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by baconner 15y ago
I don't think d3 or protovis explicitly pack any actual map data as part of the framework, no. But you could certainly make use of the kml with d3 to produce maps.
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by baconner 15y ago
No, 120,000,000 people who might benefit from apps built by others on the open data. It is good IMO for a rep to fight for legislation that helps local businesses when that action serves his constituents as a group over the long term. That'
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by baconner 15y ago
If you're thinking about getting those grados be forewarned they have huge noise bleed that your coworkers are not going to appreciate. They sound fantastic and are really reasonably priced but I leave mine at home for hacking in solitary o
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by baconner 15y ago
Someone over there has clearly been reading tufte although I think in some cases (the new all gray icons) they've gone overboard. Overall the strategy of moving the interface into the background and the content you're building into the fore
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California’s New App Privacy Policy Requirements(androidpolice.com)
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by baconner 15y ago
Seems like a pretty clear message to stop doing something similar to android device manufacturers. The (my perception) growing use of patents in this manner is really distasteful but what's a company to do? Not fire back on principal?
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by baconner 15y ago
He does not have dual citizenship in the us or anywhere else. No idea where you got that or the bit about the FBI. He is an Iranian citizen who lived in Canada until he returned to visit his dying father and was arrested.
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by baconner 15y ago
Well its not about individual ownership its about businesses testing commercial self driving cars right? Seems to me that a company is going to need to sink many millions in to design, build, and test a truly road safe self driving car no?
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by baconner 15y ago
Respectfully, you are wrong. The realities of human biology don't all fit into neat little boxes. With no evidence presented you dismiss the entire body of scientific evidence which backs the rather basic idea that depression, like any othe
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by baconner 15y ago
I definitely agree that many of the permissions are far too broad. I'd like to see send SMS silently separate from send SMS with user approval. I guess what I'm advocating here is a combined approach - up front permission notification of an
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by baconner 15y ago
Funny that's one of the cases where I'd envisioned using such a feature. I wrote a private logging mechanism into my apps to capture the data I write to log seperatly so my support request option can include some just-for-this-app logs with
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by baconner 15y ago
Side question about ios I wonder about. If you buy an app and install it, but then find it needs to use some permission you're not comfortable with can you get your money back or are you just out of.luck?
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by baconner 15y ago
That's a bit hyperbolic. My android apps don't ask for permissions they don't need nor do many others. I think the android permission system is sane and reasonably functional. It's the users responsibility to read the requested permissions
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by baconner 15y ago
That's one of my two must reads on this incident. I can't think of a better examples of how visualization illiteracy can contribute to disaster. The other one is Feynman's account of the investigation afterwards http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw
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by baconner 15y ago
Funny... I assumed the punchline was going to be about the hours it takes a developer to get back into high productivity mode after interruption. Sure, bosses and customers frequently underestimate the amount of time these sort of calls tak
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by baconner 15y ago
I'm pretty sure the new column store indexing in SQL server is enterprise edition only (not even in the new bi license) which in my experience prices out a lot of small businesses. Might be a niche in there somewhere to be served.
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by baconner 15y ago
Fair point. Total cost may be lower with this approach than the current situation where textbook manufacturers leverage their position and IMO significantly overcharge their often captive audience. So assuming the ipads can be kept in worki
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by baconner 15y ago
+1 for the $15 price cap on textbooks -10 for the cost of devices needed to use them.
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by baconner 15y ago
I feel like this is an elaborate troll...
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by baconner 15y ago
I think its true that you can't "rationalize away" suicidal thoughts but what you can do is provide an opportunity to recognize your or a loved one's extreme depression and start the process of getting help. That's how I read this post —
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by baconner 15y ago
BREAKING NEWS: War is expensive.
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by baconner 15y ago
Just checked out of curiosity and readitlater pro has 100k+ downloads. There couldn't be a clearer indication that Marco is leaving money on the table.
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by baconner 15y ago
I said almost the exact same thing in December when my first android app only made $150 in 5 months. Hang in there. I took that as education time, improved my marketing and added a new app, and now its more like 350/m avg. Its no business b
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by baconner 15y ago
Sadly I agree. Its also why I'm not too concerned that my n1 wont get a supported upgrade - I'll be needing a device that's down where the users are to dev & test. Ics will have to wait a bit.
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by baconner 15y ago
Wait... so your definition of whether something is "a ripoff" is based upon how commercially successful it is? So then android would by definition not be a ripoff. I must be misunderstanding your point.
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by baconner 15y ago
Am I the only android developer torn over whether the fire makes signing the one sided Amazon app store developer agreement worth it? Tough choice.
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by baconner 15y ago
I didn't think the #1 entry was very practical either, but the full list of entries is worth a look. There are some good ideas and more realistically usable designs in there. GOOD just isnt likely imo to choose winners based on usefulness o
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by baconner 15y ago
Here's how I do it. After a couple weeks of use I explicitly ask my users to rate the app after they open it, providing a button that jumps directly to the app on the market. This has worked really well. Checking that users have been activi
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by baconner 15y ago
Well mostly people call them stacked bar charts no? Anyway to your point about labeling: For bar charts the axis scale labels are a requirement. If someone doesn't label scales I'd as kindly as possible suggest that they shouldn't be making
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by baconner 15y ago
You could do that, but then you compound the problem of comparing the size of slices with an additional size of circle comparison. Humans aren't good at comparing size between these kind of shapes. We're much better at comparing rectangular

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