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Aug 17, 2015

Stop using @channel on Slack

every time you @channel an employee sets a mute Stop triggering desktop notifications with non-emergency communication. All you are doing is making me close Slack. @channel: what’s a good book for me to read about learning to code? hey everyone, what’s a good book for me to read about learning…

Slack

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Stop using @channel on Slack
Stop using @channel on Slack
Slack

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Aug 8, 2015

the 7th hacker

If you watch Hackers for the 113th time you will notice her. She’s the 7th hacker.

Hacking

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the 7th hacker
the 7th hacker
Hacking

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Aug 7, 2015

VR has an image problem

It goes well beyond that awful Time magazine cover. The stewards of the technology are practiced veterans at painting the most dismal picture imaginable. VR has left the more niche high-tech/games blog circuit, and is in the supermarket checkout aisle. …

Virtual Reality

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VR has an image problem
VR has an image problem
Virtual Reality

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d3js tutorials

·Jul 31, 2015

d3js and the first class function

Passing a function as an argument to other functions is a difficult concept to understand for beginners, especially those coming from other languages. …

D3

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d3js and the first class function
d3js and the first class function
D3

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Jul 30, 2015

Mark Zuckerberg has silly ideas about VR

“Immersive 3D content is the obvious next thing after video.” -Mark Zuckerberg Facebook had their earnings call today, and someone asked about the plans for the Oculus Rift VR headset. Here is a quote from the Q&A part of the call: We’re going through a period where now it’s mostly…

Facebook

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Mark Zuckerberg has silly ideas about VR
Mark Zuckerberg has silly ideas about VR
Facebook

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Jul 28, 2015

my cats love to play fight

sometimes I can get them in slow motion

Cats

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my cats love to play fight
my cats love to play fight
Cats

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·Jul 14, 2015

d3 without .enter()

how to make the same graph and manually join your data array The first d3 tutorial people read will have them passing an array to .data() after selectAll-ing a bunch of DOM elements that don’t exist yet. from the getting started tutorial I used Since we know the selection is empty, the returned update and exit selections…

D3

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d3 without .enter()
d3 without .enter()
D3

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·Jul 13, 2015

a d3.js design pattern

organize your code in a way that doesn’t pollute and exposes only what is necessary — Larger interactive d3 programs can be difficult to organize. After all your elements are on the screen you want to glue them together inside event callbacks. The conventional methods of calling d3.selectAll() against a large DOM tree end up resulting in a lot of additional code to make sure your…

JavaScript

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a d3.js design pattern
a d3.js design pattern
JavaScript

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Jul 11, 2015

the modern podcast formula

every podcast is the same

Podcasts

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the modern podcast formula
the modern podcast formula
Podcasts

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Jul 11, 2015

#deepdream is visual autotune

Google wants to build an internal product that allows them to classify an image that you upload. They want to know if that photo contains a new baby, or a flat tire. This information is valuable to advertisers.

Deepdream

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#deepdream is visual autotune
#deepdream is visual autotune
Deepdream

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