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by jake-low 8y ago
Thank you! I'm flattered. I like that map too, and I'm definitely interested in making more "difference from trend" choropleth maps in the future.
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by jake-low 8y ago
It's Alaska, as noted in the footnotes of the article; I think each borough is showing the vote ratio for the whole state rather than the borough-level data. Sorry about that; I'll make some time to look into it later.
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by jake-low 8y ago
I agree. The vote dataset doesn't have demographic breakdowns (I believe it was created by scraping post-election reports on _The Guardian_, not by relying on exit polls). But you compare the prediction errors to county-level data on r
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by jake-low 8y ago
Fixed! Thanks for noticing.
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by jake-low 8y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! It looks like every county in Alaska is just showing the state-level vote ratio. Might have to do with Alaska having boroughs instead of counties? I'll look into this later; I've added a disclaimer at
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by jake-low 8y ago
Hey, author here. Definitely didn't expect to see this on the front page when I woke up. A friend posed the question in the title to me last week after seeing the referenced NYT map, and I spent the last couple evenings making this not
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by jake-low 8y ago
What typo? “Beard tax” is indeed correct; it was a tax on those who wore facial hair, as part of Peter the Great’s plan to ‘westernize’ Russia. Edit: I see now; it’s the year (1987). D’oh!
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by jake-low 8y ago
I’m on mobile so I can’t verify this, but I think you might be able to accomplish what you want by using auto margins on the last child of the flex container? Auto margins have some really cool by-design interactions with flexbox. More info
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Removing Babel's Stage Presets(babeljs.io)
2 points by jake-low 8y ago|0 comments
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by jake-low 8y ago
About 20 million people in northeastern Thailand speak Isan, a dialect of Lao. There's also a long tail of languages spoken in minority communities. Thai is widely spoken in Bangkok but the rural areas are much more of a patchwork in t
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by jake-low 8y ago
Of the languages on this list, here are the subset where non-native (L2) speakers outnumber native (L1) speakers by a factor of two or more: - English (378m L1, 744m L2) - French (77m L1, 208m L2) - Malay (77m L1, 204m L2) - Swahili (16m L1
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by jake-low 8y ago
I was working on a PR for a Node project when I read about this. My changes added some new dependencies and I wanted to make sure I hadn't pulled in any packages that were updated after this incident began (since the authors of those p
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by jake-low 8y ago
My public-school education (in the US) definitely never taught the subject. My history classes were divided into clearly-delineated "units" of study with no overlap. "First let's learn about Mesopotamia. Agriculture, Ham
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by jake-low 8y ago
I'm not sure why that's the case for Niger, but I don't think it's totally unique. Mali undergoes the same sort of shift (though less dramatic) in the 1950's and 60's. 1947 corresponds roughly to the beginning
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by jake-low 8y ago
It absolutely is. See this animated chart of birth rate vs child mortality rate since 1960 (press the play button in the lower right). https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#_state_time_delay:172;&mark... African nations
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by jake-low 8y ago
Do you have a source for this? I didn’t know that but it’s very interesting – a good compromise between the interests of current website owners[1] and future historians. [1]: Sure, some people just want to hide embarrassing or incriminating
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Planet Labs shares oblique satellite images of Earth landmarks(medium.com)
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by jake-low 9y ago
That promotional video in the article is pretty cool. The drone is shown "landing" by catching a taut cable with a hook, midair. Even if there's a human pilot doing that part, that is no small feat.
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by jake-low 9y ago
You might like this extension [0] for Firefox and Chrome that removes the sticky header and footer from Medium sites. [0]: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
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by jake-low 9y ago
Maybe it’s your keyboard layout? I used to make this typo (ls -> sl) on QWERTY, but I later switched to Dvorak where both L and S are typed with the right pinky. I think it slowed me down enough on that keypair that it never happens anym
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by jake-low 9y ago
> and send mail with UPS instead of USPS Not to detract from your point, just thought you might be interested to know that USPS actually has a legally-protected partial monopoly on the right to carry letters (18 U.S. Code § 1696). An exe
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by jake-low 9y ago
I use rsync for something similar to this; it might help you too. I use ‘-P’ which makes the destination be like the source (so you never accidentally delete files in the source) and --dry-run will list what changes would be made without ac
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by jake-low 9y ago
Unusual map projections like these are often curiosities, but the can also be useful for certain topics, like mapping migrations[1][2][3] or showing airline routes[4][5]. [1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map
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by jake-low 9y ago
Shout out to Philippe Rivière for the awesome work on d3-geo-polygon[1] (mentioned in the release notes), which enables tons of new map projections like these[2]. Philippe, if you're reading this, thank you. I'm really excited abo
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by jake-low 9y ago
Coincidentally, I just ran across this article [1] about Airbnb’s tool to turn UI sketches into interactive running code. The author of this project links to it in the post about their project (which is in turn linked from the readme). [1]:
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by jake-low 9y ago
Back when I was writing a lot of C++ professionally I felt the same way about cplusplus.com vs. the (IMO much superior) cppreference.com. I'd love to be able to teach my search engine simple rules like "if a Wikipedia article matc
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by jake-low 9y ago
Is it possible that site is redirecting you to the mobile version for other reasons? CSS grid has ~85% support worldwide; current versions of every major desktop browser support it. (Not doubting your experience, just surprised that it woul
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by jake-low 9y ago
> "The movement [of the Milky Way] is not edge-on like a Frisbee," Melott noted. Instead, he said, it is flat, "like a pie in the face." Huh, I didn't know that, and now I have a great mental picture to accompany
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by jake-low 9y ago
Some of them (like the ones in the south Pacific and the one south of India) are exclusive economic zones around islands. EEZ boundaries typically extend 200 nautical miles from shore (or until they run into another EEZ). See this map [1].
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by jake-low 9y ago
I don't think any languages make use of İ but not ı; perhaps when you press the İ key on your keyboard the actual character sequence that gets entered is the decomposition "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I (U+0049) COMBINING DOT ABOVE (U+03

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