Great idea / initiative but I must ask, are you new to Ruby? I've rarely come across code that was so not idiomatic.
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#52Great idea / initiative but I must ask, are you new to Ruby? I've rarely come across code that was so not idiomatic.
Thanks, yes, I'm ashamed of my code, this is my first project in ruby , my last programming work was 15 years ago, (Foxpro for DOS) so this is my comeback to programming.
I hope that being opensource will help it to improve.
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#53Isn't this a solution waiting for a (sponsored) problem?
Zone Improvement Plan solved a problem and where would shipping be without it?
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#54AFRAID SEA here. To avoid confusion, might be best to exclude words that are common placenames from the word list (street, road, lake) as well as rude words.
Great to see an open alternative to http://what3words.com (and I also love the icon as visual hash.)
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#56But why? Forget about the tech. What does this accomplish? What3words is nonsensical for the same reasons- Amazon Prime is not coming to Mongolia anytime soon and it has a lot more to do with little disposable income/economics than logistics.
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#57What makes this better than actual coordinates? I can easily find numeric coordinates on a map, without any special tables or computations. I can immediately see if two numeric coordinates are close just by looking at the numbers. Very many people understand how to use standard numeric coordinates.
Seems more easily remembered and therefore easier to accurately share without reliance on technology. 6342 LAY TRANSCENDENT (my location right now) is easier to write down, and comes with a built in typo checker (icon is the earth in this case).
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#58First, you have to teach long division and long multiplication to your 7B people. Like the concept and idea and truly hope for adoption. Is it possible to reduce to addition and subtraction? I feel that multiplication and division is a high barrier for most.
Thanks cgsmith, a pocket calculator will be great when decoding/encoding by hand.
Im guessing that low tech phones (even old nokias) can do the trick by using it as calculator, but then that may not be as low tech as needed.
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#59reminds me of http://what3words.com/
I don't see anything new here that isn't already part of w3w.
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#60What makes this better than actual coordinates? I can easily find numeric coordinates on a map, without any special tables or computations. I can immediately see if two numeric coordinates are close just by looking at the numbers. Very many people understand how to use standard numeric coordinates.
Try remembering and telling someone your home's coordinates. Then try telling them the coordinates of the restaurant up the street.