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Chrome is the only app I have on my Macbook Air that pushes it into overheating, turning it into a lap-frying iron skillet.
How hard would it be to simply wrap their boring html and drop it into a bog standard bootstrap? Like, a day?
With Reddit, you at least have a chance of having a semi-decent group of moderators who can care for and foster their community without it turning into an anal retentive hell.
Nevertheless, you're correct, and watching the peaks and valleys and plateaus between the different platforms is incredibly interesting to analyze.
In fact, if they simply handed the bones off to the Smithsonian or whoever, they could've washed their hands of the whole thing. The fact that they didn't do so indicates to me that they wanted to hold onto the bones as a bargaining chip with the native tribes.
We just have to remind them when they're older and are running things and building amazing stuff that it's NOT OK to blow up other people's stuff with tnt.
All that to say, Adobe's Source Code Pro could also be called a font for programmers, by programmers.
Case in point, my hackathon group helped hook them up with our city and our entire event was based on hacking this data. But the city basically did some straight sql table dumps without normalizing everything (so you would have to query multiple sets of data to make sense of anything) AND the city redacted a bunch of data, like I dunno, the frikkin relational IDs of some of the really juicy data, making it effectively worthless.
Socrata is in such a land grab that it appears that they're not too interested in whether or not the data is any good. They just take what the gov'ts give them and dump it in.
Maybe they've fixed that a bit since, but it was highly annoying at the time (last fall I think).