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by rorrr 15y ago
What's the "mothership"? I tried Chrome, FF, Opera and Safari - all of them showed my exact location.
842.
by rorrr 15y ago
Nope, maxmind detects my location incorrectly (25 miles off).
843.
by rorrr 15y ago
Yes, I do have a router, but I doubt google has visited us, we only recently moved here. There's no street view anywhere near here, as I said.
844.
by rorrr 15y ago
MaxMind shows my location as 25 miles to the south.
845.
by rorrr 15y ago
Hmmm, yes, my wife used her iPhone. But who is "they"? Who has my precise coordinates?
846.
by rorrr 15y ago
Because I tried it without google, just using this: navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(callback) Gives you the same precise coordinates, in all browsers I've tried.
847.
by rorrr 15y ago
That doesn't really answer anything. In my case, there's no wifi, I'm on cable. So it must use my IP. Yet all other IP->location services I've tried are not even close. I'm asking because I'm writing some code that would benefit greatly
848.
Ask HN: how is browser geolocation so precise?
29 points by rorrr 15y ago|33 comments
849.
by rorrr 15y ago
If looks like there was something very bright there, probably a sun reflection, and older digital sensors have a problem with that, it's called "blooming" and "streaking". Basically the charge in one "pixel" is so high, it leaks to the neig
850.
by rorrr 15y ago
JVM execution (a Java applet I assume) now requires a confirmation, at least in Chrome.
851.
by rorrr 15y ago
Javascript has at least 2 ways to do parallel processing without any extensions 1) Worker threads 2) WebGL shaders Anything else has almost no chance at taking off.
852.
by rorrr 15y ago
Spammy shitty article.
853.
by rorrr 15y ago
This probably http://shortformblog.tumblr.com/post/10294229930/paul-carr-t... But it's not funny, more like shitty behavior.
854.
by rorrr 15y ago
The message is not clear at all.
855.
by rorrr 15y ago
If you really care about low latency, get a dedicated server. You will even get better specs if you spend the same money. There are amazing deals out there, like this one: https://robot.your-server.de/order
856.
by rorrr 15y ago
So the prices are pretty much identical to Amazon EC2. Why would anybody choose an unknown player versus somebody very experienced like Amazon?
857.
by rorrr 15y ago
Yeah? What's the male/female ratio on your google+?
858.
by rorrr 15y ago
With their insane fees PayPal has nothing against Visa/Mastercard.
859.
by rorrr 15y ago
That looks like up to 55% traffic loss for up to an hour. WTF was that?
860.
by rorrr 15y ago
Yeah, Google keeps making the same mistake by doing the closed invitation-only beta thing. My google plus is basically programmers and google employees posting shit from reddit and HN.
861.
by rorrr 15y ago
Warning: negativity ahead. If you want to learn design, why don't you read something from a real designer, not Kadavy. I mean, look at his personal website, it has the shittiest design. Even his book cover has a crappy design (WTF is this h
862.
by rorrr 15y ago
Your landing page sucks. I have no idea what the website is about. "Discover & Share Future Happenings" is extremely vague.
863.
by rorrr 15y ago
It looks like it gets stuck in a local maximum. Too bad it takes such a long time to test each turbine. I wonder if it can be GPU accelerated. Seriously, I've never wasted my CPU time on Folding@Home ot SETI@Home, but I would give it for so
864.
by rorrr 15y ago
That would break the usability. Right now you know that horizontal axis = lists, vertical = items in lists. The only thing that I don't like is horizontal scrolling.
865.
by rorrr 15y ago
The problem with all these online storage services is uploading your data. At my 1 mbit uplink it would take 97 days of non-stop uploading to upload 1TB. That's if my ISP doesn't ban me.
866.
by rorrr 15y ago
Also http://www.mozy.com http://www.carbonite.com
867.
by rorrr 15y ago
Why would you resize your browser while reading a page?
868.
by rorrr 15y ago
How is this legal?
869.
by rorrr 15y ago
Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2336889538700185341
870.
by rorrr 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2883651 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=485553

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