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deadmansshoes | 3 years ago | on: On leaving Mapbox after 12 years

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.

deadmansshoes | 13 years ago | on: Fizzbuzz, Interviews, And Overthinking

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()

deadmansshoes | 13 years ago | on: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass

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.

deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: What really happened aboard Air France 447

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.

deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: You Are the Average of Your Five Closest Friends

"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.

deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: The Missed Red Flags on Groupon

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.

deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Occupy George

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.

deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Occupy George

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.

deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done

"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.

deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Estimate your English vocabulary size

I felt the same. Also there were some words I thought I knew what they meant, but my definition would only be partially correct.

Also some definitions you can guess at - do these count as part of your vocabulary or not? E.g. Clerisy, can be easily deduced to be the class of clerics, but not sure if I'd be able to say if it was a real word or not.

deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years

Where in the article? Not in the one this post links to.

In a PDF linked from the article, it is stated that the mother had her back to Ardolf, and heard a "wet kiss."

Ardolf then admitted to the father of the child he kissed him on the lips.

My point is that accusing your new neighbour of being a paedophile on that basis could, if innocent of the charges, be a strong motivator for revenge.

deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years

Any reference to where he pleaded guilty to a charge of molestation (I presume this is the kissing incident)?

He sounds like a psychopath, but if he was labelled a paedophile in the neighbourhood based on the statement of a 4 year old (or did the parents witness the incident?), then it's understandable there was retaliation.

deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Calling Bullshit on Unpaid Interships

Maybe a minimum wage policy has a wider remit than "the economy." Why bother with any regulations, or indeed employee rights at all? As for your arguments about immigrants - people may migrate to live "the American dream", but how many people's situations are actually improved?

deadmansshoes | 14 years ago | on: Calling Bullshit on Unpaid Interships

What's wrong with paying at least the minimum wage to interns? I presume you can't claim unemployment benefit if working as an intern, so who is funding an interns living expenses? Unpaid work should be reserved for charitable organisations.
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