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

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. …

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

“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…

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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…

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…

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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.