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Why hop the network for this?

• tomc1985 7y ago
  Indeed, I would rather use a library for this
  • tpaschalis 7y ago
    I agree that it's something easy, with already-available libraries. Nevertheless, I hope some people would find it useful, and enable me and others to use it quickly and build something on top of geohash, instead of messing around to get the algorithm right.
    • tomc1985 7y ago
      How much messing around would there be though? The first hit for a geohash gem (I'm a ruby guy) returns a github page where the instructions to use are pretty much an include statement and then encode/decode statements. I don't mean to be harsh, but I have a big problem with APIs where libraries would do, and I think many consider network hops to be too cheap and available. The Sr Engineer in me would never allow a project to make calls over a network unless absolutely necessary.