Aaron Lidman aaronlidman

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I'm planning on spending much more time on documentation.js, to get it up to its stated mission and to nurture a larger community.
I'll also spend time on simple-statistics and the projects within my tmcw account.

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I've abandoned my maintainer statuses and privileges at mapbox, Turfjs, osmlab, tilemill-project, and openstreetmap.

Bryan Housel is the new owner of the osmlab organization and the openstreetmap/iD project

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Introduction

This is about documenting getting Linux running on the late 2016 and mid 2017 MPB's; the focus is mostly on the MacBookPro13,3 and MacBookPro14,3 (15inch models), but I try to make it relevant and provide information for MacBookPro13,1, MacBookPro13,2, MacBookPro14,1, and MacBookPro14,2 (13inch models) too. I'm currently using Fedora 27, but most the things should be valid for other recent distros even if the details differ. The kernel version is 4.14.x (after latest update).

The state of linux on the MBP (with particular focus on MacBookPro13,2) is also being tracked on https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux . And for Ubuntu users there are a couple tutorials (here and here) focused on that distro and the MacBook.

Note: For those who have followed these instructions ealier, and in particular for those who have had problems with the custom DSDT, modifying the DSDT is not necessary anymore - se

Startup	English
This team is growing	We're hiring lots of people
"Hunger"	Enthusiasm
"Fire"	Enthusiasm
"Spark"	Enthusiasm
Commander's intent	Goals
Onboarding	Training
The best	Pretty good
Burn	Money-losing

Taste for Makers

Paul Graham, February 2002

"...Copernicus' aesthetic objections to [equants] provided one essential motive for his rejection of the Ptolemaic system...."

Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution

"All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically in his insistence that an airplane that looked beautiful would fly the same way."

Ben Rich, Skunk Works

Avoiding padding errors with Python's base64 encoding

>>> import base64
>>> data = '{"u": "test"}'
>>> code = base64.b64encode(data)
>>> code
'eyJ1IjogInRlc3QifQ=='

Himawari-8 animation tutorial

Here’s how to make animations like this one. It requires intermediate Unix command-line knowledge, to install some tools and to debug if they don’t work. You’ll need these utilities:

curl (or you can translate to wget)
convert and montage, part of ImageMagick
ffmpeg, plus whatever codecs
parallel, for iteration that’s nicer than shell for loops or xargs
run everything in zsh for leading 0s in numerical ranges to work

	--
	-- This will register the "planet" table within your AWS account
	--
	CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE planet (
	id BIGINT,
	type STRING,
	tags MAP<STRING,STRING>,
	lat DECIMAL(9,7),
	lon DECIMAL(10,7),
	nds ARRAY<STRUCT<ref: BIGINT>>,

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# ogrcat
	# produces line-delimited geojson features
	# Like `fio cat` but uses ogr2ogr under the hood


	ECHO_FEATURES=""

	ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON /vsistdout/ "$@" \| while read line

	// each top-level message in a file is tag-prefixed (like fields) to differentiate between types
	message Data {
	oneof data_type {
	fixed32 block_size = 1; // byte length of the following block (metadata + features/geometries)
	Metadata metadata = 2;

	Collection feature_collection = 3;
	Collection geometry_collection = 4;
	Collection collection_end = 5;