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mtigas

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About mtigas

https://mike.tig.as/

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    1) We’re not actually using Python for OpenCV, just ruby-opencv and possibly some bindings in Java/JRuby. (I think Python’s in the build instructions due to a numpy dependency in O…

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    In fact, we’re working on an auto-detection feature at this very moment! :D

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    Comment #4183679

    I'm actually coming up on ten years of having the same blog: waaaayyyyy back when I started, I was editing all my pages manually. (Though blog posts didn’t have permalinks, it was …

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    For my blog, static files (anything stored in an app's "static" directory, basically[1]) the like are handled transparently through django-storages' S3 support [2]. (The STATICFILE…

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    Comment #4183268

    What if you don’t have control over your hosting environment? (Or don’t have an application hosting environment to work with? Or don’t want to provision one?) What if you don’t wan…

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    It was an itch I wanted to scratch. I’d been tempted to convert my entire (Django-based) blog over to something like Hyde[1], but wanted a bit more flexibility than the framework p…

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    It’s very wget-like, due to the use of the Django HTTP test client — just slightly more elegant due to the programatic definition of what gets scraped/rendered and the addition of …

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    Comment #4015547

    It's still a regular linearly-scaled chart, so I don't think it's too confusing. Funny enough, I plugged this into Google Docs to see if I could re-scale to give you a comparison o…

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    Comment #3964962

    Note : The AT&T patent in question is actually 775 rather than 755 : http://www.google.com/patents?id=UOMZAAAAEBAJ&dq=4555775 This was posted a few years ago and that also resulted…

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    Haven't looked at the SPDY spec[1] too closely, but I think each side of the SPDY (or underlying TCP) connection would be able to idle-disconnect after a timeout or during a high-l…

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    This is the biggest glaring bug on the app right now.[1] Doesn’t seem to always affect the app (~30% of the time) when backgrounding to another app or if the phone is manually lock…

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    Ah crap, hadn’t tested video player too. Will note that, thanks.

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    Comment #3891748

    Onion Browser developer here. Covert Browser’s been around since November, but apparently doesn’t support cookies or POST requests. (Easy way to test POST by itself: try a search w…

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    Hm, tried to fix the ccache requirement[1][2], but might have botched it. Was using ccache while I was originally developing to speed up the dependency compilation but didn’t inten…

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    I’ll make it a priority to allow using bridges. Unfortunately, since Iran is known to block pretty much all Tor access (even regular, unlisted bridges), it may still not work. Gett…