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Re: I've been tracking everything about myself

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Post by tlrobinson »

dhruvasagar wrote: post #9
tlrobinson wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meh, at least I know exactly what I'm sharing, versus most people who have no idea a variety of corporations and three-letter agencies could get basically the same information from their cell phone, toll road transponders, license plate readers, credit card transactions, etc, etc, etc.

just so you know, all the information that's stolen from people without their knowledge, also happens to you, so the sense of knowing exactly what you share is honestly just an illusion.

I'm under no illusion. Just saying sharing on Foursquare doesn't make much difference.

Re: I've been tracking everything about myself

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Post by tarere »

afro88 wrote: post #66
tarere wrote: post #60

" great website" "fantastic" "fabulous"... ??!!! So nobody feel that tracking everything you do every second and log it in real time and forever on a server is terribly frightening ?!!!! In 2005 i predicted every one who ever logged on facebook would regret it one day and pay a huge price for it. This is more than real now. Still you don't stop, and now you're sending to "them" in realtime your heartbeats, your weigh…

It's only frightening if it's not deliberate / you don't know it's happening. This is beautiful, voluntary and insightful.

So when they'll stick a tracker in the ass of every new babyborn you'll say "hurray, this is beautiful !" The world you're creating is just insane.

One will have to kill me before seeing me wearing a tracking device.

Re: I've been tracking everything about myself

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Post by morgante »

tarere wrote: post #60

" great website" "fantastic" "fabulous"... ??!!! So nobody feel that tracking everything you do every second and log it in real time and forever on a server is terribly frightening ?!!!! In 2005 i predicted every one who ever logged on facebook would regret it one day and pay a huge price for it. This is more than real now. Still you don't stop, and now you're sending to "them" in realtime your heartbeats, your weigh…

Are you a parody?

Your point might be better expressed with correct spelling and punctuation.

Re: I've been tracking everything about myself

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Post by delinka »

PStamatiou wrote: post #67
ipince wrote: post #64

Kind of random, but why is there so much time (entire days) spent in hotels when traveling? Is that due to Foursquare (or whatever) not allowing you to check-in to other places or did you really stay in the hotel the entire time? If so, doing what? It's a genuine question--I basically NEVER stay in hotels beyond the required sleep time, so I'm curious as to how other people do things.

He spent a lot of time traveling while building this site. :) The first ~1.5 months were spent abroad.

I think he's more literal: did Anand really just stay inside at the hotel that much?

Re: I've been tracking everything about myself

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Post by chdir »

donniezazen wrote: post #75
chdir wrote: post #73

Slightly off topic, your site design is awesome. Would you share what libraries/frameworks/skills/time-resources are needed for something like this. Just curious. For me, the graphics & layout are far more interesting.

http://aprilzero.com/about/

That link points to a bunch of data sources, not how the site was designed, unless I missed something. A little sleuthing says the site is more about the launch of a CSS animations framework rather than a health tracker. Somewhere maybe there's d3.

Re: I've been tracking everything about myself

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Post by [deleted] »

ipince wrote: post #64

Kind of random, but why is there so much time (entire days) spent in hotels when traveling? Is that due to Foursquare (or whatever) not allowing you to check-in to other places or did you really stay in the hotel the entire time? If so, doing what? It's a genuine question--I basically NEVER stay in hotels beyond the required sleep time, so I'm curious as to how other people do things.

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Re: I've been tracking everything about myself

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Post by aprilzero »

ipince wrote: post #64

Kind of random, but why is there so much time (entire days) spent in hotels when traveling? Is that due to Foursquare (or whatever) not allowing you to check-in to other places or did you really stay in the hotel the entire time? If so, doing what? It's a genuine question--I basically NEVER stay in hotels beyond the required sleep time, so I'm curious as to how other people do things.

The data is accurate. Probably mostly sleeping, working or eating. There is a bit of a bias towards those being the most noticeable places since you spend a lot of time there, while other stuff you do may only be for 10-15 minutes and relatively is very little. You may be surprised by how much actual time you spend at home or a hotel even though it feels like you've gone out and done a lot of stuff during the day — by percentage of total time in a day it may not be that much.

Also many places have a lot of nice facilities that might still count as being at the location like restaurants, bars, rooftops, pools, beaches, gym, etc.

Re: I've been tracking everything about myself

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Post by aprilzero »

Jemaclus wrote: post #36

I like it. My big beef with it so far is that it looks like most of this stuff is input manually by Anand. (The 1200+ commits suggests that it's manual and not automatic.) I'm not anal enough to spend that kinda time tracking things. I have a Fitbit, a scale that i step on every day, Strava to track my runs, etc, but those are all things you just put on (or push a button) and forget about. Things like climbing (which…

Most of those commits are from designing or building the site
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