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by juliansimioni 5y ago
(Co-maintainer of Pelias and co-founder Geocode Earth here) Thanks Brandon for yet another one of your shout outs. I'd just like to underline one thing you said, Pelias/Geocode Earth are based on OSM _plus other data_: that last p
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
I would imagine that even a small conventional bomb landing anywhere within a few miles of Chernobyl would unearth and spread contamination. I remember reading somewhere that all the ground was full of small radioactive particles in the are
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
If anyone comes across this looking for an alternative, we can help at Geocode Earth ( https://geocode.earth ). We're a small independent company that has been working on geocoding since 2013, first as part of Mapzen( https:&
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
That's amazing! I know that lots of local and regional governments are trending towards using OSM as their source of truth for data about their area, but hadn't heard that particular story. Love it!
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
Here is why you should contribute to OSM even though there are major players profiting from it: OSM is big enough and good enough that all the tech giants (except Google) would do better to start with OSM and improve it to meet their needs
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
As an individual who certainly doesn't have any satellites in orbit and really doesn't have any space-specific skills beyond KSP, but who has enough money to blow on $10/minute fees, is there anything I could do with this? No
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
Phil is a great person and previously had director of engineering/product roles at Digital Ocean, Meetup/Wework, and Soundcloud. It's not worth dismissing his advice out of hand :)
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
I'm not a Kafka user but it seems very similar to my experience running Elasticsearch clusters tuned for low latency response time. There's a complicated mix of requirements for CPU, memory, disk, _and_ network speed, and meeting
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
As someone who first used AWS in mid-2009 (just a few weeks before VPCs were announced!), but hasn't used an EC2 Classic enabled AWS account now since around 2012, it's hard to remember just how far the service has come. There wer
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
To my knowledge there were no major changes in the abacus industry in 2020.
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
>because they have never done any real work A good sales person can make the business money (you know, the thing that keeps them from disappearing) without _any_ product yet existing at all. Programmers who build something rarely bring i
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
No, much different: In a ponzi scheme, the perpetrators will not willingly directly reveal that it's a ponzi scheme. In cryptocurrency, the perpetrators are honest and transparent about it being a ponzi scheme, but surround it in so mu
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
Agreed. Google Cloud seems to do a better job of this, you can simply pick how many CPUs your VM will have. For me personally, it's the jump from c5d.4xlarge (16 core) to c5d.9xlarge (36 core) that's a bit hard to work around, but
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
Does anyone remember the DeskStar aka DeathStar drives? I had to look it up but apparently that was around 2001. As I recall that pretty much killed the IBM brand when it came to hard drives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by juliansimioni 5y ago
This apology fails from the 5th word: "We sincerely apologize for any harm..." While there are other requirements, a sincere apology cannot in any way entertain doubt about the fact that there WAS harm. Truly acknowledging the har
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
The main advantage that AWS will have for us over anything else is that, since AWS already manages our DNS, we are going to be able to offer our visitors the best performance by using geo-specific IP addresses. The static site in question f
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
This has been the third major outage for Netlify in the last few weeks. I like the company, they have good people on their team, and their interface and functionality is great (deploy previews are so nice!). But this is probably the last st
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
One of the under-appreciated advantages OSM has here is that they have a fairly well enforced convention of using fully expanded abbreviations in addresses and street names. It's _much_ easier for automated comparison to replace `stree
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Hi, founder of Geocode Earth ( https://geocode.earth ), another geocoding service that _does_ use OpenAddresses and only other open data sets. Mapbox purchases data from, I believe, TomTom, and other proprietary sources. That&#x27
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
(Former Mapzen employee here). I _think_ you're talking about Eraser Map( https://github.com/mapzen/eraser-map ) right? It was awesome! It's the closest I know of to "Google Maps, but open source and based
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Hi! Pelias core maintainer and former Mapen employee here. It is not gone :) After Mapzen shut down a co-worker and I founded Geocode Earth( https://geocode.earth/ ) to continue working on the Pelias project, funded by consu
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
my guess/understanding is that every team at Google is under significant pressure to monetize. Unlike the old days where there was more of a strategy of "build anything that brings people in, search/ads will monetize those ey
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Thanks for the mention John. Co-maintainer of Pelias here so I'll chime in with some more background info. Pelias came out of Mapzen which (sadly) shut down about 3 years ago, but we had a great team of people working on it for 4 years
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Speaking as co-founder of Geocode Earth( https://geocode.earth ) where we do provide autocomplete geocoding, it's a much, _much_ harder problem than regular geocoding (not that any geocoding is exactly...easy). For one, the l
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Great, glad they worked! Thanks for the good feedback on our pricing. We plan to roll out pay-as-you-go pricing in 2021 that should help with that. In the meantime feel free to reach out to us at hello@geocode.earth and we can set you up wi
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Try us out at Geocode Earth! ( https://geocode.earth ) We wrote and maintain the open-source Pelias geocoder( https://github.com/pelias/pelias ) at Mapzen and have been continuing to improve it in the 3 years s
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Another, perhaps better link for the announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-update-strong-rea...
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
One very common one is for situations where you might have a multi-step pipeline to process data - step 1 generates/processes data, stores it in S3, overwriting the previous copy. triggers step 2 to run - step 2 runs, fetches the data
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S3 Strong Consistency(aws.amazon.com)
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
For sure, that's a legitimate concern if/when there's one major corporate contributor that doesn't have to play along with everyone else. Part of what makes the current OSM situation work is that nobody is bigger than ev

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