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Fast, Offline, Reverse Geocoding; Or, in Which Polygon Am I? (2015)(hamberg.no)
64 points by ehamberg 7y ago|6 comments
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Fast, Offline, Reverse Geocoding; Or, in Which Polygon Am I?(hamberg.no)
3 points by ehamberg 11y ago|0 comments
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by ehamberg 11y ago
I'm surprised it's still being used (and a mod fixed the link now), but if you're curious, here's the discussion on 9m.no from 15 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783239 :)
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Show HN: Location-based, no-config, offline currency converter for iPhone/Watch(gethowmuch.com)
2 points by ehamberg 11y ago|0 comments
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Want Millennials to Start Paying for Music? Start Paying Them(medium.com)
1 points by ehamberg 11y ago|0 comments
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by ehamberg 11y ago
I simply tried (and failed, it seems) to say that they are generally considered to be equivalent, and that it's okay to use “aa” when translating a name with “å”. Reasons for this could be not knowing how to write an ‘å’ (or Ł, đ, ç, ì
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by ehamberg 11y ago
It's acceptable (or at least “not wrong”) to use “aa” for å (and “oe” for ø/ö, “ae” for æ/ä). While ‘å’ was made an official letter in Norwegian in 1917, it's still common to see “aa” spellings of names, and “aa” and “å”
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by ehamberg 11y ago
An iOS device will only connect to known networks. By enabling “Ask to Join Networks” it will list networks and ask if you want to join any of them – but only if no known network is in range. This is actually less safe, in that you're
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The Google University Effect(theness.com)
3 points by ehamberg 11y ago|0 comments
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by ehamberg 12y ago
There's a bug with the city/country detection: People with only a country as their location, e.g. “Norway” are detected as being in “Norway, United States”. :-)
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by ehamberg 12y ago
… and advice / advise and prophecy / prophesy . For some reason, only the latter has kept the difference in spelling between the noun and the verb in American English.
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by ehamberg 12y ago
Thanks! Looks interesting. :-)
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by ehamberg 12y ago
The README file is really interesting: http://lpaste.net/119343
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by ehamberg 12y ago
> The advantage of this approach would be allowing function overloading (similarly to C++ or Java) informally without interfaces or type classes. I might be misunderstanding something, but how does this allow function overloading more th
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by ehamberg 12y ago
(S (VP avoid (NP (NP success) (PP at (NP all costs))))) vs (S (VP avoid (NP success) (PP at (NP all costs))))
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by ehamberg 12y ago
Norway invented everything from the Groupe Spécial Mobile group? Citation needed.
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by ehamberg 12y ago
The Mac Pro has two buses, but the Macbook Pro has only one – so the fact that there are two Thunderbolt ports doesn't really help you in this case.
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by ehamberg 12y ago
“Nationalism teaches you take pride in shit you haven’t done and hate people you’ve never met.” You can probably substitute any us-and-them term for “nationalism”.
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by ehamberg 12y ago
Yes, thanks for pointing that out. This was done really quickly and I didn't expect it to get that much attention. :-)
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by ehamberg 12y ago
To give you a clue: This was a really quick for-fun project and I did not expect it to get this much attention. ;-)
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by ehamberg 12y ago
I had briefly used Scotty before, but never acid-state. All of this is just the result of a discussion at work where my position was “oh, come on! it's not that stupid!”, so I just chose something I though would let me get a test sit
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by ehamberg 12y ago
That was indeed a typo. Thanks!
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9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age(9m.no)
202 points by ehamberg 12y ago|69 comments
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Modular Cargo Cycles(lowtechmagazine.com)
2 points by ehamberg 12y ago|0 comments
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Make all mac apps available from the command line(hamberg.no)
1 points by ehamberg 13y ago|0 comments
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by ehamberg 13y ago
If you want a solid line, you could use U+2501 (━) from the set of box drawing characters ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character ): <━> 9473, U+2501 BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY HORIZONTAL hr(){prin
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Paris Cabbies Slash Tires, Smash Windshields in Protest Against Uber(businessweek.com)
5 points by ehamberg 13y ago|0 comments
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by ehamberg 13y ago
Can anyone recommend an iPhone app for viewing maps and getting directions? The OSM wiki lists a lot of apps [1], but they seem to be of varying quality. I'd love to be able to use something that's close in functionality and sim
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by ehamberg 13y ago
The top comment has an interesting suggestion for why this is done: […] this is how people in local governments make money in Russia: Step 1: have a $100,000 of tax money budget for fixing the pavement on street XYZ Step 2: pay y
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Why do Russians pour asphalt over snowed roads instead of plowing them?(sploid.gizmodo.com)
1 points by ehamberg 13y ago|2 comments

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