api_or_ipa

3 года назадdiscuss

Usually I'd agree with you, but San Francisco is _really_ into its neighborhoods. Woe unto you if you say you're in Potrero Hill when you're in Dog Patch, or say you're in the Mission when you're on 12th street on the edge of SOMA. It's why I built the webapp, since as a new-comer I was finding myself on the receiving end of a lot of unwarranted ribbing over where exactly I was!

api_or_ipa

3 года назадdiscuss

https://neighbs.us/

Really fucking dumb. Uses browser geolocation to tell me which neighborhood in San Francisco I'm currently standing in. Grabbed the lat/longs of each neighborhood from the SFData [0]. It works by plotting a circle representing your location + uncertainty and determining which of SF's 117 neighborhoods intersect with it. If your circle intersects with more than one neighborhood, it's smart enough to categorize them in order of certainty. It even automatically updates as you move, it's pretty fun to sit in an Uber and watch the neighborhood change as you move across the city. Learned a lot about polygon intersection algorithms, they're pretty amazing!

Built it a number of years ago when I moved here. Since it runs entirely in the browser, it's hosted for free on github pages and I don't need to maintain a server.

0 https://datasf.org/opendata/

api_or_ipa

5 лет назадdiscuss

So... this thing phones home to activate every time you jump on your motorcycle? I would absolutely love to be the lawyer who's client sustained life threatening injuries because your server was temporarily down precisely when it needed to verify DRM on a motorcycle airbag.

api_or_ipa

9 лет назадdiscuss

Unfortunately initial cost isn't the only constraint. Apartment style top/bottom washer/dryer combos can only get so big. In addition, larger equipment requires greater amounts of electricity to run and maintenance can be a bit more expensive (larger parts).

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