captainbenises

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   by captainbenises 13y ago

   I reckon a good tool (that this psd.rd wouldn't actually help write, but), would be one that rendered an html/css page - and exported a layered PSD, so you could prototype an app, render it to .psd and send it to your designer fri
2. 92.▲
   by captainbenises 13y ago

   To reply to myself, it looks like it's rendered client side - the json just returns a bunch of points and the heatmap must be canvas. See the json here: http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/wordmap/2/words/sf&
3. 93.▲
   by captainbenises 13y ago

   How does this work - is it rendered server side or client side? Very cool! Reminds me of the 2d historgrams and contour maps you can generate with R.
4. 94.▲
   by captainbenises 13y ago

   This is a good idea, surely someone has already made a good mailing list tool?
5. 95.▲
   by captainbenises 13y ago

   I think people who earn their fortunes through hard work are less likely to blow it like a lottery winner.
6. 96.▲
   by captainbenises 13y ago

   I think it'd be cool to have urls like: http://nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com/congo/kasai-occidental/ka...
7. 97.▲
   by captainbenises 13y ago

   I got this url, I'm not sure if it's correct (I don't read japanese sorry). :( http://nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com/japan/tokyo/adachi/
8. 98.▲
   by captainbenises 13y ago

   In theory there should be only one high street per locality. I didn't try the app with london urls (only berwick street which worked fine [1]). In theory if you can unambiguously write the address of a place without relying on the postcode,
9. 99.▲
   by captainbenises 13y ago

   I'm using iconv to convert from utf-8 to ascii, but the transliteration isn't as complete as I'd like. :( Sorry it strips out prague addresses. I tried using utf-8 urls but I couldn't work out how to handle them in rails. Actually, looking
10. 100.▲
    by captainbenises 13y ago

    Thanks. Just pushed support for that... https://github.com/bnolan/nice-map-urls/commit/2fee561a61ede...
11. 101.▲
    by captainbenises 13y ago

    Source is here... https://github.com/bnolan/nice-map-urls
12. 102.▲
    I made an example app to show how Google map URLs should look(nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com)

    305 points by captainbenises 13y ago|128 comments
13. 103.▲
    by captainbenises 13y ago

    Why is this on hacker news, I don't get it - most readers here would earn a decent wage - what's the interest in super cheap eating. Is it because people want to self-fund their projects and live as cheaply as possible while doing so?
14. 104.▲
    by captainbenises 14y ago

    Of course we will, just will it be in the next 100 years, the next 1,000 or the next 10,000?