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by mourner 5y ago
The exported styles are compatible (if you don't use newer features like terrain & fog) because Maplibre is nearly identical to GL JS v1.13, there were no rendering changes since the fork.
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by mourner 5y ago
Sorry, but I never stated such a thing. OpenLayers is great when you want all possible features/formats ever created baked in, and excels for certain use cases such as GIS academia, but Leaflet is still the library of choice for most r
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by mourner 5y ago
Can you please report this on our issue queue? From a cursory search, it doesn't look like anyone complained about scroll zoom on Firefox under Linux before. We'd be happy to fix this after hearing more details. https:/&#x2F
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by mourner 5y ago
As someone who got heavily into baking bread / pastry and occasionally meat during the pandemic, I can't recommend Thermapen enough — it's the ultimate cooking thermometer. Also, I live in Europe so I ordered it from the UK,
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by mourner 5y ago
This is very nice! Happy to see a few of my libraries in the dependencies :) Also check out https://github.com/kothic/kothic-js , an older but similar attempt at making a full-fledged map renderer using 2D Canvas. It ha
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by mourner 5y ago
> Ukraine threatens to invade DPR and LPR That's what Russian propaganda says, but it has no basis in reality.
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by mourner 6y ago
There was a big HN discussion about it a few months back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347310
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by mourner 6y ago
Yes! Although this particular one was a year later, I got runner-up and a bunch of tech books as a prize :)
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by mourner 6y ago
So many fond memories of being in this community around 2004–2006! I got a 1st place prize in a Textpattern theme design contest and won my first ever prize, and quite a big one for a Ukrainian student — an iPod (the original one, 60GB). Ha
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by mourner 6y ago
One of my favorite tech presentations ever! So much uplifting enthusiasm, witty and whimsical humour and good taste in the songs, love it. Really happy that it belatedly got on the HN frontpage — it really deserves more views. Go Anjana &am
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by mourner 6y ago
I have a ton of unfinished open source projects, but here's a recent small one I believe can take off: https://github.com/mourner/tinyjam — a bare-bones, zero-configuration static site generator that deliberately
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by mourner 6y ago
There may be no difference for you with this level of vitriol, but there's a difference for hundreds of people who have jobs, and for dozens of engineers like me who will keep contributing to open source significantly at work hours.
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by mourner 6y ago
Speculating (remember that I'm just an engineer and not in charge of business decisions), but perhaps because Mapbox tried really hard to build a business on server-side services alone while gifting most of its innovations to the world
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by mourner 6y ago
> We'll probably end up removing Mapbox from the deck.gl examples If that's because of the licensing, would you remove Google Maps & ArcGIS examples as well?
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by mourner 6y ago
Thanks! We're going to look into that soon https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/9945
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by mourner 6y ago
I wouldn't be working for Mapbox if it actually were a villainous company with an evil plan to "bait and switch" with open source, or undercut all these small competing businesses just out of spite, and it's easy to succ
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by mourner 6y ago
7+ years to be exact. It's unfair to call Leaflet dead — it's still quite actively maintained, gets regular releases and has a huge community of both users and contributors, and Mapbox have always been supportive of me spending ti
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by mourner 6y ago
I'd say extremely unlikely — it wouldn't make sense both technically (stable, mature, small, razor-focused libraries that are already open source) and business-wise. As far as I know as someone who worked here for 7+ years (take t
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by mourner 6y ago
Thank you! I'd also like to list some of the building blocks of GL JS that remain open source and are heavily used in other open source projects: - GeoJSON-VT (fast GeoJSON processing) https://github.com/mapbox/geo
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by mourner 7y ago
That's pretty unfair. Once you spend a little time to understand its concepts, it becomes second nature, and it's really a joy to use. The fact you can reorder cells in any way you want (and import cells from other notebooks) is t
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by mourner 7y ago
There’s exactly the same anecdote in the popular book “Atomic Habits” but instead of pottery, it’s a photography class.
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by mourner 7y ago
You are either colossally misinformed on the issue of Kyiv vs Kiev and the way geographic name spellings are formed, or use this deliberately as an outlet for colonialist sentiments. I hope it's not the latter. "Kiev" is not
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Were Kyiv Winters as Snowy as I Remember as a Kid?(observablehq.com)
4 points by mourner 7y ago|4 comments
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by mourner 7y ago
Yep! It can be solved for some specific cases though — e.g. I stumbled upon a few papers that calculate the optimal path for parallel parking using systems of differential equations [1][2] [1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/sta
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by mourner 7y ago
Yep, mine has it too and it's super helpful! What I have more trouble with is feeling when the right front side is about to collide when the car sways in the other direction — there is some beeping proximity detector but it doesn'
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by mourner 7y ago
Nice video! I only saw it a few hours ago when I was about to post my viz on /r/math :)
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by mourner 7y ago
Good question! Since the model is reversible (you would have the same trajectory when pulling out of the parking lot when reversing the steps), you can see the effect there — seems like it would cross the rightmost edges but very slightly (
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by mourner 7y ago
That's a great cue! Seems to work on the viz too (if you set x = 6.7m & y = 2.6m). BTW Mini Cooper look like the perfect car for parking conveniently in tight spots.
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by mourner 7y ago
Yeah, the model is definitely contrived and I could try adding a lot more to it, but I still found it very useful just to understand how the path changes with the wheel turn. Also, as a beginner, it's very hard to "feel" how
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by mourner 7y ago
Awesome! This paper uses the same model for calculating wheel angles (Ackermann steering geometry).

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