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sherril8

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    Comment #9253145

    It's a cool idea but a few suggestions: -No mention if international addresses are okay. -Seems a little expensive. -Needs more examples of cards. -Would be nice if it pings you by…

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    Comment #6849245

    A lot of expensive work done around Central Park. Not surprising considering there is probably a high demand and higher income residents for that area.

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    Comment #5633512

    Oops, looks like this happened after I went to sleep. Hopefully there werent too many issues for people.

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    Comment #5633503

    I threw this together so quickly that I didnt honestly do much benchmarking. I will be trying to improve performance as much as I can. It does only pull high res photos from Bing. …

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    Comment #5633472

    I agree that it needs to be tweaked a bit so the images align better. It doesnt handle portrait oriented images very well. I think as programmers, sometimes we fail to realize that…

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    Comment #5633409

    By the end of the week I should have an option to search for faces only. The Bing API makes that pretty easy to do.

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    Comment #5633389

    I am definitely looking into adding a voting system. For now, I wanted to keep the site as simple as possible.

  8. story
    Show HN: Type in a search to find the average of the first 50 image results

    When you search for something, it pulls the first 50 image results from Bing Image Search then blends them all together. The resulting image is produced by taking the mean color va…

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    Comment #5628126

    I think the concern was more that the functions you are toggling will likely interact with other functions you are toggling. So if you toggle one on but forget to toggle the other,…

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    Comment #5540550

    The benefit of using an ORM is that if you did want to change the type of database, most of your code would be able to go unchanged (theoretically). If you did switch, you should b…

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    Comment #5501320

    I found this article to be of some help: http://www.andrewault.net/2010/05/17/securing-an-ubuntu-serv... To start, you will just need to set up IPTables and Fail2Ban.

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    Comment #5495371

    Sorry for the late response. I cant recall anything that I missed from NotePad++. Once I was all set up in ST2 (which was super quick thanks to the package installer), everything f…

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    Comment #5494810

    People hold conversations while doing other tasks all the time. It's perfectly normal to have conversations while driving, doing dishes, eating, reading the newspaper, watching tv,…

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    Comment #5452381

    I made the switch from Notepad++ to Sublime Text recently. Sublime Text feels quite a bit more polished and was easier to get it setup to fit my needs. Definitely recommend giving …