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Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by dghughes »

WinstonSmith84 wrote: post #120
saevarom wrote: post #118

Seems to work, I'm located in Reykjavik Iceland and the website tells me there is no sun :) Left Side: 0.00% Right Side: 0.00% No Sun: 100.00%

Suppose when you live in Iceland or other similar latitudes, and the sun starts to appear on the horizon, the preferred seating is the sun side to see hours long sunrise / sunset

That's a big assumption that the sun can even be seen lol it's always cloudy here in SE Canada it seems. It's nearly 8am the sun supposedly is up but the clouds are so thick it may as well be 5am.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by mrjh »

franzkappa wrote: post #113

Posh! > A popular folk etymology holds that the term is an acronym for "port out, starboard home",[4] describing the cooler, north-facing cabins taken by the most aristocratic or rich passengers travelling from Britain to India and back. However, there is no evidence for this claim [ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/posh ]

This reminded me of the fabulously British song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BzjPukTLoY

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by jonasft »

dghughes wrote: post #121
WinstonSmith84 wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Suppose when you live in Iceland or other similar latitudes, and the sun starts to appear on the horizon, the preferred seating is the sun side to see hours long sunrise / sunset

That's a big assumption that the sun can even be seen lol it's always cloudy here in SE Canada it seems. It's nearly 8am the sun supposedly is up but the clouds are so thick it may as well be 5am.

SE Canada is like France, though. We’re talking Iceland here, which is way north compared

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by chippiewill »

addandsubtract wrote: post #74
qurashee wrote: post #24

Twenty-three years ago, during my daily trips to the university campus, I had the exact same idea. However, I became distracted by calculating the position of the sun and delved into astronomical algorithms, which led me to never complete it. Kudos to you, that's really impressive!

Getting lost on the 0.1% edge cases or improvements is why I never finish side projects, either.

I don't think getting the position of the sun is an edge case, it's a fundamental capability for the product to work at all

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by gunalx »

dmurray wrote: post #111
makingstuffs wrote: post #78

Really nice idea and it works to an extent, but it doesn’t seem to use the bus routes — just sent me the quickest route via the motorway. Not sure how much of a ball ache that would be to implement though as I guess you would need to pair a lot of APIs or pay google out the backside

Would you get significantly different results? I'd expect this would work OK even if you assumed travel in a completely straight line - unless you're tacking like a sailboat, you're going to spend most of your time travelling close to the overall direction of travel.

At least i do. Tried my regular commute, but it has a bridge witch is dedicated for buses and emergency cars. So would be a nice addition, but the added complexity of using something like travel api in google maps, witch would cost more. Really liked the idea, and usually seems to work ok.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by Amithv »

qurashee wrote: post #24

Twenty-three years ago, during my daily trips to the university campus, I had the exact same idea. However, I became distracted by calculating the position of the sun and delved into astronomical algorithms, which led me to never complete it. Kudos to you, that's really impressive!

The hard part was obtaining information such as solar azimuth, altitude, declination, hour angle, etc without using external APIs. Spent around 5 days implementing backend.
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