Shapely was around long before Mapbox, and Rasterio too. Both are based on stalwarts of the open source geospatial world - GEOS and GDAL.

Vector tiles, Mapbox GL, and Mapbox styling, and numerous other libraries however did grow out of Mapbox - the amount of geospatial developer talent they hoovered up must have made it pretty amazing to work at for a time.

Mapbox has had an incredible influence on geo software development for the web.

Hats off to everybody who made it happen.

I am not claiming otherwise, having been a Shapely user since…2012? I’m talking about the work done by Sean et al while they were at Mapbox.

The bacteria is named after Dr. Salmon, not related to the fish.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonella#History

True, but you still can get it from salmon (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/smoked-salmon-salmo...).

It should be possible in a single line of Python..

  pip install fizzbuzz

And then:

  import fizzbuzz
  print fizzbuzz.fizzbuzz()

Or for the second solution:

  print fizzbuzz.fizzbuzzbazz()

A tweetable (140 character) single line of Python:

print '\n'.join((lambda x:(''.join(x) if x else str(i)))([w+'zz' for (n,w) in ((3,'Fi'),(5,'Bu'),(7,'Ba')) if i%n==0]) for i in range(1,100))

Except that number is for the US McDonalds. The French numbers would be +33 1 30 48 65 28 or +33 1 30 48 60 00 as stated on the contact page.

"I don't have the resources to take on a branch of a large multi-national corporation operating in a distant country" - doesn't really cut it when the contact page and number can be found on the Internet in 2 seconds of searching.

I hope the analysis of the flight was more accurate than some of the translations.

02:08:03 (Robert) Tu peux éventuellement le tirer un peu à gauche. You can eventually pull it a little to the left.

Eventuellement is not the French equivalent of the English. It should be "You could pull a little to the left." Many sentences read like a straight copy and paste from Google Translate.

Yes. The translations, while basically accurate, don't do a good job of conveying the tone of remarks, which is important in analyzing the situation.

"You slowly replace your friends with "better" ones"..."will make you more of who you want to be"

I believe the talented Mr Ripley used this strategy to good effect. There's a saying about never trust anyone who doesn't have at least one friend left from childhood.

Not sure what the point of the childhood friend thing is.

I was a very very awkward youth (I didn't speak English well and I was one of few Indian students at my school) so I had a lot of trouble making friends. I don't have many friends from my childhood because I wasn't very good at it, I didn't really establish lasting friendships until High School and College.

High school counts as childhood, and more to the point, childhood friends are an indication that a person is not a disloyal back stabber and is someone others value. It's social proof.

it's just a saying though and is useless past its intended meaning. It does't seem to apply to you.

I would say HS counts as childhood.

This saying is hard to google for, and quite intersting. Do you have a cite handy?

And reactions at http://mapbrief.com/2011/10/19/political-hypocrisy-economic-... and http://blog.entchev.com/2011/10/17/a-call-for-help-for-atana...

I think if a groupon is unused then the merchant is not paid, so Groupon keeps the $10. This is how kgbdeals works. However Groupon redeem expired vouchers (if asked) whereas kgbdeals refuse to redeem vouchers even if valid.

I don't think so (I don't know for sure). My logic says no, though.

Groupon always allows you to redeem an expired voucher for the purchased value (e.g., $10 for $20, you can always get your $10 in credit from the merchant). I think the merchant must be able to keep the purchased portion of it or they'd be out a lot of cash over time if their Groupon was a particularly popular one.

Am I missing something with this "pie fallacy"?

If you restore a car and then sell it to someone that needs a car then surely there is someone else who has sold one less car. The same principle applies to crop prices when all the farmers have a bountiful year.

Surely the reason that wealth has grown, is that the human population has grown - creating more needs and desires, and more workers to meet them.

By taking a beat up car worth $200, and buying some parts for $400, and fixing it up and selling it for $1500, you just created $900 for yourself. This is growing the pie. The is not a set amount of wealth in the world.

Think about the creation of entirely new industries. Think of how much would be spent on cell phones today were it not for the innovation caused by RIM, Motorola and then Apple. Or cloud computing were it not for Amazon, Dropbox ect. These companies create wealth, by creating value for consumers. Banking is a little more complicated, but they provide capital to allow the aforementioned companies to grow and innovate.

Sure, but the $900 dollars would otherwise have gone to buy a car from someone else who fixed up a car or made cars.

I can see how reducing the cost of items or services can make more people "wealthy" - such as being able to buy a second car. But reducing costs normally means reducing wages meaning the owners get richer, and the manual jobs disappear.

Reducing costs can often be accomplished through scale, efficiency, improved logistical delivery. Its not always about reducing wages.