harry-wood
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Comment · 1 year ago
There's a couple of options listed here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geocoding "Photon" and "Pelias" which were built on ElasticSearch
Comment · 1 year ago
The "Learning on the job" section brought back some memories of my experiences solo-developing a rails app. I made some of the same mistakes, although I think I mostly made the mistake of avoiding learning. I knew I should be writing tests with minitest or rspec, but never made time to learn it (instead I rolled my own request test framework!) And I stuck with subversion because I didn't fancy learning this newfangled git thing. When it finally came to hiring a second developer they had to teach me these things, and they thought I was an idiot :-(
Comment · 1 year ago
Simulating physics of muscles/skeleton structures has been done many times over, and I feel like the focus on eyes and vision is what makes this one interesting. Anyway it's quite a fun category of youtube video: https://www.google.com/search?q=simulating+evolution+muscles They tend to be two-dimensional or have other big simplifications. I guess trying to evolve a "real" organism explodes in complexity very quickly even if you ignore the "brain".
Comment · 2 years ago
I've ended up keeping a bit of list of events listing websites here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_Weekend_Howto#In... So I've added radius.to to that.
This is for running community events for OpenStreetMap, and so one quirky requirement is that ideally we show OpenStreetMap rather google maps (perhaps as an option). We also like to see open source options, of which there are a couple listed on there (more suggestions welcome!)
But all of these considerations are less important than the big one: Discoverability. meetup.com wins by having a list of events which is not just searchable and taggable etc, but also massive. So people just browse on there and find your event via their interests. That's a tough thing for any newcomer to compete with obviously.
Comment · 3 years ago
There's a typo in the "Mission" section "Only by limiting the reliance on AI and continue to create original content can propel us forward as a species".
An AI wouldn't have made that kind of mistake
Comment · 4 years ago
yes. I see what you're saying.
heads out into the street to start a fist fight
Comment · 4 years ago
Strong nostalgia whenever I see the BBC Elite opening screen!
These days we can re-live it easily in the browser: https://bbc.godbolt.org/?autoboot&disc=sth%3AAcornsoft%2FEli... Although I can also recommend "oolite": http://www.oolite.org/ which is an open source modernised elite with game play kept quite faithful to the original (I'm currently hooked on this and wasting more my life trying to get that "Elite" rating all over again)
Comment · 4 years ago
Similar. That Christmas when my dad & I started working through the BBC BASIC manual, I thought that this was the exciting experience of owning a computer which my friends were all on about (and I was excited by it!)
...It was only some time later I learned about loading pre-written programs (games) on it.
Comment · 4 years ago
If you can pinpoint the data in OpenStreetMap we could try to figure out if this is something wrong in the map data (Anyone can fix it!), or maybe it's a tag they should be filtering out on the OpenRailwayMap rendering.
Comment · 4 years ago
There's another site called https://openstationmap.org/ which shows some details within train stations in a fun 3D way, letting you flip through the "levels" data (Again, all data from OpenStreetMap). I feel like these two could combine nicely somehow.
Comment · 4 years ago
Memset is based in the UK. Used them a few years back, but I'm afraid we moved to AWS after a few too many reliability issues.
Comment · 4 years ago
I didn't understand that bit to be honest. Maybe because I'm from the UK. Why was the media coverage in the years after 9/11 disastrous?
Comment · 4 years ago
But "early Rails hype/philosophy" is the only thing you've said specifically about Rails. I think I know what you mean though. There are strong philosophies in the Rails (and more generally ruby) communities. Opinionated coding, and software craftsmanship is lauded, more than in other language communities I think.
As a result, rules of thumb like DRY are drummed into new developers. The overall effect of that is probably better code quality in general, but yes probably more instances of them being over-used.
But if Rails has the problem of folks over-using DRY, what are other languages communities doing? Just not doing so well at telling people about DRY in the first place?
Comment · 4 years ago
Top search result for "alternative music notation" is https://www.dodekamusic.com which looks like it has the same ideas, plus a rectangular rhythm design which makes it all _look_ different at a glance (for better or worse)
Comment · 4 years ago
The twinkling children's TV style background music in that video is not making it any less creepy.