missstep
Consumer and social
walking route estimator
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
3 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.18.
Execution: 1 for, 5 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple implementation
From 1 comment
I like the simple implementation. One small UI complaint: the text on the button is hard to read because of low contrast.
brechin on HN
Impressive speed of build
From 2 comments
Impressive. I suppose if you iterate a thousand times (only 30 working days!) you're bound to generate a big hit. :-)
nandemo on HNYou should record a video of you doing the next one, I'd love to see your process and tools that you use to get things done so fast. I'm always trying to be as fast as possible…
TimJRobinson on HN
Objections
Step count wrong due to locale decimal parsing of distance text
From 4 comments
For my daily (walking) commuting, it says 2.4km, which is right, for 24k to 33k steps, which is wrong: that's <= 10cm steps. It's one order of magnitude away from the truth.
snippyhollow on HNI don't think I'm reading it wrong. Your link gives me: "The fastest route is 2,4 km, which will take approximately 24,855 to 33,140 steps if you walked it."
snippyhollow on HNIt's doing some text parsing on the "pretty text" returned by the Google Maps API instead of using the provided distance in meters, and it's probably failing due to some…
nemetroid on HNLocalization issue: var miles = prettyDistance.replace(",","").replace(/[A-Za-z$-]/g, "");
subsystem on HN
Shows fastest route rather than shortest for walking
From 2 comments
It says fastest route, but would someone walking prefer the shortest?
beobab on HNIn general, shortest would be fastest for walking (unless the difference is large and fatigue sets in). Or you could analyse ground gradiants for steepness and find the flatest.…
brador on HN
Google API query limit errors
From 1 comment
OVER_QUERY_LIMIT Such a shame that Google started limiting and charging for their APIs :(
mibbitier on HN
Button text low contrast
From 1 comment
I like the simple implementation. One small UI complaint: the text on the button is hard to read because of low contrast.
brechin on HN
Requests
More small challenges with UI and tags
From 2 comments
This site looks good. But I wondering if someone has a similar list of apps that are one steps larger than just algorithms - must have UI and be useful.
vineet on HNGuess that reading the google maps api to find the walking distance function would have taken me more than 15 minutes. The 15 minutes concept would probably make good katas to…
pbjorklund on HN
Video of the build process
From 2 comments
you should totally have recorded your screen while doing all of this, that would be incredibly educational. great stuff!
epaga on HNYou should record a video of you doing the next one, I'd love to see your process and tools that you use to get things done so fast. I'm always trying to be as fast as possible…
TimJRobinson on HN
Questions
Are the steps metric or imperial?
From 1 comment
Are those metric steps or imperial?
tantalor on HN
What is the challenge exactly?
From 1 comment
OK, I'm confused, what exactly is the challenge here? The creation of a website (one with its own domain) that calculates the number of steps?
yitchelle on HN
Alternatives named
dailyprogrammer subreddit
From 1 comment
http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer
eddie_the_head on HN
programthis.net
From 1 comment
I love what they do, but unfortunately r/dailyprogrammer leaves a bad taste in my mouth because they started off with challenges copied from my site - http://programthis.net
prezjordan on HN