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Observable mentions (284)

• A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library

  Maybe I'm easy to impress, but I always stop and play around with the nested tree example when I come across Sortable. It works so flawlessly, and feels very tuned to mobile dnd. It even works to arrange (and reflow) inline spans in a paragraph! I have yet to come across this functionality in a text editor.. [0]: https://observablehq.com/@dleeftink/sortable-playground. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet data

  Arrow JS is just ArrayBuffers underneath. You do want to amortize some operations to avoid unnecessary conversions. I.e. Arrow JS stores strings as UTF-8, but native JS strings are UTF-16 I believe. Arrow is especially powerful across the WASM <--> JS boundary! In fact, I wrote a library to interpret Arrow from Wasm memory into JS without any copies [0]. (Motivating blog post [1]) [0]:... - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

• A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection

  Here’s the D3 implementation (which is just an interrupted azimuthal equidistant projection): https://observablehq.com/@d3/azimuthal-equidistant-hemispheres. - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

• Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things

  I made a quick tool to apply the trick he suggests at the end of the article: https://observablehq.com/@gampleman/font-centering-tool. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• Zooming User Interface (ZUI)

  There is maybe some room for design too (Figma), but there are many times I wish it DIDN'T do that and encouraged better frame/file organization instead. ------- It can also be useful for some visualizations, like taxonomy: https://itol.embl.de/itol.cgi or https://www.onezoom.org/life.html "Drill down for details" like in disk space analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKClylmlv3w&t=1s (or similar one in D3:... - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago

Mode mentions (16)

• Mysterious Depeche Mode Show in the 80's

  I’ve seen a concert ticket from Turin for that tour. And the ticket stub is identical to that poster. If you go on depeche mode.com and check past tours. Go on music for masses tour and scroll down to Turin ( view ticket). I’m guessing they did something promotional and the promoter used that for poster. 🤷🏼‍♂️. Source: 11 months ago

• SQL tips

  The sql training by mode.com is good enough, then go through leetcode or datalemur for practice. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)

  Mode | HQ - San Francisco, CA or Remote (US) | REMOTE | https://mode.com | VISA Mode is building a world-class platform for data scientists, analysts, and everyone else who needs to ask and answer questions with data. Our product is an integral part of data science workflows at Lyft, Twitch, Shopify, and thousands of other data-savvy organizations. To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Fix for the keyboard repeat delay issue

  - All this does is call "mode.com", which manages serial connections to the computer, and sets the keyboard repeat rate on login and unlock. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)

  Mode | San Francisco, CA or Remote (US) | Onsite | Remote OK | https://mode.com Mode is building a world-class platform for data scientists, analysts, and everyone else who needs to ask and answer questions with data. Our product is an integral part of data science workflows at Lyft, Twitch, Shopify, and thousands of other data-savvy organizations. To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago