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hacker of python, go, nosql. advisor to startups in bayarea and beyond. reach out- ''.join('.com gmail @ emailg+hn'.split()[::-1])
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Comment · 7 months ago
I'm guessing from the AIS Vessel Tracking (mentioned in their data sources)- https://www.vesselfinder.com/realtime-ais-data
Comment · 7 months ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
There is also this one- https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/
Comment · 1 year ago
Same concern. Uninstalled. The other obvious concern is of not being able to test the actual app without a paid subscription.
Side note- I wish the AppStore would identify apps that are completely useless without a paid plan.
Comment · 1 year ago
Very cool and fascinating. I wonder if there are other insights that can be drawn from what you've built. Like which two words (or such pairs) have the longest sequence of hops to connect? Or what are the top "superconnectors"? Or if there is a plausible correlation between how well a word is connected to how old it is?
Comment · 1 year ago
This looks really cool. A while ago I was thinking of putting together something similar but for very different reasons but this would enable bringing them to life much more easily.
Have you published as yet, how to create a new game on this?
Comment · 2 years ago
This is really useful! Makes it easy to feed unstructured (thoughts) into a spreadsheet for processing later on. Thanks for doing this. Are you planning on making this open-source?
Comment · 3 years ago
Love their mistakes page- https://www.givewell.org/about/our-mistakes
Most startups could learn to maintain a page like this.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is a great thread! I'm wondering if creating an ideas-people matchmaking site for it makes sense- it could be a collection of ideas along with their stage of development (idea only, prototype ready, production ready, etc) and a similar collection of skills/people who are willing to/interested in projects. All opensource/free of course.
I'll be up for putting this together if someone wants in on this. I'm a generalist with mastery/expertise in [python, go, nosql dbs, aiml, bigdata] have product and business experience as well.
Comment · 4 years ago
There are also web implementations like https://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ or https://turtleacademy.com/ which kids love to play with (and I'll admit is fun for us adults too!) The fern example in particular is surprisingly beautiful.
Comment · 5 years ago
You can also host an event for online volunteering- eg. mapping projects. Examples- https://www.missingmaps.org/ and https://www.hotosm.org/
Most of these would show a leaderboard of whoever has made most contributions (within your event/subgroup) and you can turn it into a game.
Comment · 9 years ago
These prompts can vary significantly based on the field you are working on. You should consider a way to customize these prompts that are more relevant to your field.
Overall- very cool concept. Realized this while using it- I have a forcing function of taking only the useful parts of my thoughts forward. That is handy for someone like me that has brain-spills all the time :)
Comment · 9 years ago
Almost all such articles miss the most crucial self assessment piece- if you are married/in a relationship make sure you and your partner have a good understanding of the potential stress that you are about to take on. It can make all the difference in making shitty days tolerable or even more terrible.
Comment · 10 years ago
Sometimes the best question is the simplest one. I agree the original has a lot of scope of improvements but I prefer the debate and the range of answers which wouldn't have been the case if the original question was more specific.