jrd79

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by jrd79 16y ago
Hi, by "data fidelity" we mean that there are a lot of errors and irregularities in the liquid-equivalent precipitation measurements reported by the stations. Some stations don't report it at all, or not reliably, and some report it but wi
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by jrd79 16y ago
Great suggestion! Yes, we are excited to start playing around with ways to make it more accessible to a wider audience. But we thought it would be fun to start with the geek tool :).
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by jrd79 16y ago
Yes, the raw data feeds have occasional blips like that (more so in some stations than in others). It is a top priority to write some good automatic quality control code, but we didn't want to do a bad job and end up accidentally filtering
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Looking for feedback on new Google-finance-style graph-based weather site
13 points by jrd79 16y ago|22 comments
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by jrd79 16y ago
I agree completely that due process is essential and that this action doesn't pass the sniff test in that department. But while Voltaire was willing to defend the speech (and presumably the due process rights) of those with whom he strongly
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by jrd79 16y ago
I hear you on this point and should have been clear that I do not approve of actions taken without due process. But I also wish the rest of the posters here would state their opposition to piracy while they defend the pirates on procedural
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by jrd79 16y ago
Subscriptions are great and we offer one as one of our products. Obviously we have no piracy problems there. But our software is arguably more sensibly delivered as desktop software due to it's cpu and file size considerations. So while we
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by jrd79 16y ago
Most software is not sold but licensed and those licenses restrict the kind of sharing you are talking about. If what you suggested were allowed then one book publisher would only have to buy a single copy of a competing publisher's most po
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by jrd79 16y ago
I don't understand why so many people on this site defend intellectual property theft. I own a small software company that suffers from piracy every day. I worked day and night without pay for more than a year to write the software that I n
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Why do many programmers defend/support intellectual property theft?
19 points by jrd79 16y ago|41 comments