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by milliams 13y ago
Seems down to me. Does anyone have a cached version?
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by milliams 13y ago
How would people compare this to Improv? http://makeplaylive.com http://aseigo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/introducing-improv.html
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Domino Addition – Numberphile(youtube.com)
3 points by milliams 13y ago|0 comments
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by milliams 13y ago
The original paper is this one: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amislove/publications/Profiles-I...
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by milliams 13y ago
Or, formatted nicely on the website: http://gooseberry.blender.org/why-gooseberry-matters/
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by milliams 13y ago
As someone pointed out in the mailing list thread about this, OSM's ODbL is closer to LGPL than GPL in terms of the strictness of it's share-alike requirements and its virality.
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by milliams 13y ago
So they're making their own thing rather than using something widely tested and used like Qt?
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by milliams 13y ago
A graph with no units on the y-axis (and not even stated clearly in the text) put me completely off reading this article.
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by milliams 13y ago
Nothing's been back-ported to Python 2 in nearly 4 years now. 2.7 came out in July 2010.
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by milliams 13y ago
He's saying: This a commonly believed myth Fact: This is the real fact
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by milliams 13y ago
It was posted yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7352478 ) and was deleted too and I have no idea why.
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How I managed to get shell access to groklearning.com?(unix-heaven.org)
2 points by milliams 13y ago|0 comments
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by milliams 13y ago
I had already posted this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318970
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The rise of OpenStreetMap(thenextweb.com)
4 points by milliams 13y ago|0 comments
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by milliams 13y ago
Link to the actual project: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/jeeves/ This article tells nothing useful.
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by milliams 13y ago
I'm not sure about that rainbow colour-scheme used. http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM
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by milliams 13y ago
This is why, to be on the safe side, in particle physics we have a requirement of a p-value of 0.0000003 for a discovery.
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OpenStreetMap Enhances User Privacy(blog.openstreetmap.org)
1 points by milliams 13y ago|0 comments
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by milliams 13y ago
I think it will be available for Linux too though.
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by milliams 13y ago
For a science magazine, this article does a terrible job of talking about spin. Saying "spinning as it zips along—to the right like a football thrown by a right-handed quarterback or the left like a pigskin thrown by a lefty" is i
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by milliams 13y ago
The problem with manual touch-ups on imported data is that when a newer version of the bulk data is released there's a difficulty with how to merge the datasets. This is the problem the US mappers are finding with the newer versions of
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by milliams 13y ago
The former. It has been found that encouraging a community around the data collection creates much better data in the long run. An involved community can go beyond what is provided by other datasets and do more than can be done with 't
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by milliams 13y ago
This is false. OSM contributors have used automatically imported data many many times and continue to the world over. There is however a wariness to use it too much since maintenance and community building both suffer.
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by milliams 13y ago
http://mapswith.me has become very popular recently. I haven't used it much myself so I can give you a proper comparison. Otherwise, OsmAnd is open source and can be found in the F-Droid repository.
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by milliams 13y ago
And what's the timeline for Mozilla providing it in Firefox?
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by milliams 13y ago
...is a civil offence I believe.
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by milliams 13y ago
I often use http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?lon=-17.41738&lat=14.73861&zoo... when comparing between the different map providers.
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by milliams 13y ago
For the record, KDE was always developed by individual hackers, not a commercial entity. This continues to this day and among open source projects, KDE is still one of those most free from commercial 'interference'. GNOME, on the
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Twenty Years of Ultra-Violence(metafilter.com)
1 points by milliams 13y ago|0 comments
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by milliams 13y ago
On this topic I heartily recommend the YouTube channel Numberphile ( https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile and http://www.numberphile.com/ ). Along with its sister channels Computerphile, Sixty Symbol

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