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eruci
8y ago
Why?
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eruci
8y ago
I usually forget why I exited
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eruci
8y ago
Me! It was 2016, I was nearly broke from being on the receiving end of a copyright infringement lawsuit, and nobody would hire me. So, I hired myself and started a new company which pays my salary today. https://www.indiehackers.
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eruci
8y ago
The next great idea is how to replace a headline with a single word.
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eruci
8y ago
I feel much dumber now in my 40s as opposed to my 20s. I pretty much stopped reading books after high school and am no longer able to solve certain math problems. Instead, I read stuff like this article.
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eruci
8y ago
People are divided into two kinds: useful and useless. Wooing the first type is the reasonable thing to do.
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tough!
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8y ago
Software developers to companies: - don’t charge me money! - don’t raise your prices! - don’t raise money! - don’t sell your company! - don’t shutdown! ... Me, I don't care. I work for myself.
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eruci
8y ago
I've been working remotely for the last 13 years. Still doing it. Feels like Robinson Crusoe sometimes, but look at it from the positive side: don't have to deal with annoying co-workers (like I used to, long ago)
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8y ago
No! At least not in the sense that its alternatives are.
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eruci
8y ago
That study means nothing. Canadians will move to Silicon Valley, or work on Silicon Valley projects from here. Governments have little policy leverage on borderless tech companies these days. (Disclosure: I'm a one man Canadian compan
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eruci
8y ago
There are alternatives. I'm building a price comparison chart for various providers here: https://geocode.xyz/pricing
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eruci
9y ago
That's why I'm laying down.
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9y ago
It does not work.
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eruci
9y ago
Geohash is a great idea, but at the end of the day all these systems are a mapping to latitude,longitude. The lat,lon precision can be derived from the number of digits after the decimal point. The main argument for the existence of these
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eruci
9y ago
latitude,longitude up to the 5th decimal point is easier to remember. and more intuitive.
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9y ago
Nice. Get students to keep paying tuition even after they leave the Uni.
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Show HN: Geocode.xyz – Yet Another IPv4 and IPv6 Geolocation API
(geocode.xyz)
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My current job
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It has been so long since I quit my last day job (2005), that I can't really remember what it was like or what made me quit. But I can tell you this. I would not have been this productive if I'd stayed on at my cushy software deve
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Books.geocode.xyz – world literature on a map
(books.geocode.xyz)
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Sorry to hear that. Is openaddresses.io, one of their backed projects dying too? I've been using their data on geocode.xyz, but it seems like there has not been any new data in the past 6 months.
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10y ago
The Naked Ape
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Worldwide geoparser and geocoder
(geocode.xyz)
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10y ago
Yes. http://geocode.xyz/batch
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10y ago
Yes we do. for example: http://geocode.xyz/GROTE%20MARKT,%20BRUSSEL,%20BE?region=BE Read our API docs for more info: http://geocode.xyz/api Parameter Name Description Permitted Values region The region para
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eruci
10y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. It was a bug which is now fixed.
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In this case it is a city match: http://geocode.xyz/Aveyn,%20G%C3%B6teborg?geoit=xml <geodata> <latt>57.67100</latt> <longt>11.97980</longt> <standard> <addresst/> &l
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Första Långgatan 10, Göteborg is mainly a utf8 encoding problem. (I'm working on it, it's challenge especially with Russian, Hebrew or Armenian). Should work with ascii values too: eg, http://geocode.xyz/Forsta%20L
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Geoparsing means there need not be a specific format for the data to be in, for geocoding to work. For instance On maps.google Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses (FOS) World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20 Geneva Doen't
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