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... thinking outside the box[^] 
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First, a +
Please note, however, using the term "thinking outside of the boxes" is, in itself, an indication of thinking inside the box. Except for the first person who ever said it.
Personally, I can only comment when hearing this is "What Box?".
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Not needed to be a technical answer, but, I am working on a new project where I am currently at a stage where I need to provide the real-time information about the fare of several transport options, like airfare, public or railway ticket information.
So far what I have explored is, that either you pay for an API—which is normally too much, for just a startup—or you utilize options like web scraping—which are of course abiding the robots.txt and privacy concerns to be legal in normal cases. Although we do not require a complete real-time solution, a day-by-day scraping is suitable enough for us, but I think there will be a better option than this.
Have any of you ever got any experience with such a situation, where you had to deal with real-time ticket information, I would appreciate if you can share your thoughts and findings. Or if you know of any service that supports this kind of feature, I would appreciate if you can direct me in the right direction. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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Have you had a look around https://rapidapi.com/
I notice SkyScanner is on there.
For public transport though, I assume you;re thinking of starting in an area/region rather than global?
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Thank you, I already have Skyscanner in my list, however they require some sort of a commercial agreement which I still need to discuss with rest of the team.
And yes, just in Pakistan. Public transport basically are a few major names in Pakistan, Daewoo, Bilal Travels, Faisal Movers, etc. which we can quickly update by hand too. But for the airfare (international), and railway (maybe, global), is a lot of information to tackle right now by hand.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Do you find cow jokes udderly ridiculous?
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Say what you will about cows, but I respect them professionally as they are outstanding in their field.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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They are indeed the cream of the crop, but the steaks could not be higher.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: but the steaks could not be higher.
or more delicious.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Are you trying to milk this for a few laughs?
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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No, and your insinuation sounds like bull to me.
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As Bart would say "Don't have a cow, man!"
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I mean the crying about all our programming languages being so inadequate and difficult and them being more a matter of the programmer's preferences than anything else:
Quote: Most programmers have a favorite language or two, and this is not a rational matter. There are many different computer languages -in fact thousands -but what they all have in common is acting on series of instructions. Beyond that, every language is different. So for each language, the questions are WHAT ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS? and HOW DO THEY FIT TOGETHER?
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Quote: ...Once you know a language you can cast spells in it ; but that doesn't mean it's easy. A spell cast in a computer language will make the computer do what you want -IF it's possible to do it with that computer; IF it's possible to do it in that language; IF you used the vocabulary and rules of the language correctly; and IF you laid out in the spell a plan that would effectively do what you had in mind. BUT if you make a mistake in casting your spell, that is a BUG. (As you see from the IF s above, many types of bug are possible.) Program bugs can cause unfortunate results....
IF you are not motivated to quit your job and become cangaroo trainer in Australia now, then be amused and know that I just found this in a digital copy of BYTE magazine from 8/1976. Stop crying already. All you ever need is an oldfashioned C compiler and you are ready to go to accomplish anything the copmputer is capable of. Ok, a nice stack of libraries makes things easier...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I say stick with the Assembler language, we don't need all this high level mumbo jumbo!
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Assembler? :CoughsOverScreen:
Bring back machine code that's what I say. Couple of years of toggling your app into the front panel'll do 'em a world o' good!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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I say we get a movement going to revert back to machines with front panels with lights and switches by god.
Code name: Bowel Movement
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Movement? I never stopped doing these things on my old Elf. While it has a super practical hex keyboard (and a hex 7 segment display), the original DIY Elf really had switches and eight LEDs.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I love the old ELF, always wanted one but never could justify buying one. What have you done with it lately?
Maybe that will be my next project, a new version od the old ELF?
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This year my old Elf II will be 41 years old. The bus connectors and the keys are worn out and the whole computer suffers from bad contacts. For my experiments it's slowly becoming better to build a new one. How about this:
- 16 Mb RAM in separate three banks, no ROM in the memory map
- BIOS (or anything else) will be loaded by a microcontroller via DMA. The microcontroller also takes care of the processor modes, so that the computer can stay compatible to the old Elves and still boot like a more modern computer.
- traditional bit banged serial interface, like the old Elf
- traditional bit banged cassette interface, again to stay compatible to the old Elf
- PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, so that you can use more modern input devices
- Alternatively a real UART and a serial to USB converter.
- A DIY IDE port to connect one or two Compact Flash cards as 'hard drives'.
- The old CDP1861 graphics chip is extremely hard to get. I have one, just in case the old Elf ever suffers a terrible accident, so it's off limits. How about building a single board Elf with, let's say, 1 Mb graphics RAM, a MC6847 graphics chip and some yet to be determined interface to the main processor (the DGP, decelerated graphics port ) I want to have vector graphics on my Elf.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Hmmm sounds like a RPi
What MCU/MPU would you use?
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
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Much, much older. The original Elf is from 1976 and was designed around the architecture of the processor by the 'father' of the processor itself. AN Elf without a CDP1802 is no Elf.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yeah that makes sense! Just ebyed the DP1892 and lo they're still available and cheap as hell! $2
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For my reimagined Elf I would use a CDP1802BCE (usually from Harris or Intersil), that runs at blistering 5 MHz at 5V. A CDP1802ACE would be sufficient for a more or less accurate original Elf, because the CDP1861 graphics chip relies on very accurate timing with the processor. That limits the processor's clock to 1.79 MHz, but any graphics at all in a single board computer were more valuable than brute processor power at the time. Anyway, I would at least replace the original 2101 static memories (256 bytes) at least by something like a 62256 static RAM (32k x 8). I'm sure with his way of making most of very little, the original designer would have done the same if such a thing would have been at his disposal. And a 62256 is easy to get and costs around 2 bucks. We would have killed to get one in 1978.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'm looking at maybe doing something with this Arduino Due[^]
It's a PDF - devicedoc/atmel-11057-32-bit-cortex-m3-microcontroller-sam3x-sam3a_datasheet.pdf
Not sure yet if can run programs from SRAM or not though?
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
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I don't think it can do that. At first glance I do not see any of the I/O lines to drive a memory bus. It does have many UARTs and USARTs, so it can access one of those tiny serial ROMs[^], if that helps.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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