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This was my experience when I tried to use Ember as well. Very frustrating.

Yeah. We're actually in the process of moving to D3 partly because of this. :\

We actually have our own in-house charting library at Chartbeat that uses Canvas that does exactly that (roll over the main chart):

http://chartbeat.com/publishing/demo/

Back when formspring was "big" a few years ago I remember seeing it all over the place.

Yep. We're primarily built using the Closure library so it's nice to not have to bundle jQuery for third-party libs.

They could theoretically do both by having the JS on the page set one cookie on the host domain and having the server response set one on the GA domain. I don't believe they do, however.

Shameless self mention: Chartbeat does not do this either.

This looks pretty great. We do something slightly similar at Chartbeat, but using puppet + ubuntu server VMs on our macs. Enables us to to develop on the same hardware we'll be using in production. Our CTO wrote a blog post about it here if anyone is interested:

http://engineering.chartbeat.com/2012/09/24/devvm/

I think it's a pretty bad paradigm; I did it by accident and there was no way to undo it just to see what it was.

I spent a week or so playing with a leap device recently, and had a great time developing a sort of Minority Report style interface for some display screens in our office recently. I did end up writing all of the gesture recognition from scratch which was a bit more difficult than I expected. :)

Probably due to the upgrade to Python 3.

> Each of them is horrible about getting data out in > order to correlate it with other services.

Hmmm. In what way? We (Chartbeat) provide all of our data through our API, and all of our products are built using those very same APIs.

Well regarding this incident specifically, it seems pretty clear (at least to me) that a group was created specifically to host a conference, which is not allowed. A Meetup Group is supposed to be a community, not just an event. Things like this are really what services like EventBrite are for.

As a former employee, I'd actually say that the customer service team is one of the best I've ever worked with and they take everything very seriously.

This analogy is backwards... Hiring a programmer is an exchange of company money (or equity, benefits, etc) for a service (programming skills). Renting a car is an exchange of one's own money for a service (use of the car).

In this case, the person renting the car would be "interviewing" the car rental company to determine if their service is worth their money.

Think of parseInt() as what it says- parsing out the number value. Number() can be considered as a cast.

    parseInt('12', 10);  => 12
    Number('12');        => 12
    parseInt('12x', 10); => 12
    Number('12x');       => NaN

Also for anyone who cares, the source is available on Github: https://github.com/chartbeat/percentoftheinternet

You can also check out http://chartbeat.com/labs/totaltotal/ for a more complete view of the numbers (I'd recommend zooming out a bit).

If anyone has questions or anything, feel free to ask.

The true value (something I'm working on at the moment) is integrating this with Sauce (https://saucelabs.com/) to run in multiple browsers continuously.

> It includes code to load up various analytics tools even if you never use them. For example, if I only use GA and Mixpanel, do I really want to serve the bytes for all the other plugins to my users? Maybe it would be useful to only package the JavaScript that a certain site needs.

It only has code that knows how to load each script, which isn't that much. So for example if you don't tell it to load chartbeat.js, it will never load chartbeat.js.

Regarding load time of pages, it's one thing we (Chartbeat) take really seriously, e.g. our default implementation waits until after onload before downloading anything and we keep our JS as light as possible. This script does, unfortunately, throw some of that out the window with it's implementation though. I'm working on my pull request already. :)

This is awesome! There's a few bugs in the Chartbeat implementation. Expect a pull request soon! :)

I can't speak for all of those other sites, but at Chartbeat we're vehemently against tracking any sort of personally identifiable information.

Well, there is this: https://mixpanel.com/people/

Chartbeat is hiring across the board in NYC, H1B possible. Core technologies are Python, C, MongoDB, and JavaScript (using Google's Closure library).

http://chartbeat.com/jobs/

My predicament exactly. I have heard good things about Xbox Music, but I haven't given it a look yet.

For some reason, I would expect this to improve the quality of their Windows Phone app, which is nigh-unusable. Despite how much I love Rdio (and opted to pay for the family plan), I'm considering switching away because of this.

I like our implementation of hackathons at Chartbeat, which is a week-long hackathon every 6 weeks. Some of our most loved products and features have come out of them.

I wrote a little blog post about it once, if anyone cares: http://blog.chartbeat.com/2012/03/16/hacking-chartbeat/

I think the solution is just to only play with friends who you know aren't cheating.

They'd look damn good in a movie. :)

It looks like this has been moved and is no longer a jQuery plugin, which is awesome. It's now, however, creating a global variable named `url` which is dangerous to say the least.

> You need to be aware that every tool of this kind comes with at least 30K of javascript and at least one additional request.

Chartbeat's JS is only 3k gzipped (http://static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat.js). We work very hard to keep it as small as possible while providing as much utility as we can.