deadmansshoes

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Comment · 4 years ago
Shapely was around long before Mapbox, and Rasterio too. Both are based on stalwarts of the open source geospatial world - GEOS and GDAL.

Vector tiles, Mapbox GL, and Mapbox styling, and numerous other libraries however did grow out of Mapbox - the amount of geospatial developer talent they hoovered up must have made it pretty amazing to work at for a time.

Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
It should be possible in a single line of Python..

  pip install fizzbuzz
And then:

  import fizzbuzz
  print fizzbuzz.fizzbuzz()
Or for the second solution:

  print fizzbuzz.fizzbuzzbazz()
Comment · 14 years ago
Except that number is for the US McDonalds. The French numbers would be +33 1 30 48 65 28 or +33 1 30 48 60 00 as stated on the contact page.

"I don't have the resources to take on a branch of a large multi-national corporation operating in a distant country" - doesn't really cut it when the contact page and number can be found on the Internet in 2 seconds of searching.

Comment · 15 years ago
I hope the analysis of the flight was more accurate than some of the translations.

02:08:03 (Robert) Tu peux éventuellement le tirer un peu à gauche. You can eventually pull it a little to the left.

Eventuellement is not the French equivalent of the English. It should be "You could pull a little to the left." Many sentences read like a straight copy and paste from Google Translate.

Comment · 15 years ago
"You slowly replace your friends with "better" ones"..."will make you more of who you want to be"

I believe the talented Mr Ripley used this strategy to good effect. There's a saying about never trust anyone who doesn't have at least one friend left from childhood.

Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
I think if a groupon is unused then the merchant is not paid, so Groupon keeps the $10. This is how kgbdeals works. However Groupon redeem expired vouchers (if asked) whereas kgbdeals refuse to redeem vouchers even if valid.
Comment · 15 years ago
Sure, but the $900 dollars would otherwise have gone to buy a car from someone else who fixed up a car or made cars.

I can see how reducing the cost of items or services can make more people "wealthy" - such as being able to buy a second car. But reducing costs normally means reducing wages meaning the owners get richer, and the manual jobs disappear.

Comment · 15 years ago
Am I missing something with this "pie fallacy"?

If you restore a car and then sell it to someone that needs a car then surely there is someone else who has sold one less car. The same principle applies to crop prices when all the farmers have a bountiful year.

Surely the reason that wealth has grown, is that the human population has grown - creating more needs and desires, and more workers to meet them.

Comment · 15 years ago
"Explain virtual methods to me" - thereby ignoring anyone who can code in Python or Ruby, or anyone from VB.NET and several other languages where Overridable/Overrides is the terminology used.
Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
It took months for Delicious to update their FireFox extension. I've only just tried again now, after reading this article and it works again.

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