clukic

I read about Bitcoin here over a decade ago. Took the time to setup a miner, and let it run for a week. I think I generated a few hundred coins worth less than a dollar total. Figured the electricity cost way more than that and deleted it all.

Fantastic work. This looks immediately useful. I'm often inspecting data structures with D3, but the ability to do this on the server side is a game changer. Can't wait to try it out.

One of the things that was very useful for me was that I got my dog while travelling, and he spent the first couple years of his life in different countries. The whole time I was keenly aware of the difficulties of picking up language, and so I would talk to him like I wanted someone to talk to me in Italian/Spanish/German/Czech...slowly, in simple phrases, using words I know in the present tense.

Just pretend you got picked up by aliens who only communicate via flashing lights. After months you might be able to associate certain light combinations and color are associated with food, with being allowed to use the bathroom, with types of interaction, and if you were really smart you might be able to figure out verbs and simple sentence structure, but those lights need to be flashing slowly and distinctly, and if the aliens start using the same light to mean two different things then you're going to get screwed up. For another species to grasp our language is an incredible thing, something no human has ever done, you have to keep things incredibly simple and teach them as if you were teaching language, not just saying what comes into your head.

My dog is frequently confused when he eaves drops on conversations and hears some one talk, for instance, about a long drive to the beach last year, and he waits at the door excited to go. And I have to think why is he waiting at the door, does have to pee? why is he so excited?

A dog's life is pretty boring. There's a lot of laying around, a lot of waiting to eat and go for a walk. A smart dog needs things to do, and it's work for you to make that happen. Talking, TV, computers, work, the things we fill our time with a dog can't participate in. My dog is in perpetual state of disappointment and mopiness, just waiting for the next interesting, stimulating thing to happen. I could train him for hours on end and he'd never get bored, but laying on the floor watching me sit in front of a computer, he can barely contain his boredom.

We had a trainer once who said the hardest thing for a smart dog to do is to just ignore stimuli. You're putting together furniture, cleaning the closet, setting up a stereo, what's that? where does it go? what does it smell like? Is this a game? Can I help?

I read a book about Chaser shortly before I got my pup. And I followed much a what I read, naming everything he came in contact with, talking to him using familiar nouns and verbs, not wasting words. At almost 3, he's not Chaser smart, but he has developed an ear that can recognize the most subtle variations in words, and he can figure out novel combinations of nouns/verbs sometimes with a direct obect. For example right after he learned the word window, he could generalize it to any glass that you look out through, and then I could tell him to "take the [object name] to the window" and he would find the nearest window (or glass door) and bring the given object there.

He was way ahead of a human child in terms of linguistic cognition up until maybe the age of about 1 and a half, then he maxed out. Having a dog with the verbal understanding of a toddler comes in handy sometimes...but rarely, mostly I just wish he could learn to walk on leash.

After leaving NYC I've lived in more than a dozen European cities over the last five years. The one commonality that I've seen is that where ever an area is pedestrianized it just explodes with life. Terraces, shops, children, dogs.

No one wants to be anywhere near a 100km/hr road. It can sometimes be ok to walk next to a 50km/hr road but it's not nice and it's best to avoid it. 30 km/hr you can stroll or sit on a terrace and it's fine. But when it's 20km/hr or just closed everything changes.

When there's no chance your kid is going to get killed by a car, he can just go out and play. Your dog can sit off leash under your table while you eat. You can be absorbed in a conversation and not worry a misstep will result in serious injury or death.

We somehow just accept that the possibility of death or jury is just outside our door. Like live electric wires running down streets. When you take them away, everyone just relaxes a lot more.

Another to add to the list, this one for my run tracking website. http://smashrun.com/chris.lukic

This is a small feature change with a big marketing angle. Facebook has been cutting the minimum amount of information shared when you "Connect with Facebook" with each iteration of their API. At launch, Facebook literally shared all of your information and most of your friend's information by default with no way to limit it. Then they pared it back to selective requests with a minimum of name, gender, and email. Then name, gender, and anoynimized email. Then it was name and anoynimized email. And now it is just an token specific to that site and nothing else.

They started by building what site owners and developers want - everything about a user without having to build a complex form and have the user agree to fill it out. And they ended up with what the user wants - to share nothing at all with the site owner and fill out no forms.

My guess is this will be stupidly successful, and good for absolutely no one, but Facebook.

By the scope and polish, it's obvious many hundreds of hours of work have been invested in this library. It's at least as comprehensive as Bootstrap or Foundation, and only a casual review is needed to see that it's a lot easier to use then either. And yet all the comments are about the CSS transform in the header, or a knee jerk snipe about the name of the framework itself.

2 things. My guess is they'll hold onto that data like gold, because it's their only leverage. And 2 you'll have bought a dedicated runners watch at $250+ when you can get an integrated watch that can run apps and give you directions and recieve text messages for less.

Resumes are like landing pages, you've got to hook people and then get them to commit or dig deeper. If I've got a stack of 50 resumes on my desk, several meetings scheduled, and some actual work to do, I'm going to be doing some serious thin slicing. I'm sure lots of strong candidates get eliminated before they even come in for an interview, but I don't want a strong candidate I want the guy I'm going to hire.

But really all that aside. I think hiring managers probably just Google your name and get scared off by the legal drama. I know you can't help that, but there it is.

Also the look is brilliant, especially with the current trends in flat design. I so infrequently see it used to it's full potential.

Check out: http://smashrun.com/chris.lukic/overview It uses both D3 and ChartServer, but there's no way I'll ever get the page load to something comparable using only d3.

I've done a ton of work with Chartserver, and I'm continually impressed by how elegant it is in every detail of its implementation. Although, I'm also a huge fan of D3. Not every chart should be built in JavaScript. I can embed it, I can drop it in an email, I can serve up 20 charts on a page in milliseconds, and I can do it equally quickly anywhere in the world.

Services like this, are one of the things that keeps up 'Google's not just in it for the money' cred, I'm going to be really sorry to see it go.

Reminiscent of the "Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003" https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/the-linux-backdoor...

I couldn't agree more. I think the "frame" of the political discussion is undermining an real progress. The fact that one of the most influential figures in the world is helping to evolve the dialog in a new direction can only be a good thing.

It doesn't. You just don't have to use <button> or any other tag for that matter.

It's a tag ambivalent CSS library. There's nothing sad about that. Just use buttons tags, it's not stopping you. Don't get hung up on the demo code.

I think the point that a lot of people are missing is that the library is just tag ambivalent. The demo code uses divs, but of course you don't have to use divs. You can use whatever tag you like. It's hard to see why that could be construed as anything other than an advantage.

If you like <button> tags then by all rights use button tags. It makes sense that the demo code would use divs, because to do otherwise would imply that a certain tag is required for the css to work.