dcustodio | 4 years ago | on: Why routing alogrithms from different maps don't always give the same route
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dcustodio | 5 years ago | on: ZEROe: Hydrogen-hybrid aircraft concept
Don't forget that wind turbines still produce at night when there is less demand. So either you use that power to pump water upstream (if you have dams) or you can use it to produce Hydrogen.
dcustodio | 6 years ago | on: I Worked for a Criminal Organization
Years ago the Portuguese government encouraged consumers to submit their receipts in a portal and each submitted receipt was a entry to a raffle where the prizes were luxury cars.
This way they could match the receipts from consumers with the ones reported by the shops. It felt wrong to put citizens policing the shops but it worked.
dcustodio | 6 years ago | on: City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
Amazing! Thank you so much for this. I am getting myself an A3 diagram of my hometown.
dcustodio | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
I wonder how many people will actually buy this. Personally, I would rather get a box full of veggies than some internet karma.
dcustodio | 6 years ago | on: Inland Waterways Europe: Maps and Fleet
Indeed. You couldn't offer the same level of services that a cruise ship does because of height restrictions and it's too slow for fast-paced youngsters. Price-wise it's hard to compete with interrail so I guess it would be a very niche thing. Which leads me to wonder if there is anyone hitchhiking barges.
dcustodio | 6 years ago | on: Inland Waterways Europe: Maps and Fleet
I wonder if there are any costs to use the waterways.
Even if the boats are slower than trains, couldn't it be the case that with all the layovers a train takes as much or more time than a boat? It would be cool to have a boat service similar to Flixbus.
dcustodio | 6 years ago | on: Hacker Who Revealed Soccer Secrets Is Charged with 147 Crimes
I could argue that that's just your opinion and of an handful of other rival club supporters.
dcustodio | 7 years ago | on: How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
It's a nice story but I've seen this parenting technique applied in our western society:
- "Don't do this or the police will arrest you".
- "eat you yogurt or that kid over there is going to eat it".
Isn't this fearmongering?
dcustodio | 7 years ago | on: A Beach Nobody Can Touch
I stayed a few nights in Ao Nang and even though is quite packed you can still find places to eat without reserving beforehand. I used it more as a base to visit the surroundings, as the beach there doesn't look that inviting with all the boats and the occasional sewer.
I was expecting it to be more "Thai", instead as I walked down the street I heard the same radio hits I hear in Europe. But that's just my expectations hitting the globalization wall.
On a positive note I really liked northern Thailand, the days I spent in Chiang Mai were definitely the best days of the trip.
dcustodio | 7 years ago | on: A Beach Nobody Can Touch
I was in Thailand last November and I spent some days in Krabi. It's so overly touristic that in most "paradisiac" beaches you cannot even take a decent nap with all the noisy long-tail boats going back and forth. Even though I contributed for the overexploration, I wasn't ready for this.
I wouldn't be surprised if they start restricting access to other places like Railay.
dcustodio | 8 years ago | on: BrandColors – brand color hex codes
I exported the list and created a small node app to sort the colors: https://github.com/dcustodio/colorcount
the top five is #00000 (66 occurrences), #CC0000 (18), #FF6600 (12), #FF0000 (10), #FFCC00 (8)
dcustodio | 8 years ago | on: VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries
the beauty is that one day you'll be able to sell electricity from your EV during peak hours, and recharge it when it's cheap.
dcustodio | 8 years ago | on: Tesla Model S battery degradation data
I fill up every time I refuel and I take notes of the quantity and odometer and the average matches the dashboard.
dcustodio | 8 years ago | on: What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016)
Books would provide the general guidelines on how to do some stuff. I used a search engine (not sure if google at that time) to decipher the exceptions and it eventually would point me to some random message board. It taught me to RTFM.
dcustodio | 10 years ago | on: Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
Some people need to feel offended just as I need my morning coffee.
I'm not even counting how old is my pc/laptop and that's the thing I like about PCs - there's hardly anything new that triggers my Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
dcustodio | 10 years ago | on: Microsoft finally admits defeat and abandons Windows Phone
As a windows phone user I hope this is merely a speculation. WP is a great platform for entry level phones. I recently upgraded my WP8.1 to Windows 10 and it runs like a charm even though it only has 512 RAM.
dcustodio | 10 years ago | on: Misused mobile UX patterns
Great article. I find disturbing how some apps are so hard to use not only by the poor choice of icons, but by not providing immediate and clear ways to perform the most basic actions.
dcustodio | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Simple canteen menu for Portuguese college
that's what I call good public service :D
dcustodio | 11 years ago | on: List of April Fools' Day Announcements
Google Fiber dial-up mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTTtkisylQw
page 1
It really makes me wonder if with all the navigation data from real users they couldn't already done something better than this.