harry-wood

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by harry-wood 7y ago
"free" as in freedom, or just free as in $0? Anyone see a mention of copyright/license anywhere on there?
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by harry-wood 7y ago
> "In my book..." As I was reading, for a second there I thought you'd actually written a book called "Communicating via electric currents seems weird". Sounds amazing! Where can I buy this book??
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by harry-wood 7y ago
Turns out that in order to evade DMCA action, they needed to do more than not being on github. As of yesterday I think.. "WhatFreeWords is currently unavailable due to DMCA action from the What3Words company"
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by harry-wood 7y ago
Am I the only one who was disappointed that this wasn't an article about a plan to actually raise a ladder to the moon?
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by harry-wood 8y ago
So you provide an API, but someone was hammering your website with a scraper? That's annoying. Seems like bad behaviour. I did find it surprising that this article has a whole section on "Challenge 4: Anti-Bot Countermeasures&quot
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by harry-wood 8y ago
It says "2,980 large and medium airports with scheduled services from OurAirports.": http://ourairports.com/data/
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by harry-wood 8y ago
I liked this bit on page 3: "these levels were so simple, that some under 5's managed to play the first few levels" ...and my grandma who had never used a mouse before: https://harrywood.co.uk/blog/2015&#
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by harry-wood 8y ago
Exactly. But not just when copying a URL. Short, simple URLs look nicer and feel better. This is basic web design, but somewhere along the line we've allowed salesy/marketing nonsense to infest our web. This spells out the issues
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by harry-wood 8y ago
To add some contrast to this discussion, let me say that I think it looks quite neat :-) I see some folks here are quite shocked by it. Maybe using these shock site URLs ( https://github.com/huntwelch/UTM-Mangler/b
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by harry-wood 8y ago
Not "every website you visit". Every website you visit where the developers chosen to use messy URLs for tracking.
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by harry-wood 8y ago
I agree. For me tracking is an annoyance, but this particular practice should be regarded as bad web design. It should be roundly denounced by the tech community. Why are so many web developers so willing to mess up their URLs in this way?
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by harry-wood 10y ago
On the other hand I've encountered folks who claim to be forming a start up. They've got the name and the logo. They've got the whole pitch ready. They sound enthusiastic and passionate. But... they still have to find a techn
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by harry-wood 10y ago
Funny how it ends with "my very individual perspective (I worked in London as a management consultant whereas in SF I worked with a startup)" ...which was entirely obvious throughout the whole piece.
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by harry-wood 10y ago
LeafletJS is awesome. It's an important open source offering within the OpenStreetMap ecosystem. If you're looking for an "OpenStreetMap API" for embedding a map, then you're looking for LeafletJS! ...or another one
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by harry-wood 10y ago
Do you mean the leaflet website, or the leaflet maps library itself? I see the http://leafletjs.com website uses some google fonts, and google analytics, but I would have thought it would degrade gracefully if those things are b
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by harry-wood 10y ago
The thing with the "don't open email attachments" type advice, is that somehow it's not enough (I think it's more complicated actually. You need another bullet point for "keep your browser up-to-date" and&
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by harry-wood 10y ago
There's some complicated nuance in the word "powers" in that sentence. LeafletJS is an open source javascript library for displaying maps on the web. This usually involves bringing in a base-map, and you can get this from a w
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by harry-wood 10y ago
You might be interested in my impressions as somebody who hardly ever uses office software, but an open source enthusiast and keeps up with some tech news. I was aware of the OpenOffice/LibreOffice split of course. I knew this would me
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by harry-wood 10y ago
me too. It made me feel less calm
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by harry-wood 11y ago
Yeah I noticed that too. The glowing red embers turn white hot with increase ...mostly towards the end. Because we're comparing with 1997 levels. I suppose that shows the general trend well, but it's not so good for actually spot
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by harry-wood 11y ago
Yep. Disqus is one of the more understandable shifts-to-bloat which developers have made in recent years. Understandable because spammers have made it so difficult to run our own comments. The selfish anti-social behaviour of this small min
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by harry-wood 11y ago
That last paragraph is pretty much a description of google search is it not? That's what struck me about this article. It's describing AI as a thing which is coming in the future, but... knowledge mining document discovery task
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by harry-wood 11y ago
From the headline I thought it was going to be trying to persuade us all that SOAP is better than REST. ...Phew! Turns out it's really "Is request-response the best Microservices architecture?"
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by harry-wood 11y ago
Well this article says at the top "In simple terms, electronic trading brought down costs, while High Frequency Trading brought down ethics." ...but it doesn't really go on to explain that. It's just a fairly dry bullet
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by harry-wood 11y ago
Always sad when a big company kills an idea, but it happens a lot. For me the really sad thing about this is thinking about all that community collected data . If a company manages to attract a community of people volunteering and contribu
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by harry-wood 13y ago
Well that's a matter of cartographic style, which is only small part of what goes into creating a map like this. The nice thing about OpenStreetMap is that it supplies the raw data to enable all manner of map style experimentation, so actua