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ssrubin··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
My understanding, pieced together from conversations over the years with Adobe employees, is that they do try to do this, and they don’t have success with it. I have no idea if they’ve done something like this with a Figma-like goal, though.
ssrubin··on 1Password 50% off today
http://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/how_many_licenses.html
ssrubin··on Why (Not) Do a PhD in Computer Science?
A CS PhD student doesn't generally take out any student loans; at most universities, students are funded by research and/or teaching assistant appointments and internal/external fellowships.
ssrubin··on Chart.js - open source HTML5 charting library
It's not, but how often do you see a news source link to the raw data?
ssrubin··on Chart.js - open source HTML5 charting library
But on the other hand, SVG is infinitely more useful if you want to extract chart data from the page.
ssrubin··on New board in the Arduino Family: Esplora
See the IOIO board: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10748
ssrubin··on Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College Alums
Woo 2011 Williams CS. Ok, that's my one comment on HN for the year.
ssrubin··on D3 - Languages and Color
See Jeff Heer's work on this: http://vis.stanford.edu/color-names/

and the color-name picker application: http://vis.stanford.edu/color-names/dictionary/