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Post by chgs »

zh3 wrote: post #214
chgs wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every time o put directions to my local market town of Newport in Shropshire, google insists on thinking I want to travel two hours to Wales. I guess it could be worse and I’d end up in the Isle of Wight. Reused names isn’t just an American thing.

Ashford Kent and Ashford Middlesex are common issues in the southeast. As for Hawkridge in Devon...dark night (not stormy) and it was only when I saw Dulverton road signs I got the sense this wasn't going to plan.

At least two Whitchurch stations I have used. There then the two Newcastle

Oh and Shakespeare isn’t from East London

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

detourdog wrote: post #306
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #304

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I do not know how zip codes work in the US, but in France this is very, very specific to the city you live in. There is no concept of "area". The first 2 digits of the zip code are an area, but a large one.

I think that is about the same as the USA. Do you think zip codes wouldn’t work. I thought that it was the simplest mechanism. A city is an area and it is easy to tell how close to a zip code one is.

In France the zip code has the format XX-YYY

XX is the départment, one of the two major administrative divisions in France. It is made of communes - "cities".

It can be rather small like 75 - Paris, or of the size of half of Massachusetts (about 11000 km2).

The YYY means that you are in this department but there is no distance relationship between the numbers. And then of course you can have a city in 78 a km away from a city in 92 and 30 km away from one in 78.

It is true that this at last gives a rough estimation of where someone is

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Post by bruh2 »

prdpx7 wrote: post #310
eperssona wrote: post #285

It's really disheartening. All those names the OP has mentioned, but we can't see them as X.com has X'ed them under password. We need to look at some other service that is open to share our own identities without the login hell. Does anyone know if such service is available?

here you go https://xcancel.com/

Incredible. How does that work? I thought Nitter was completely neutered a while ago.

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Post by c6p »

sirobg wrote: post #198
longlonglonglon wrote: post #115

I placed myself at McMurdo Station and it shows up on the map but clicking the icon throws a 500 error. Edit: seems to be fixed (by removing my icon from the map, now it throws error 500 when posting the data to re-add it). Edit 2: you can place yourself in North Korea but clicking the [M] doesn't work because the name contains non ASCII characters. Also it returns error 405 when adding yourself (despite actually sav…

Thanks for reporting all this! > I placed myself at McMurdo Station and it shows up on the map but clicking the icon throws a 500 error. This was because there was no country code associated to it. > Edit: seems to be fixed (by removing my icon from the map, now it throws error 500 when posting the data to re-add it). I actually did more than removing it, I now make any "city" without a country code, an invalid one.…

I tried to click on the locations in Turkey to list the users. But it redirects to homepage if it contains non-ASCII characters such as Tekirdağ, Ataşehir.

Awaiting for a fix, currently unusable for my case.

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Post by gtirloni »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #228
gtirloni wrote: post #123

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As I get older, the "old wise dude" myth fades more every day. I rarely meet wise old people, it's quite the opposite actually. Not saying there aren't any, buy I would avoid conflating old and wise together.

Absolutely. However, it seems that most folks conflate "older" (which is getting increasingly younger -I encounter folks in their early forties that can't get interviews), and "useless." Funny. We're doing pretty well at opening up the industry to folks from many ethnic backgrounds, and women, but the industry actively encourages ageism. Most of the "reasons" end up falling flat, upon closer inspection. It just seems…

Indeed, ageism is a serious issue. And it seems out of touch with an ageing society in most countries.

I'm not young anymore either and my experience job hunting has been that I get invited to fewer initial interviews, but when I am, the whole process is much much easier for myself than a decade ago. Onboarding is also much faster.

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Post by prdpx7 »

bruh2 wrote: post #314
prdpx7 wrote: post #310

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here you go https://xcancel.com/

Incredible. How does that work? I thought Nitter was completely neutered a while ago.

This is actually an instance of nitter.

https://xcancel.com/about

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#public

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Post by bschmidt1 »

narag wrote: post #128
bschmidt1 wrote: post #47

Confirms my suspicion that the most active HN users are in Canada/East Coast/Europe. When I first discovered HN I thought it was a small Stanford thing, but over time realized it's mostly a Canada/Europe crowd (even most of the YC founders that come to San Francisco for their startup are from those places).

If you're living in SF area, you have an IRL social aggregator. We in WE appreciate HN more with its warts and all.

"IRL social" in SF hahah

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Post by drcongo »

chgs wrote: post #311
zh3 wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ashford Kent and Ashford Middlesex are common issues in the southeast. As for Hawkridge in Devon...dark night (not stormy) and it was only when I saw Dulverton road signs I got the sense this wasn't going to plan.

At least two Whitchurch stations I have used. There then the two Newcastle Oh and Shakespeare isn’t from East London

My favourite thing about the Newcastles is that one is under and one is on. I was pondering just recently whether there's any other under/upon pairs in the UK.
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