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tmcw
15y ago
Needs a README and examples without a hop.
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Odd Maps and How to Make Them
(macwright.org)
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And there you have your answer for why NuoDB.com used to be NimbusDB but then changed all of the sudden.
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15y ago
It's like AOL keywords 2k11!
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15y ago
Quora's move from Python to Scala is a 'clear indicator' of the 'fact' that type safety is better? That's just a weak and clearly incomplete line of reasoning.
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GIF Polyrhythms & GIF CLOCK
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LESS is great stuff, but CSS should be a minimal, not maximal standard. It is the common divisor, not the maximum, most perfect thing.
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15y ago
MapBox ( http://mapbox.com/ ) hosts tiles ( http://tiles.mapbox.com/ ) that you can use with much less restrictions, and download full tilesets if you want to really hammer a server. There's also a tool (TileMill) for designing maps from sc
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15y ago
(full disclosure; have patches in many mapping frameworks, and a surplus of opinions) You're probably better off just using a straight-up real maps API, like the MapQuest open tile API [1], and an open-source framework directly. And for thi
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15y ago
BYO money-system? PayPal, local transaction, whatever?
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Big: nano-js+css for big, big presentations for busy, busy people
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Calling full-frame sensors 'oversized' is a reason why engadget shouldn't try to do photography news.
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Real Browser Testing w/Jasmine & Events from Happen
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Lorax: a parallax scrolling library for web maps
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Explore a bunch of free custom maps by MapBox by zooming around the world.
(mapbox.com)
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It's OpenStreetMap. Not Open Street Maps. You can use as reference the domain http://www.openstreetmap.org/ , the logo with the word OpenStreetMap, or the title element of the page, which says (wait for it) OpenStreetMap. Maybe cut and pas
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Writing Javascript that minifies without making it unreadable
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> The Indian government put out a tender for the tablet to be developed, and plans to sell 100,000 units of Aakash My comment a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600780 Same thing. 'unveiling' a tablet for a price is noth
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Well, lucky for you in Javascript 1.7: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/New_in_JavaScript_1.7#Destr... (though I kinda feel like panning syntax sugar as 'useless' is a little useless. What, are we going to count chars as a scientific comp
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15y ago
The accompanying blog post is also worth a look: http://macwright.org/2011/10/30/voronoi-polygons.html
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Your Superfund: the pollution nearest you
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15y ago
It really could be 7 hours - I spent way too long investigating how to copy to USB quickly, and discovered it's a combination of: * Variability in flash drive speeds. * Variability of USB implementations. For instance, a 2008 MacBook
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Pardon my ignorance: why would a project want to be moved to the Apache Software Foundation?
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Yep, not much logic in this article. 'All of this on Google's dime'? ZNope, it's all on Amazon's dime, server-wise, and there's very little association between this supposed web-crawling effort and Android.
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I can't agree more with this evaluation. I'm happy that at least Amazon didn't kill off the e-ink Kindle. Doing a lot of testing, I use an iPad 1, iPad 2, MacBook, Galaxy Tab, iPhone, and a netbook near-daily. My favorite electronic device
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Not really. Automattic does a great job with Wordpress and keeping services online, no judgment of them. For a company as large and successful as Amazon to launch a product on a default blog template under their domain? That's like launchin
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2nd this: for a big product rollout, this site URL presence & 'blog design' is so amateurish it feels like a phishing or SEO attack.
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This is unreadable and unconvincing. Why is it rated up? You could make a reasonable argument supporting the headline, but he doesn't. There's no logical weight behind his conclusions and no evidence that he's actually thinking about any ev
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A 64K Block Maze made with Mapping Tools
(macwright.org)
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Visible Man for map interaction: see how UTFGrid works
(mapbox.github.com)
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