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Re:Plotly: The Web's first scientific graphing app on Monday November 18, 2013 @11:04PM (#6759202)
Well done guys. For good insights on how you could approach some UX challenges in a tool like Plotly, I highly recommend watching Bret Victor's "Drawing Dynamic Visualizations".

For the non-Plotly folks reading this, Bret's presentation is also very effective at blowing your mind in general.

http://vimeo.com/66085662

Re:Security Announcement for Devise (Rails authentication solution) on Monday January 28, 2013 @01:13PM (#5129723)
Just like with any technology stack.
Re:Core competencies of great hackers on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @01:09PM (#510224)
What other things do you do regularly? Write emails, specs, contracts, documentation?

Of course you probably also do other stuff than typing on a keyboard. It's just that the keyboard often is the most efficient interface between you and your main tool, your computer.

I think typing speed is a good competency to improve to be more efficient in the next few decades.

Re:Wearing Out My Delete Key on Monday August 04, 2008 @01:43PM (#266506)
What James is referring to is not necessarily stripping out big pieces of code when they've been working in production for a while. Rather the point is that in a given coding sprint, he gets the first thing that works going, then starts from there and rewrites them better if need be. So it's just an approach to developing a given method or class rather than refactoring for the heck of it.