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by bdon 13y ago
+1 to this. Metro Extracts: http://metro.teczno.com/ along with osm2pgsql: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql is the way to go.
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by bdon 13y ago
A few reasons: D3 has built-in components to draw small details like axes precisely, which lower the barrier to making good data graphics. Also, the feedback loop in my experience is much tighter than with tools like Processing, R or Matlab
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by bdon 13y ago
Great work! How did you create the isometric view of building floor counts? Also, the 'skip' button could be a little more prominent.
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by bdon 13y ago
The type/error detection would be really cool paired with something like DataWrangler: http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/
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by bdon 13y ago
You might be thinking of this piece on Jeff Hammerbacher: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b42250609...
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Letter from San Francisco: On Being an Urban Planner in the Tech World(nextcity.org)
1 points by bdon 13y ago|0 comments
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Docker, Containers, and the Future of Application Delivery(slideshare.net)
143 points by bdon 13y ago|87 comments
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by bdon 13y ago
Author here. Great suggestions, however I'm not interested in measuring performance in the conventional page-load sense, but instead the impact of running typical developer tasks in a VM, namely app boot time and tests.
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by bdon 13y ago
Thanks for the tip, I found that using NFS with Fusion shaved a second or two off app boot time. Updated the post with measurements and the link you suggested.
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by bdon 13y ago
Hm, I was comparing it to a typical workstation machine in terms of raw specs - this is my personal laptop :)
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by bdon 13y ago
Yes, VMWare Fusion was tested using shared folders instead of NFS, which are considerably faster than VirtualBox's.
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by bdon 13y ago
I've found application boot time to be a pain point if you're running your tests frequently - I run mine several times a minute. For Ruby/Rails developers it's been especially bad, especially in JRuby. Some major patches
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by bdon 13y ago
Author here. Good point, i'll repeat these measurements with NFS instead and add that to the blog post. EDIT: Updated the post, NFS erases most of the difference between VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion. Nice!
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by bdon 13y ago
Author here. We're building a service to make dev/prod parity and deployments easy. Thanks for the feedback - our landing page needs an overhaul :P We're still adding features, right now all you can do is generate Vagrantfile
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Web development performance inside and outside a VM(stackmachine.com)
79 points by bdon 13y ago|43 comments
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by bdon 13y ago
So what happened in 2010? The article doesn't explain the most prominent feature of the charts...
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by bdon 13y ago
I see a few reasons why this problem has been hard to crack: 1. A week or so of struggling to get a new box set up is acceptable if you're prepared to use it for at least a few months 2. Developers are very particular about environment
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by bdon 13y ago
From the comments, a link to Rajiv's technical writeup: http://eranki.tumblr.com/post/27076431887/scaling-lessons-le... which covers some of the points in the TC article.
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by bdon 13y ago
For those interested in a breadth of interesting domain squatting litigation: Panavision Int'l, L.P. v. Toeppen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Toeppen - company Panavision vs. a domain squatter ostensibly s
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Flexible identity systems: all played out?(creativereview.co.uk)
2 points by bdon 13y ago|0 comments
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Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems(nautil.us)
166 points by bdon 13y ago|38 comments
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You Are Not an Artisan(ribbonfarm.com)
14 points by bdon 13y ago|1 comments
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by bdon 13y ago
My personal opinion is that any objective evidence does matter, although mostly in the context of the investigation like you mentioned. I hadn't thought of that particular choice. In any case, it's reasonable to predict that CNN h
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by bdon 13y ago
The distinction here is that I as an individual have a lot more control over what's on YouTube compared to what's published on CNN. The utility of that freedom being that if I had published the video immediately and forfeited my c
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by bdon 13y ago
That's the scenario I imagined as well. Which gave me pause, because I thought most onlookers in this situation, including myself, would value publishing the video immediately instead of collecting a payoff. The entire transaction stri
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by bdon 13y ago
Question for anyone with media/newsroom experience: How does CNN get exclusive access to an amateur video like this? What process was in place such that this didn't end up on YouTube first?
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by bdon 13y ago
This was my impression as well, There's a veewee-to-packer converter that I've had some success with: https://github.com/mitchellh/veewee-to-packer
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by bdon 13y ago
You can check out something similar in 3D here (needs WebGL): http://bdon.org/bicycle.html
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by bdon 13y ago
It's also useful if you don't want your URLs to expose how many of a certain thing you have, whether it be users, posts, payments etc. A lot of sites let you derive how much activity they have based on how fast their numeric IDs increment.
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by bdon 14y ago
Not quite 101 bytes, but here's an interactive version in WebGL: http://bdon.github.com/strange_attractor/ (Only works in Chrome)

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