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The second option can be hosted at ArcGIS Online without you doing anything (i.e. loading anything). It is a REST API. Yes, it is hidden in their stupid docs. The third option is faster than anything else, but would require you to load plan
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source?
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Ahem: - GRASS has had that since the 80s: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/manuals/addons/r.traveltime.... - ESRI has had those in web form since the 90s: https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-
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Why limit to small business? Talk (not email) to a company with a lot of money and figure out their biggest pain point. That is how I would do it now if I had to start over
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I get that traffic may be increasing because of demand, but I find it bizarre (and unlikely) that so many exchanges would not have planned for it.
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Ask HN: Why is every cryptocurrency exchange down so much lately?
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If you had ever compiled some of these datasets you would realize that it was impossible to get the datasets without extremely complicated scrappers that generated jobs, waited for a tiny little portion to be extracted (like 0.1% of it), an
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Looking at the comments, most people don't understand what this is. In the geospatial industry, there are many organizations that produce free open data. For example the NAIP image data comes USDA and has been paid for by the US govt s
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Conference Call Confirms Tesla's Model 3 Faces Huge Problems
(seekingalpha.com)
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During my first startup as the CTO I made the mistake of thinking this way. I was so wrong I burned through 2M like it was nothing. The "product" of a startup is a sustainable business model that can scale fast . The core technol
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Most people forget that with startups, what you are trying to create is a business... the technology behind is only one element to it. It is extremely difficult to do good marketing and sales and they did it. Solve a customer problem while
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<sarcasm>And here I thought clustered index and a OFFSET was the solution</sarcasm>
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Oh geez, if you want to play the linear game, you can even trace the Android development to the Roman empire. To put the conversation back in a grounded and reasonable list of arguments, let's start with the premise that technology !=
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The iPhone was not built with venture money. Your comparison does not hold at all.
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coming from someone whose house has burned down twice, take photos of everything. You will need it for the insurance.
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Google Maps Engine was B2B example, so your "0" is incorrect
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I lost my iOS headphones and the little white adapter so I can use the "old" plug. For the past two days I have been running in the gym without listening to absolutely nothing even though I have like 20 headphones in my closet. Wh
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Google Glass == subtle? I don't think so. It still needs a lot more time to evolve into an acceptable form factor.
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Climbing Toward Ridge Top (high Res Images)
(nasa.gov)
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It is going to require a magic leap for that company to ship anything! Sorry, could not resist...
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Honestly, I am waiting to see how FaceID works for various use cases. Just me, without a twin, change beards all the time (shave it, grow it, shape it, etc). I have also have friends who do contact sports (brazilian juijitsu) and trust me,
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Go to a lawyer right now and pay for him to draft a letter that you will sue for damages if they dont resolve this by the end of the week. Send it to legal and watch how quickly they solve it
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see my other reply
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sadly much worse. Without getting into many details, part of the tactics involves writing a pseudo paper and then getting endorsements from high profile people within a specific community. It is legal, but shady as hell IMHO.
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I understand the appeal of ICOs and cryptocurrencies and distributed storage that is automatically shared, decentralized, etc etc. But a part of me says "is this complexity necessary?". The appeal of a service like Dropbox is that
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Without necessarily naming the company/actors: - What is the most messed up scenario that you have seen where a founder got ripped off? - What about the other way around?
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At the end of the day, the purpose of why we write software as software engineers is to solve real-world problems , not to have a perfect beautiful language. What you are describing is equivalent to doing an amputation when all you need
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So basically recreate an entire language and library ecosystem because there is one feature that is less than ideal? I hope you realize why a better approach may be to reengineer that one component...
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The simplicity makes it beautiful.
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