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by tmcw 15y ago
Hmm, seems like Read It Later is becoming a Flipboard competitor rather than an Instapaper competitor. I'd assume that there's more business sense behind the Flipboard use case (Kindles are terrible ad-serving devices).
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MapBox Streets w/custom styles - powered by node-tint & node-blend(mapbox.com)
1 points by tmcw 15y ago|0 comments
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by tmcw 15y ago
Original paper is here: http://otherthings.com/uw/watercolor/ (though I think some crappy academia links are broken)
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by tmcw 15y ago
Disclosure: I work for MapBox. Two parts: OpenStreetMap, the website, aims mainly to be a database and a great editing interface. So the end result is mostly the data, which you can download in full ( http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ ). T
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by tmcw 15y ago
The line between 'competitor' and 'clone' is right here: the site layout and elements are startlingly similar to Etsy.
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by tmcw 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'd like to be), but the actual pictured tablet, the 'Kindle keyboard' actually doesn't have a notable rooting technique, and the caption below it is wrong?
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by tmcw 15y ago
As much as I want to support the backlash, it sounds just conservative and reactionary. The start bar is gone? Really it seems like Microsoft has grown a contingent of users who are even more conservative than itself.
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by tmcw 15y ago
The code doesn't deeply depend on node - I'd bet that it works with browserify. Could be a fun weekend project to get it to work in-browser!
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Rethinking map projections with project it yourself(macwright.org)
1 points by tmcw 15y ago|0 comments
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by tmcw 15y ago
I wish people writing things like this would write about the positive aspects of the language first. Are you really going to convince people who like Java that Java is bad, in one paragraph? And, do you want to just annoy everyone with your
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by tmcw 15y ago
/all day long I have been thinking this but never expressing it because it's clear it would trigger a swarm of disagreement which is all valid but also so not the point, but I'm so glad someone else wrote it so thanks/ So thank you sir. I w
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by tmcw 15y ago
Uhm, awesome. Love it.
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by tmcw 15y ago
Pretty great article. Though I wish someone could point to the paper or whatever that explains the philosophy of Objective-C having insanely verbose method and parameter names. Like, readable is one thing, but they always end up like strin
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by tmcw 15y ago
> The biggest problem I see with MapBox right now is that their map labels don't seem to be dynamic. As far as I know, there's only one map where labels _are_ dynamic - Google MapsGL, and it's available only on 10% of browsers. > Wh
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by tmcw 15y ago
Looks awesome. There's so much potential in better vim websites - vim.org is the old standby, but imagine - sharing colors, little tricks, gif demos, etc. Now just to get free time to implement...
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by tmcw 15y ago
We're doing selective rendering with MapBox Light, which is deeper in cities. For this, it's better to have always-there zoom levels. Otherwise you grapple with the deep, deep problem of someone panning from a high-zoom area to a low one, o
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by tmcw 15y ago
See the rest of the maps: http://tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox In short, not really, but kind of. Global SRTM = a lot of preprocessing, postprocessing, and design choices, that we haven't been motivated to do by any specific use case.
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by tmcw 15y ago
This could use a bit of README magic, yes - and especially a better explanation of how this is functional. Sure, it's chainy, but I'm seeing a lot of free variables in this example.
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by tmcw 15y ago
It'll probably look odd, just like everything on an old computer. Designing for the craziest CRT is just as bad or worse than designing for a cinema display.
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by tmcw 15y ago
This was designed primarily on a MacBook Pro running Linux, so the colors were oddly calibrated. We tested it on several other calibrated monitors, and a few other devices (iPhone/Pad/Android). Short story is that it could be much bolder an
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by tmcw 15y ago
It's z16 globally - as soon as this is solidly out in the wild, we'll be working hard on getting deeper zoom levels. Each zoom level is exponentially larger than the last, so it's a significant challenge.
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by tmcw 15y ago
We use OpenStreetMap data for all roads - for some political boundaries and labels, you've got to bring in some other open data sources to make things look decent. Copyright on this rendition of the maps is MapBox's, data is OpenStreetMap's
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by tmcw 15y ago
We just saw a genuine torrent of traffic and are scaling up as I speak.
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by tmcw 15y ago
KML, them HTML3 of geospatial formats.
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by tmcw 15y ago
Pretty good explanation - my only gripe is that all bayes classifier tutorials like this build the 'spam detector' type that's specialized to text. Though it's a common use case, that isn't the only thing that the classifier can do - you ca
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by tmcw 15y ago
I'm getting a lot of 'permission denied' alerts trying to do anything. Even if that's the case, typically apps try to volley that into a 'Sign up now!' instead of the negative.
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Viz from an open-source keylogger, with d3(macwright.org)
33 points by tmcw 15y ago|2 comments
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by tmcw 15y ago
kneejerk reaction: that is one ugly, ugly icon.
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by tmcw 15y ago
Old flamewar, same argument, move along folks.
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by tmcw 15y ago
See the companion article: http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2012/02/mismeasure-of...

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