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very cool. the satellite imagery seems both more detailed and more recent than Google's.

Gerduson Maciej Fijalkowski's view on PyPy's future

I don't think speed is a big enough pain point for the python community at large to justify the pain of moving from cpython.

PyPy needs to use their great implementation stack to develop their own killer feature. Like for instance a small and fast python for embedded scripting or compiling normal python program to a small and optimized native executable.

Gerduson Poll: What database does your company use?

Other-Firebird

Gerduson PDF Reader in JavaScript

Sweet. Scribd has an HTML5 document viewer so a PDF viewer is certainly doable. Maybe this will be included someday as a minimal PDF viewer in firefox.

Now all we need is a proper javascript printing api and almost all business application can be done in the browser.