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by sallen 11y ago
Agreed, this seems silly to build your own which likely performs worse than PosgGIS and has way more bugs. At least the article could have addressed why that would not work for their use case. edit: also now they have to classify polygons
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by sallen 12y ago
As mentioned in the article: The group’s next challenge is finding a way to keep the suit tight. To do this, Holschuh says there are only two options: either maintaining a constant, toasty temperature, or incorporating a locking mechanism t
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by sallen 12y ago
Surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, but if you use (or can move to) Namecheap for your domain registration, they provide free DNS service that includes dynamic DNS [1]. The script to set it is merely an HTTP GET to a URL. A lot of ro
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by sallen 14y ago
Interesting in the 5 years since this was written, what the friend claimed would happen has come to pass. Car2go runs several all electric car sharing fleets in various cities. I've used the one in San Diego a number of times.
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by sallen 14y ago
How is this helpful? You do realize that the iPad Mini won't ship until next Friday, and that people may want a head start on testing their app on a smaller screen. And additionally, I'm sure there are a lot of small developers who can't af
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by sallen 14y ago
I am going to upgrade my iPad 3. I mean you can sell it to Amazon for $400, and buy a new one for $500+tax. Doesn't seem like a bad deal to basically lease the iPad 3 for six months for about $120.
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by sallen 14y ago
Traffic is one of the main things I use Google Maps for on my iPhone. How does the traffic in Apple Maps compare? I'd hate to lose that.
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by sallen 14y ago
She'd only get 1/4th of that equity per year, and the salary is given in a yearly amount.
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by sallen 14y ago
I thought she mentioned it was a 4 year vesting for that equity, which means 1% = $80k. But then that values the company at $8M, which also doesn't match the asserted $5M.
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by sallen 14y ago
The article and the headline do not mention it, but FYI, this takes place in the United Kingdom.
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by sallen 14y ago
Agreed. This article is stupid because it extrapolates from a few cases he's seen personally (and it was his coworkers messing up; I'm sure he's such a good developer that he's never made a mistake attributable to the command line tool, li
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by sallen 15y ago
Groove™ huh? Aren't you infringing on Microsoft's trademark? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Groove
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by sallen 15y ago
Does anyone know if the MacBook Air works well with say Ubuntu?
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by sallen 15y ago
Have you looked at 99 Designs [1]? I havn't used it, but it looks useful! [1] http://99designs.com/
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by sallen 15y ago
Does this system have transactions and ACID guarantees?
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by sallen 15y ago
Not a lot of info on their website. But it strikes me as similar to VoltDB ( http://voltdb.com/ ). Especially the emphasis on OLTP queries. Is it based on the same paradigm of single-threaded serial access? What differentiates it from Vo