WiggleGuy

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by WiggleGuy 7mo ago
Very popular term in gaming https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/what-does-meta-mean-in-...
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by WiggleGuy 11mo ago
Yup! Definitely something I've been thinking about
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by WiggleGuy 11mo ago
Working on my website that can heatmap cities based on your lifestyle preferences. https://theretowhere.com It currently supports complex heatmaps based on travel time (e.g. close to work + close to friends + far from police pre
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by WiggleGuy 1y ago
I was in Korea during the Kakao fire incident and thought it was astounding that they had no failovers. However, I thought it'd be a wake up call! I guess not.
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by WiggleGuy 1y ago
Still working on https://theretowhere.com , which is a website that makes it easier to find apartments and hotels/airbnbs close to people and activities you care about. The past couple months have been fun since I've im
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by WiggleGuy 1y ago
I have a user script that just hides the LinkedIn feed. It's quite blissful.
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by WiggleGuy 1y ago
You don't have to add them in manually - the heatmap interface supports "Open searches", where you can add in pins for a bunch of locations at a time based on a query (like "bakeries").
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by WiggleGuy 1y ago
Currently thinking about better ways to spread the word about https://theretowhere.com (my website that makes it easier to find apartments and Airbnbs/hotels close to things you care about). I've actually started getti
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by WiggleGuy 1y ago
That's fair. You can probably hack that experience by making use of the "rules" feature. You can have certain search engines or macros launch automatically upon pressing enter based on the content of the query. You if you set
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by WiggleGuy 1y ago
I built a portal that makes it easier to query against multiple different search engines ( https://allsear.ch/ ). It's open source, free, all that. I must say, building it really expanded my view of the internet. I am al
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Show HN: An open-source browser extension that integrates difftastic into GitHub(andersonaddo.github.io)
3 points by WiggleGuy 1y ago|0 comments
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by WiggleGuy 1y ago
Still working on https://theretowhere.com since I announced it to HN in February. It's an website who's goal is to make it easier to find apartments/hotels/etc that fit your housing preferences (starting with
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
This is super cool - I definitely have a lot to learn from this. I can probably use this for my project theretowhere.com Kudos!
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
I missed this comment! > Central Park OR Prospect Park OR Brooklyn Bridge Park OR Fort Greene Park You can do this, actually. I kinda explain that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976053 The heatmap supports
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
Noted, thanks! > If I put the same thing in two different criteria (with different settings), it says the heatmap parameters are invalid. That's odd, since the website does not differentiate places by coordinates. I think you might
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
That's fair! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978067
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
Ah, you probably tried to search before the website got your location (so it couldn't bias your search). I'll make this an impossible state, thanks for bringing this up.
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
This is possible! I should probably make the UX better. When you're on the heatmap page (or the distance matrix page), look at the top right of the screen. It shows you where it's basing its searches on, and you can override that
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
Hello! To echo what loxias said, it is possible to make queries like this on the heatmap. You can use the "Search Nearby places" button - this takes in more general queries (like cafe, gym, walmart, etc) and gives you back a bunch
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
It can! I can overlay with Zillow, Apartments.com and Streeteasy https://theretowhere.com/we-got-an-extension-babyyyy
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
Yeah, different geo analysis providers have different weightings for travel time (turns, street density, etc). It can sometimes lead to inconsistencies like this, especially if they don't use GPS and proprietary data to correct things
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
The "grocery store" problem is something I've been thinking about for a while, since it has two problems: - There are tons of grocery stores (efficiency of processing all of those) - Not all grocery stores are the same (super
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
I have a v2 of that algorithm coming this weekend! I expect it to make it MUCH faster :)
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
That actually is possible Heatmaps are split into criteria, and each of those criteria can contain multiple places. The criteria are OR clauses between any of the places, and the heatmap is an AND clause over all the criteria So to do what
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Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences(theretowhere.com)
321 points by WiggleGuy 2y ago|99 comments
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
Hey, that's my former professor! Hi Shriram!
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by WiggleGuy 2y ago
Thanks for responding! What you're saying is correct. Obviously you should stand out. Of course recruiters shouldn't move on with or make initial contact with folks that aren't good candidate. That's not really what I&#x
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Ask HN: Want thoughts on an experimental tool to discourage recruiter ghosting
3 points by WiggleGuy 2y ago|3 comments
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by WiggleGuy 4y ago
For companies like Airbnb, their frontline support often sucks. However, a bit of sleuthing and you can sometimes find secret unadvertised support phone numbers they have that give premium support. I found such a number for Airbnb (I don&#x
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by WiggleGuy 4y ago
Note to folks who are migrating away from LastPass now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33810084

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