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I haven't used this yet, so bear that in mind, but to me this seems to be something that is more expressive than html (I meant String) concatenation. That leads, in my experience, to better maintainability and thus less worries in the future.
Whether this impacts JS performance enough to be a problem, I don't know and don't have the time to test right now.
Edit: words are hard... I accidentally a few of them.
In the wake of the Announcement of Google Reader shutting down, a lot of people are gonna be wary of jumping into another service that could go down any time.
What are your mid-/long-term plans for keeping this online? Will there be monetization through ads? Through a subscription? Or are you planning to open source it for self-hosting?
A last important question, can I export my data?
cheers hellerbarde
edit: updated question
An apology to open source
At midnight on the 18th March 2013 I posted Chart.js online. On the morning of the 19th March, I've had to take it down due to IP concerns with my current employer.
It had been my final year university project I had been working on for a couple of months. I had intended it to be an open source project for the web design and development community.
Since posting it online, I've been completely overwhelmed and hugely grateful for all the support and kind words.
Sadly though, due to concerns from my employer regarding intellectual property and similarities in projects I've worked on, I've been asked to take down the site. My job and livelihood have to be my primary concern. With this in mind, I have closed down the site, and removed my master branch from Github.
I'd like to personally apologise for taking this away, I'm just as disappointed as you.
Nick
cheers
and here: http://pharmastrategyblog.com/2010/10/whats-in-placebos-who-...
But all three article (including the Topic) seem to focus on the Journal articles and neglect to write anything about the reports to the FDA. I'd be really interested in more info on that.
EDIT: I have no opinion nor info about the quality of the links i posted, I just found them through cursory duckduckgoing. So beware, they might both be total cranks. :)
> [...] at a minimum it unblinds the doctors on the ground.
It's very important that the person administering the drug/monitoring the patient can not tell the difference.
First things first, bullying is not always conscious. You seem to imply that and I happen to believe that is not true. Someone can act bullying-ish without being a bully. It happens. It sucks, always. It sucks especially when you're not in fact a bully and you didn't mean to act like one. (someone made a comment about "being a racist" and "saying something racist". It's similar.)
This point has been made over and over again: Someone with such a large audience and such a public channel has a certain responsibility. For better or worse, they represent a certain part of a community, they are looked up to. You can't deny that with a certain amount of, let's say "Power" comes a certain amount of, let's call it "Responsibility" ;)
And that responsibility is that they can't afford the same boorishness and low brow-ness on their e.g. public twitter channels. It's not just a developer expressing an opinion anymore. It becomes a community thing. I even read tweets in German, bashing this github repo. And when it goes that far, the vitriol in the air just grows exponentially. People don't think about it anymore, it's suddenly a hive mind thing. That's why it spreads so quickly. Monkey see, monkey do.
It may have been only one tweet per person by three people, but they happened to be high-profile enough to spread it far and wide. I also want to keep the communication channels open and tolerant, but it is important to conduct yourself in a courteous manner that you would also use face to face. Especially if you have follower counts in the thousands or ten-thousands. (it's a tight-knit community...)
I don't, however think that the public communication channels need to be tolerant or indeed designed for low-brow, ruffian, boorish behaviour. You can do that at home with your friends. Or indeed on Jabber/XMPP. Or on your own forums. Or mailing lists. Not that I would want to ban people from exhibiting these behaviours on public channels (To the tolerance-mobile!), but I would like to see the community frown upon them. In my opinion, they add very little value to the content and they benefit mostly the person exhibiting them and not the community at large. That to me means definitely that it should stay in private circles, especially if it can be detrimental to a single person.
You say that the community doesn't do itself a favour, reacting as harshly as that. But many of us (I think) love the idea of open source. Many of us would put out a small tool like that on github and we would probably be upset if someone (seemingly) just took a quick look at it and go to twitter and just essentially start a high profile pitchfork mob. That is why the reaction has been soo strong and passionate.
Also, the fact that Heather got caught between communities warring (apparently. that was not known to me...) is fairly irrelevant. This kind of conduct needs to stop. If someone wants to duke it out on twitter, take it up with someone who 1. agrees to it, i'm sure there are enough zealots in either community. or 2. is of a similar high-profile stature.
