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by drewda 14y ago
For those who care, here's a previous implementation in Python that I've used: http://danieljlewis.org/2010/06/07/jenks-natural-breaks-algo...
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by drewda 14y ago
On a related note, The New York Times just posted synced videos from a number of dash-cams showing the Siberian meteorite: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/15/world/europe/1...
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by drewda 14y ago
Navicat is a decent way to deal with both Postgres and MySQL (among many other database engines) with the same interface. All the different ways Navicat packages its products are unnecessarily confusing. Premium Essentials ($20) is almost c
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by drewda 14y ago
But this isn't an independent start-up. EveryBlock is owned by MSNBC. EDIT: NBC News is now the parent company.
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by drewda 14y ago
For those in San Francisco, KQED is starting its own incubator for media start-ups: http://matter.vc/
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by drewda 14y ago
I've had a very similar experience and am also figuring that on my next "greenfield" project I'll try Marionette.
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by drewda 14y ago
Interesting to look at the product that he was working on: http://www.google.com/enterprise/mapsearth/products/coordina... Based on the screenshots, it looks like something developed in-house for Google security guards. I wonder if Google
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by drewda 14y ago
EnterpriseDB also offers a semi-managed version of Postgres that can run on your own AWS account: http://www.enterprisedb.com/cloud-database/amazon
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by drewda 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Looks like a useful and nicely minimal addition.
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by drewda 14y ago
Is that first bullet point a solution to view "garbage collection"? Or should those of us who want that sort of functionality continue to use extra helper code?
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by drewda 14y ago
That's the pattern that has happened to map base-layer tiles since Google started charging: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/daily-report-some-s...
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Gamma shapes for obama(mike.teczno.com)
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by drewda 14y ago
As the transit planner Jarrett Walker regularly reminds readers on his blog[1] and book of the same name, the real things that make a mass transit project effective are not about the particular technology being used to do the moving. The ge
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by drewda 14y ago
You might also want to have a look at ggplot2, which is an R library: http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/
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TurtleBot 2.0 Now Available for Preorder from Clearpath Robotics(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by drewda 14y ago
It's been a trend in graphic design for a few years now: http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=97815...
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by drewda 14y ago
It really depends. Experiments comparing the effects of animated maps and "small multiples" are mixed: "We found that map readers answer more quickly and identify more patterns correctly when using animated maps than when using static small
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by drewda 14y ago
Does this mean that Passenger can now run an EventMachine service next to a Rails app?
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by drewda 14y ago
Another option coming soon: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/228865951/transit-app-fo...
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Animation of a run through Washington D.C. using 3D CSS transforms(mapbox.com)
1 points by drewda 14y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 14y ago
I know this is short and simple, but it still might be nice to wrap up in a gem. Or maybe work into the pry-rails gem?
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Deployd: a Node app (and GUI) for building real-time API's(deployd.com)
6 points by drewda 14y ago|0 comments
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GreenOnion UI testing library: alerts you when Web app appearance has changed(github.com)
2 points by drewda 14y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 14y ago
A similar wrapper library for d3 is Rickshaw: http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/
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by drewda 14y ago
Also have a look at: http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/
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by drewda 14y ago
Here's a direct link: https://code.google.com/p/leak-finder-for-javascript/
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by drewda 14y ago
Faye is an alternative: http://faye.jcoglan.com/
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Bootstrap Tour: Quick and easy way to build your product tours(pushly.github.com)
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Otto An enhanced Guava-based event bus with emphasis on Android support(square.github.com)
1 points by drewda 14y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 14y ago
The animated screen shots in this blog post and on the front page are quite nicely done. Looks like a series of images being moved and swapped through a canvas area. Anyone know of libraries that can automate the creation of these kind of a

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