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https://bencevans.io https://github.com/bencevans
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bencevans··on Share your Git Repos Quickly with Friends behind Firewalls
Forgot to commit that to master, shall push a Procfile into the Repo and add the second line in.

Cheers :)

bencevans··on HTML5 webcam to canvas stream (Demo + annotated code)
I wrote a li'l app that does something along the same lines. However it captures a data uri from the webcam video and sends it via a websocket to a second user who's also doing the same. It gives you a video chat just without the audio... https://github.com/bencevans/MediaStream

Just thought it may be of interest ;)

bencevans··on iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas
This idea is also in use at http://www.sublimetext.com/ The demo is using this technique because streaming video would actually take more bandwidth in this case as only bits of the image are actually changing at one time/incremental changes. It works a treat!
bencevans··on A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post
Wouldn't that mean there would be loads of crap posted to HN rather than just crap comments?
bencevans··on It's Time for an Open Twitter
Take a look at StatusNet. That's effectively a Open Source Twitter Clone.
bencevans··on It's Time for an Open Twitter
Kind of but not Wordpress as Wordpress is far too bloated for 140 char status's. I'd relate it more to Diaspora that Wordpress personally.
bencevans··on It's Time for an Open Twitter
We need something along the lines of Diaspora (Open and Distributed). This would encourage geeks to develop on the platform due to it being distributed it would be hard/impossible to shutdown thus shall be around for ever (Twitter might not be). And due to the openness of the codebase etc people would start setting up hosts (Just like Wordpress or Diaspora etc.)
bencevans··on Show HN: Bitcoin Donator Preview
It's not meant to, it's if you wish to donate it makes it easier to find/discover organisations accepting bitcoins as a method of donation. I know there's a page on the bitcoin wiki but you still have to go onto each site and search for the bitcoin address. This also makes it easier to send to multiple organisations quickly and painlessly.
bencevans··on Show HN: Bitcoin Donator Preview
Yep. The user chooses the organisations they wish to donate to, they are given an address to send there donation. When the donation is received it's distributed between the chosen organisations and sent. All done as simply as possible so you can donate to loads of worthy organisations in seconds.
bencevans··on Show HN: Bitcoin Donator Preview
@jerguismi Fair Point. I will consider removing it. Thanks for the Feedback.
bencevans··on Show HN: Bitcoin Donator Preview
I'm planning on lowering it to about 0.01. but I don't want it to be spammed so to speak with miniature donations.
bencevans··on Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests
I agree to a point but I believe everything should be project base so people are given problems to solve in all subjects.

The reason for this is people get a better understanding of how to manage something properly and something that people can get stuck into rather than knowledge just being thrown at students without learning skills required to actually put the knowledge into action.

bencevans··on CircuitLab - online schematic editor & circuit simulator
Haha, Brilliant!
bencevans··on CircuitLab - online schematic editor & circuit simulator
Looks good I've tried a few local application based software applications but this has the feature that they're lacking/not as full as I wish and that's the custom parts.

I havn't been doing anything major, just wanted a PIC board as I have to include on in an AS Level Project.

Brilliant timing cause it's due in in two days and was going to start final diagrams tomorrow. Cheers!

bencevans··on HTML5 Map of the the World Migrations using SVG, Raphael.js and offline storage
Really Responsive too and it all works in Opera or seemed to anyway, so many developers forget about Opera because it doesn't have the same amount of marketing as the others. But anyway Sweet Build!
bencevans··on Email Intervention
I like having my privately hosted email services so Google can not start reading my mail and 'adjust my search accordingly' or anything like that!
bencevans··on Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly.
That's exactly what i found but on the whole I give it a thumbs up.
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