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timmipetit··on Designing Google Maps for Motorbikes
Yeah, having those Dutch street names pronounced in English is so confusing and funny! It would be perfect if you could use your phone in English, but use your local language for navigation. Still haven't found a way to achieve this on my Android phone though :(
timmipetit··on Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
0 hours, we pay for the hosted option via https://githost.io/
timmipetit··on Linux performance monitoring tools
This image originally comes from http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html
timmipetit··on Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account
As a Mailgun customer, I can unfortunately confirm this. A lot of our clients are having problems getting mails delivered in hotmail mailboxes. This started some weeks ago, and we haven't seen any improvement since. It is getting to a point that we're working on migrating to something else right now.
timmipetit··on Show HN: Made my own date picker for AngularJS
We use angular-ui-date https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-date, which works pretty well for us.
timmipetit··on Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
Yeah, especially Europe is really hard. We haven't found a solution yet for visualizing detailed information above very dense and scarce areas at the same time. Showing the data above a single country in Europe works a lot better (for example: http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/uploads/SoftVis/trails_length_1.pn... and http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/uploads/SoftVis/trails_length_4.pn... ). We use an option to reduce the point size based on the zoom-level.

If someone is interested, here are 2 more videos of our visualization

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYfBvQGKE9Y (short pulse-trails with background context, colored by altitude, above France)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oqxIhO69tU (medium pulse-trails, no background trails, colored by direction).

For more information and pictures: http://www.cs.rug.nl/~alext/PAPERS/MSc/klein14.pdf

timmipetit··on Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
That's really cool! I did something similar for my thesis. We used flight information from http://planefinder.net/ as our data set. Unfortunately no WebGL, but you can see an impression in this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvrdxLymMv0 More info here: http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/SoftVis/FlightVis
timmipetit··on Mailgun forwarding can result in your domain being treated as spam
Thanks for the advice, we've had some strange situations where our mails got marked as spam. Currently we only have issues with Outlook. Mails send using Mailgun often get marked as spam, while (the same) mails send using Gmail don't have this problem. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to happen on all Outlook installations/instances, and Outlook is pretty much a black box to test. Perhaps this could be similar issue (we've had no issues on a clean Outlook installation). Anyone else with similar problems?
timmipetit··on Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients
This also just happened to me. Some messages that I send (using the browser) to a friend were received by someone else. A messages intended for my girlfriend was received by a coworker. My Hangouts app (Android) actually showed these messages in the "wrong" conversation.
timmipetit··on Navigating the Postmodern Python World
Check out MyPy: http://www.mypy-lang.org/ It uses the Python 3 annotations syntax for type checking.
timmipetit··on How I Structure My Flask Applications
You could use Celery: http://www.celeryproject.org/
timmipetit··on Hello. I'm a compiler
I saw the flashing vote counter, and was just thinking that SO was getting funky.
timmipetit··on We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned
What kind of payments do you allow? Perhaps this could have something to do with it.