made & high-end offerings are to be had, but where's the simplicity & savings in having to replace all your possessions? Then there's a lot of wasted space above your head that you have to heat/cool for no additional benefit.

Yes, I lived in one for several years. The property was fantastic, the dome was "tolerable", at best. YMMV.
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Until someone turns on a geiger counter. Europa isn't somewhere you'd like to stand for very long. Jupiter isn't a health spa.
Actually there are people who are looking exactly for items like that to buy. For them the price is more important than anything else. It wouldn't be many, that's true, but it would cover the costs and make a profit.
I like the idea of applying less time, but more strenuous effort, towards programming, but how does someone do this?
At some point the real skill becomes to develop a reasonable solution with reasonable effort. You don't have to keep chasing the latest cool frameworks forever. It's good to know what the trends are but you can safely skip many of them.
How is that racist?
The author sounds like he's defending himself ; but from what attack?
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When first watching the video I thought the frames were some kind of combination of Mandelbrot Set images with the Hubble telescope image of the Eagle nebula pillars.
From wikipedia - https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkrY20...

I thought that was pretty cool but after reading the article the actual way it was done was much more interesting.
And the author says as much. He's saying that the choice of slogan seems to have a larger subtext. There's no battle being waged. Maybe reread the article?
Hm, I don't think you can speak for everybody. I find myself (re)creating a chart in R quite often. I sometimes create visualisations for print, and I just want an SVG or PDF to then import to Illustrator. Before I knew that you can export PDFs in Tableau, I often used Tableau for the analysis part and then went to R to recreate the same chart and export as PDF.
My ideal would be a mix. One sprint of code. One sprint of building houses.
Nothing is done in America's interests

"America" doesn't have interests, people have interests.
I guess I mean I'd like to run a "lifestyle" type of business; something where I don't make a ton of money, but enough to get by (rather than a startup where I'm hoping to solve humanity's problems with a single app and make millions or billions from it). Actually the company I work for is the best company I've ever worked at! I think I just don't find satisfaction in the 9-5 corporate grind.
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I was thinking along the lines of slow/data-limited networks and bandwidth usage.

I can download the complete works of Shakespeare from Project Gutenberg as plain-text with less bandwidth than one of the full-resolution JPEGs my digital camera takes.
I'd start with

tcpflow -p -C -i eth0 port 80 | grep -oE '(GET|POST|HEAD) .* HTTP/1.[01]|Host: .*'
If nothing else whatever field this is from has very fancy sounding jargon.

From another post on the site "I researched various different approaches to this problem and implemented the algorithms Conjugate Projected Gradient, Projected Steepest Descent, Projected Gauss-Seidel, Subspace Minimization with Conjugate Gradient, Minimum Residual and Symmetric LQ solvers, as well as Projected Gauss-Seidel with line search using the Armijo rule."
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I avoid useless meetings and "coordinating" with clueless people and focus on getting things done. It's a fine line though. If you totally ignore the outside there is a danger that you will miss the latest information that may impact your project. But with some practice you can filter out a lot of noise. It's good to have friends in your organization that keep you updated on the important trends. Also: When you are at work, really work.
This is what most people forget. 40 hours a week is a lot of time. There is this odd mindset where people waste most of the day, and then work late as if that's somehow the only way to get things done. Instead your much better off putting in a solid 8 at a company that does not waste time, and then going home to do other things.

If you end up in a job where you can't work for 35+ hours a week during normal business hours don't stay late, find a new job.
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I think the post might be misinterpreting the intent behind the phrase. My first impression was that it is a parody of the famous electronic dance song with similar lyrics.
Real paper -> Pop reporting of real paper -> Derivative crap on arxiv.org in essay form -> HN homepage.

We've got it down to about two weeks now. It's a game of telephone with massive information loss at each step.
I think shells are doing that. Otherwise you wouldn't see the execve("/bin/sh") syscall entry (it would get silently translated inside the kernel).
Hi, author here. Plotly was the biggest surprise for me when I was writing the two blog posts, and I definitely want to try out plotly.js as well. Could take a few weeks, though :) Go ahead and recreate that chart yourself! I already had John Muyskens from the Washington Post Graphics team add the brand news Python Leather library to the repo: https://github.com/OpenNewsLabs/onechart-twelvechartinglibra...
Many really good programmers "eat, sleep, code, repeat," some of the time. Highly intelligent people tend to have intense focus. That's how they got to be so intelligent.
I'm pretty sure this is a take on the popular edm track "eat sleep rave repeat". I'm surprised how much it blew up on this thread.
Fair enough, I just wanted to point out documentation is pretty much the first and most important thing you need to do if you want someone to contribute to an open repository, so I don't think you can say it "hits all the points" without having any docs available.
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Oh man, retros :(
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In many countries, the floors are 0 indexed. I live in Argentina an the usual name for the floor that is at the street level is "Plata Baja" (something like "low floor") and the elevator has usually a button that says "PB". Now it's increasingly common to see a "0" in that button :) . (This makes me slightly happy as a mathematician.)

