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by drewda 13y ago
A question for the developers: Does this support time series data?
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by drewda 13y ago
You're right. I just fixed the URL.
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by drewda 13y ago
Or if you'd like an open-source alternative, deployable on Google App Engine, Twilio has produced this: http://www.stashboard.org/
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by drewda 13y ago
I've been a regular user of Mendeley, not for recommendations--that's what journal TOC alert services are for--but just for managing my bibliographies and preprint PDFs. I'm allergic to Endnote and I got tired of Zotero'
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by drewda 13y ago
c.f. O'Reilly as "The Meme Hustler" (in the words of Evgeny Morozov): http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler
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by drewda 13y ago
Like the teaser ads leading up to a reality TV show's new season, this confessional "tell all" is probably part of the promotional rollout of O'Reilly's new conference series: http://cultivatecon.com&#x2F
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by drewda 13y ago
Should work very nicely with http://geojson.io/ which is already set up to save to gists.
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Neat Ideas from Backbone.js Conf(allendav.com)
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by drewda 13y ago
The HCI researcher Bill Buxton has a quite comprehensive run-down titled "Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved ": http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
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PillPack: personalized, dated prescription packets by mail(pillpack.com)
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by drewda 13y ago
Do you mean http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp ? I hope Will Bond makes some money from that, given all the time (and hosting expenses) he puts in for the indispensable Sublime Package Control: http://wb
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Backgrid.js: extra maintainer wanted(github.com)
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by drewda 13y ago
You can almost run rvm and rbenv in parallel by installing them under separate system users. That's how I handle having some clients who use one and some that use the other.
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by drewda 13y ago
I know you're just trying to make a metaphorical comparison with railroads, but the story isn't that simple. In the U.S., intercity railroads found they could make more money by focusing on freight and leaving passengers to poor A
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Dash: offline access to 80+ API documentation sets (Mac OS native)(kapeli.com)
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by drewda 13y ago
Here are assorted ideas from Gabriel Weinberg (of the DuckDuckGo search engine): http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/04/in-the-pursuit-o...
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A Primer on Bézier Curves(pomax.github.io)
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by drewda 13y ago
That's also why experimental psychologists have mixed feelings about running power analyses* to figure out how many participants they'll need in a study to to yield statistically meaningful results--it's almost always a humbling high figure
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Topcoat: CSS for clean and fast web apps (from Adobe)(github.com)
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by drewda 13y ago
If you don't need all that glitz, here's a jQuery plug-in: http://zikes.github.io/circle-menu/ The best (semi)circular menus I've seen recently are in the iD editor for OpenStreetMap: http://ideditor.com/
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FCC International Traffic Data Reports posted to Github(github.com)
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by drewda 14y ago
d3 produces SVG graphics, which aren't supposed by versions earlier than IE 9. There are ways to turn d3's SVG output into a canvas element. Those earlier version of IE also support VML, but I don't recall any quick ways of doing from d3 ou
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by drewda 14y ago
That quotation is also how James Surowiecki ends his pretty decent column on Ron Johnson: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2013/03/25/130325ta_...
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by drewda 14y ago
Here's the beginnings of a Javascript-based ggplot2 implementation on top of d3: https://github.com/gigamonkey/gg
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by drewda 14y ago
A downside of using a wiki for documenting software is that it can easily get out of sync with code. If your readme files and/or inline docs* are under version control, each commit can include both code and doc changes. * If your software i
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Svg-crowbar: bookmarklet to save an SVG node as a file(nytimes.github.com)
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by drewda 14y ago
The interesting parts of O'Reilly left with the Maker Media spin-off.
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by drewda 14y ago
I'll second the recommendation for William Deresiewicz's essays. Here's his most relevant essay to this topic, which he's currently expanding into a book: http://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-...
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by drewda 14y ago
Nathan Barry has been writing an articulate blog about the process of starting a SaaS business in this "e-mail first" manner: http://nathanbarry.com/ His product is (well, will be) to offer this as a service to others: http://convertkit.
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by drewda 14y ago
Or there's the option of a professional employer organization like TriNet: http://www.trinet.com/

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