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Show HN: Hurricane Sandy Tracker(cyclocane.com)
1 points by hayley 14y ago|0 comments
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by hayley 14y ago
Much credit goes to wensing and Stormpulse for the inspiration. This site uses the Ruby static site generator Middleman and is hosted on Amazon S3. Ruby scripts pull data from (currently) 8 different government agencies from around the worl
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Show HN: I built a hurricane / typhoon tracker(cyclocane.com)
3 points by hayley 14y ago|1 comments
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by hayley 15y ago
If you're using name.com's DNS, then they've basically got a wildcard subdomain that points to a spammy domain-parked page. So, say you have valid records for .yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com. Those two hosts will resolve as you would
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by hayley 15y ago
The big difference here though is that the "right to boot you" only applies to the cellular data. If you stay on wifi all the time, it really is unlimited (or at least that is what their site would have you believe).
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by hayley 15y ago
I have a few bots of my own that do weather based alerts (by state). They don't @reply anyone; they just do normal tweets. What's so frustrating for me is how often I get slapped for spamming yet these quite-obvious @mention spam bots conti
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by hayley 15y ago
For those interested, KFOR in Oklahoma City is streaming live coverage of this tornado outbreak on their site: http://www.kfor.com/news/livestreaming/
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by hayley 15y ago
Thanks! I've just fixed the broken links - the image links are based on the valid start time that the SPC puts on the outlook, which is supposed to be 20:00 (UTC) for this outlook, but they put the start time on there as 20:40, so the lin
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Show HN: I built this to help people know their severe weather risk
4 points by hayley 15y ago|4 comments
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by hayley 15y ago
You might try Tumblr for audience building. The caveats to this advice are that this worked for me a couple of years ago (so I'm not sure if the same community exists there now) and that my thing was much more about fat loss. Still, I was s
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by hayley 15y ago
Tech details for those interested: It's built on top of OpenLayers with Google Maps and OpenStreetMap as base layers. It was written in CoffeeScript. Jekyll was used to provide a local development server and then also to build a _site direc
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Time lapse visualization of the tornado outbreak April 25th-28th(stormtimemachine.com)
2 points by hayley 15y ago|1 comments
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by hayley 15y ago
I found out after far too much time, that a huge part of my personal success with a programming language is whether or not I "click" with its syntax. So my previous attempts at learning javascript failed miserably because I just never got o
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by hayley 15y ago
> I don't begrudge them this income stream from people who buy domains but don't do anything with them for awhile. What's the harm? There are 2 main issues I have with this: 1. It's not "unused domains" that get this treatment. It's any
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by hayley 15y ago
I'm a former customer of name.com. I'm not sure if they're still doing it, but the thing that drove me away was their spammy DNS. Example: I had valid DNS records for mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com but they were forwarding ANYTHING.mydom
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by hayley 16y ago
Sounds like you're talking about Liam Ashley but have some of the facts twisted: * it wasn't recent (2006) * he was sent to prison because his parents denied bail, not because GTA is some heinous crime in NZ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu
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by hayley 16y ago
Since it sounds like you haven't yet started coding, I would argue that the most important question to ask yourself is which framework makes you most excited about jumping in and coding something now . Since both frameworks are Ruby, I'd h
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by hayley 16y ago
Though I'd assume that most of your bandwidth is getting eaten up by the images, you might consider any/all of the following: * minify HTML output * minify your CSS files * use the Google hosted version of jquery http://code.google.com/api
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by hayley 16y ago
I setup a so-called naked domain and pointed it at an Amazon S3 CNAME just fine. I believe the big downside is that I'll never be able to use email on that domain because of the CNAME. Which, for me, wasn't a big deal.
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by hayley 16y ago
I do something similar with wildcard forwarding, only instead of filtering those emails, I full out block an alias when I start getting spam there. Though I must say that I've been surprised at how many (theoretically) legit places have lea