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Google geoservice

This is likelly old news to some, but Google Maps has an API that can return location coordinates. I’ve always wanted to know what the longitude and latitude of my house is, and short of going out and getting a GPS device, I hadn’t really tried to figure it out (yes i am lazy, or [...]

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On outsourcing

via Paul Graham:
During the Bubble, a lot of people predicted that startups would outsource their development to India. I think a better model for the future is David Heinemeier Hansson, who outsourced his development to a more powerful language instead. A lot of well-known applications are now, like Basecamp, written by just one programmer. And [...]

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