I mentioned that there are some super high resolution satelite maps in Google Maps. Here’s the one I was looking at, you can actually see people and cows. It looks like a plane did a fly-over and snapped the photos.
They use a simple hack on Google Maps to get the zoom to go past the normal maximum.
Paul was talking about a website where people compete to implement an algorithm in the most compact code possible. They have a leader board and track your stats, it looks pretty neat.
He also brought up Distributed Version Control Systems, something I’ve been meaning to spend a little more time checking out. Similar to ther VCS systems, but there’s no checking in or out; everyone has their own working copy and they merge into the main repository. It’s an interesting idea: not only can you work online, but you have access to all of the version control repository features all of the time.
Paul was trying out Darcs
Sun is using Mercurial
Linus wrote his own for the Kernel, Git
Paul put some more notes up on his blog with more links to check out.
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