wcameron

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by wcameron 4y ago
Native people have pushed back against ASF’s appropriation for decades, but it’s always been shoved under the rug. As a kid when I first heard about the “Apache” server I felt othered by the name. Since then it’s really seeped into the back
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by wcameron 4y ago
>Why? Because they’re not Apache. What other software project is named after a nationality or ethnicity? I don’t see any difference between sports mascots and software mascots: https://www.ncai.org/proudtobe
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Apache Software Foundation cofounder Brian Behlendorf supports changing the name(twitter.com)
3 points by wcameron 4y ago|6 comments
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Apache Software Foundation and “Native”-themed mascotry(endasfmascotry.com)
3 points by wcameron 4y ago|0 comments
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by wcameron 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale#Types
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by wcameron 10y ago
Not even just territories but two entire states.
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by wcameron 11y ago
I don't think the aurora is a good example for reason you cited. The idea that we only see the aurora in shades of gray is false. I've sometimes been surprised by some extra color that the camera picks up but at least at upper lat
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by wcameron 11y ago
As much as I mourn the Murdoch sale, National Geographic has long been famous for its occasional bare skin.
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by wcameron 11y ago
Actually, they are being genetically modified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquAdvantage_salmon
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by wcameron 11y ago
Global sea level has risen less than a foot in the past 100 years. Although in environments like this, I would assume isostatic rebound ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound ) would play a large role in ap
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by wcameron 11y ago
http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end... covers it better than I could.
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by wcameron 11y ago
And please stop using PNG when you should be using JPG. Unless you're building a site where the primary focus is the photography, use a high quality JPG instead of PNG for photos, the file size increase with PNG usually isn't wort
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by wcameron 12y ago
I used to love Safari but they've lost me with the direction their UI has taken the last few years. There's something about not showing the full URL by default that bugs me.
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by wcameron 12y ago
Analogy or not, I'm not sure how appropriate it is. Try substituting the name of your framework with other ethnicities and see how it feels. Even here in Alaska, where the name isn't considered offensive, I'd hesitate to name
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by wcameron 12y ago
Sure was, check out: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/e2a20d86124693ef0f93
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by wcameron 12y ago
It sounds like you're looking for the SVG Crowbar: http://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/
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by wcameron 13y ago
If you check out the abstract at: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/5/10/5173 you'll see that it mentions a temporal resolution of a few minutes or so, for the entire west coast. A fleet of drones might be c
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by wcameron 15y ago
http://htmldog.com/
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by wcameron 15y ago
Really, really nice design. I'm loving Google's newfound attention to aesthetics. What's with the Gotham though? I know H&FJ keep talking about making their fonts embeddable one day, but it hasn't happened yet: http://www.typography.co