charlesmarshall

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by charlesmarshall 15y ago
hi, that is postcode to coordinates, the campaign to get the royal mails PAF data for free failed - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/22/postcode-pe...
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by charlesmarshall 15y ago
Thats a good point about license; I've added it to the site now. I'd guess creative commons is the best fit, but open to all non-spammy uses. Other sources would be good, I'll be dropping a message to the people at http://www.freeourdata.o
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by charlesmarshall 15y ago
have you setup a petition? - http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/
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by charlesmarshall 16y ago
google translated version - http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?js=n&prev=_t&#38...
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by charlesmarshall 16y ago
well a new post is up .. with the same poll - http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/10/conspiracy-theory-what-ha...
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by charlesmarshall 16y ago
not all guis are made equal, depends which is being used to how good or bad it is. I use gitx on osx ( http://gitx.frim.nl/ ), other than the lack of a 'push' button its spot on, simple to use and powerful.
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by charlesmarshall 16y ago
although a bit biased, http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ gives you the highlights of what git is good at.. for me its the simple branching coupled with easy stashing
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by charlesmarshall 16y ago
you can use commands like git filter-branch & git rebase to change your history - http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/ch05.htm...
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by charlesmarshall 16y ago
What part do you find complicated about git? The basic commands are: git clone, git add, git commit, git push ... most of these are handled by guis (tortoise, gitx, etc) so all you have to do then is click the right button
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
Not much, but why would you switch to html5? There is limited support for actual html5 elements, and if your not using them, then your not using html5, just html4 loose. It's not like any browser is going to drop the html4 doctype so until
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
you can trigger it with http://dummyimage.com/9000x9500 as well
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The Internet - from a porn stars perspective(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by charlesmarshall 17y ago|0 comments
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Influenza Surveillance System (US Based)(isdsdistribute.org)
1 points by charlesmarshall 17y ago|0 comments
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
as the pagination on the a-z seems a bit broken, they do have a full listing page of whats planned on launch - http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/data-packages-launch edit: sorry, that page is list of whats planned for launch, not whats
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
o, they also have a google group for things that need more than 140 chars - http://groups.google.com/group/londondatastore
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
you could send them a tweet http://twitter.com/londondatastore and ask them to fix it I've sent them a couple of bugs / broken links and they've fixed & replied within a few minutes. edit: they've just tweeted about the xml structure
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
chuck norris ...
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Live shipping tracking(marinetraffic.com)
1 points by charlesmarshall 17y ago|0 comments
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
similar site, but for shipping - http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/
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Rumored Chrome OS Tablet(gizmodo.com)
1 points by charlesmarshall 17y ago|0 comments
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
actual demo page - http://benradler.com/flickr/
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John Resig on measuring JavaScript performance and others(infoq.com)
1 points by charlesmarshall 17y ago|0 comments
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OLPC slimline tablet PC(news.bbc.co.uk)
9 points by charlesmarshall 17y ago|3 comments
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Firefox for mobile 'days away' from launch(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by charlesmarshall 17y ago|0 comments
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
Just as in genetics, diversity is good. Thats not the issue people are having with the article. The article says that CS should change its culture in order to attract more and become popular, conforming with mainstream values. If you told S
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
Basketball is a paid profession. Just look how much money the NBA teams have. Fewer people see it as their future but many children still grow up wanting to the be next michael jordan..
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
I was using Disqus as well for comments on my gihub blog, but some random reason it started redirecting to itself. Didn't have time to debug it so just removed it for now.
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
you can use categories as a yaml listing and that works.. just means the url for the post will become /cat1/cat2/date-title.html
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
What i'm trying to get over here is that if your site already uses all of these techniques and more while running on something faster than rails then you will not make the page faster, and thats what the title claims.
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by charlesmarshall 17y ago
Yes, both are very tedious, but both possible and done by other frameworks.

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