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Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by tomscott on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @06:58AM (#6205006)
Hello. I'm Tom, and I made this -- more than three years ago. No idea why it's suddenly turned up here; it doesn't exactly fit under 'hacker' or 'news'!

It did once have permalinks, but adding translations in 2010 messed things up and I never got around to fixing the code. (Do try picking a RTL language, though, I'm quite proud of how that works.)

It should (I think) store the city you've requested in a cookie for next time, though. Maybe. It's really old and dodgy code.

Still, full marks for YQL for putting up with all the weather requests they've gotten over the years...

Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by daniel-levin on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @08:41AM (#6205296)
Interestingly the Hebrew version prints Dagobah as Dagobash (דגובאש), and apparently Johannesburg, SA doesn't exist as a city.
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by muloka on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @10:04AM (#6205723)
+1 for permalinks as well, it would make sharing this with others a lot easier.
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by TsiCClawOfLight on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:47AM (#6205637)
This is really awesome! Not hacker, but really geeky :) Is there any chance of you cleaning this up and fixing permalinks?
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by GotAnyMegadeth on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @05:33AM (#6204779)
Bristol, UK was destroyed by the Death Star long ago...
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by agilebyte on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @06:22AM (#6204902)
You have to enter it without the comma.
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by lewispb on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @06:22AM (#6204904)
Told me that Bristol was Alderan
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by estel on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @10:25AM (#6205878)
I assume that was the point?
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by danjordan on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @08:09AM (#6205194)
My favourite bit is the Konami code.
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by saraid216 on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @11:30AM (#6206309)
I can't get it to trigger. Even after reading the source code. :(
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by Ecio78 on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @12:08PM (#6206553)
check on the upper right corner after you did the Konami code
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by apapli on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @07:53AM (#6205154)
Cool site! You have Australia's country code as AS - it's AU. (eg type Melbourne Australia to replicate). Cheers!
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by maw on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @08:37AM (#6205284)
Different standards use different abbreviations. Here, Tom is using FIPS: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIPS_country_codes.

If it were my site, I'd probably also use AU (and AT), though.

Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by struppi on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @08:14AM (#6205204)
And it shows Austria as AU which should really be AT.
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by ArekDymalski on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @05:29AM (#6204770)
This is sweet. I just wish there was an option to link directly to a particular city.
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by stcredzero on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @01:57PM (#6207153)
There's no use in an app where you have to look up the readout to interpret the result. That means the potential market for this app are SW geeks who have memorized the climates of planets and moons in Star Wars.

Analysis: sizeable market.

Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by jpfaraco on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @01:39PM (#6207060)
Love this. +1 to permalinks, and would love to see better typography -- IMO replacing Tahoma with Open Sans Regular, or Light would go a long way. And perhaps a serif font for the planet name...
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by RyanMcGreal on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:00AM (#6205395)
Damascus is currently like Tatooine: 36 degrees C and fair.
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by Yaggo on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @06:15AM (#6204879)
Nice but please push the chosen state to history.
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by ritonlajoie on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:20AM (#6205497)
loved the Utini !
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by tehwalrus on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:02AM (#6205403)
this made me smile, thanks! :)
Re:Star Wars Weather Forecast by seivan on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @05:34AM (#6204781)
Fun! Missing permalinks.