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Top Cities in the United States

To find a data source for visualizations , I found myself commonly searching for "Top 200 Cities in the US", "largest cities by land area", and "largest meto area by population", etc. I would then have to combine the list I found with other data sources to get all the info I needed. I thought I'd try to keep an up-to-date copy of this list, in case others also found this helpful. You can find that list here:  https://gist.github.com/aaronhoffman/e1893d32fa1254429abf57f5c0413fa3 I will try to keep this list up-to-date with additional information and API keys as I use it over time. Hope this helps, Aaron

Reddit API OAuth C# .NET Example

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I had a need to connect to the Reddit API via C# .NET, and thought I'd put this little tutorial together since most I found were in java or python. Note: General Reddit OAuth API info:  https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/oauth 1. Go here and make an app:  https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps 2. Use the values from the app you created above, in this code sample:   gist:  https://gist.github.com/aaronhoffman/b59585d507601b05d8db02493eaaf73e   more info:  https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/OAuth2 3. Make API requests:   gist:  https://gist.github.com/aaronhoffman/b59585d507601b05d8db02493eaaf73e Check out the result here : interactive data visualization Hope this helps, Aaron

VirtualBox Right-Click Windows Taskbar On Mac

Using VirtualBox on my Mac (in windowed mode, not full screen), I noticed that right-click on the Windows taskbar was not working. I commonly use right-click on the task bar to launch an application as administrator, pin an application to the taskbar, etc. I could two-finger click on other windows to get the right-click menu to appear, but that did not work on the taskbar. To get the right-click menu to appear on the windows taskbar, I had to hold down the "host key" which for me was the left Mac command key, and single-finger click the item in the taskbar. Hope this helps! Aaron