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A story about Vienna. (an interactive narrative infographic)

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Re: A story about Vienna. (an interactive narrative infographic)

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Post by bakerfreak »

netrus wrote: post #5

Public Transport was just a city map for me?

sorry that's a known issue (sometimes when the page takes too long to load, the pins get positioned wrongly. that's because the data is from an Open Government Data plattform and they use another projection to save the data). but this is how it should look like: http://www.data.gv.at/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/storyvienna...

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Post by bakerfreak »

in case anyone has issues with displaying it, here are some screens about how it should look like: http://www.data.gv.at/anwendungen/a-story-about-vienna/

the project is also hosted on github, if anyone is interested in looking at the code: https://github.com/pa7/a-story-about-vienna/

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Post by WA »

introspectif wrote: post #10

Nice city, but with 114% of the population being smokers... I love Europe, but for being so developed, it's amazing how many places there people still think smoking is 'cool,' and 'a symbol of freedom.' I do like Vienna, but I think I'd choose Hamburg if I had to choose a city in the German-speaking world. Or Berlin - only slightly less cosmopolitan, but the tech start-up scene is kind of happening, and the cost of l…

Being from Germany I have to agree with the smoking aspect. I'm a non smoker and after spending a few months in the US and returning back home, I was quite surprised how few people in the States smoked and how often you smell cigarettes in Germany. It was very irritating that I didn't have this annoying odor for quite some time in my nose.

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Post by jackalope »

kawsper wrote: post #2

Lagging a lot on a i7 Macbook Pro Retina with 16 Gbs of RAM in Chrome. It is a bit better in Safari, but still not smooth.

Wow. When I ran OS X Leopard on this 17" MacBook Pro w/4GB RAM, all the fancy pages posted on HN used to peg my cores at 100% and made the fans roar like jet engines. Now I'm running Slackware Linux (64 bit) on it, and this page is running as smooth as butter in Firefox 19.0.2. It's nice to be at the other end of the spectrum, for once. It runs almost as smoothly in Chrome, but with a little more jitter during the transitions and a bit more CPU usage. Not so nice in Opera, which is struggling to get all the pieces working and kind of ruins the experience.

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Post by healthenclave »

People born in any developed country have absolutely NO IDEA how lucky they are to be born there. A Hardworking, Highly Educated and Professional born and living in developing country can't imagine having the quality of life that - even a college student enjoys in better part of the world.

With that said there are Tons of positive stuff happening all around .

And almost all of Europe is Amazingly beautiful

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Post by jkldotio »

bmaeser wrote: post #16

worth mentioning hackerspaces / tech-coworking in vienna: https://metalab.at/ http://www.sektor5.at/ http://vienna.the-hub.net/

The metalab people are very cool. They hooked me up with some LEDs when I needed them on short notice. When I visited they were printing a new battery cover for an old hand-held gaming device with their 3D printer (and this was a few years back).

Re: A story about Vienna. (an interactive narrative infographic)

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Post by davidw »

introspectif wrote: post #10

Nice city, but with 114% of the population being smokers... I love Europe, but for being so developed, it's amazing how many places there people still think smoking is 'cool,' and 'a symbol of freedom.' I do like Vienna, but I think I'd choose Hamburg if I had to choose a city in the German-speaking world. Or Berlin - only slightly less cosmopolitan, but the tech start-up scene is kind of happening, and the cost of l…

Depends on the country: they banned smoking indoors in Italy a while back, and at least in the part of the country I live in, people have always respected that ban (I was a bit surprised). In Austria, when we left, they still let people smoke anywhere and everywhere, pretty much - the only places where it was banned in Innsbruck, where we lived, were McDonalds and Ikea. My wife went out with our baby daughter for cake and coffee with a friend one afternoon, to a pastry shop, and came back reeking of smoke, because some other patrons sat down and started chain smoking. It made my blood boil.

That said, Vienna struck me as a very nice city - very livable for its size, although the climate leaves a lot to be desired.

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