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The whole field has been dominated by research, i.e. the wish to make simple things complicated (in order to publish papers) as opposed to engineering, i.e. making complicated thin…

A simple demo of the algorithm described in the article: http://dijkstra.cs.ttu.ee/~tammet/oligarch.html

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Estonian government decided to revoke certificates for the majority of ID cards used in Estonia before Saturday this week due to a known vulnerability. The software and certificate…

A similar Scheme-to-C project I wrote last century for the SCM scheme, should be still usable: http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/hobbit.pdf One goal of the project was to produce …

Fixed it: a classic js error of writing != instead of !== . Thx for noticing! Shift-reload to empty cache of the old js file :)

Yep, a bug has creeped into a preprocessor. Debugging right now :) thx!

Eiffel tower photo locations are spread over a fairly wide area, while Moulin Rouge photos are taken in a relatively small spot, hence more intense.

The marked locations in high-res areas like cities are based on both most popular wikipedia articles and most popular foursquare locations in the intense area. Quite likely Alex's …

The "all sizes" selection has a similar effect: take "small", "tiny" or "remote" to put markers on sparsely populated locations only.

Conditional compilation can be quite certainly used. The best way to find out the space requirements is to try out some of the examples provided. I cannot give the overhead exactly…

I'd just make a remark that even in the GPL world everything is not as simple as it looks. There are GPL versions with _exceptions_ endorsed by RMS, for example. A long time ago I …

The default GPL is free-as-in-speech. You do not have to email for GPL. You have to email for free-as-in-beer. I assume that in case free-as-in-speech is not OK, it is also not a m…

Making a clean cut between free-as-in-speech on one hand and free-as-in-beer on the other.

One of the authors here. A few answers quickly. It does write to disk: you can either dump memory or write all changes to log (turn it on/off yourself). Sure it has a global read/w…

check http://www.sightsmap.com : this shows the wikipedia locations and more, geared to finding places of interest