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joopdevrieson Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers

No it's not. However, they didn't send a cease-and-desist letter to the users that installed the plugin. They sent the letter to the researchers that built the plugin that uses the service Facebook offers in a way that is against Facebook's wishes. Therefore, technically, the letter is going to the correct party and for the right reasons.

Mind, I'm saying 'technically'. Ethically, I think Facebook (and other big social tech) should be researched more. In legal ways, this is how they should handle this.

joopdevrieson Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python

Haha I came here expecting to see the dude from Assassin's Creed drawing all kinds of graphs :'-) Or better, imagining.

joopdevrieson Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?

I use vimwiki to keep notes. It's not synced out of the box, but as it's just a directory with text files, you could make it so. If I'm not with my laptop, I just make a note in Google Keep.

joopdevrieson A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

Wasn't there this trivia that comedy hospital series Scrubs was actually the most technically correct medical show?

joopdevrieson How to Write a Technical Paper [pdf]

Check [0] as well. It describes very well what questions the introduction should answer.

[0] https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/paper-writing.html [2006]