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DJohnBenton

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About DJohnBenton

https://github.com/DanielJohnBenton

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    Comment #20390969

    Like the Tao Te Ching passage: Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the centre hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it usefu…

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    Comment #16774665

    Somewhat related, there was also a "capitalisation shift" in the late 1600s where everyone (or their editors) started writing more nouns as capitalised (e.g. "The quick brown Fox j…

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    Comment #16617696

    That sounds kind of fun, can you give some examples?

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    Comment #16333212

    Rude (but accurate https://i.imgur.com/kCPdTTB.png )

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    Comment #14989100

    Interesting. It looks like I can use d3-geo to get a map of the world and then clip it down from there. I'll have a play with it after work.

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    Comment #14988039

    Wow that's a pretty good idea - I'll see if I can find a way to make this. I think I'd need some kind of map API that lets me plot coordinates and define mouse-over text for each p…

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    Comment #14985295

    Interested to know what folks think - if there are any obvious mistakes, if you have any requests for strings to map, or any cool ideas we could try with the data.

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    Comment #13117056

    This is ace.