world maps

You can use openstreetmap tiles for testing purposes, but the volunteer driven organization will not be able to support your maps -tiles  requests if you are serving a lot of traffic commercially.

So cough up and go to mapbox.
My examples run on a free developer mapbox key.  I look forward to completing a Ukiyo-e Risk game or a cybernetic dope-wars...
Google maps shows me a darkenend map for me now.

Or git-gud and setup your own tileserver, the entire world's maps are downloadable. No serious.

There's also wikimapia but I haven't checked it out.

We set out to create a places & merchants map based tool, but have ended up here, writing this post.

A friend is interested in the Iexec whitepaper. He wants to code up a blockchain backed distributed computational system. I am still confused : if you aren't able to generate hashes ,your entries will not go into the blockchain, right ? If so how can you make this into a determinate dependable system ?
Time will tell ...

Spring boot guides are going well. All my previous attempts stalled at some stage of setup or getting v0 to run. I guess the thing to remember here is to start with working systems.

There's a laundry list of chores to complete to get your Spring application Production-ready, as per heroku documentation. These range from logging, to adding metrics, ssl , rate limiting, alerting, error and maintenance pages,  uuids for postgres keys etc.
Spring documentation only asks you to add a Procfile.  However, there's also moving to production which introduces our old friend JMX  , which Berlin choose to use via Jolokia.

One idea that surfaced in today evening's Metropolis Chai run was that we should have an electronics store for people moving to Bangalore, containing - say, headphones, computer speakers, large monitor, maybe desk and chair .. .etc

Why not build a chinese pagoda using cardboard ? There is no end to decorative things one can make out of cardboard,paper with scissors, paint and glue.

And oh hey, a Cracked.com writer took apart Fight Club and gave it a new life. A different one.

Most of work involves lowering of barriers to things, so that they can be done with less mental 'lift'. There's a book called 'Deep work' . However, if you can't do the heavy lifting in one session, you'll need to sow the ideas and have the brain connect them over time and places. Sometimes my brain wakes up after a day or a week. It always connects when talking to a friendly-capable. The office is full of hostiles.

Ajahn Brahm mentioned in a talk that there is no will power, only won't power, as the decision you think you are taking has already been taken for you in the core part of your brain, and the awareness and action parts only get the message a little later - which is when you 'know'. So you are always aware of yourself doing the wrong thing  ,if you noticed . You have 3 seconds or milliseconds, am not sure, to catch the impulse - hence - won't power.
I'd like to draw your attention to the parallel :

* Thus spake the Master Programmer: "When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave."

Tao Te programming say " Go for the hand not the ball"

I can start putting all my knowledge in a searchable database. But why ?