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by bvlaar 5y ago
Happy Earth Day HNers, I built carbon ledger to make it easy for companies to build climate-conscious applications using their payments data. There's currently an explosion in fintech, climate-tech and SaaS companies who are adding cli
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Show HN: I made an API to calculate the C02e footprint of credit card purchases(carboninterface.com)
2 points by bvlaar 5y ago|1 comments
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Carbon Interface Tutorial: Calculating Emissions from Electricity via API(carboninterface.com)
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by bvlaar 6y ago
Thanks! The design is a template from bootstrap themes called Landkit. The actual backend is done in Rails and I built everything myself on top of that.
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by bvlaar 6y ago
Great! Would love to hear more about your use case. Feel free to email me at brandon [at] carboninterface [dot] com
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by bvlaar 6y ago
Adding more regions electricity is on the priority list after certifying my flights and shipping estimates with their related emissions government bodies!
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by bvlaar 6y ago
https://www.carboninterface.com ----- Carbon Interface is an API to generate carbon emissions estimates. Right now my API can calculate emissions for flights, driving, shipping and electricity generation. In addition to making t
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by bvlaar 6y ago
Hello HN! I made Carbon Interface to support the development of other fun project's I've been working on that require c02 estimates for common emitting activities. I decided to turn this into a service because other people in the
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Show HN: Carbon Interface – An API to calculate carbon emissions(carboninterface.com)
5 points by bvlaar 6y ago|1 comments
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Measuring a startup's carbon emissions(medium.com)
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Climate Change Book Recommendations(medium.com)
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by bvlaar 11y ago
Lending Loop | Downtown Toronto | ONSITE | Fulltime We’re looking for a senior developer that can navigate our whole stack which includes: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Salesforce, Heroku, and PostgreSQL. We’re a hardworking and enthusiastic team
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by bvlaar 11y ago
Lending Loop | Downtown Toronto | ONSITE | Fulltime We’re looking for a senior developer that can navigate our whole stack which includes: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Salesforce, Heroku, and PostgreSQL. We’re a hardworking and enthusiastic team
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by bvlaar 11y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with the idea of the display being wider. The traditional shape of a watch was that way because of the mechanism inside. Wearables, like the Apple Watch, should do away with the traditional watches form factor constra
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Resources for learning Ruby on Rails(brandonvlaar.com)
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by bvlaar 14y ago
Just a quick insight. I work with someone who runs a small online business selling health products over the web. He swears by ffiver for SEO in addition to more well known techniques. One way he found to legitimize his business was to buy F
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by bvlaar 14y ago
At the end of the day, it all boils down to content. We're going through an age of amazing television, especially with AMC and HBO. Netflix needs to either provide GREAT content that they create, or they have to get HBO and AMC on board (wh
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by bvlaar 14y ago
I like the idea. The design could be cleaned up a bit, but you shipped and executed so props for that. This could be huge for tutorials, esp with photoshop, coding, web dev tutorials. Goodluck!
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by bvlaar 14y ago
I've followed tutorials online, used Treehouse, and other services to learn online. They are useful, but for me, there is one aspect missing: help. I'm currently in university and If I have a question in class or during a study session, the
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by bvlaar 14y ago
Good point. Thanks for clearing that up
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by bvlaar 14y ago
Must be. I find it strange that my 2010 MBP can't use AirPlay when my iPhone 4 can work fine. Really hope someone comes out with a hack/mod to fool the OS into thinking I have the proper hardware.
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by bvlaar 14y ago
AirPlay won't work unless you have a 2011 or 2012 Mac. This is highly disappointing.
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by bvlaar 14y ago
techmeme.com readwriteweb.com thenextweb.com forbes.com cnbc.com cnn.com theglobeandmail.com
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by bvlaar 14y ago
Great point. I guess we can draw parallels to other purchases we make. When I purchase a car, I get the car I paid for in that current state, they wont 'update' it for free, nor do we as consumers expect that. The app industry has created
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by bvlaar 14y ago
This is very reassuring to instapaper users in this m&a environment. Thank you
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by bvlaar 14y ago
Thinking Fast and Slow
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by bvlaar 14y ago
When I was younger between the ages of 9-15 I loved hardware hacking. I would take apart Xboxes, Play Stations and even my computers. I would install mod chips, homebrew software and even tacky lighting. Being apart of the hardcore gaming c
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by bvlaar 14y ago
No problem. I'm sure the reduced temperature would be much for valuable to a data center than our facility as well. Goodluck!
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by bvlaar 14y ago
In a manufacturing facility I worked at last summer we had a company paint the roof white. It was previously black and attracted much more heat. We noticed a material change in the temperature in the building after painting it white and cou
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by bvlaar 14y ago
I currently attend school for finance (Western University in Canada). My first two years were mainly split between economics and finance/accounting. To be honest (not sure if this is the case at most schools) but the material we learn is ab

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