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Michelin Airless 5 years ago

Wouldn't these be great for trailers? Trailer blowouts are common, and often unnoticed, or can heavily damage the trailer. I have no interest in these on a car, but for a trailer, sign me up!

I've heard that all map projections are a compromise. Is this a leftover of printed maps?

If you take a photo of the earth, you can't argue that it's inaccurate, as it's literally a photo. When you use something like Google Earth, it's the same deal. You can rotate the map and everything is rendered fairly accurately for any given perspective. Aren't they an accurate representation?

Waze Carpool 8 years ago

For me, I get motion sick if I'm not driving, so I'm really excited about this. I'll be able to use the toll HOV lanes.

I agree. Server-side analytics were actually fairly mature before Google came alone. It's just more complicated in some cases, but manageable. The biggest downside these days would be SPA apps since they are not necessarily touching the server in any regular way.

An IoT dashboard 11 years ago

Hover over that tile and you get a (+). Click on that, and you can graph by day/month/year.

Why I don't mock 12 years ago

I don't understand how you can be 100% against mocking. When I want to visualize testing, I often find it useful to think about how it's applied in the real world. For example, when building a car, the parts are tested in isolation (for the most part). Individual parts are tested - size, shape, stress, etc. Groups of parts are also tested in isolation. For example, the engine is actually connected to a mock drivetrain, mock computer, mock user inputs, etc. I see that as useful, and I think the same goes for software. It can simply be too costly in terms of time, bandwidth, etc to test against real resources.