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dylrich

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About dylrich

GIS Guy

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    Comment #20871179

    Location: Minneapolis, MN Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: I am willing to consider a few other places in the U.S. or Canada. I strongly prefer remote or local to Minneapolis Techn…

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    Comment #20326685

    Location: Minneapolis, MN Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: I am willing to consider a few other places in the U.S. or Canada - I strongly prefer remote Technologies: Go, Python, Ja…

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    Comment #19941193

    "Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite" Happy Black user over here!

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    Comment #19802583

    Location: Minneapolis, MN Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: I am willing to consider a few other places in the U.S. or Canada - I strongly prefer remote Technologies: Go, Python, Ja…

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    Comment #19784758

    RDS now supports libprotobuf-c, so AsMVT will work (at least on some postgres versions)

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    Comment #18295320

    If anyone from DO is around - Will libprotobuf-c be available on managed postgres? I ask because for the longest time AWS RDS didn't support cutting Mapbox Vector Tiles from PostGI…

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    Comment #18042913

    Postgres RDS is missing libprotobuf-c, which is a dependency for cutting MapBox Vector Tiles if you use PostGIS/Postgres that way. A small, legitimate exception to your statement. …

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    Comment #17980241

    I'm surprised about this as well. Even if they didn't want the overhead of running their own tile server, one of the best parts of the MVT format in my mind is that one-off tileset…

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    Comment #17978551

    It's interesting seeing the process they went through to work around MapBox's hosting limitations, but the map doesn't feel terribly usable to me. The chart doesn't update on pan/z…

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    Comment #17770091

    I'm interested in their reasons for not using an R-Tree or an R*-Tree for the index. I know they mentioned the debate in this post but I'm quite curious how they arrived at their d…

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    Comment #17621999

    HipChat (At least for me on Windows) absolutely messes up any SQL I try to send to someone. It's unusable because HipChat apparently adds characters to the beginning of each line. …

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    Comment #17465932

    Portable mode is huge for those of us who have worked in places with unnecessarily restrictive IT departments :)

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    Comment #17408814

    I am also wondering how Linux runs on this. A Windows-only machine is out of the question for me, but the hardware looks pretty solid. I'll consider buying one if I can get Fedora …

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    Comment #17268160

    You make ~$90,000 a year and are barely getting by with no debt or children? Where do you live?

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    Comment #17247975

    His arguments for it seemed reasonable - would love to hear your criticisms

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