samcrawford

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   by samcrawford 6y ago

   Quick anecdote... It defaulted to metric units globally when I first launched it ~8 months ago. But that quickly resulted in complaints from North American users, so it now defaults to imperial units in North America and metric everywhere e
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   by samcrawford 6y ago

   Thanks! The avoidance of out-and-backs was a must-have for me. It can definitely be improved though. For example, right now the algorithm tries to avoid traversing the same path twice, but it will happily use a path that is only a few metre
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   by samcrawford 6y ago

   Thanks! Cycling is on the to-do list. But I'm conscious it probably wouldn't just be a single category - there would need to be separation for road cycling and mountain biking. The routing algorithm does already prefer roads with
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   by samcrawford 6y ago

   I actually have. Watch this space - there should be direct route syncing to Garmin and Suunto before terribly long. In the meantime, you can export routes to GPX/KML files already.
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   by samcrawford 6y ago

   Author here. Trail Router is a running route planner that prefers greenery and nature in the routes it generates, and biases against busy roads. It can generate round-trip routes that meet a specified distance, as well as point-to-point rou
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   Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature(trailrouter.com)

   402 points by samcrawford 6y ago|128 comments
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   by samcrawford 6y ago

   Independent of whether it's been down more frequently since the acquisition, I find Github's status page reporting to be lacking. It's also quite generous with definitions of outages and downtime. For example, on June 22nd th
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   by samcrawford 6y ago

   I only posted this because I had some immediate insight into the nature of the issue - i.e. one of Github's two DNS providers seems to be having issues. Someone less familiar with DNS could learn a little by running the commands I put
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   GitHub Is Down

   22 points by samcrawford 6y ago|15 comments
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    I'm getting a Heroku error when hitting the demo URL
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    I like the concept, and signed up to give it a try. I searched for "running route builder", and after about 15 minutes it just showed "Error". I'm keen to actually give it a try though if this can be corrected!
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    On point 2: socket programming hasn't caught up to the same level of performance as Flash had. Try sending or receiving gigabits per second with WebSockets. In my own tests last year on reasonably modern hardware with a 10Gbps Intel NI
13. 73.▲
    by samcrawford 6y ago

    Already being discussed here (10 hours ago, and with a lot more comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23375003
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    Undo button is now live!
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    An undo button will be added soon, you're not the first to ask.
16. 76.▲
    by samcrawford 6y ago

    So far I'm still within the free tier, so nothing at all.
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    Thanks very much for the kind words! I wasn't sure if others would find the technical details of this topic interesting (it's my first foray into GIS work), but it sounds like they would, so consider a blog post in the works.
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    Thanks! In rough order of priority: * Add sliders for setting greenery and hills preferences (so you can _prefer_ hills, rather than just avoid them) * Add support for preferring particular surfaces (e.g. tarmac vs trail) * Add support for
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    Thanks! There is an option in the settings menu to "Avoid hills", and in the not-too-distant future that will become a slider that allows you to prefer hills or avoid them. It's not open source yet, but I might open it up in
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    I wrote a long reply to someone on the Graphhopper forum who was trying to do similar to you. This may be helpful: https://discuss.graphhopper.com/t/can-someone-make-a-video-t... I'll probably write a blog post on
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    Detailed answer here: https://trailrouter.com/about/#the-route-being-suggested-inc... There is a setting in Trail Router to "Avoid Potentially Unsafe Roads" which makes it much more conservative about road ch
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    Thanks! It's already supported. On the left-hand menu, click on the share/forward icon, and there's an export to GPX and KML option there.
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    Oops, that was broken in a recent base map layer update. Fixed now. Sorry!
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    I'll publish the source on Github later today and will reply here. It's a very simple Java app, which scrapes and extracts page content using Jsoup.
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    I have two: 1) Trail Router ( https://trailrouter.com ) - This is a running route planner that favours greenery and nature in the routes it generates. It can generate point-to-point or round-trip routes that meet a specified dista
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    Cost is the sole reason for us as well. We have ~600-700 dedicated servers around the globe, and generate a lot of egress traffic (~20PB/mo). We last ran the figures a year or so ago, and it'd cost us around 13-15x in network cost
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    "Get real-time translations right in your ear". This immediately made me think of the babelfish from Hitchhiker's Guide. Looking forward to reading some reviews of these.
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    by samcrawford 6y ago

    I've reported one bug to HackerOne so far, which was a bug with Wordpress that allowed you to access the title of unpublished posts. Months went by with no reply, despite clear demonstrations of how it could be exploited. Eventually
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    by samcrawford 7y ago

    We use StackPath in a similar capacity to the one being pitched here. They support both containers and VMs, and have a very good spread of locations. Their heritage is a CDN - they were formerly MaxCDN and Highwinds - so their connectivity
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    by samcrawford 7y ago

    Having been through a similar process with KPMG (that ended similarly), I can confirm that they operated on a retainer basis and it did need to be re-upped from time to time. The vast majority of their remuneration was a success fee though.