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While you may think that handing out a bunch of stuff to people (even if that stuff is the bare minimum) would provide incentive to move off of such assistance it doesn't. It strips people of any interest in agency and has them believe they don't control their own well-being. This is exactly what the development sector has gotten wrong for several decades and until things change, not much good will come out of it.

I don't think that censorship is the right word. But for every time you write about FGM, find a story about an inspiring African grandmother and write about that as well.

In this case you might go outside of your bounds with a zoom operation, so translate won't be reliable when zooming too far out (as your domain will be larger than your data bounds) so you'll have to limit the domain instead.

    // assuming xlowerlimit and xupperlimit variables.
    var currentDomain = svg.x.domain();
    var xinterval = currentDomain[1] - currentDomain[0];
    
    if (currentDomain[0] < xlowerlimit) {
      // if moving outside of lower bound, set min of domain to lower, keeping domain interval the same
      svg.x.domain([xlowerlimit, xlowerlimit + xinterval]);
    } else if (currentDomain[1] > xupperlimit) {
      // if moving outside of upper bound, set max of domain to upper, keeping domain interval the same
      svg.x.domain([xupperlimit - xinterval, xupperlimit]);
    }

Obviously there is still a ton of room for innovation on the industrial design front and it's great to see your focus on how much work actually goes into solutions that scale. That lightning bolt idea you get may be the start of something if you have the persistence to work out the details.

Incidentally this is one of the huge problems with work being done in the developing world - people think they've created a magic bullet idea but don't have the persistence to work out the details and eventually they give up, usually blaming some external factor.

One suggestion I'd have is to make the centre node something other than the word "English". Even as a native speaker I found it momentarily confusing (is this collocates for all English words?) so I could imagine it being more confusing for a non-native speaker.

Also it would be cool to put the collocates with the original word in the tool tip (i.e. "English professor" instead of just "professor") especially when the expanded coloured bubbles at the beginning are actually the collocates of the collocates.

If a project estimates correctly, they should be able to 'kickstart' once the funding goal has been met. After that they can set up their own sales and marketing channels to sell to follow-on customers after the original Kickstarter backers get their rewards. To me this matches the original intent of Kickstarter.

Obviously capping funding amounts cuts into Kickstarter's short-term gains. In the long run however I think it would minimize the risk of a high-profile project (or several) failing to deliver and sinking their whole model.

Seeing the potential that exists when you latch on to an enthusiastic entrepreneur who is then able to provide jobs for people who would otherwise be 'reluctant entrepreneurs' is extremely motivating.

There's another comment here about people being entitled, comparing that to Chinese or Indians who set up shop in Africa and do well, but there's an extreme amount of selection bias in those results. People who get up and leave their own countries in order to travel somewhere else are in no way representative of the population, and also escape societal and social pressures that might otherwise stifle their entrepreneurship. Comparing locals to migrants and then generalizing across the population is not an accurate viewpoint. Yes there is often a culture of dependency brought on by years and years of being exposed to aid programs, but there are many, many entrepreneurs who are doing great things.

    Missing features that will be implemented (in order of priority):

    Autoescaping

I did find the bug report for it at one point and a workaround is to right-click and open the web inspector. For some reason this forces a re-render that fixes the problem.

I the long term I also think this is better for the campaigns - a lot of hardware projects seem to struggle shipping if they get a significantly higher number of orders than predicted. I'm sure in the moment it's exciting to see how many orders you can pull in, but painful in the long run when it is difficult to deliver on your promise, especially if you're planning on building a long-term sustainable business.

It is an interesting market to think about trying to monetize but the potential is huge as tablets drop to a price point where average urban dwellers (who are currently barely computer literate) can afford them. I already see iPads in the hands of the richer crowd and expect to see cheaper Androids flooding the market very soon. The need for custom software to make it easy for a population that can only hunt-and-peck is going to be huge.

Set it up yourself, get a couple of phones with unlimited texting packages and incoming texts will be paid for by the user.

As I said don't have any experience actually working with it though and don't know how easy it is to integrate into a custom app.

It is up to Oracle to figure out how to build the required trust to market this, not up to consumers to accept it given Oracle's history. Millions of people are missing billions of opportunities every day (and you're probably one of them!) but you don't blame them for it, you figure out how to market a product more effectively instead.

In any case I agree with your OP that these types of cut and dry presentations are never helpful, and we should be seeking to understand the appropriate context for different solutions instead of generalising.

One notable example is the material that makes up Gore-Tex. My materials prof talked about being in a lab that had a cube of it and how surreal it was to have it act this way.

There is already a company that produces auxetics commercially for some of the applications mentioned in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetix.

I think the reaction here is appropriate. There are laws that were broken. This is not scapegoating, it is punishing behaviour as should be expected. Yes reforms may be needed, and they should certainly be considered and I am sure they will be, but punishing those who knowingly broke the law and abused power for personal gain cannot be considered scapegoating, or punishment of any criminal activity must be considered scapegoating as it means society simply gave them too much power and trusted them too much to allow that activity to happen.

Does anyone see what Recline.js is doing here over the functionality in TimelineJS?

You can check them out here: http://wiki.ewb.ca/en/EWBs_Values_and_Beliefs

Seems like this type of attitude is part of the problem as well. If everyone is assuming they will make a quick dollar, then certainly the underwriters will price things high. If people are investing for long term value then you can't exactly call FB a "bust" quite yet.