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by llccbb 9y ago
I agree that the current state of Amazon's retail goods is not a monopoly. We will see if that remains true in 10 years. Currently Microsoft does not have a monopoly on computer OS. They have practically no stake in mobile computers (s
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by llccbb 9y ago
If only there was something useful to this post... Maybe real examples of a single algorithm written in a minimum of two languages? Maybe an expanded view of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from running some code under different fuel mix
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by llccbb 9y ago
No, GDAL is still the best. I also suspect you were doing something suboptimal. As far as modern wrappers for GDAL, `rasterio` is the most pythonic. Part of sgillies suite including shapely, rasterio, and fiona.
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Ask HN: Today is the 300th day of 2017; what have you accomplished?
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by llccbb 9y ago
Though not the resolution of WorldView (~50 cm), Landsat 8 can get you 15 m resolution if you use pan sharpening. ESA's Sentinel 2 can get 10 m true-color natively. Both these are free to use and Landsat images are public domain. Coper
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by llccbb 9y ago
I have thought about the impact that ubiquitous apps like Google Maps or Waze might have on the real world and people who aren't necessarily tapping into that space. It first came about when Google Maps directed me along a side street
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by llccbb 9y ago
Just to continue on... With this setup you can have anything (ANYTHING!) powering the data side. From CSVs to any SQL server local or remote, directories of markdown files, directories of ZIP archives, random (or deterministic) numbers or g
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by llccbb 9y ago
In many of the physical sciences both Masters and PhD students are usually paid a living wage, do not pay tuition, and work double or triple duty as student, teacher, researcher. These students usually do not accrue additional debt beyond w
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by llccbb 9y ago
In the physical sciences (soft sciences too, perhaps) NSF proposals that don't have explicit funding for graduate students are D.O.A.
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by llccbb 9y ago
If you want lots of customization and are friendly with Python I would suggest rolling your own project with Flask and Flask-Freeze. You get all the benefits of complete customization from URLs to templated pages and scripts. Really anythin
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by llccbb 9y ago
But going to w3schools is like trying to kill a fly with a flyswatter with a dashed red border of weight 2px. Their examples are so basic, pre-canned, and repetitious between pages that you rarely see useful options and intricacies that eac
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by llccbb 9y ago
Twitter is also crawling with fun and light-hearted bots that are non-manipulative and generate content for others to consume. I would hate to see any of those bots get thrown off the platform.
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by llccbb 9y ago
Missing the important piece of a sound dampening room. Record in a closet with a bunch of clothes and the audio quality will be noticeably better than in your living room.
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by llccbb 9y ago
16:9 will never be retro. I personally like the new keyboard (T430-onwards) and while I enjoy the new ports, I will stick with purchasing 5 year old thinkpads on Ebay for under $150.
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by llccbb 9y ago
Absolutely. The longer I can avoid opening a GUI the better.
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by llccbb 9y ago
Ha! No.
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by llccbb 9y ago
What are the actual problems that your company is encountering? Bugs? Spaghetti? Unmaintainability?
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by llccbb 9y ago
The small negatives might also be for indexing from the end of lists. `my_list[-1]` is super common.
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by llccbb 9y ago
I have been enjoying using selenium as a programmatic interface with the browser. Hopefully more of that!
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by llccbb 9y ago
You can read more in this open-access PNAS article[0]. [0] http://www.pnas.org/content/105/24/8232.full
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by llccbb 9y ago
No, the area where the ice was recovered is near the Allan Hills of the Transantarctic Mountains. This area isn't in the center of the ice sheet, where consistent accumulation patterns exist and drilling from the surface to the deepest
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by llccbb 9y ago
You have to be aware that many companies have field operations that require (in the US) very large insurance plans. A stipulation of many of these plans are that all employees must refrain from certain drugs. It is in these cases that what
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by llccbb 9y ago
I agree that Snapchat and IG are two different use cases. And I find myself annoyed at the constant stream of tech journos pushing the narrative of "there can only be one!". Email and SMS coexist in the same way that Snapchat and
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Water shortages cost India 14 TWh of electricity generation in 2016(wri.org)
1 points by llccbb 9y ago|0 comments
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by llccbb 9y ago
You can check the affiliate link in my blog for my amazon list of useful web monetization books.
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by llccbb 9y ago
I don't work for Planet but I know the doves have a space-looking camera that is used to help understand the satellite's orientation based on the location of stars in the image.
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by llccbb 9y ago
StackOverflow has monetized their community by providing a best-in-class service the community needs/uses (jobs).
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by llccbb 9y ago
Seems like there is lots of talk here about how this is thin wrapper over `subprocess`, but I like the idea. What I don't like is that the logo looks like a penis with a mustache.
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by llccbb 9y ago
Do you rent your computer/phone?
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by llccbb 9y ago
The damage of bringing a billion people electricity?

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