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by twp 11y ago
Pretty sure that the baby carriage is a reference to Battleship Potemkin [1]. [1] https://www.google.ch/search?q=battleship+potemkin&espv=2&bi...
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by twp 12y ago
Google does spread oncall rotations across multiple timezones. Most SREs are oncall only during the day, with the local nightshift being somebody else's dayshift. For a more detailed look at Google's SRE operations, watch Ben Tray
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by twp 12y ago
What have been people's experiences with Qtile? I've used ion, Xmonad, and more recently i3wm and would love to hear what's good and not so good about Qtile.
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by twp 12y ago
Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
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Solution to "The Expert" (draw 7 red lines, all strictly perpendicular...)(youtube.com)
8 points by twp 12y ago|1 comments
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by twp 12y ago
> What happens is the competent people bail, leaving behind the less talented and/or less motivated which creates a positive feedback cycle. Well described here: http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the
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by twp 12y ago
"There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution".
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by twp 13y ago
The central claim of the post is that Microsoft and Apple look after their developers while Facebook and Google will not. This is demonstrably false. The post says: > Microsoft and Apple have massive vested interests in supporting their
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by twp 13y ago
Stamen made some lovely world wide watercolour tiles: http://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#12/37.7706/-122.3782 They explained the process on their blog: http://content.stamen.com/watercolor
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by twp 13y ago
There's equivalent functionality is OpenLayers 3, but the API has changed.
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by twp 13y ago
Thanks! This is a really nice algorithm. We should be able to add it to ol3.
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by twp 13y ago
OpenLayers 3 dev here. All these mapping libraries are great. Google Maps comes with great data. Leaflet has a really nice API. OpenLayers 3 comes with loads of functionality built in. Please check out our OpenLayers 3 examples at http:&#x
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by twp 13y ago
And this is where git is awesome. You can still keep committing locally. You can add another remote (e.g. BitBucket, a shared directory, or just a USB stick) and keep collaborating. You can even share patches by email if you want. And when
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by twp 13y ago
There are some great open source WebGL terrain renderers out there, on a planetary scale, for example: http://doarama.com/view/2171 This is built on the Cesium open source virtual globe http://cesiumjs.org&#
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by twp 13y ago
Things that I've found have worked well for me: * Respect the time of the person reading your CV. Make it trivially easy for them to find the information they want, quickly. Use a clean structure, clear sections and sub-sections, and c
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by twp 13y ago
The developments in acrobatic paragliding follow a similar theme: it used to be you'd do trick A, then resume normal flight, then do trick B, resume normal flight, trick C, etc. Now it's all about instantaneous transitions between
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Zoe Keating on the sharps and flats of the music business(latimes.com)
1 points by twp 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Cryptographic salary negotiation protocol?
15 points by twp 13y ago|6 comments
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by twp 13y ago
MacBook Pro mid-2009 user here. 17" high-res screen awesome for coding. Recently upgraded to 8GB RAM & 256GB SSD using off-the shelf components. Works well, but suspect that four year old machine will need to be replaced in the next tw
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by twp 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - remote Experienced WebGL/OpenGL developer wanted for open source mapping project The OpenLayers 3 open source web mapping project [1] is looking for experience WebGL developer for a short term contract to implement key
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by twp 14y ago
More info: https://github.com/openlayers/ol3/pull/521
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OpenLayers 3 Full Screen demo (click arrow button in top right)(twpayne.github.io)
2 points by twp 14y ago|1 comments
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by twp 14y ago
As the OP, I agree with jrajav. I thought that the original title clearly and concisely summarized the topic.
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by twp 14y ago
SQLite is awesome, and a true model of just how good software can be. It's also designed by programmers for programmers and has a well-defined API that can be thoroughly tested. It's the perfect module, with an API (SQL) that has been refin
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by twp 14y ago
Totally agree. And when I'm not sure, I used randomized testing against a trivial but slow implementation to make sure that it also works for all the edge cases that I didn't think of: https://github.com/openlayers/ol3/pull/418/files#L12
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Would it be a good idea to have test coverage in with the tests?(github.com)
39 points by twp 14y ago|27 comments
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by twp 14y ago
For reference: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/... Pretty much the same functionality, done three years ago.
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by twp 14y ago
The article claims that "[human speech] would be the highest level language of all if anyone could write an interpreter for it." What a load of nonsense. Human speech is a lousy language for precise expression, and often fails even for huma
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by twp 14y ago
Just a +1 on this. PostGIS and PostgreSQL are completely awesome. I've been doing a lot of geospatial projects recently and have been stunned by just how fast, robust and scalable PostGIS and PostgreSQL are. If you're storing latitudes/long
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by twp 14y ago
A nice example of the old adage that "most problems in computer science can be solved by adding an extra layer of indirection".

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