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mctx

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About mctx

Engineer in Perth, Australia

alex@louden.com

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    Comment #15882888

    Check out Django Rest Framework - it uses Django’s ORM and adds some really nice features for building a decent sized API

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    Comment #14479215

    I wonder if the author has looked into using SURF/OTB etc?

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    Comment #14479177

    Have you looked at https://github.com/dermotte/lire ? This plugin for ElasticSearch uses it: https://github.com/kzwang/elasticsearch-image

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    Comment #14328764

    Unreadable on Chrome on iOS https://i.imgur.com/j13tqGn.png

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    Comment #14270369

    I find that even noise cancelling headphones don't help drown out nearby conversations - I listen to Apple's Chill radio and use Noizio when I really need to focus.

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    Comment #14047987

    A booze bus is a random breath test - the police have labelled busses that they park on the road. I believe if you blow over the limit then you get on the bus and are tested again …

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    Comment #14038252

    You can create a post save hook to output .py files - http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/extending/s... (You used to be able to run ipython notebook --script)

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    Comment #13371912

    httpbin.org/status/204 works too

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    Comment #13120663

    > More importantly, transportation is the gateway to the grand prize: housing. When contemplating a smart home, there is nowhere better to start than developing smart rooms on whee…

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    Comment #12554840

    Also a couple of typos: "acceleation" and "sofware’s"

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    Comment #12301650

    What about NVIDIA-docker? https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker

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    Comment #8938720

    We used PSpice at uni: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSpice

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    Comment #8685589

    This worked for us - moved the DNS to Cloudflare, kept the domain at DNSimple

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    Comment #8657510

    Does this technique only work if the barcode is either horizontal or vertical?

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    Comment #8514829

    I've found its typically limited by my upload speed (ADSL2+ at 100kb/s up), took me a few months for a couple of hundred GB.

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    Comment #8501393

    There are a few conferences coming up in Barcelona, he could go to network? http://www.papis.io/ http://velocityconf.com/eu

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    Comment #8382174

    Are you looking for off the shelf systems or parts/info to build one with?

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    Comment #8382165

    Django has haystack[0], which I've used with an elasticsearch backend on a few projects and is generally pretty easy to set up and get good results with. I haven't had to do anythi…

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    Comment #8382154

    I've gone down the same route, from PostgreSQL search to ElasticSearch with usually pretty good results. A friend has strongly recommended Algolia, so I'll explore that for the nex…

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    Comment #8355508

    I use and have used Heroku for personal projects for quite a while. I don't feel too bad, because a) they only run free dyno apps upon request (idle most of the time) and b) I'm a …

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    Comment #8344576

    What does your startup do? How are you able to offer EV certificates so cheaply? I thought they were typically ~$1000.

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    Comment #8260986

    Are you using any packages with Flask for API code? I quite like Django Rest Framework for JSON APIs, I just ignore the parts of Django I don't need.