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Creating a QGIS-Style (qml-file) with an R-Script

How to get from a txt-file with short names and labels to a QGIS-Style (qml-file)? I used the below R-script to create a style for this legend...

0 replies - 1389 views - 05/09/13 by Kay Cichini in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (5/9)

Google Glass’s sensorsThis guy probed the depth of Glass’s kernal source code to dig up specifics about Glass’s sensors and hardware. He found a Texas...

0 replies - 3836 views - 05/09/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Here’s why you can’t trust SSL logos on HTTP pages (even from SSL vendors)

A couple of days ago I wrote about Why I am the world’s greatest lover (and other worthless security claims) and it  really seemed to...

0 replies - 1332 views - 05/09/13 by Troy Hunt in Articles

Almost If and Only If

The Perrin numbers have a definition analogous to Fibonacci numbers. Define P0 = 3, P1 = 0, and P2 = 2. Then for n >...

0 replies - 1490 views - 05/09/13 by John Cook in Articles

Ramanujan Approximation for Circumference of an Ellipse

There’s no elementary formula for the circumference of an ellipse, but there is an elementary approximation that is extremely accurate. An ellipse has...

0 replies - 1006 views - 05/08/13 by John Cook in Articles

Recovering Lost Post Data

I recently typed out a long, thoughtful response in a textarea. I clicked submit, like I've done millions of times, and I got the dreaded "session expired"...

0 replies - 1662 views - 05/08/13 by Jay Fields in Articles

Data News: "Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know" and More

Some posts and articles, discovered this week on the internet:“3 Reasons Why Your Predictions Of The Future Will Go...

0 replies - 1702 views - 05/08/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Entity recognition with Scala and Stanford NLP Named Entity Recognizer

The following sample will extract the contents of a court case and attempt to recognize names and locations using entity recognition software from Stanford...

0 replies - 1521 views - 05/08/13 by Gary Sieling in Articles

Legacy Code Preservation: The Bugs Are The Features

The extreme end of "paving the cowpaths" are people for whom the bug list is also the feature list. This is a very strange phenomenon, rarely seen, but...

0 replies - 2448 views - 05/08/13 by Steven Lott in Articles

Links You Don't Want to Miss (May 8)

The Annotated jQuery Source Many developers will tell you that one of the best ways to better understand JavaScript, open source, and programming as well,...

0 replies - 2823 views - 05/08/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Oddball Data Structures and More

Costs for Elements in Different Data Structureshttps://code.google.com/p/memory-measurer/wiki/ElementCostInDataStructuresLesser Known Data...

0 replies - 1607 views - 05/08/13 by Tim Spann in Articles

Tail -f is dead, long live tail -f

We’ve all been there – test some new code, tail your logs, test some more new code, tail the logs some more… But let's face it with so many cool...

0 replies - 895 views - 05/07/13 by Trevor Parsons in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Shortest Path with Djikstra

Tonight I decided my study time would be to sit down and implement Djikstra’s algorithm in Python to help me understand it. When coding up a solution to a...

0 replies - 5276 views - 05/07/13 by Justin Bozonier in Articles

Search Is Eating The World

Much of the crew just got back from Lucene Revolution. It was an incredible experience to hang out with the cream-of-the-crop of the Lucene/Solr...

0 replies - 5213 views - 05/07/13 by Doug Turnbull in Articles

The Future of DevOps

I had a blast at Devopsdays Austin 2013. Here's my keynote on the 'future of devops.' My main point is that besides repeating the devops stories, we...

0 replies - 1664 views - 05/07/13 by Patrick Debois in Articles