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OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor(blog.openstreetmap.org)
209 points by jboynyc 13y ago|33 comments
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4141993
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by jboynyc 13y ago
As a Chicken Scheme user you might also appreciate the Hintz Chicken Scheme Shell (Hiss): http://thintz.com/chicken-scheme-shell Disclaimer: I haven't used it and the author says it is "still pretty new." How
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by jboynyc 13y ago
FWIW, I just tried to update my dev site, the install failed, and now the site fails to load. Yikes. In all fairness, I think that's because the admin has been playing around with file permissions on the server side. I can't even
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by jboynyc 13y ago
OK, cheers. I assumed it must be some kind of regexp because according to the Web Archive (see my comment below) the entire domain is disallowed.
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Interesting. However, it seems to block bots entirely: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.quip.com
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Curious: what does "/-/" it their robots.txt[1] do? User-agent: * Disallow: /-/ Disallow: /account/ 1: http://www.quip.com/robots.txt
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Have you come across any static site generators that would be user-friendly enough to recommend to users currently stuck with iWeb, DreamWeaver, RapidWeaver and the like? I was recently trying to help somebody migrate away from using iWeb (
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by jboynyc 13y ago
In case you are wondering how this is this different from Tokyo/Kyoto Cabinet [1], the cached version of the unQLite site [2] states: "unQlite is a document storage engine like MongoDB, Cassandra, Riak and so forth as well a key-value stora
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by jboynyc 13y ago
I always find it funny when I see something like this: <a href="mailto:me@example.com">me at example dot com</a> As if spam crawlers always render the site before harvesting email addresses.
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Depressing wages is a good thing -- or seemingly a good thing -- if you're somebody like Mark Zuckerberg who doesn't depend on wages for income. For everybody else it means hardship on an individual level, and rising social unrest on a soci
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The debate about immigration and STEM workers does not add up(cjr.org)
2 points by jboynyc 13y ago|2 comments
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by jboynyc 13y ago
Great to see that ArchLinux ARM already has support for the BeagleBone Black [1]. I have a Hackberry A 10 that I'm very happy with, but this looks like a great product as well. I'm definitely tempted to go for this rather than the Hackberry
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Twenty-somethings coming of age today will be forever shaped by the recession(salon.com)
1 points by jboynyc 13y ago|0 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg’s political group funds ads promoting Keystone and ANWR drilling(grist.org)
7 points by jboynyc 14y ago|6 comments
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by jboynyc 14y ago
Gentium
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by jboynyc 14y ago
Only good experiences here. I've also referred at least two other people who have been happy with Dwolla. Unfortunately their service is really important in the U.S., where transfers between banks aren't as easy as they are in Europe (and,
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by jboynyc 14y ago
So far no commenter has mentioned that this piece appeared in The Baffler , where Aaron Swartz was a contributing editor. The announcement of Swartz joining The Baffler was previously linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32
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Hacking the World An anthropologist in the midst of a geek insurgency(chronicle.com)
2 points by jboynyc 14y ago|0 comments
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by jboynyc 14y ago
Yes, that's the one. It's the project the book Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg (2008) is based on. It's a shame the project folded right around the time of its 1.0 release -- it looks really promising, but definitely not there yet. So
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The Internet is Not a Surveillance State(telekommunisten.net)
6 points by jboynyc 14y ago|2 comments
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by jboynyc 14y ago
A lot of grave mistakes were made before the question of occupation even arose.
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by jboynyc 14y ago
You'll want the TL;DR because this is needlessly wordy: Use Newsbeuter, using the -i option to import your OPML file. (Go to www.google.com/takeout to download your Reader subscriptions in OPML format.)
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by jboynyc 14y ago
> More of this! Then you'll want to read "Four Futures."[1] It isn't by a programmer, but it has sci-fi references and the author talks about 3d printing. It's so brilliant I can never recommend it enough. [1]: http://jacobinmag.co
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by jboynyc 14y ago
It may be worth recalling that Americans have been interested in the apprenticeship system for a very long time. For instance, Booker T. Washington's strategy for racial uplift at the Tuskegee Institute was based on the apprenticeship/vocat
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by jboynyc 14y ago
HFS+, the file system used on OS X system by default, is not case-sensitive, but some packages from pkgsrc assume a case-sensitive filesystem (because they may have two files, e.g. one called "MAKE" and one called "Make" in the same directo
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by jboynyc 14y ago
On my Mac, I currently install software in at least 8 different ways: pkgsrc, homebrew, GNU stow (for software that is in neither of the first two), gem, pip, drag-and-drop to /Applications, running installers, and using the App Store. It i
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by jboynyc 14y ago
The relationship between Marx and Lincoln is also the subject of a book by Robin Blackburn: http://www.versobooks.com/books/954-an-unfinished-revolution
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by jboynyc 14y ago
I've got the Astrid app on my phone (liked it so much I paid for the premium features), and it syncs with my Google Tasks, Calendar, etc. I mostly handle TODO items on my phone, which sends me frequent (!) notifications when things are over