Can I Wear Shorts Today? • Hacker News Board

Re: Can I Wear Shorts Today?

#11

Post by mikeash » Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 5:22 PM UTC

milkmanjr wrote: post #10

Store my location in a cookie or local storage -- I'll just check the page every day before I head out the door.

Just bookmark it after searching.

Re: Can I Wear Shorts Today?

#12

Post by BrentSkillhd » Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 5:22 PM UTC

Good twist to a weather app. Since ever tutorial that teaches you how to code wants you to make one.

Re: Can I Wear Shorts Today?

#13

Post by smcl » Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 5:24 PM UTC

I wrote a similar\silly binary weather service (using the OpenWeather api) at http://taps.af

"Taps aff" is a Scottish way to talk about taking your shirt off on warm (read: >20C) days. I've also seen drunk people in some pubs shout "TAPS AFF, LADS!!" and a bunch of their drunk pals took their tshirts off and necked shots of tequila. Scotland is weird :-/

Oh and "Aye" means "yes", "Naw" means "no"

edit: awww it's down, sorry

Re: Can I Wear Shorts Today?

#14

Post by smcl » Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 5:26 PM UTC

justzisguyuknow wrote: post #9

Perfectly useless. I hope you didn't spend too much time or money on this.

Relax, it was for fun

Re: Can I Wear Shorts Today?

#15

Post by __xtrimsky » Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 5:27 PM UTC

smcl wrote: post #13

I wrote a similar\silly binary weather service (using the OpenWeather api) at http://taps.af "Taps aff" is a Scottish way to talk about taking your shirt off on warm (read: >20C) days. I've also seen drunk people in some pubs shout "TAPS AFF, LADS!!" and a bunch of their drunk pals took their tshirts off and necked shots of tequila. Scotland is weird :-/ Oh and "Aye" means "yes", "Naw" means "no" edit: awww it's down…

Your location system does not seem to work in the US.

This website: http://thefuckshouldiwear.com/ Shows correctly my location (Albany, NY).

Your website does not find my location and when I manually write Albany, NY in the bottom, it doesn't work either!

Re: Can I Wear Shorts Today?

#16

Post by Dakuan » Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 5:33 PM UTC

temperature in F. As we say in Europe: 'null points'

Re: Can I Wear Shorts Today?

#17

Post by robinhowlett » Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 5:43 PM UTC

We'd like to lead the Series A round please. We think the integration opportunities with our existing product are endless!

Sincerely, the Yo app investors

Re: Can I Wear Shorts Today?

#18

Post by simaktamas » Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 5:43 PM UTC

Hey, you left debug mode on - noticed it as I tried it with my city (Vác), which raised a UnicodeEncodeError.

Re: Can I Wear Shorts Today?

#19

Post by logfromblammo » Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 5:45 PM UTC

This reminds me of the "weather rock" that often appears in rustic campsites.

You remember it, don't you? If the rock is wet, there's rain. If it's swinging, there's wind. If you can barely see it, there's fog. If it's smoking, lightning strike. If it's gone, tornado. If it comes back, duck!

Re: Can I Wear Shorts Today?

#20

Post by probably_wrong » Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 5:46 PM UTC

jaydub wrote: post #6

You should consider a geo-ip lookup for an initial location recommendation, even if its not perfect.

If we are going to ask for geo-ip features, it could also switch between °F and °C accordingly.