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Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:07AM (#32851305)
My understanding, pieced together from conversations over the years with Adobe employees, is that they do try to do this, and they don’t have success with it. I have no idea if they’ve done something like this with a Figma-like goal, though.
Re:Why (Not) Do a PhD in Computer Science? on Monday March 18, 2013 @04:22AM (#5393040)
A CS PhD student doesn't generally take out any student loans; at most universities, students are funded by research and/or teaching assistant appointments and internal/external fellowships.
Re:Chart.js - open source HTML5 charting library on Monday March 18, 2013 @02:33AM (#5392770)
It's not, but how often do you see a news source link to the raw data?
Re:Chart.js - open source HTML5 charting library on Monday March 18, 2013 @01:33AM (#5392642)
But on the other hand, SVG is infinitely more useful if you want to extract chart data from the page.
Re:New board in the Arduino Family: Esplora on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:49PM (#4901953)
Woo 2011 Williams CS. Ok, that's my one comment on HN for the year.
Re:D3 - Languages and Color on Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:28PM (#4457759)
See Jeff Heer's work on this: http://vis.stanford.edu/color-names/

and the color-name picker application: http://vis.stanford.edu/color-names/dictionary/