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Overleaf v2 now open to everyone(overleaf.com)
3 points by freyfogle 8y ago|0 comments
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by freyfogle 9y ago
In many parts of the world they use different alphabets - Cyrillic, Arabic, etc
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Related, here's a good post on strategies for quickly becoming familiar with a new code base: http://devblog.nestoria.com/post/96541221378/7-strategies-to...
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The Perl Toolchain Summit(code.foo.no)
2 points by freyfogle 9y ago|1 comments
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Attracting talent(freyfogle.com)
2 points by freyfogle 9y ago|0 comments
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by freyfogle 9y ago
In my experience as founder of a 20 plus employee start-up, I assumed all employees would find out each other's salary. There is no way to enforce secrecy, people talk. For exactly this reason it is better to have a clear policy. Havin
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by freyfogle 9y ago
The problem is if they give you your special deal, they have to give everyone their own special deal which becomes an absolute nightmare to manage.
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by freyfogle 9y ago
EU SaaS founder here. It really is not as complicated as people are making it out to be, at least for digital services (I have no experience with physical products). Use a service like Quaderno https://quaderno.io for the invoic
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Free things go away. If you need geocoding we're here to help: https://geocoder.opencagedata.com If you're looking for maps, I can recommend: http://www.thunderforest.com
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by freyfogle 9y ago
A comparison is challenging in that in our experience there are many different use cases. It all depends on which geographies you are interested in, and what level of accuracy, speed, data freedom, and cost you are willing to accept. I mean
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by freyfogle 9y ago
sorry you had a bad experience. Feel free to contact me if you want me to take a closer look. "Geocoding" is a very broad term, it really depends if you need reverse, forward, what level of specificity, which region of the world,
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Our code is not, that said it is "just" a very thin layer to various opensource and open data geocoders. See: https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/credits
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by freyfogle 9y ago
I can't speak for the commenter above, but as someone who runs a paid service built on open geodata I can tell you our best customers are those who first try to self host and then realize what a pain that is. The challenge is not just
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Do you need geocoding? I ask because I am one of the makers of the OpenCage geocoder. We offer forward and reverse geocoding from open data (primarily OpenStreetMap, but also others). We're listed in the migration guide, and we'll
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Then I think you would probably enjoy Colin Woodard’s “American Nations - A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America”
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Facebook and Bing were both Gold sponsors of the most recent State of the Map US: https://2017.stateofthemap.us though in fairness Google was a bronze sponsor Bing was a gold sponsor of the most recent State of the Map (global c
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Hi, I'm one of the makers of the OpenCage Geocoder: https://geocoder.opencagedata.com We provide a single, simple API that behind the scenes aggregates numerous open geocoders, including nominatim, DSTK, and others. Please
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by freyfogle 9y ago
That article has it's own biases and factual inconsistencies (not sure if intentional or just due to neglect). For example the article claims what3words doesn't work offline. It does.
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Silicon Roundabout gets Brexit jitters(theguardian.com)
2 points by freyfogle 9y ago|0 comments
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Brands looking to manage the challenge of communicating one-on-one with their customers via messaging should have a look at: https://hubtype.com They recently completed YC Start-up School. Full disclosure, I am a very minor inve
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Or you could get many people and organizations to contribute data under an open license. That's exactly what OpenStreetMap is: http://www.openstreetmap.org
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Building an API on open data(getputpost.co)
65 points by freyfogle 9y ago|12 comments
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by freyfogle 9y ago
It's interesting that the article starts with the line "True bilingualism is a relatively rare thing". That's probably the case in the US or English-speaking world, but definitely not the case in many other areas. I live
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14813511
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by freyfogle 9y ago
> Hardly something to lose sleep over. Easy to write that now, but let's see how you feel the next time your armies in Kamchatka are being invaded.
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Not quite what you're asking for, but here is a service that provides the opposite side of that - all customer messages come into a single queue on your side and can then be processed by customer service and/or answered by a bot
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by freyfogle 9y ago
why chose, TIMTOWTDI
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by freyfogle 9y ago
these questions are better directed at the team, not me. I am just an investor. Bear in mind, you are getting health advice, not a medical diagnosis, that would be impossible via a chat service.
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Well they just launched a week ago. I have used it and it works. Happy to put you in touch with the founder if you like, or you could go ahead and risk €9
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by freyfogle 9y ago
Well I'm biased as I'm an angel investor in the business. It is like any price - it is cheap if you use it heavily, expensive if you don't.

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