I need to tweak my full-text search and general layout. But your addition of maps is a nice touch. Adding the location of the stop with a separate icon may be a nice addition.
Ah, I understand the map now. I'm bleary-eyed and missed that.
My grand vision was to do a comet-style app where you see the buses "move" towards your position/stop on a Google Map -- but I haven't been able to sit down and design that yet.
I don't know why everyone takes Facebook so seriously.
Well, actually I do but I don't want to dive into a long comment about how it's a voyeuristic, social panopticon and how easy it is to project your insecurities onto it. Well, I have a small and strange solution to staying in contact with your friends, do what I do: remove all your actual friends from your newsfeed.
When you see them, you won't already have eagerly instantiated things to talk about, you won't jaw off about some article they posted about the latest bath salt murder -- you'll actually catch up and connect in genuine conversation.
The site only has as much power as you give it, posting a long diatribe about how it has no power over you anymore because you deactivated is legitimizing its power over you.
I just started reading the OpenCV book this week. Eerily apropos.
Suggestion for liuliu: list supported platforms in your Readme - it may save you some email. And it seems you're targeting Macs from all the Xcode comments.
Been working on and off on http://mtransit.herokuapp.com/ -- a mobile optimized site for looking up transit schedules for the Minneapolis / St. Paul bus system. It's built with Flask and a sprinkling of JQuery. I am hoping to factor out some code into a standalone lib for others to build competitor apps with.
level 1: futs around with OS X / brew / macports / whatevever package manager you pray to for hours to setup a dev env
level 2: virtualize your target platform with vmware fusion
level 3: vagrant + chef your target platform and rebuild them at will
The technical debt of level 1 will eventually kill you.
Disclaimer: I am at level 1
I feel the state of academic publishing is essentially, a hustle. People being divorsed from community feedback and their own rights as authors is farcical.
This reminds me of the so-called Tiger Mother. Someone who reinforces the prevailing beliefs but claims credibility due to their status as a member of the group in situ.
I suspect the author is actually a male graduate student in the UK.
In college: beer names (i.e. shiner-bock)
At first job: characters from 'The Simpsons'
Later on at first job: elements (i.e. Fluoride)
At current gig: something amenable to Chef like component-worker-01.environment01.foo.employer.com
Excellent post. I think the aversion engineers have toward PR for teams is unfortunate. A similar attitude toward prof. networking exists. Good team PR and good professional networking is predicated on mutual benefit.
Teams that are innovating, working on novel problems and dedicated to quality shouldn't be afraid to present themselves in a positive light. There's nothing sleazy about trying to attract and retain like-minded people.
OP here. The Unikernel paper someone linked about has more, but I think the main ideas are: incidental complexity mitigation and performance.
It's much easier to reason about a bunch of OCaml code, so say the authors, than it is to understand the interaction between independently changing pieces of your "stack" that are written in different languages and integrate in disparate ways.
When I moved to the Bay Area, I was amazed at how bad cabbies were. They were expensive, took a long time to show up, often flaked out on even showing up and often refused to take me where I wanted to go.
Über was a breath of fresh air. I rationalized their competitive gaffs with Lyft as "they're just competing" and their syncretic religion of Ayn Rand books and Clayton Christensen as objectionable but tolerable. But I don't use them anymore. I started to use Uber constantly, refer friends and some OSS I've written even powers Uber's node.js components today.
But their support of Urban Shield is the straw that broke the camel's back. And I do not want to line the pockets of anyone accelerating the militarization of the police in the US. Like the author, I can't see myself trusting them to do what's right.
Nifty, but not incredibly novel. SQLite's VFSes have been around for some time, albeit in smaller breadth and scope. I think one thing this kind of glosses over is the notion of transactions, what if load/fs contents change between independent parts of your query, are they memoized, recomputed, etc?
Having said all that I'm going to install it and try it out because it's new and shiny.
so triggering. but mainly my fear in using GCP is this: Google is a product psycho, this is not their core business, I get the feeling that anything about GCP could change or disappear at any time for any reason and I as the customer is left to react to these changes.
It's not a matter of "trust" - I don't trust the plumber to fix my toilet more than the rando I can find on Craigslist per se, but I do have the expectation that he intends to continue plumber-ing and will be around to stand by his work in three months time.
It's a reasonable assumption, but still an assumption and a risk to take on. There are really compelling things about GCP not even mentioned in the article but I'm not sure if Google's got enough skin in the game to warrant me predicating my infrastructure on it without deep pricing incentives.
Digital Ocean and AWS are dedicated to continuing this line of business and keeping those customers addicted. Google is conducting another large and expensive moon shot which fine since it's part of their DNA.
