tinsel
Re:Ask HN: I need to learn D3. Help design my curriculum.
on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @08:31PM (#5783820)
This is the gentlest introduction to d3 out there.
Run through the book and you will have a solid foundation to start playing around on your own for basic visualizations and charts.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026938.do
This was also posted on HN a while back:
http://code.hazzens.com/d3tut/lesson_0.html
d3 is not dependant on jquery and covers a lot of the same basic DOM manipulation. You also need to learn some super basic css to theme things.
Re:Excel and SQL
on Thursday May 23, 2013 @04:36PM (#5759379)
MongoDB/NoSQL is not for the type of analysis mentioned in the article and is NOT a replacement for a spreadsheet.
Out of all the nosql options, why pick the one with the most broken default configuration? People complain that MongoDB is has a bad rep when used for things its not meant to, and then its constantly offered as solution.
Re:Fish shell 2.0
on Friday May 17, 2013 @08:24AM (#5723831)
how do you change the motd, or remove it entirely?
its annoying having
Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell Type help for instructions on how to use fish
come up all the time
Re:Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride
on Sunday April 14, 2013 @07:59AM (#5546680)
lets discuss ember data issues again. this time we'll have a breakthrough.