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by apologizer 3894 days ago
Hi guys,

Author of the medium post here. First I want to apologize to Max for not linking back to his blog, as he said I referenced his work and image multiple times and did not provide his name or blog in my post. I was in no way trying to pass this off as a novel idea as I said multiple times in the write up.

As for what was perceived to be critiques of his work I was merely trying to emphasize what I was doing differently in my analysis and project. His project is great, I just used a slightly different approach and wanted to highlight the differences. I definitely did not mean to come off as malicious or mocking, but upon rereading I definitely see how it did come off that way.

I stumbled across the code to make the day of week and times here https://github.com/minimaxir/hn-heatmaps/blob/master/hn_heat... after I had started the project. I had posted on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33263015/converting-day-o... and had gotten an answer that seemed close but not quite perfect. So I researched it a bit, and happened to find that GitHub code. I figured that a couple of lines of code probably weren't worth attributing, but I can see now that I should have been more thorough in my attribution. I have since taken down the article.

2 comments

Unsurprisingly, your version-2 story is as close as possible to version-1 and the demonstrated proof of version-1's lies. This is why it's nice to hold in reserve some additional evidence when you expose a liar - so you can catch them lying in version-2 and completely destroy their public credibility.

I hope this doesn't happen to you, but in my experience version-2 is usually only a partial confession.

Good luck recovering from this with a lesson learned: you don't look bad when you shared credit and honestly represent your contributions. People will already associate you with the good thing you brought to their attention, deployed and customized for them, etc.

By "version-1" do you mean my Medium post?
Please supply proof that you are who you say are.
Does the fact that the Medium post was taken down since I made that post qualify?