Happy New Year Hacker News, what are your plans for 2011? • Hacker News Board

erreon wrote: post #9

Keep learning to program. Keep working on http://www.willitfreezetonight.com Get rid of fatness on my body. Find a way to mix my license in Real Estate with my love for programming. Do some co-working at C4 Workspace in San Antonio. Be more social. Generate a decent income. Do more things that scare me. Learn to scuba dive.

maybe you can just use geo-ip by default, so you don't need to prompt the user for anything. (maybe provide a link to the prompt if the location is wrong)

Re: Happy New Year Hacker News, what are your plans for 2011?

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Post by erreon » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 3:50 AM UTC

catch23 wrote: post #18

erreon wrote: post #9

Keep learning to program. Keep working on http://www.willitfreezetonight.com Get rid of fatness on my body. Find a way to mix my license in Real Estate with my love for programming. Do some co-working at C4 Workspace in San Antonio. Be more social. Generate a decent income. Do more things that scare me. Learn to scuba dive.

maybe you can just use geo-ip by default, so you don't need to prompt the user for anything. (maybe provide a link to the prompt if the location is wrong)

I may have to play with that. My initial thinking was to leave it blank so that users could fill in the place they may be heading to. I tried to make it as easy as possible to type too with autocomplete of US cities and states. Also, the geolocation is pretty awesome on a smartphone. Is geo-ip very reliable on phones?

Edit: I'm making the geo-location button add zipcode as well to get a more accurate answer.

I love the feedback. Maybe I should add a feature suggestion box to the site itself. Thank you.

Re: Happy New Year Hacker News, what are your plans for 2011?

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Post by michaelty » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 4:01 AM UTC

Learn Node.js, learn RoR, learn CoffeeScript. Read the Dragon Book. Lurk moar.