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Re:How To Handle Lawyers Threatening You on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @10:13PM (#2006895)
Yup, Google Cache doesn't have the page, but Bing cache does: http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http://hustlebear.com/2010/...
Yup, I suspect that site is looking for local weather stations nearby and using the current conditions reported as a basis for a suggestion. That will be most accurate for current conditions.

With Coat I used projection data to give the whole day in a (hopefully) simple and concise single page.

Yup, sadly outside the United States, cost free weather data seems very rare. In my initial search I found many meteorology agencies (even those publicly funded) required payment or licensing for using the data.

For the UK, the service is Met Office and their licensing/pricing terms were enough to make me reconsider including that data in the first version.

I use weather data from NOAA for this
Re:Why we moved to Linode on Monday October 18, 2010 @01:03PM (#1804237)
Ok, I'll look into that too. The app only offers weather forecasts for the continental US so I originally assumed most folks were interested in fahrenheit, but I can see the appeal of celsius :).
Re:Why we moved to Linode on Monday October 18, 2010 @01:00PM (#1804227)
It looks like those zip codes weren't in the original zipcode dataset. I'm adding them now, thanks for pointing that out! update: It was actually a bug in the code, fixed now :)
Re:Why we moved to Linode on Monday October 18, 2010 @01:18AM (#1802463)
I recently built a project (http://www.coatapp.com - A simple weather forecast application with clothing suggestions) on Linode and couldn't be happier. The disk speeds are very impressive, and super useful for apps that deal with large amounts of data that gets updated frequently (i.e. weather data).

This previously posted benchmark shows some of the difference between Linode and a few other providers (from 2009): http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison