Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)
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Re: Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)
#2Author here.
I found myself wanting to learn more about history/culture/politics/etc of more countries throughout the world, so I built a little web app that provides you with one country to learn about each day.
The information provided is intended to just be a starting point; I see the using this as a study guide.
Any feedback is welcome. This is the first personal project that I've shipped!
Edit: I hope you guys don't mind if I add a personal plug. I'm not a full time web developer, and I would very much like to be (I currently design and maintain safety systems for commuter transit). I'm especially interested in Ruby/Rails, but I can generally pick anything up quickly. If anyone would be willing to help me out (advice, job recommendations, resume tips, etc) I would be very grateful. My email can be found in my profile.
Re: Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)
#3I like the idea and intent.
However, why have you broken the back button? This should never be allowed to happen except in very carefully decided situations (say, preventing a user from going backward in a workflow that could provide undesired results).
Is this intentional or an accident?
Re: Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)
#4I like the idea and intent. However, why have you broken the back button? This should never be allowed to happen except in very carefully decided situations (say, preventing a user from going backward in a workflow that could provide undesired results). Is this intentional or an accident?
Where are you at that it's breaking? What browser? It seems to be working ok for me (chrome). Anyone else experiencing this problem?
Edit: I see what you mean. I'm looking into a solution.
Re: Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)
#5I like the idea and intent. However, why have you broken the back button? This should never be allowed to happen except in very carefully decided situations (say, preventing a user from going backward in a workflow that could provide undesired results). Is this intentional or an accident?
Where are you at that it's breaking? What browser? It seems to be working ok for me (chrome). Anyone else experiencing this problem? Edit: I see what you mean. I'm looking into a solution.
Chrome 27 on Snow Leopard: clicking the link from HN takes me to the page, but hitting the back button doesn't bring me back to HN, it looks like it tries to takes me back to countryaday.org which then redirects to countryaday.org/#/welcome
Re: Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)
#6This is a really neat idea. It also gives me a few ideas for iOS apps. Gamifying and speeding up the learning process is crucial to teaching this generation new things. Thanks for building this.
Re: Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where are you at that it's breaking? What browser? It seems to be working ok for me (chrome). Anyone else experiencing this problem? Edit: I see what you mean. I'm looking into a solution.
Chrome 27 on Snow Leopard: clicking the link from HN takes me to the page, but hitting the back button doesn't bring me back to HN, it looks like it tries to takes me back to countryaday.org which then redirects to countryaday.org/#/welcome
Same on Chrome/Linux. Looks like you're using push/popState slightly incorrectly. To the parent: if you long-click the back button, you can jump to an arbitrary point in your history.
Re: Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)
#8Cool idea!
Re: Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)
#9I like the idea and intent. However, why have you broken the back button? This should never be allowed to happen except in very carefully decided situations (say, preventing a user from going backward in a workflow that could provide undesired results). Is this intentional or an accident?
Same issue using FF 21 and Ubuntu. I hit the back button and nothing happens.
Re: Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)
#10The CIA The World Factbook [1] is also really cool. Just pick and country and away you go.
[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/