jaustin

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by jaustin 6y ago
I think there's room for both worlds. People have certainly done as you describe - just picking examples from the micro:bit ecosystem that I know well - Microsoft MakeCode is an example of something that takes a "block" world
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by jaustin 6y ago
You can with the MicroPython project that this was forked from, but not necessarily with mainline yet, depending on what behaviour you want. https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/3474 https:&#x2F
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by jaustin 8y ago
Micro:bit Educational Foundation | Lead Fullstack Developer | Oxford, UK | ONSITE with flexibility, Full-time The Micro:bit Educational Foundation ( http://microbit.org ) is a not-for-profit with the global vision of helping every
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by jaustin 8y ago
(full disclosure - I work for micro:bit) If you're looking specifically at Lego, then the sbrick-plus https://www.sbrick.com/ can talk directly to a BBC micro:bit https://github.com/vengit/pxt-sb
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by jaustin 8y ago
Micro:bit Educational Foundation | Lead Developer - website and services (fullstack) | Oxford, UK | ONSITE with flexibility, Full-time The Micro:bit Educational Foundation ( http://microbit.org ) is a not-for-profit with the globa
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by jaustin 8y ago
Working on the BBC micro:bit project - first in Arm and then in the Micro:bit Educational Foundation! ( http://microbit.org/ ). The combination of nice hard technical problems, a really collaborative group of companies, unive
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by jaustin 9y ago
Micro:bit Educational Foundation | Lead Developer - website and services (fullstack) | Oxford, UK | ONSITE with flexibility, Full-time The Micro:bit Educational Foundation ( http://microbit.org ) is a not-for-profit with the globa
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by jaustin 10y ago
I work for the micro:bit Foundation, who have taken ownership of the project on from the BBC - great to see some love on HN for this! There's more at http://microbit.org but for the Hacker News audience you're probably
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by jaustin 16y ago
This is impressive stuff - I like the map demo a lot - I always find digital maps are useless as maps but great as search tools... Mixing the two is awesome. Any reason you didn't choose QR codes?
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by jaustin 16y ago
Agreed, this is awesome. I do find that I keep pressing 'up' in order to get to my recent commands and being disappointed. I guess implementing that goes along with implementing ctrl+r.
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by jaustin 16y ago
These are all excellent points. I really underestimated how much I would use the trackpad. I've got a slightly modified version of Middle Click (here's the original http://github.com/cl3m/MiddleClick ) that lets me open links in new tabs w
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by jaustin 16y ago
How does this relate to Google's funding of ogg/theora for mobile codecs? http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/04/interesting-ti... Given that theora is based on On2's VP3, could there be enough similarity in the codecs that the the
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by jaustin 16y ago
I am confused as to why more people aren't asking this. If On2 were licensing any patents (for example, from one or more of the MPEGLA partners) in order to make VP8 possible, it's not important that Google has open sourced it unless they a
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by jaustin 17y ago
I'm not an iPhone developer, but I am surprised how many of them here think they're being helped out by this. I see it as a step to hinder them (this is modified from another comment I wrote a couple of days ago...): 1. Apple are increasing
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by jaustin 17y ago
I can't work out how 'official' that statement is, especially given that it conflicts with what Unity have apparently said (perhaps there are updates on that story that I've missed?) - http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/08/adobe-flash-apple-sdk
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Cocotron: The only possibility left for portable iPhone apps?
3 points by jaustin 17y ago|2 comments
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by jaustin 17y ago
I think he's looking at it from the wrong starting point, and getting confused about who is benefiting. 1. Apple are increasing the barrier of entry for him in to OTHER mobile development worlds - he's no longer able to develop a solution t