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Comment · 13 years ago
Is there a plugin to remove or modify specific request headers? The bits of unique information could easily be removed, couldn't it?
Comment · 13 years ago
A good start, have you considered using geojson? Github has a native viewer for that.
Comment · 13 years ago
My team works like this with a twist. You merge your own pull request. You have developers, designers, pm's, etc to help review the change. You use them if you need them and you take responsibility for your bugs. We'll drop everything to review someone else's pull, and in turn that happens for your own pulls.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Please explain this, I'm not sure what kind of activity you're talking about.
Comment · 13 years ago
I'm not quite sure what you're getting at but it's weird to me too. You never know what lead to that decision (target markets, promotional video production issues, or maybe they just wanted to play off the "girl at home on the phone with friends" archetype) but it is odd.
Comment · 13 years ago
Mike Bostock is the author of at least three javascript visualization libraries that are in heavy use today. It's safe to say he's got a firm understanding of javascript. While including a var in side a loop doesn't sope the variables to the loop, it is convenient. You'll notice he's careful to assign to all of the variables with each iteration and doesn't use them outside the loop.

The "connivence" taken with some of the other parts of the code (particularly the complicated one liners) I'll raise an eyebrow over, but they show a deep understanding of javascript. However I'm not fond of conciseness over simplicity.

Comment · 14 years ago
One of my favorite talks about how an interpreter can work. It's worth watching even if you are not concerned with javascript.
Comment · 14 years ago
The author glosses over the fact that encoding of special characters in the hash is broken in firefox. As an application there's no way to know if you're getting the data you want or url encoded data. Base64 encoding (with replacing chars like $ which most im and email clients fail to autodetect as being part of the url) seems to be the only bet at the moment. Putting the data in the get request and ignoring it on the server also seems to work well.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
Lets not get rude, I've met some of them. They're bright folks using all sorts of technologies. I've seen vim and emacs (though mostly emacs). Their website does have some rough corners but they're working on a 10+ year old codebase and you'll get that as technologies age out. Their product however isn't just their website but instead their service. (The're a social company that isn't about virtual networks but physical ones.) And judging by how they fixed the misunderstanding it's doing pretty good.
Comment · 14 years ago
The video is now private, does anyone have a mirror?
Comment · 14 years ago
The painstaking lengths people go though in honor of Tolkien is amazing. Along those lines I think http://3rin.gs/ deserves a mention, especially as maps are a "visualization" of sorts. I met the author this summer. The attention to detail is staggering.
Comment · 14 years ago
Know any port knocking as a service companies? If there was a reliable way to get a udp connection between hosts that I didn't have to write myself, I'd be tempted to take this on.

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