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etcheron Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

I feel when you push yourself too hard it will make you look less forward to your next workout. Best to end on a good/interesting note similar to how TV episodes do - making you want to come back for more.

etcheron Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

> The lower you set the barrier to entry, for a given activity, the better a chance you give yourself to actually complete that activity later.

Indeed, same reason why some people sleep with their gym shorts on so they are already dressed for exercise in the morning.

etcheron Every Google result now looks like an ad

Google could keep the search result and just hide the ad.

etcheron Glia – High-quality low-cost open source medical hardware

What 3D printer and software did you use?

etcheron Glia – High-quality low-cost open source medical hardware

This is awesome. We seriously need affordable healthcare so it's great to see people innovating in this field to bring costs down.

etcheron Google Distance Matrix API for Node.js – Find distance data between locations

Good point. The value field is fetched as of version 0.2.0.

etcheron Google Distance Matrix API for Node.js – Find distance data between locations

The Google Distance API does not require an API key, but this is something that should be supported for business licenses and per-key quota limit tracking.

Here are the quota limits:

Users of the free API: 100 elements per query. 100 elements per 10 seconds. 2 500 elements per 24 hour period.

Maps for Business customers: 625 elements per query. 1 000 elements per 10 seconds. 100 000 elements per 24 hour period.

etcheron Google Distance Matrix API for Node.js – Find distance data between locations

To use different units, you can specify 'imperial' (default) for miles/feet or 'metric' for kilometers/meters.

The wrapper fetches all of the data returned from Google (except for the value fields): http://cl.ly/image/3M003N0s0z3q

It actually might be a good idea to fetch the value fields as well, since that would make conversion to other metrics easier. Thanks for the suggestion.