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by liotier 14y ago
French tipping practices : you tip only if the service is exceptionally good or if you are a regular and want to ingratiate the staff to yourself. Staff members get a salary and don't have to depend on alms.
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by liotier 14y ago
The presence of remote workers in a team greatly enhances written communications - take most open source projects for example : for lack of frequent oral interaction they are heavy on forums, mailing lists, bug trackers, wikis etc. I guess
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by liotier 14y ago
About 25% of Debian users who submit to the Debian Popularity Contest have VLC installed on their computer : http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=vlc&show_... - that includes servers, so the actual proportion of Debian deskt
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Forget tech evangelists, these are the real people you should be learning from(georeferenced.wordpress.com)
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by liotier 15y ago
IT lawyer and digital liberties' advocate Carlo Piana mentions at https://plus.google.com/u/0/115445134403759043734/posts/coVx... that such API copyrightability has been largely denied by the SAS v. WPL case that came out today (nice coin
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by liotier 15y ago
Disintermediation may at first seem to be the destiny of a network whose connectivity trends toward a full mesh... But this superficial impression is later proved wrong by the rise of intermediaries made necessary by the wealth of possible
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by liotier 15y ago
Very interesting numbers - would you happen to have a source for them ? Is that the traffic for Openstreetmap.org's Mapnik tiles ?
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by liotier 15y ago
Not as long as the other items have no dependency on or interaction with the OSM layer.
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by liotier 15y ago
No - as long as the other items have no dependency on or interaction with the OSM layer, the generated PDF is clear of license conflict: it is still merely a composite display of independent sources, not a work produced on the basis of OSM
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by liotier 15y ago
There is nothing that restricts the display of a proprietary data layer on top of an OSM render : in the resulting mashup, the variously licensed sources of data each remain in its own layer and there is therefore no mixing of conflicting l
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Lightning fast car routing built on OpenStreetMap data, with draggable routes(map.project-osrm.org)
1 points by liotier 15y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 15y ago
Ten years of USian crusades have let military slang creep into mainstream language. I'm French and even I can spell those offhand - Continental US, Operational Detachment Alpha, Concept of Operations...
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by liotier 15y ago
There is always another developer - even if it is only some future you. When you pick up that piece of code in three years, hoping to improve or reuse some of it, it will take you three minutes to remember what "anospic" was supposed to mea
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by liotier 15y ago
OpenStreetMap is capable of providing public transport information - see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport See http://3liz.fr/public/osmtransport/index.php?country=France&... and http://öpnvkarte.de/?zoom=12&lat=5
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by liotier 15y ago
You want offline OpenStreetMap vector maps on Android ? You are in luck today - take your pick : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OsmAnd - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GpsMid - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapDroyd - h
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by liotier 15y ago
Yes - and we could replace the rubber/tarmac interface with a steel/steel one for even better efficiency. Highly automated steel-wheeled vehicle on steel tracks with continuous electricity supply along the way... I wonder how we'll call tha
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by liotier 15y ago
Nine is also a good choice - http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25
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by liotier 16y ago
Freedom is killer feature.
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by liotier 16y ago
Status.net is the Free software that power Identi.ca - Identi.ca is the showcase instance of Status.net and the biggest to date... But there are many others : http://status.net/wiki/Sites - And you can deploy your own !