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by mapmeld 13y ago
Also, what's the point of defending only one city from cruise missiles? Unless the enemy has a specific political target, they can cause a lot of destruction elsewhere.
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The article tells a short anecdote, but does not discuss motivation or future plans of the student, popularity of the program in Pakistan, whether schools and other institutions in Pakistan may start using MOOC material like community colle
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by mapmeld 13y ago
For many years in the US, it was easy to do vote-selling because each political party gave their voters a color-coded, one-party ballot. The secret ballot makes vote selling unreliable, because it's impossible to prove whether someone
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by mapmeld 13y ago
Flat maps distort global distances. If you draw a direct line on a globe or Google Earth, you'll see why they take this path. Google Earth screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/WyIxmC5.png
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Interpreting a new programming language in JS: Why & How(mapplz.com)
1 points by mapmeld 13y ago|0 comments
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For anyone interested in the getUserMedia API, I recommend Photobooth.js http://wolframhempel.github.io/photobooth-js/ Here's the bluescreen GIF-maker I made with it: http://mapmeld.github.io/blues
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by mapmeld 13y ago
The 60% figure is the employment rate, so unemployment would be less than 40%. That 40% might include full-time students and others who might not be unemployed.
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by mapmeld 13y ago
In the video, the narrator says that someone looking at the moon would have seen it, even without a telescope.
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Crime around your walking directions (Chicago & Philly)(mapmeld.github.io)
3 points by mapmeld 13y ago|1 comments
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by mapmeld 14y ago
I'm a contributor to OpenStreetMap, and last year I helped Code for America import thousands of buildings. OSM is rightfully skeptical of uploads. Even when cities give specific permission to OSM, it's up to the community whether a large im
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by mapmeld 14y ago
Maybe the service would come with a satellite phone. I'd like that.
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by mapmeld 14y ago
Hacker News was blocked, unblocked, and then blocked again in my 3 months there. My experience was that the Marshall Islands blocks domains with a wide net (for example, new domains or blogs with their own domains would almost always be blo
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Without even knowing: the HN post I missed(majurojs.org)
143 points by mapmeld 14y ago|39 comments
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The projection (how the globe is represented in 2D) is still Google's. Technically it's Web Mercator / EPSG:900913, where 900913 is a rather clever choice by Google.
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From what I heard in 2011, the OSM license change was motivated by legal status of the data in the EU. Creative Commons is seen as an arts license and data could only be licensed and protected through an appropriate data license.
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It's so neat to see Opportunity making discoveries and advancing science years after its arrival. High hopes for Curiosity's future.
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To teach for loops, I start with this example: word = "banana" for letter in word: print letter It isn't a counter, but it makes it clear that print is happening for each part of the word. Then you can write programs using arra