By "version-1" do you mean my Medium post?
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I can definitely now see why you would interpret what I wrote as being malicious or mocking. I'd just like to let you know that it definitely wasn't meant to be, and that I'm incredibly sorry that it came off that way. I did not intend to offend you; I was just trying to explain why I made the choices I made.
Author of the medium post here. First I want to apologize to Max for not linking back to his blog, as he said I referenced his work and image multiple times and did not provide his name or blog in my post. I was in no way trying to pass this off as a novel idea as I said multiple times in the write up.
As for what was perceived to be critiques of his work I was merely trying to emphasize what I was doing differently in my analysis and project. His project is great, I just used a slightly different approach and wanted to highlight the differences. I definitely did not mean to come off as malicious or mocking, but upon rereading I definitely see how it did come off that way.
I stumbled across the code to make the day of week and times here https://github.com/minimaxir/hn-heatmaps/blob/master/hn_heat... after I had started the project. I had posted on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33263015/converting-day-o... and had gotten an answer that seemed close but not quite perfect. So I researched it a bit, and happened to find that GitHub code. I figured that a couple of lines of code probably weren't worth attributing, but I can see now that I should have been more thorough in my attribution. I have since taken down the article.