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by scardine 9y ago
I don't have a single use case where I'm publishing a map on the web and it is not interactive. Someone could make the case for a PDF file - if it is static, why not? I can even browse it off-line!
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by scardine 9y ago
A few years ago a good share of the client browsers would choke on complex map renderings, lets say, more than a few thousand SVG complex polygons. At the time, for this kind of use case often it was faster to generate bitmap tiles at the s
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by scardine 9y ago
Lisp is not for the enlightened only! Anyone that ever used a scientific calculator can hack around. In fact Lisp can be much simpler than Python, it is just like using a RPN calculator if you don't want to dare into macros and other a
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by scardine 9y ago
Is there a linux headless mode already? Selenium chrome driver headless is pretty much useless in linux because important methods like `send_keys` need X anyway for keyboard mappings or something like that.
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by scardine 9y ago
Happy customer of Jetbrains as well, they make great IDEs if you have lots of RAM to spare.
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by scardine 9y ago
Hey, Lisp is pretty good for geography and was the language of choice for writing quick extensions in Autocad back in the day. Lisp lists are as natural for representing 2D and 3D points as Python lists and dicts. My first programming job w
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by scardine 9y ago
Well, I used to cummute by motorcycle before and yes, everything in Brazil is brutal, traffic is not an exception. Two motorcycle riders die in in Sao Paulo EVERY SINGLE DAY on average - this statictic is not counting the ones that die a we
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by scardine 9y ago
I live in Brazil and commute by bicycle daily, 10.5 km each way (6.5 miles, mostly cycleways). Not without problems however: the air polution in Sao Paulo recommends against physical activities, the cycleways are of very questionable qualit
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by scardine 9y ago
On the other side, Paraguay is said to have one of the least expensive energy bills. According to a friend that moved a few bitcoin mining machines over the fence, Paraguay got free energy in exchange for letting Brazil build the Itaipu Da
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by scardine 9y ago
Celery + Redis is way simpler.
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I guess sites like Homejoy have a fundamental problem: professional/customer meet face-to-face, so when they find a good fit they have an incentive to cut a deal off the site books. The platform ends up littered with bad professionals,
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by scardine 9y ago
If you are a long time "vi" user, put `set -o vi` in "~/.bashrc": the sequence to issue the previous command with sudo prepended will be <esc>0isudo<enter>, probably something that is in your muscle memo
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by scardine 9y ago
G Suite support from Google improved a lot, but for good reasons it is not easy to recover access to an administrator account that was modified to prevent recovery. In a case like this, how support personel can tell a legitimate customer fr
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by scardine 9y ago
I don't know if Firebase has a reseller program, but for other cloud offers from Google, my advice is: if you want someone you can scream at, buy from a reseller instead of buying directly from Google. Last week at thegoodfellas.com.br
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by scardine 9y ago
I send the apologetic/firm message explaining my legal advisor rejected some clauses but also send the contract signed: "for your convenience I'm striking the clauses in red and sending it signed (I will be happy to sign a mo
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by scardine 9y ago
Writing a vi clone in any language is worth a "Show HN" by itself, and "not being vi" is justification enough for a toy project. For me personally "i did a X clone in Python" is always interesting because the l
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by scardine 9y ago
I don't think being like C++ is a negative and it is far easier to learn compared to Haskell.
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Do you care enough to share why is it disappointing for you?
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There is another big problem with mandatory decryption laws. If someone want to incriminate you, they don't need to plant a file with child porn anymore: they just need to plant a file composed of random bytes and acuse you of having e
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by scardine 9y ago
When I was 14 years old I engaged a vocational school maintained by the Brazilian national railroad company. There I learned a lot of metal working including welding and operating lathes. Spent 3 years there and ended up as a certified main
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by scardine 9y ago
I would like to volunteer writing bindings for Python.
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by scardine 10y ago
I like the guys at Divio[1] (of Django CMS fame). They have a partner program if you are hosting for your clients. [1] https://www.divio.com/en/
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by scardine 10y ago
I think they appeal more to the bootstrappers than to the YC startup crowd - but I like everything from 37 signals.
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by scardine 10y ago
According to this if our universe is a simulation, humanity will eventually become skynet for our creators...
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In Brazil there is a technical competition to ingress the career (both for judges and prosecutors). Often there are 100 or more candidates for each available chair. The problem here is that judges are unaccountable: a judge can have 100% of
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by scardine 10y ago
That is one of the reasons I'm stuck with Python, I find it pleasant to read (I'm almost as productive as I used to be with Perl but at least I can understand my own scripts 6 months later). I know, many people can't stand si
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Does not invalidate his main point: the developers have a conflict of interest into releasing features for the open source version that competes with the paid version.
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Brazil had some events like this but all of them were façades. They are designed to validate the decision to deploy electronic voting machines and nothing else so only a carefully selected group of people will be invited, there will an impo
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I know! Isn't it a lot easier to be wise after the facts? :-)
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The idea of jurors about viability has nothing to do with reality. In fact many unicorns did very poorly at hackathons. I for one would totally bash something like AirBnB: who would lease a bedroom in his house to a complete stranger from t

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