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Do you know where to find the recording? Converting macros to python sounds extremely useful

That point is really helpful. Reinforces that point that TDD is not just testing, it's forcing you to think differently.

Conceiving simple tests to prove a simple piece of programming works, keeps it simple. Simple is powerful.

The chart supports that assumption to some extent. The smartest are under estimating their percentile.

"But what will most certainly be forgotten is there was a generation of students in the 1980s and 1990s who were encouraged to use flow charts, long after the reason for using them had disappeared."

I don't know if I entirely agree with his conclusion. The smartest people I know code with a pen and paper. When they're on the bus or subway. When relaxing, or thinking carefully while away from a computer.

Those who program in the shower and then write it down after before they forget. Analogue programming tools (pan/paper) are great tools.

I thought the article was going to end with him pointing out that he found a great practice that we can all benefit from now. Planning code ahead of time is still better than typing away, we're just not forced to do it anymore.

He's using it to run this: http://biovisualize.github.com/d3visualization/

It's awesome what they've done to showcase the community examples

just the TC article: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/13/mit-edu-doj-gov-w3-gov-all-...

The mapping plugins are truly impressive but, personally, I'm looking forward to making use of the hexbin plugin and testing out the new transition chaining.

As always, nice work!

Same here. Seeing the Facebook comments was such a surprising twist to end an otherwise well argued article.

Jason Davies (frequent D3 contributor) started a standalone stats library: https://github.com/jasondavies/science.js/

Originally intended to be part of D3, he's now set it up as its own library.

Nice work! The background information at the start covering the Stanford Visualization Group and Ben Fry's approach to Data Visualization are very nice touches

Did anyone else pause at the $80k and think that's not very much, before continuing to read "per month"?

I knew someone who handed these straws out in Africa a few years back: http://www.gizmag.com/go/4418/ They are simple and inexpensive but they perfectly filer out the larvae from untreated water.

I'm sure he'd be super impressed to see how dramatically the numbers have fallen.

Even if you solely consider moore's law (even if it has slowed down slightly)the post's title will hold true

ah, I see. I missed that. I just checked in chrome's console and see false for both when they're strings.

More of an observation than anything else. I don't actually use PHP but find these recent PHP focused articles are helping me learn at thing or two about languages I do use.

It's the same with JavaScript regardless of whether you use == or ===

9223372036854775807 == 9223372036854775808

true

9223372036854775807 === 9223372036854775808

true

Ah, I completely missed that

Their business model depends on their ability to teach and then connect students with hiring employers (in interviews they indicated their business plan is to generate revenue through recruitment). Whether accredited or not, as a student, what's good for Udacity is good for me.

The professors are also well respected brand names in their own right. Having your introduction to probabilistic robots come from Thrun to me carriers weight

Did anyone see a sign up link?

From an economic standpoint it's not inflation you need to factor in it's the reduction in cost of production over 500 years (assuming away any issues with the time scale the author presents). Also known as deflation which is in fact a good thing (sorry Chicago School, more for less is a good thing).

Over time advances in technology and increases in capital (capital defined as production goods here not cash) tend to dramatically reduce the cost of production.

Not to mention the insane decrease in the cost of raw materials once you start collecting from asteroids (again assuming we're 500 years out and can build a moon sized ship we can certainly snag an asteroid or two for materials).

With 4 layers to the onion wouldn't it be easier to have 4 width measures? Then you could simply decide which width is most relevant to your application (outer margin, border, padding, or content).

There's different use cases, without listing them all just think how many times you've had to calculate the one you don't have access to

PEP 8 covers this: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

Love it!