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My favorite part -

> This friend recommended nvd3.js, presumably because you’re not making real graphs in 2016 unless your graphing library is <something>.js and requires at LEAST one other <something else>.js as a dependency. Everyone looks at you like “what, you DON’T already use <something else>.js? Jeez say goodbye to your Hacker News karma. Just apt-get install npm && npm install bower && bower install-” NO STOP IT THIS ISN’T WHAT TIM BERNERS-LEE WANTED”.

edit: as huckyaus mentioned in a different thread, author did http://swagify.net/ as well. In completely unrelated news, I'm changing my handle to [Tr1Ck$h0t][LEGIT][60x7]$$$C30C0DER$$$, that will make me really popular among the cool kids.

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This one got me in stitches, a collection of developer insider jokes in one huge sentence:

AND ANOTHER THING when it’s midnight and your x-axis formatting function doesn’t convert UNIX times into JavaScript date objects properly because there’s no timezone information and I dunno JavaScript was written by some guy in two weeks (yeah I ain’t afraid to call it out what of it) and your binary-search based conversion of sparse timeseries data into uniformly dense timeseries data is causing so many data points to be graphed that it’s slowly crashing Chrome and you’re watching helplessly as your RAM goes up and Chrome won’t close the tab and it just doesn’t seem right that 2016, the year of the Linux Desktop has brought us this situation I mean I thought if you had enough <something>.js libraries this stuff was meant to just scale right up so tha-

Yeah the irony is that the link to wiki on Tim Berners-Lee is actually

http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org...

Is this WHAT TIM BERNERS-LEE WANTED??!!!One1!?

The whole article was fun. I loved it. Also to take it a step further, I wouldn't apt-get install npm, I'd first use ruby to install homebrew, then brew install nodejs, then npm install bower, then bower install. Because linux doesn't have enough package managers to manage my package managers to manage packages managed my package managers.

Indeed, the article was a great and humorous stream-of-consciousness.

For me, it was this:

> ... and I wouldn’t be embedding this ugly graph as a pdf into a LaTeX document that takes 3 passes of pdflatex to render...

Lol, I love how "SAMPLE TEXT" is part of every section of that :)

Tho only drawback I see with nvd3.js is that we can't generate png images of the graphs, server-side, for email of PDF export. Is there an nvd3-js-to-png.java ;)?

It's called PhantomJS :P

What? You don't already have it installed?

Note: you can use apt-get install npm and npm to install phantomjs which is not a node.js program but for some reason is on npm, or you can just rent an entire AWS region to compile phantomjs from sources in your preferred linux distribution.

How can I tell?

If the graph renders to canvas, you can get a data url for the image and send that to a server for decoding/storage.

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