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by nateparrott 9y ago
Not sure I agree 100% with the productive/unproductive value system you're establishing, but I do think it's an interesting idea — how can we weight the various aspects of a trip we value (time spent, comfort, cost, environme
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by nateparrott 9y ago
I really like the idea of building a subway map projection based on travel time, without making you select a starting station. Might play around with force-directed graphs in d3 — meanwhile, looking forward to what you folks come up with!
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by nateparrott 9y ago
Thanks! Site looks pretty cool — much more readable than mine :)
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by nateparrott 9y ago
It should! As far as I know, GTFS is pretty transport-mode-agnostic. (I imagine the bus stops are a bit more dense, though — it helps that the NYC map has a recognizable set of line colors that remain familiar when you jumble it all up)
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by nateparrott 9y ago
You need to tap a couple times — the first tap triggers the hover state (definitely not ideal for mobile). Unfortunately, it's a bit hard to hit the same stop consistently multiple times...
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by nateparrott 9y ago
Just pushed some changes to make it a (little) easier to use on a small phone. Still far from perfect, but a little better!
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by nateparrott 9y ago
The issue with using average waiting times (as opposed to picking a particular time and computing actual waiting times) is stations with multiple trains — the N, R and Q might each stop at Union Square once every 10 minutes, but if you&#x27
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by nateparrott 9y ago
I'm calculating travel times by simulating a rider starting from the selected stop at a specific time (for example, "weekday late night" is 3 AM, and "rush hour" is 8 AM) and "waiting" for he next schedule
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by nateparrott 9y ago
Thanks! Turns out the MTA does keep a pretty detailed schedule (not that they manage to stick to it much, these days) in the GTFS format, so it's not hard to compute travel times client-side. As a plus, GTFS seems pretty-widely used, m
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How to Build an Augmented Reality Table(table.nateparrott.com)
6 points by nateparrott 11y ago|0 comments
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by nateparrott 11y ago
This. I can't find a single example of an actual UI you'd build with famo.us on their entire site. How am I supposed to know what makes the framework worth learning if I don't see examples of what it makes possible?
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by nateparrott 12y ago
No particular reason. The API currently involves importing `plugin.py` files and calling functions in them, which makes it a bit simpler, but it should be possible to bridge with other languages. I've considered using Javascript for Au
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by nateparrott 12y ago
That's embarrassing... I'll run off and debug that right now. Edit: should be fixed in the next build of the translator plugin. Now to update the screenshot...
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by nateparrott 12y ago
It's primarily an API on which developers can build plugins in Python (though doing a lot of useful stuff actually requires calling out to Applescript, of all things). There's no visual workflow-builder like in Alfred, although yo
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Show HN: Flashlight – Spotlight's missing plugin system(github.com)
6 points by nateparrott 12y ago|0 comments
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by nateparrott 12y ago
As a longtime iOS developer, I find the android layout system far superior for a lot of things. Before AutoLayout, things like containers that adjusted their size to fit text required reams of custom code—AutoLayout is still less intuitive
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AppStop – turn your App Store metadata into a landing page(app-stop.appspot.com)
3 points by nateparrott 12y ago|0 comments
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by nateparrott 12y ago
Is it automatic? A function of highly-downvoted comments?
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Show HN: M.py: inline and minify all CSS and JavaScript references in your HTML(github.com)
6 points by nateparrott 12y ago|0 comments
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by nateparrott 12y ago
Not to suggest any sort of conspiracy, but why is it that this link has (as of 4:21 EDT) 103 points, 43 comments, and was posted one hour ago, and yet is ranked 33rd on the HN homepage — meanwhile, the #1 ranked link, also from an hour ago,
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by nateparrott 12y ago
I'm imagining a Pinterest-style UI working great here — I can imagine tons of people using a sort of Pinterest for code/products.
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by nateparrott 12y ago
Creating a driver-owned replacement for Uber's service could certainly work to give drivers a better deal, but unionizing existing drivers is a better means to that end. Uber certainly adds value—they've got a good app, and it&#x2
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by nateparrott 12y ago
It's not just voice input that's severely neglected by UI designers—it's text-based interface in general. Consider his example of choosing "California" from a list of states—most people would find it way easier to j
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by nateparrott 12y ago
You might also want to append some random data onto each id you assign, to prevent malicious bots from just iterating through all the id's and doing evil on them.
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by nateparrott 12y ago
Am I the only one who's a little disappointed the hottest startups these days are all about helping rich people delegate menial tasks to poor people while minimizing human interaction?
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by nateparrott 12y ago
Exactly. Sites like BuzzFeed and Vice have some pretty trashy stuff, so people dismiss their small forays into "real" journalism as irrelevant posturing—but I don't think that's the case. In the past, quality journalists
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by nateparrott 12y ago
That's why I'm doing this — I think it's crazy that our best solution for creating a simple, one-off site is to use a collaborative document service and share the link. Google Docs is built for documents, and you can tell—hop
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Show HN: Creating a website should be as easy as creating a Word doc(42pag.es)
8 points by nateparrott 12y ago|7 comments
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A bookmarklet to disable position:fixed floating toolbars in any browser
1 points by nateparrott 13y ago|0 comments