Some thoughts on what was said, what was meant, what was perceived. What was said: "I cannot even make this stuff up [link to gh:harthur/replace]" What was meant [speculation?]: "Hmm, I wonder why someone would remake sed with node.js? Weird." What was perceived [speculation?][citation needed]: "OMGWTF, LOOK AT THIS IDIOT MORON!!11 DOESN'T TEHY KNOW THAT THIS IS LIEK SED BUT SHIT? ALSO NODE.JS, LAWL!!!11"
This is only one of the examples. This is a problem, agreed? Most people seem to forget that perception is the most relevant of these three things when you conduct yourself in public.
Wow, this got more rambly than expected.
PS: To everyone that says "grow a thicker skin, the world is bad", please don't do this. It should be very reasonable to expect people to not be idiots. It's not a stupid thing. It's something we as a community should strive for. We should be moving towards a community that frowns upon these behaviours, protecting the new and the defenseless. (What you do in your startup world is none of my business, of course.) Why this hit so close to home for Heather [speculation?] and many of us [speculation?] is because we feel safe in this community and we didn't expect to [citation needed] be backstabbed out of our own ranks.
PS: Yes, I know that not the whole discussion was about this question. Still.
So the video was automatically taken down because the GEMA flagged it for copyright infringement. Dotcom said "they will hear from our legal team". The Video was up again, probably roughly until the GEMA click the "refile" button.
One minor, minor gripe is that it uses a Makefile instead of the canonical setup.py for building. (did I mention "minor"?) For me personally, it makes up for this fact by using Flask. (Yes, i am unabashedly a fanboy of that microframework. squeee)
One question though: What is the [git-root]/server.cfg? it seems not to have an influence? is it deprecated?
So maybe they decided to give it away, because it's EOL'd sooo hard. Let's see how this develops :)
EDIT: +1 on the NavPoint. I disable the trackpad on all my thinkpads and just use the NavPoint whenever I can.
see also: http://xkcd.com/927/
This might be the vim config solution i'm sticking with. I tried a bunch over the last 2 years, but all of them seemed too heavy, especially janus. This solution seems to avoid all these issues by simply being a wrapper around VAM. Aside from that VAM-Bootstrapping function, it's a vanilla vimrc.
I thought you might appreciate the simple nature of this 'solution'.
Personally, I don't care for it...
The rest, yeah, I agree with you. Get someone that speaks the language to spell and grammar check.
The individual language front pages are still here. With loads of information density and featured articles and everything.
The beautiful front page for searches in different languages is very nice and certainly provides better overview over the different languages available.
The overhaul of the Editor is also a nice addition, although it should probably be coded in a way as to enforce adherence to templates. A challenge you say? Maybe. But most things worth doing are.
The highlighting is a nice touch, certainly useful for doing research, which is what WP is often used for.
They did not confuse wikipedia with wikimedia. They very clearly proposed a specific logo for both Wikimedia and Wikipedia. They were aware of the connections and relationships between the organisations and concepts in question. The title can be construed as misleading, "Wikipedia redesigned" vs. "Wikimedia redesigned", I guess. But most people using WP are not acutely aware of the difference and relationship between the two. So they decided to hook the article on "Wikipedia" because it's the more recognized name. I have no problem with that.
I don't like that "organic living logo" idea either, I'll side with you on that one.
Yes, the capital J is a bit annoying :)
Your criticism seems mostly superficial and I don't quite understand why. A better branding does not water down the content. "Doing something bigger than that", (which i completely agree with) is not diagonally opposed to beautiful design.
(no, the Ctrl-J + Ctrl-W doesn't count. that is a workaround at best and it doesn't work when you're on a pinned tab)
I assume they don't exacly have a huge community of active devs. combine that with the fact that user interface design is hard and needs experienced people working on it and you got the reason for cloning a perfectly functional UI instead of completely messing up while innovating a revolutionary new one.
This is pure conjecture, of course :)
Now we can all say that everyone needs to grow thicker skin or something, but in the end it's simply bad taste to alienate significant parts of the crowd. That being said, if I would have been there, I would have been more embarrassed at the stereotype they apparently decided to appeal to than offended, because it was so over the top stupid.
YMMV.