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by spectre256 8y ago
It might not be enforceable but it would take a very brave or wealthy individual to choose to do something that might make Amazon decide to sick their lawyers on you. Months in court to prove innocence is still a heavy cost to pay.
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by spectre256 8y ago
I "accidentally" worked at amazon for a few weeks when a company I had just joined was acquired by them. I knew it was time to start looking when I was informed that I had to get prior permission to do ANY open source contribution
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by spectre256 8y ago
This is hopefully a good counterexample. Amazon's Elasticsearch Service is pretty bad (poor general performance, very slow to make cluster changes/launch new clusters, etc). But I can't help but think Amazon can and would eas
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by spectre256 8y ago
Fellow Stripe Atlas company founder here. SVB is a bit annoying, but really $25/month is probably not worth your time to worry about unless the company is VERY small. Even in our situation, where we are a 2-person consulting company th
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by spectre256 8y ago
Oh wow I didn't realize there were so many! And yeah, geoparsing is a huge challenge above and beyond "standard" geocoding. Specialization like that is a great asset. For us, we've really been focusing on the customizati
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by spectre256 8y ago
We talked about running a Pelias geocoder AMI back at Mapzen, and it still might make sense today. I'd be really interested to hear how it works out for you. My personal feeling is that developers are irrationally averse to paying for
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by spectre256 8y ago
A key part of the article seems to be that PewDiePie's channel is largely satire, which is inherently under attack and worth protecting. Maybe I am getting old, but I find satire a lot less valuable than I once did. The article mention
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by spectre256 8y ago
The tile38 docs ( https://github.com/tidwall/tile38 ) are really good. Lots of animated GIFs combined with great structured text that really helps quickly explain all the complex things that a geospatial index can do.
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by spectre256 8y ago
Either: definitely yes, as the conclusion of the article is very different than what I expected from the title or: no, because the content was substantial and many people probably would not read yet another article with a title like "e
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by spectre256 8y ago
My favorite coding interview ever is still from many years ago when I interviewed at Pivotal labs. It was an in person pair programming session, with the interviewer driving. Most importantly, it was collaborative, whereas many interviews o
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by spectre256 8y ago
Definitely, storage is still hard. I don't have a ton of experience doing anything fancy with storage and K8S yet. Like I said, our primary service with storage is Elasticserach which we still manage with good old Terraform and bash sc
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by spectre256 8y ago
I've been using Docker with very positive results in consulting contracts for several companies on very different hardware. The same codebase is used for hosted services that we run ourselves on Kubernetes running on AWS. I'll con
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by spectre256 8y ago
The fact that people still parrot the top 1% idea after it was pretty thoroughly debunked by Joel almost 15 years ago is...interesting.
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by spectre256 8y ago
Thanks Andrew! (one of our first customers) geocode.earth founder here, happy to answer questions. We have great reverse geocoding with OSM and OpenAddresses data. Feel free to shoot me an email for an invite: julian@geocode.earth
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by spectre256 8y ago
Twitter is really useful for sharing content at conferences or other events with a clear hashtag. Other than that, and perhaps sharing more substantive articles/blog posts/etc to a wider audience, it's at best silly, and at w
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by spectre256 8y ago
I'm not sure why you were downvoted, that's a beautiful analogy.
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by spectre256 8y ago
It totally depends. A weakened structure can hold pressurization for a while, and then suddenly (and possibly catastrophically) fail. A famous example of this is American Airlines flight 96 (1972): https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by spectre256 8y ago
Starting with a plan has been absolutely essential for me. This year I started a business which means I work full time from home (or a nearby coffee shop), because my co-founder is in a different city and timezone. While I've worked pa
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by spectre256 8y ago
I concur that it's unlikely that time ever really existed, at least in the US. After all, the internet came directly from the Department of Defense funded ARPANET. Before that, computers were so expensive and large that realistically o
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by spectre256 8y ago
It sounds like building a system on top of OpenStreetMap that is similar to Wikipedia's "protected pages" could be worthwhile. There are legitimate reasons to edit even the information for major world cities (most of them, fo
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by spectre256 8y ago
I would have to admit that's useful as I've accidentally printed a secret key or two to publicly accessible jobs on TravisCI, and then had to scramble to rotate them :)
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by spectre256 8y ago
Wouldn't this be an unwinnable battle? If you can't print out the whole secret, you can print out each half of it, or one character at a time, each on a different line. There's probably no way around the reality that users wh
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by spectre256 8y ago
The upside of this change is it should help raise awareness and investment in mapping products that are open source and use open data. Off the top of my head, there are a number of companies/services that can serve as alternatives to G
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by spectre256 8y ago
Blizzard is famous for a variation of this. They will spend a few weeks/months detecting cheaters, but do nothing. Then, they will ban many users of a given cheat at the same time. This creates press, which helps the message of "y
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by spectre256 8y ago
There is http://opentraffic.io which was developed together with Mapzen(RIP), Conveyal, and the World Bank, which shows a lot of promise
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by spectre256 8y ago
sure, shoot an email to hello@geocode.earth and we'll set you up
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by spectre256 8y ago
Hey 2dvisio, I'm an ex-Mapzen alum who runs https://geocode.earth . We don't have a permanent free tier at the moment (our geocoder is solid but the service is new!), but we want to find ways to contribute to the commun
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by spectre256 8y ago
I'll tag on to Nelson's post to plug a new geocoding service two of us ex-Mapzen folks started called https://geocode.earth . We offer geocoding, especially autocomplete, with much more liberal usage restrictions than e
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by spectre256 8y ago
Hey kinard, I'm an ex-Mapzen teammember, and we've set up a new, paid, geocoding service called https://geocode.earth . I suspect we can give you what you need around geocoding, especially autocomplete, for much less th
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by spectre256 9y ago
This is exactly what I assumed caused them to make this decision. Who knows, a lot of Mailchimp employees might even really like blockchain tech, or be intererested in ICOs, but at the end of the day, if serving ICO/blockchain mail res

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