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by ptrott2017 8y ago
Kettle - the open source component of Hitachi Pentaho Data Integration is worth looking at, has some functionality for this (you can join sources and insert joined data back into master) and its pretty easy to extend to meet requirements.
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
This is very cool. I have used Tcl from R - but this will fit my workflow better - awesome. (and thanks for posting all the interesting Tcl projects to HN - much appreciated)
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
Facebook Inc - is listed at Companies House (UK register of businesses) as a legal person with significant control (75%) of Facebook UK. Mark Zuckerberg is the senior officer of the significant person company that has a controlling interes
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
Another: dynamic updates - in case of emergencies and disasters OSM data has often been updated by volunteers faster than other sources to reflect the on ground situation. For current examples See: https://www.hotosm.org/pro
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
Simplygon was the product brand of Donya Labs who were acquired by Microsoft in January this year. The brand was a play on the words since their original product was based on polygon reduction. While less familiar to the HN audience, the S
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
As a long time user of Fossil who periodically tries to persuade others to use it, the challenges I have seen getting others to adopt fossil that echo XWattts comments include: Look and feel. I have tried different UI themes - github and s
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
see: http://chiselapp.com/repositories/
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For an example for F# perhaps take a look at: http://fsprojects.github.io/ExcelProvider/
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
D is an initial but Dr. D. Richard Hipp has a PhD from Duke - graduated in 1992 (his thesis can be found here - its worth a read: http://bit.ly/2ygiDWx ) hence the Dr.
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
Used Ignite on two projects. Was a good match for one, was a poor match for another (not Ignite's fault - poor choice at project outset - did not match initial team's skills or project requirements). In both cases was very impress
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
Having built VR/AR applications for a long time, I have seen a lot of folks struggle to get into the industry and it does take time and a lot of perseverance. The most successful common route I have done and seen others do, are based o
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Not OP - but you get that error in Microsoft Edge on windows 10. Demo works on Internet Explorer 11 on windows (but without map option using Crime in LA example) and in Edge all the demos appear to run, map and graphs get populated etc, th
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
See http://www.omniosce.org/ for most recent community release
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Since OmniTI pulled back from the project - there has now been a reboot by the community. Regular releases started in early July with regular updates following with support for USB, ISO and PXE versions. The most recent release was Augus
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
yup Disney should be on the list - Disney Research ( https://www.disneyresearch.com/ ) have a long history of being involved in multiple areas of VR research.
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
Hi Vi - HN's audience varies and topics take time to evolve while sometimes some comments may seem irrelevant they can also lead to interesting sub threads. For the little it is worth - I have been involved in the VR industry for 25 y
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
Halide has some interesting ideas for image processing -especially regarding algorithm separation and scheduling - so great to hear its on your radar and be very interested to see what you come up with. My interest/focus is more on ste
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by ptrott2017 9y ago
Nicholas Wilson has done an awesome job with DCompute - especially ability to use D's lambda's and templates when writing compute kernels. Its going to be fun seeing this evolve.
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The out of tree codebase - was extensively updated with development being led by Ian Buclaw. Ian has given some presentations on all the changes and updates at the recent D language conference - Dconf 2017. see https://www.youtu
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by ptrott2017 10y ago
In addition to those on the wikipedia link from Jonnybgood, see also lumify (lumify.io) developed by Altamira Visual Understanding Environment ( http://vue.tufts.edu/ ) from Tufts Lumify is for networked data analysis and dat
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by ptrott2017 10y ago
Given the Simplygon team's commitment to customers - I am sure they will make sure everyone is supported as the service evolves for a wider audience with Microsoft over time. As you probably already know, the name Simplygon - is a play