Use a weather rock. It's the most accurate weather prediction device. If it's wet, it's raining. If it's white, it's snowing. If it's not there, there's been a tornado. here's a photo of one: http://www.cookislands.org.uk/image/Tais%20weather%20rock.jp...
Show HN: I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to be a beautiful day.
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#62"Brian loves Canadians, and everyone else that uses °C.Give me a day or two to add that option!"
That kinda made me laugh a lot. Does he mean the entire world pretty much?
Also what does Frogs mean?
And his site is messed up in any browser larger then 1600.
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#63Use a weather rock. It's the most accurate weather prediction device. If it's wet, it's raining. If it's white, it's snowing. If it's not there, there's been a tornado. here's a photo of one: http://www.cookislands.org.uk/image/Tais%20weather%20rock.jp...
We don't get tornados in Australia. If your rock is missing, some bastard stole it.
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#64Use a weather rock. It's the most accurate weather prediction device. If it's wet, it's raining. If it's white, it's snowing. If it's not there, there's been a tornado. here's a photo of one: http://www.cookislands.org.uk/image/Tais%20weather%20rock.jp...
We don't get tornados in Australia. If your rock is missing, some bastard stole it.
Meteorologists have been known to steal them.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
“But for building excitement I think it would be best to send it after it got dark (the timing of which you could determine from the date and location).” On a somewhat related note, I recently went hunting for phone apps to help me better sync up with times as determined by the sun, rather than numbers on a clock. I like the feeling of getting enough sleep and of being up before the Sun, and I'd like to be relatively…
One of my favorite apps is "Emerald Observatory for iPad": http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emerald-observatory-for-ipad/... The author is into "grand complication" watches (see one of his other apps), and this app is the grandest "complication" I've seen to display time on the iPad. In addition to all of the above you listed, he also displays the "Equation of Time", eclipses, direction and attitude of the sun, siderea…
That is pretty cool. Certainly much more detailed and visually impressive than the apps I listed.
However, for me it also illustrates the value in not displaying details that don't matter. While the position of the sun has a big impact on my daily activities, the positions of the planets have none at all. I'd rather spend that visual real estate in a way that gives more value when I pull it up for a two second glance.
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#67Use a weather rock. It's the most accurate weather prediction device. If it's wet, it's raining. If it's white, it's snowing. If it's not there, there's been a tornado. here's a photo of one: http://www.cookislands.org.uk/image/Tais%20weather%20rock.jp...
"prediction device" ... "there's been a tornado"
I'm certain this is the opposite of prediction.
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#68Perhaps I'm unusual but I think it would be more useful if it emailed early evening* before the beautiful day. By the time the beautiful day has come I'll be able to see it out the window. Either way I do love the idea. Nice one! * I'll expand on that to say that I'd ideally want it early enough that I'd be awake and could call a friend to plan something without worrying about waking them up. But for building excitem…
“But for building excitement I think it would be best to send it after it got dark (the timing of which you could determine from the date and location).” On a somewhat related note, I recently went hunting for phone apps to help me better sync up with times as determined by the sun, rather than numbers on a clock. I like the feeling of getting enough sleep and of being up before the Sun, and I'd like to be relatively…
Perhaps a little offtopic, but I just went and bought Sol for my iPhone based on your post here, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to have it set alarms from within the app. It seems to only have two screens: the main screen that displays the wheel, and if you click the i it takes you to the screen where you can add cities and change the type of dawn you want displayed.
Do you mean that you can use the displayed times to set your alarm yourself? Because it does not seem to be a feature of the app.
EDIT: Wow. I'm sorry. Apparently my search found the app called "Sol: Daylight Clock", that appeared on first glance to be the app you were talking about. I went googling after this post to see if I could find the dev's website for instructions or something and discovered there is another app called "Sol: Sun Clock" that appears to be the actual app you were describing.
So that was a waste of $.99. Anyone who is interested in this app after reading the parent comment, make sure you get the right one. The first one I bought has minimal functionality in comparison.
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#69Use a weather rock. It's the most accurate weather prediction device. If it's wet, it's raining. If it's white, it's snowing. If it's not there, there's been a tornado. here's a photo of one: http://www.cookislands.org.uk/image/Tais%20weather%20rock.jp...
We don't get tornados in Australia. If your rock is missing, some bastard stole it.
I thought there were no thieves in Australia either.
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#70If someone is developing a web site in this day and age, do we really need to have all that legalese, including Terms of Service such as the one on this website? I get the importances of the Privacy statement, but are the whole "Use License" and "Limitations", etc really necessary? It's fairly obvious that the web site is just for fun.
I'm not ragging on the OP, I'm wondering if we are deciding on creating our own web site or blog that offers some non-monetary service, are these legal disclosures something that is necessary these days?
I was thinking of starting a fun little web site that offered some mundane and trivial little services, but if it opens me up to legal issues because some jackass wants to sue me because of a bug, then that just might kill my motivation.