Moreover, in some places the first underground floor "primer subsuelo" is "-1".

(I've never seen a "1/2" for "entrepisos" :( . I don't know the translation, with autotranslation I get "mezzanine" and "intermediate floor".)

Some images: http://www.ascensoreseguren.com/cabinas-y-decoraciones/acces... http://www.thinkstockphotos.es/image/foto-de-stock-forefinge...
What are some of these companies? A common advice I've seen here and other sites is that the best workplace for developers will be at companies where the software is the main revenue product. It's assumed that if software dev is seen as just a pure cost and not the main revenue generator, then workplace for dev will be horrible due to lack of influence and status in the company.

The reasoning for this seems intuitive and correct. But I'm wondering if there's evidence it's wrong. What are these great companies for developers and are they software revenue companies? If not, what are the forces that maintain a good workplace for developers when software is not the main revenue?
The ordering of activities is also a bit strange. I don't like to eat right before sleep; I'd rather eat after sleep, then code.
I may have to steal that idea so I can test the hypothesis.
He's reading and commenting on a Hacker News post about jobs on the weekend. Seems like that answers at least part of your question.
> Non-newtonian physics is by far the weakest of the hard sciences

This assertion is ridiculous. The only fields "harder" (in the scientific sense) than modern physics are pure math fields. High-level physics is almost pure math anyway; much of it is abstract algebra and topology. That's not to say it's divorced from reality; reality seems to like using these principles under the hood.

The "soft" stuff you are talking about isn't modern physics; it's people taking (mostly uninformed) potshot guesses at how to interpret the hard results that modern physics offers. Within the physics community, these discussions are much more muted, because it's clear that the answers to physics questions won't come out of philosophical pontificating.

Physicists figure out which interpretations are compatible with experimentally verified theory, and then look for additional consequences of these interpretations that can be tested. Right now there are a number of plausible explanations of the observations of quantum mechanics, each with their own (often psychologically uncomfortable) way of dealing with its conclusions. It's rare to come across a physicist that is strongly convinced of one interpretation.
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I go through periods where I only code all day.
If you code for yourself as a business, it's generally horrifically stressful dealing with the money, marketing and contract side of things, all the while still having to churn out the code.

Very few people can do this successfully for long.
and consumer tech, and manufacturing in general, and politics, and policing, and...
The world doesn't need another CV or an application form where I talk about a particular challenge I faced and how I overcame it. I still fill those out.
Really you can't be passionate about something if happens only during normal work hours - 9 - 5? I did not know that. What hours do you need? 10 - 6? A night shift?
Over the years I've developed a bit of a habitual response of repulsiveness whenever I hear the term "best practices" being used as a dogmatic justification for doing anything, often completely missing the actual situation at hand. It basically says "I don't want to think."

Related article: http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/27

That said, a lot of what I see in web development seems to be churn and features-for-the-sake-of-features bloat, and I think much of it has to do with the fact that the basics of a useful page --- images, text, hyperlinks, and some styling --- were essentially solved problems many years ago, so all web developers are left with is constantly trying to "reinvent" and "innovate" things that were, albeit not perfect, entirely usable. The "do everything in JS" trend is one of the clearest examples of this, as well as the "appification" of sites that are perfectly fine as a collection of statically linked pages. Blogs are the most common example of this that I come across --- instead of displaying the content using HTML, they require the browser to download and execute a huge blob of JS that often exceeds the size of the post content itself, just to show that exact same content, sometimes even making another (AJAX! It's awesome, so let's try to use it everywhere!) request to fetch that content in a different format, parse it, and then render it back into HTML. It sounds very Rube Goldberg, yet a lot of developers think this massive waste of resources is somehow normal.

Thanks to the Internet Archive, you can try visiting the BBC site from (exactly!) 10 years ago on your mobile device:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050521031013/http://www.bbc.co....

I don't have a mobile device with me at the moment, but it's clearly less "fluffy" than the page today, and loads essentially instantly even from IA's not-so-fast servers.
Not a charting library, but much faster and doesn't require any code - here's my alternate take using Tableau:

https://public.tableau.com/views/WorldHealth_4/WorldCountryH...
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I've written code every day for the past 997 days. Which is now going to be much more work to keep track of, courtesy of this change :)

I'll likely be working this weekend on something that polls github for each day moving backwards, or modifying a friend's code that parses local repo metadata.
That response sounds like it's something that should be discussed in the retro, :p
Let me ask you a question... Why does someone with the username GeniusAtWork spend all of his time watching a children's cartoon show?
> but really, how many incidents of food poisoning by lemonade stands occur each year?

