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   by bfirsh 15y ago

   If you're interested in high altitude exploration, take a look at UKHAS: http://ukhas.org.uk/ There's a beginner guide and information on current projects. Cambridge University Spaceflight is of particular interest - they're working on am
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   by bfirsh 15y ago

   Every day hundreds of weather balloons around the world get launched for weather forecasts. There have been reports of sightings by planes, but never any collisions. Air traffic control are aware of the locations where balloons are launched
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   RedMonk Brew London: Speakers from Joyent, PhoneGap and VMWare (and craft beer)(lanyrd.com)

   16 points by bfirsh 15y ago|1 comments
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   by bfirsh 15y ago

   It's a native app for native animations and so on, but all the pages themselves are HTML.
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   The Guardian's HTML5 iPad app released(guardian.co.uk)

   1 points by bfirsh 15y ago|1 comments
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   by bfirsh 15y ago

   Oops - fixed. Thank you!
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   by bfirsh 15y ago

   http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2006/10/26/a_beginners_gu...
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   by bfirsh 15y ago

   Also at http://probe.ep.io/
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   by bfirsh 15y ago

   I wish the lightning talks were split into separate videos so they could be linked to.
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    by bfirsh 15y ago

    I expect PDFs could be rendered client-side with @font-face by using data URIs.
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    by bfirsh 15y ago

    "We're going all the way to Mars, I think..." Compared to: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth." Doesn't sound
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    Django 1.2.3 released(djangoproject.com)

    40 points by bfirsh 16y ago|7 comments
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    by bfirsh 16y ago

    http://djangy.com/signup Oh dear.
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    by bfirsh 16y ago

    Celery workers can run on any networked computer - it can be scaled infinitely!
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    by bfirsh 16y ago

    Long story short: Firefox is just slow. It's tracing engine doesn't cope with heavily branching code like that in an emulator, and it just falls back to interpreting it. It's nothing to do with the canvas. (In fact, Chrome's canvas is far s
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    by bfirsh 16y ago

    That's AWESOME. I think I remember seeing this last time JSNES had some exposure. I'm going write support for this right now...
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    by bfirsh 16y ago

    http://twitpic.com/8w3xr :)
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    by bfirsh 16y ago

    I tried that, but unfortunately data URLs are far too slow. Firefox 3.7 has some exciting audio APIs though: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API I've been meaning to write a JSNES prototype for them.
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    by bfirsh 17y ago

    At my student paper in the UK we are all unpaid volunteers. Is it any different in the States?