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Lin.ear th.inking
Personal blog · lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.comprogrammingmath
Lin.ear th.inking is a personal blog at lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com about programming and math. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's technical posts on geocoding, such as mapping latitude and longitude to country, state or city. One commenter quoted its advice on handling points that fall in gaps between simplified state borders.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Because the shortest distance between two thoughts is a straight line
What Hacker News says?
> A side effect of the geometry simplication is that there are some very small gaps between states. Based on your use case, you'll need to handle the case of the point not being within any state borders. In these rare cases, you could fall back to a different method, such as distance checking centroid points, adding an episilon to all state borders, or simply asking the user. (The user may also be in another country…
Comment linking /2022/07/polygonal-coverages-and-operations-in.html
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