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Or perhaps they're just trying to diversify their portfolio.

Perhaps similar to how while Google acquires all sorts of interesting startups, it doesn't mean they're shifting away from search/ads.

I actually think that the article's example using Dali's The Sacrament of the Last Supper sort of disproves itself.

Part of why the painting is so elegant is because of its balanced composition: the arms along the top of the golden spiral, the table edge along the top of the inner spiral, etc.

I noticed how even though your book doesn't exist yet, the graphic that you put up on Kickstarter looks very polished and enticing. But I've also seen startups dig holes for themselves by over-obsessing about graphic design.

On a startup's first MVP iteration, how little graphic design effort can you get away with? Does it depend on the product, perhaps? Should all iterations be visually polished?

I'd like to see more startups and companies pledge to do this as well.

Having open-sourced a number of components and then seen them get better from community contributions with little effort, this is a good thing to do.

Nice work, and thanks for open-sourcing this!

There seems to be a lot of under-explored potential for building useful, pluggable D3 widgets along these lines. I'd love to see more interactive widgets like this.