douglashunter

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Elegance and constraints(machine-theory.com)
1 points by douglashunter 13y ago|0 comments
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by douglashunter 14y ago
Cool! I notice that you have both lil brother and google analytics enabled on bits.shutterstock.com. Do you have any kind of a read on how they stack up against each other?
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by douglashunter 14y ago
When I first saw camlistore ( http://camlistore.org/ ) it jived with much of how I pondered the foundational bits of "the cloud I'd like to see". Private by default, distribut(ed|able), share-able, index-able, version-able dumb content blo
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by douglashunter 14y ago
That's surprising. Is it the example here ( http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/examples/extensions.ht... ) that is slow? How is it slow (when you click on controls to customize the view, drag a slider, mouse over plots)? When it's slo
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by douglashunter 14y ago
[full disclosure, I used to work with the fine folks at Shutterstock, who created Rickshaw] Rickshaw has been talked about here before, when it was released (original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3340089 ) It's nice to see R
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by douglashunter 15y ago
> Shutterstock are legendary round the perl community for being a hive of badly written ancient code that never gets significant refactoring effort though I like to think that we're legendary for choosing a sane upgrade path to a servic
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by douglashunter 15y ago
> Both above spot the undef gotcha. The builtin open() even tries to spot when it's not intentional. The documentation puts "undef" in quotations in the section where it introduces the feature (suggesting it has to be the literal), and
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by douglashunter 15y ago
In the cases in the article, strict and warnings won't save you.
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by douglashunter 15y ago
This is what Kris Arnold ( https://twitter.com/wka ), one of the other hackers here at Shutterstock recommended. I like it.
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by douglashunter 15y ago
Well, that's embarrassing. I fat-fingered those while I was transcribing code into the article. "Surprise Two" was supposed to be about the autovivification surprise, not me mistyping things (article updated). Even still, your point about
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Perl: When DWIM Doesn't(bits.shutterstock.com)
27 points by douglashunter 15y ago|25 comments
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by douglashunter 15y ago
"I'm confused about what the smoothing is supposed to be doing" If you have, for example, 300 data plots collected once a second for 5 minutes, and that looks too noisy when you paint your chart, you may choose to smooth the lines by aggreg
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by douglashunter 15y ago
It isn't an intentional workaround, and is an artifact of typing the least amount of markup possible to make something render. We'll fix that, thanks!
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by douglashunter 15y ago
"Ok, that example has a slider" It has two. There is one below the legend on the left hand side. That smooths your data by aggregating the plots. It also has the zoom slider under the graph. Or chart, rather. When you mouse over the seri
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by douglashunter 15y ago
dygraphs is lovely, nice work there! One of the pieces that I particularly like is how you handle CSV data.
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by douglashunter 15y ago
"A truly interactive chart would let you zoom in and out ... and so on." dchester's comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3340609 ) links to http://shutterstock.github.com/rickshaw/examples/extensions.... , which demonstrates some
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by douglashunter 15y ago
Thanks! Most (read "all") the credit there, as well as the credit for the other useful parts of the code, belongs to David Chester. But I'm louder on the internet and have been working with Rickshaw for a while, so I get to say "thanks" [g
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by douglashunter 15y ago
Thanks for giving it a whirl! When you say the controls don't work, are you talking about the controls in the extensions example ( http://shutterstock.github.com/rickshaw/examples/extensions.... ), or something else?
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Introducing Rickshaw: Interactive time series graphs in JavaScript(bits.shutterstock.com)
8 points by douglashunter 15y ago|2 comments
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by douglashunter 15y ago
Yes, tons of credit due there. In my post ( http://bits.shutterstock.com/?p=74 ) I linked to Jonathan Corbet's coverage ( http://lwn.net/Articles/427104/ ) of the topic on LWN, which is also a good jumping-off point for reading on the topi