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Haha, sure. Since this was a random fun project, the code was written with the objective function being "least amount of code to get the job done well enough" :)

Hi guys, author of the blog post here. I put up the code from the blog post at https://github.com/arnabdotorg/Playing-Card-Recognition if anyone wants to play with it.

Clickable: http://www.indiankanoon.com Hacker notes: Search Engine built on Postgres: http://sushant354.blogspot.com/2009/01/indian-kanoon-road-so...

Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/indexes-types.html : "PostgreSQL provides several index types: B-tree, R-tree, Hash, and GiST. R-tree indexes are suited for que…

Awesome stuff!

The key value is not as much in the data itself, as much as the _timeliness_ of the data. Access to the halfhose allows you to answer a _very_ valuable question: "What's happening …

Make sure you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review especially http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review#Criticism_of_peer_r...

Well, it was a problem for me, so I fixed it, and thought I'd share :) Notably my 2 issues were: 1) My eyes hurt so much that I preferred using my iPhone over a 24" screen. After i…

Yes, I do. For example, I use all the tips mentioned on this page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1695794

Where's the autocomplete? I only see find-as-you-type -- there are no Google-suggest like suggestions , per se. Also, I am very curious to see back-of-the-envelope calculations on …

Taking this a step further: 1. Use Facebook Connect to create a library of things that you own. e.g. DVDs, tools. 2. Suggest Collections/activities that arise out of your social ne…

Merge sort works very well if you have multiple cores available. The general idea is to split the file, sort in parallel, and then merge. Here's a blog post I wrote about it: http:…

+1 on Drupal. It also implements sequences, etc.