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fro

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About fro

javascript developer focused on geo + data vis. @fsrowe

Recent public activity

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    Comment #14425081

    Machines do steal jobs - the repetitive, manual labor jobs that humans do not want. They also increase efficiency and profits for companies, leading to lower costs for consumers an…

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    Comment #13171658

    This is what the Watch is for.

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    Comment #11434680

    Amazon should use it's bank to get these kinds of deals for Twitch.tv. They already have the platform, community, and infrastructure to do this kind of thing perfectly.

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    Comment #9465818

    You can edit all of that with CartoCSS. OP made a great map, but Mapbox Studio really is ideal for a project like this. https://www.mapbox.com/guides/cartocss-in-studio/#studio

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    Comment #9315974

    Yeah I don't get this. Just because there are popular alternatives doesn't mean there aren't tons of people for whom Grunt still works perfectly well.

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    Comment #8931195

    +1. There is literally zero negative impact on anyone's life by a hundred new js frameworks coming out every day. Ignore them. Use the ones you know and enjoy. If a new one seems t…

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    Comment #8931029

    Why is there is a five second animation to load a completely static home page?

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    Comment #8421820

    Chances are you are already have jQuery on your page though, right?

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    Comment #8421805

    For many people who's phone is their sole device, this is asking the impossible.

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    Comment #7603318

    Check out the just released Mapbox Outdoors https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-outdoors/

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    Comment #7322242

    I regularly work with relatively large JSON files (500kb - 4mb). These open and edit quickly in ST. Atom refuses to load anything over 2mb, and chokes even on 500kb files.

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    Comment #7177495

    A step down from chairman, but a step up in involvement. Gates says he will be "substantially increasing the time that I spend at the company."

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    Comment #6945030

    It can be, but certainly not in this circumstance. Didn't expect such a politically charged article when I clicked the headline.

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    Comment #6895065

    The best thing about this update might be that we finally get pull-to-refresh on the home feed.

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    Comment #6894972

    Just updated, and I was able to send posts to users without the update. I believe it queues messages for when they update.

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    Comment #6777446

    Yes, and most of those things are already available as modular open source tools that fit well in the Node ecosystem. Encouraging people to use one giant, closed, monolithic progra…

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    Comment #6777143

    Seems like overkill. Part of why Node is great and so easy to get started with is that all you need is a browser, a text editor, and the terminal. I suppose for people that already…

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    Comment #6571587

    This could be big for making dynamic web maps faster. Often we request a large array of geometries to display on a map and can only display them all at once after ajax is done. If …

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    Comment #6482949

    It's not so much about when you work, but that you have a set schedule and routine. If you have a job, usually this is during the day. Knowing when you wake up every day that you w…

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    Comment #6482848

    In the description of the book the author is pushing, I find this sentence, "A popular trend is to get up at 4am and get some work done before the day’s craziness begins. Others li…

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    Comment #6366905

    This isn't just a corporate phenomenon, state and local governments use IE 8 almost exclusively. There are a lot of bored government workers browsing the web on IE 8 during the wee…

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    Comment #5395211

    GChat is already a well known brand name that most people view positively, hopefully they continue using that name.

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    Comment #5109803

    Ten dollars seems like a token amount that most clients would give you to just say, "Hey why not, maybe this will turn into something." I'd make it a higher amount or just, you kno…

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    Comment #4675458

    Another alternative to MapKit is MapBox's opensource iOS SDK. They have better support for OpenStreetMap layers and custom maps built with TileMill.

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    Comment #4288020

    Another argument: Legislating that ISPs must treat all their bits as equal may cause ISPs to lose the flexibility needed to optimize their networks. Laws that inhibit freedom of pr…