It's arguably unethical.

It's also arguably unethical for you not to host a number of poor people in your house or apartment.

And more fundamentally, it's arguably unethical for your not to spend most of your money trying to support the world's poorest.

Few people manage much in this regard, but that's our situation.

For a detailed explanation, start here: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/magazine/the-singer-solut...

Damn, glad to see this, but they're also kinda encroaching on my territory! :P

I've been working on something like this that's language agnostic and works with not only tables but also trees, graphs, lists, hashmaps, etc., and animates the visuals as the data structures are modified in real time (and you can pause, playback, step, etc.): http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd

The api I was conceiving earlier was more complex, but if you read the copy there, you'll notice it's essentially the same now: `MObject.monitor(...)` or MTable.monitor() MStateMachine.monitor() etc.

Edit: really am happy to see some other projects like this in total, partly because I want to use 'em now if possible—but also because I've had a surprisingly hard time communicating to other developers why it might be desirable to do something like this in the first place, so I'll be very happy to have general awareness raised.

I read the first line of their docs as rather dry humor, "Displays tabular data as a table." —like yeah, of course you would want to see tabular data as a table, and hierarchical data as a tree, etc.!

The author was interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air awhile back - fascinating stuff for sure. https://www.npr.org/2018/01/31/582099085/journalist-details-...

Creator here. Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a side project I've been sporadically hacking on over the past few years. It was an interesting technical challenge and it's fun to play with the end result. Here's the tech stack:

  * Frontend: React (Create React App)
  * Backend: Python Flask
  * Database: SQLite
  * Web (frontend) hosting: Firebase Hosting
  * Server (backend) hosting: Google Compute Engine (it runs fine on a tiny f1-micro instance)

All the code is open source[1] and I'm happy to answer any questions about building or maintaining it!

[1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow

JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3