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I plan to write a bit about that when I finish (Dec 27 will mark one year from when I started). Here are a couple things I noticed: 1) This was my big goal for the year. One book a…

Interesting, thanks for the recommendation!

The full list: https://gitlab.com/rlease/Books My list lines up with a lot of books that people have recommended here, so I'll try to add a few favorites that haven't been mentione…

As others have mentioned, zip codes might not have any geometry at all (point zips), and they are frequently updated/changed. In addition, zips do not follow standard constraints t…

This is very cool. I had a nearly identical idea a few months ago (and somehow missed your post the first time around) based around feature detection in images, and this is way coo…

In the payment processing section, you mention billing the customer back for the processing fees. I was under the impression that credit card companies do not allow you to pass sur…

This is really cool, and very similar to a hierarchical note taking app idea I've been kicking around. Kudos to Aardappel.

Have you considered using overlays from route360 ( https://developers.route360.net )? They are doing some really interesting stuff with multiple transit types (bicycle, car, mass t…

Interesting, I hadn't really considered the market outside of restaurants. Typically the price of organic, locally grown (although it doesn't have to be limited to just organic) pr…

I thought the same thing when I was trying to flesh this idea out a bit more, but the more I've spoken with farmers, the less I think this is the right way to go. The downside to d…

1) An application that connects restaurant chefs and managers to local farmers. Local farmers could upload their goods for the week on a marketplace board, and chefs could find thi…

Exactly, especially considering that tipped positions are payed drastically different depending on what state you're in. You shouldn't have to know the employee compensation laws o…

Service charges can be adequately split between all employees, whereas an increase to the price of a dish will typically just result in a larger tip to the server that is not split…

How does the projection change with all 50 states displayed instead of just the contiguous ones?

This story makes me smile. My father retired a few years ago, and immediately went to work on a kit airplane he and a friend bought together. He flies it semi-weekly, depending on …

PBS did an interesting, long documentary filming the build and certification process for the 777. It's broken into 5 different, hour long parts that can be found on Youtube ( https…