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I think an organization's governance structure being successful has more to do with how the people in the organization want to be governed than whether it's building an app or feed…

With full respect to your right to criticize, I don't understand what differentiates an organization trying to build a social networking app around biodiversity data from an organi…

Sociocracy is a theory of governance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy

I've had similar thoughts. Any interest in sharing notes? Generally I've been thinking there should be a standard declarative format for data vis. This should be inspired by prior …

:) Ty for being part of the community

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Look for "A Little History": https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/about

https://www.inaturalist.org/ While I deserve no credit for its current success, it's been used by millions to: * catalogue millions of plants and animals around the world * tagged …

iNaturalist was the final product of my Master's degree thesis team. I haven't contributed to it since school, about 11 years, so I don't deserve any credit for its success. The fo…

In the context of a large client application, I often advise engineers that if we're optimizing things like the types of `for` loops we use, we've won the performance lottery. That…

For those curious, this is the law which allows you to sue the police: 42 U.S.C. § 1983 "Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of a…

I couldn't agree with you more, that's why I linked the paper.

Here's a good paper about animated transitions in stats graphs and their effectiveness. http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2007-AnimatedTransitions-InfoV...

@nnnnnick this looks great. I work with d3 on a daily basis and while I think that it's a great toolchain, the need for something small, fast and canvas based was absolutely needed…

What's old is always new, especially on the Internet. I'm constantly reminded of the "Simpsons' did it" South Park episode whenever I'm reading press briefs about new startups.

I want no local storage anywhere near me other than maybe caches. No disks, no state, my world entirely in the network. Storage needs to be backed up and maintained, which should b…

I actually think both of you are right. It's not about exclusively communicating with your friends or exclusively following celebs, it's about both. What you care about combined wi…