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It fixed some things (“ChatGPT have”, “It’s has”) but changed the meaning of the first sentence and introduced a misplaced modifier (“As a non-native English speaker, ChatGPT…”).


Can you please explain how that is considered a misplaced modifier?


Sure. To be more precise, it's a "dangling modifier" [1]. The modifying clause "As a non-native English speaker" intends to refer to the narrator, who is using ChatGPT to improve their text. But the sentence as constructed, where this clause is followed by the subject "ChatGPT", might be read as implying that ChatGPT is a non-native English speaker. The original beginning "I am not a native English speaker..." was clearer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier


The modified version is saying that ChatGPT is the non-native speaker, not the original poster. It is a different meaning.

It is probably wrong too. ChatGPT is a native English speaker as far as I can tell.



Hi, Mapbox developer here. We've gotten a few requests for offline for mapbox-gl-js[0], but haven't put a priority on it yet. We need to do some investigation to see if this is something that's feasible to build with Web APIs such as IndexedDB.

[0]: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js



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Absolutely. My preference for new modules is to use both newless and "this"-less Javascript. Newless via the technique outlined in this post (or encapsulated in a module: https://github.com/Mr0grog/newless), and this-less via the module pattern (see link in post).

This is the pattern followed by D3. It's easy to follow internally, gives you true private data and methods, and (IMHO) is a nicer interface for API consumers -- no `new`, `delete`, or `bind`'s necessary.


This looks like a bug. I filed a ticket and we'll take a look. Thanks for the details!

https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/652


I'm running Firefox 32 Beta on Windows 8.1 with DPI scaling, in case that helps narrow it down. Tried to test it, but I don't think I can get FF to stop scaling without logging out and back in; quitting and rerunning it with the disable scaling box checked doesn't work. That's normally the first thing I look at for graphical glitches on here, though I have no idea how it affects WebGL.

Great job with this! Coming from Google Maps and similar, the smooth motion is mesmerizing, especially labels staying level as you rotate. And tile loading/pop-in is much quicker than what I get from Google.


MapBox - San Francisco and Washington DC

MapBox is looking for developers and designers, an Operations Manager, and a Business Development Lead.

http://www.mapbox.com/jobs/

We're a team of 30 or so artists, developers, designers and strategists working on an open platform for maps. Our platform powers everything from apps like Foursquare, GitHub and Evernote to news stories on NPR and USAToday to simple maps on personal blogs and wedding websites. Much of our work is powered by open source and open data and we're often in touch with folks at OpenStreetMap, the US Census Bureau, USGS, and NASA.

Check out what we have been working on lately on our blog:

http://www.mapbox.com/blog/


A query like "one-way streets and stop-lights within my area" is perfect for the Overpass API: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API

The best UI for Overpass is http://overpass-turbo.eu/



I've been following iD development on github (https://github.com/systemed/iD/) since last year, and I honestly think that reading through its source is the single best case study I've come across for application development with D3. It's pretty phenomenal. Perhaps I'm a bit biased since I work on map stuff as well, but I think pretty much anyone thinking about using D3 to build anything larger than one-off visualizations would do well to see how it's put to use in iD.

Hats off to you guys, great work!


Just added my first changes through iD, I didn't expect something so simple, functional and ergonomic. Little details like contextual ~pie-menus, geometric operation suggestion for instance segment midpoint as a trigger for insertion, very pretty. Did you work on modeling tools prior to that ?


Thank you for your great work. You just gave me a new hobby!


As far as I've been able to find, Hal Abelson's last statement was on May 13, when he wrote that the report would be released "this summer".

http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/swartz/2.html

This is indeed much delayed from his initial statement on January 22 that he hoped the report would be ready "in a few weeks."

http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N63/abelson.html

It's disappointing that it's taken this long.


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