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jbmartin

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About jbmartin

Brooklyn-based cognitive scientist, technophile, and scotch enthusiast.

Academic website: jaymartin.org

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    Comment #6259367

    What's new in 3.3? - Brush transitions http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/6216724 - Tools to help dynamic simplification (scale appropriate geometry on zoom): http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/…

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    Comment #6253374

    In terms of rendering speed, how efficient is CSS compared to webGL or other related 3D technologies?

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    My mistake. I thought the blog post was about using jQuery. I totally agree with you.

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    I found Async Javsacript by Trevor Burnham super helpful for learning how use promises properly. However, it doesn't cover the javascript implementation of a promise (uses jQuery),…

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    Comment #6251201

    jQuery loosely follows the Promises/A spec [1], so Q.js [2] might have been better choice. [1] http://domenic.me/2012/10/14/youre-missing-the-point-of-prom... [2] http://documentup…

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    Comment #6248884

    I wonder if there's a more general issue with public video services getting abused by adult content. Interesting to see how (if?) Google deals with this problem...

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    People coming from multi-threaded server environments should be aware that multi-threading does in fact exist in Node (scope of parent comment), but it's rather different from othe…

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    Technically speaking, HTML 5 introduced web-workers which allows javascript to have multiple threads (see 1). However, it's still useful to think about them as being single threade…