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   by aaasen 15d ago

   I'm building an expedition weather app that works via satellite messengers like Garmin inReach, ZOLEO, and iPhone satellite messaging. It has been really interesting trying to fit a detailed weather forecast into about 1,000 bits. I&#x
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   by aaasen 13y ago

   This is awesome! Great way to visualize the data and I really like that you used IRC.
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   by aaasen 13y ago

   It only shows the 1000 most common locations. Sorry!
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   by aaasen 13y ago

   Thanks Leland!
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   by aaasen 13y ago

   I also used the same data in a 3D visualization with the Oculus Rift. You can check out a demo here: http://youtu.be/dgMOdzfoPgs?t=31s
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   by aaasen 13y ago

   Author here, sorry about the spikes where people do not actually live. A lot of users put only their country and not city, and I didn't want to throw that data away. I probably should've checked the specificity of the location and
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   by aaasen 13y ago

   Thanks for the link, just watched it all the way through. I felt disturbed thousands of miles away - can't imagine what it's like to actually be there, so close to death and destruction every second of every day.
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   by aaasen 14y ago

   It's crazy that there are so many huge companies that I've never heard of. Instagram's acquisition was huge news at $1B, but I didn't hear a peep about Ariba at $4.3B or Genzyme at $20B. It's easy to think that consumer oriented web startup
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   Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal(aasen.in)

   99 points by aaasen 14y ago|56 comments