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Re:Ask HN: Is there a job position like that? on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @12:36PM (#5820473)
e.g. some fields I've done some experiments lately were realtime feature tracking in video-streams (webcam), image vectorization, ... it's always like that: I see interesting new technologies/algorithms, I want to create something combining the algorithms and JS

Ask HN: Is there a job position like that?

Hi HN folks. I'm very passionate about creating JavaScript projects no one would ever think of were possible. This involves implementing cutting edge research papers and no project is similar to the last. They always generate a lot of buzz and great community engagement. My question to you is: Do you know whether there is a job where you can act completely independent, create crazy projects and...

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haha that's true. viennese people love to be grumpy :D
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/

what happened?
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...
what do you mean with couldn't even read the text content properly? did you try to read it while scrolling?
that's probably due to a few big graphics on the website. does anyone have suggestions how to handle that (except using less graphic intensive graphics) ??
good point :D