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by whiskers 16y ago
I know :( if i could this second I would but I have guests arriving for the weekend, it's terrible timing really!
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by whiskers 16y ago
EC2 small instance at the moment. I can afford to upgrade that for a while but I don't have the time to do it this second, I will be doing tomorrow though! It's all on a LAMP stack.
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by whiskers 16y ago
phlux - you're awesome. It's really unfortunate timing, I have guests arriving to spend the weekend here in about 10 minutes but can we talk further by e-mail? jon@flightlite.com. I'll try to get something together tomorrow if you think the
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by whiskers 16y ago
Phlux - the per airline branding is exactly something I had thought of - I'm looking for a contact in the industry who could help make it happen :) Yes it would be great to be the de facto widget for airlines to show their fleet status etc
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by whiskers 16y ago
I've now had four times the traffic of the past two months in one hour. The first time something like this has happened to one of my projects - it's quite exciting!
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by whiskers 16y ago
Flightlite is very much about tracking what's in the air right now (visiting relative, the plane you'll be departing on, previewing a route, just being a plane(plain!) nerd, etc) :) I've definitely thought about integrating pricing informat
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Ask HN: My site, Flightlite.com, just got featured on Lifehacker - help
9 points by whiskers 16y ago|18 comments
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Biotech firm claims to make cheap fuel from E. coli strain(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by whiskers 16y ago|0 comments
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by whiskers 16y ago
Clickable: http://flightlite.com
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Show HN: New flightlite.com release based on super HN feedback
7 points by whiskers 16y ago|1 comments
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by whiskers 16y ago
I didn't claim they are drop in replacements, just like I wouldn't claim you can just jump from MySQL to PostgreSQL. What I said was you need to do your research and pick the right tool for the job. I haven't used PostgreSQL for quite a few
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by whiskers 16y ago
That's not really the point though - the different engines provided are for different tasks. MyISAM for example supports fulltext indexes by default which was/is probably one of the most useful features for web development which explains wh
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by whiskers 16y ago
A second vote for Microserfs - it's very much beach reading, but I really enjoyed it (try Joop! too for a similar light reading style)
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by whiskers 16y ago
http://flightlite.com - live flight tracker with Google Earth integration.
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by whiskers 16y ago
I've heard of it - I prefer readability to be the standard choice for a website though :)
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by whiskers 16y ago
I only got through the first paragraph or so when I had to stop because the font is almost unreadable in Chrome on Windows 7. The descenders on letters are being clipped and it's too decorative to read comfortably as a body font on screen.
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by whiskers 16y ago
Wise words! Thanks for the offer to take this chat further - I'll be in touch when I've worked on it some more. Version 2.0 anyone? :)
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by whiskers 16y ago
Can't reply to your post below (don't know why) - I'm not sure how you got that link (I can't get it offered by the search, the time in it is wrong - hence the problem). My contact details are in my profil if you can offer more information
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by whiskers 16y ago
Which flight number?
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by whiskers 16y ago
I've removed some of the fluff from the tracking page to try to make it easier to use. I hope you agree!
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by whiskers 16y ago
I've reworked the search functionality somewhat - I hope it feels easier/clearer to use now.
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by whiskers 16y ago
AA5066 is a codeshare operated by a different airline which is why it didn't come back in the search for AA5066 (it is instead CHQ5066). I'm looking into a way to support this though as it's not exactly helpful :)
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by whiskers 16y ago
Hehe, on odd occasions the departure time from my provider comes back as the unix epoch (Jan 1st 1970) so I suspect that's what you saw. Can you remember the flight number so I can investigate further? I've thought about the alerts idea (te
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by whiskers 16y ago
Criticism is welcome, no worries! The search bar is meant to give the feel of the old style departure boards with the mechanical displays - perhaps it's an analogy too far with the results also presented that way. I'll look into why AA5066
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by whiskers 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback :) I am definitely intending to fallback on a standard Google Map view for the main area if Google Earth is not installed (with the link to install etc). But I figured I had to get something launched so stripped it f
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Show HN: My new flight tracker, flightlite.com
11 points by whiskers 16y ago|17 comments
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by whiskers 16y ago
(I entered the above as the body of my post but for some reason it doesn't appear so I've added it as a comment also - help!)
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by whiskers 16y ago
http://flightlite.com Flightlite is a visual flight tracker combining 3D and overhead views and flight information. It is my first launch since I started reading Hacker News and was developed as a side project for the past 6 months or so.
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Ask HN: Where to take it next? Flight tracking side project(flightlite.com)
1 points by whiskers 16y ago|2 comments
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by whiskers 16y ago
I love the idea - the style, the artwork, the way the story progresses... However I think that clicking on the "scroll" popup should either: - Cause a slow continuous scroll all the way to the bottom of the page - or (even better) take you

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