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by dasmoth 14y ago
As an occasional Javascripter, I've gone looking for this several times, and each time been bemused to discover it isn't there (probably just as an instantiatable EventTarget). Better package management might help, but some things are funda
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by dasmoth 14y ago
They could be assuming that most web developers are using a framework which comes with its own development server.
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by dasmoth 14y ago
It's compatible with normal USB2.0 and 3.0. No reason it couldn't be offering ethernet as well as power. At that point it does indeed sound quite compelling.
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by dasmoth 14y ago
Keyhole wrote the predecessor to the Google Earth software, but while it's a great name for an imagery company, they don't run satellites themselves. Google did pay for a half share in GeoEye-1 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoEye-1 ) and
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by dasmoth 14y ago
You can improve things a little by flying in an elliptical orbit. Some of the KH8s have listed orbits with perigees as low as 125km -- but they're not that low for the whole orbit. They also didn't have particularly long mission durations
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by dasmoth 14y ago
It's an appealing, nicely-produced video. Everyone in it has nice handwriting, even when writing on a low-friction screen. What about those of us who don't particularly like reading our own handwriting, let along sharing it with others?
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by dasmoth 14y ago
$1.5B refers to the commercial resupply contract, which is quite separate from the COTS contract which funded the development and demo program. Just to add to the confusion, the next Falcon+Dragon flight could be end up being either CRS-1 (
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by dasmoth 14y ago
SpaceX is private at the moment, but that's probably going to change. IPO timing is a regular topic of debate among SpaceX-watchers.
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by dasmoth 14y ago
There will also be live streaming on the SpaceX website. They've invested in better video streaming infrastructure since the COTS1 launch, so hopefully this will stand up to demand. Everything worked well during the static-fire test a cou
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by dasmoth 14y ago
This mission has been planned for a long, long time. There have been several delays for more testing. At the end of the day, it seems that getting the software right was the biggest deal, but they've done many many simulation runs. There's
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by dasmoth 14y ago
This isn't anything to do with websockets. These are raw, unadulterated sockets -- but only available to Chrome extensions, not normal web pages. I'm pretty certain Mozilla extensions have been able to create sockets for a while, and the s
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by dasmoth 14y ago
I've been wondering about this, and I think it's totally doable so long as you don't get stuck thinking about a literal "robot delivery man". The model I was considering was more along the lines of 1) park as close as possible to the targe
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by dasmoth 14y ago
The Acorn version was called Zarch. It was later ported to some other platforms (Amiga, in particular) and renamed Virus. Lander was awesome.
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by dasmoth 14y ago
The helium is just a recirculating coolant. In the test rig, it's being cooled by boil-off of LN2. In a flight configuration, using cryogenic propellants as a heat dump seems logical.
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by dasmoth 14y ago
That's plausibly true, but I for one think it's a bit sad if isolated blogs are seen as a problem rather than valuable decentralization.
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by dasmoth 15y ago
Oh, I'm pretty sure they will, and probably rather less than 10 years. The interesting part will be how well the overlays can be meshed in with the "real" world.
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by dasmoth 15y ago
Videos are fun and all, but I want an SDK! (Seriously, even if it's still pretty crude...)
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by dasmoth 15y ago
Yes it does. (Thinks of a typical SWI handler...)
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by dasmoth 15y ago
Am I the only one who's a little worried about the focus on patents?
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by dasmoth 15y ago
Seems to be a lot more interest in doing hardware than previous batches?
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by dasmoth 15y ago
I didn't read that as specifically referring to military service. Many countries, at least in continental Europe, have non-military national service, or at least a non-military option. It's not a system I'm terribly comfortable with, eithe
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by dasmoth 15y ago
I've never got the impression that programmers as a whole "don't like sport". Possibly they're less likely to be interested in the local $socially_conventional_team_sport, or at least more likely to admit to the fact.
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by dasmoth 15y ago
As with most first-person WebGL projects, things go wrong when the mouse pointer leaves the canvas area. Is there anything that can be done to "capture" the pointer (that isn't horribly open to abuse...)?
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by dasmoth 15y ago
Falcon 1e seems to be pretty-much on hold at the moment. The Falcon 1 launch site on Kwajalein has been dismantled. As far as I can tell, SpaceX are focussing on deploying smallsats as secondary payloads on Falcon 9, rather than flying th
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by dasmoth 15y ago
Plausible, but the Aubrey/Maturin LARP seems even more likely.
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by dasmoth 15y ago
Also wondering about WP7. Right now it's clearly a non-starter, but there do seem to be plans afoot for a native SDK. Assuming that happens at some point, would an alternative browser be possible?
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by dasmoth 15y ago
Just installed it in the UK. I'm guessing it's a localization issue. Although for a Beta, I don't see why they can't just offer everyone who's keen to try it the en-us version.
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by dasmoth 15y ago
Some (not all) of these cases would be helped massively if the JVM gained an equivalent of the fixnum/flonum types from the LISP world. This has been proposed kind-of seriously in the past, e.g.: http://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/entry/fixnum
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by dasmoth 15y ago
Well, there already is Google Scholar. I don't know precisely how much effort goes into the ranking algorithms used there -- but I do already use it in preference to Pubmed.
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by dasmoth 15y ago
It's a suborbital flight. At first glance, I assumed Virgin Galactic, but actually looks like it will be an Armadillo spacecraft. Interesting...

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