"They" would claim that's because the regulation is working, right?

The reason it doesn't show up more is because food poisoning is very common, and so "person catches food poisoning" is not going to be reported anywhere that Google will index.

> I suppose that's possible if a kid is really dirty about their bathroom habits and so forth.

No, and this is an important point. Most people do not wash their hands properly, and norovirus is really easy to transmit. If anything it's amazing that norovirus isn't more common.

(I agree with your points about actual restaurants btw.)
Hi there, thanks so much! I also tried 12 applications for data vis here; including Tableau: http://lisacharlotterost.github.io/2016/05/17/one-chart-tool...
Ironman? Really? Should technology be accessible only by billionaires and used primarily to maintain their status as final arbiter of its use? Should governments, representatives of people, constantly have to beg/borrow/steel technology from these billionaires whenever they want to actually get something done?

Ironman isn't how technology should be managed. In modern times he is the embodiment of closed-source IP law channeling profits to the already vastly wealthy.
In that case keep it as a hobby. Just don't kill yourself for $15/hr when you're creating $1500/hour in value.
I read "Lead" as the element Pb...a metal in the context of "magnet" because I've never really thought about those free ebooks as "lead magnets" since I'm not tuned in to marketing jargon despite having a bit of exposure to the literature of growth hacking over the years.

Which brings me to my point that the market for your product includes segments, e.g. content creators, who don't tie the term "lead magnet" to the concept. Those people need a bit of education about your project because the value proposition isn't entirely clear until the term is tied to the concept. Helping an author put on the marketing hat is necessary before making it easy to take their marketing hat off and get back to writing has value.

Good luck.
This really doesn't do much for me. Any chart that fits into an examples page is pretty sure to look pretty good and be pretty easy to make with charting library X.

You don't really find out X was a bad choice until you run into obscure problems Z1, Z2, Z3.
No I think most people get that, but even recommending it in a joking manner is worrying.
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Well, I do see significant amounts of contributors working on several of my personal open source projects, and I only generally make end user docs available. A well organized codebase doesn't always need much explanation.
I think maybe you are latching onto the wrong part of the analogy.
Hi there, author here. I agree that the post is "not useful to select a library", especially because it just compares one very specific visualisation form. I'm working on a third, more high-level view on data vis tools and hope this one will be more useful for choosing a library.
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The OP is overreacting big time. Offended and horrified by a humorous shirt. First world problems.
Do you think it might have been responsible to disclose that you are a "Senior Advisor" to this coreinfrastructure initiative thing?
I bet I could use it for an hour and come up with a long list of why I would hate that environment.

But off the top of my head:

Not all developers work on projects which can be hosted by a third party company and require always-on super-stable internet access.
Any libraries that are fast enough to do this are probably smoothing anyways - but I agree, the library should do that for you - rather than requiring additional user effort. Also not sure does e.g. matplotlib not do this?
Look at how many elevators have the ground floor as G, and then the second floor is 1. It already happens a lot in lots of places in the world. Of course, it levels out if the building excludes unlucky numbers, like 13 in North America or 4 in China.
Give me a minute. I'm working on Ultron as a metaphor for the f/oss movement disrupting the status quo.
VLC was (is?) written about extensively by blogs like Lifehacker. It's one of the most recommended programs on forums. I'm surr it started by the creators letting people know about it.
Here's one example from my experience:

There are many MySQL tools which are able to automate the process of failing over between a master and a slave. Github initially chose a solution which would trigger this failover automatically, when a master was unresponsive for a particular amount of time. One bad query came in, and the tool did it's job by failing over from the master to the slave. Here's the problem - the query was automatically retried against the slave, causing it to fail over back to the master. Repeatedly.

The solution? Page when MySQL became unresponsive, let a human initiate the failover, and let the tools handle the failover itself (which is a very complex dance to perform manually). I think they eventually moved to a model where it would fail over once per few hours, and alert if the condition occurred again.
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Too bad it stands no chance. It's either amazon, Google or with a lot of much azure the customer would pick.
Modern LFTR reactors produce almost no waste and low grade at that. Current stockpiles of nuclear "waste" are in fact immensely valuable resources as fuel stock to modern reactors.
These are almost all algorithms I've either heard about or actually implemented in a graduate level numerical methods course given in a mechanical engineering department. Nothing extremely esoteric but it depends on your background. I've no clue about most classic CS algorithms (dijkstra, algo for tree structures, etc).
OK as I said English isn't my first language. Thanks for pointing out.
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