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by arnabdotorg 13y ago
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" :)
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by arnabdotorg 13y ago
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.
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by arnabdotorg 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.indiankanoon.com Hacker notes: Search Engine built on Postgres: http://sushant354.blogspot.com/2009/01/indian-kanoon-road-so...
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Civic hackers seek to find their feet in India(epaper.livemint.com)
1 points by arnabdotorg 16y ago|1 comments
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by arnabdotorg 16y ago
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 queries on two-dimensional spatial data." PostGIS: http://pos
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by arnabdotorg 16y ago
Awesome stuff!
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by arnabdotorg 16y ago
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 right now ?" This question is worth a lot of money, and som
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by arnabdotorg 16y ago
Make sure you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review especially http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review#Criticism_of_peer_r...
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by arnabdotorg 16y ago
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 installing this, my eyes are feeling much better. Maybe I'm j
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Fixing Facebook's Font Size Frustration(arnab.org)
3 points by arnabdotorg 16y ago|4 comments
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Shadow Tables using MySQL Triggers(arnab.org)
2 points by arnabdotorg 16y ago|0 comments
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by arnabdotorg 16y ago
Yes, I do. For example, I use all the tips mentioned on this page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1695794
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Adwords CPC Dips: Google Instant and Ad Pricing(arnab.org)
5 points by arnabdotorg 16y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on Scribe(arnab.org)
1 points by arnabdotorg 16y ago|0 comments
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by arnabdotorg 16y ago
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 resource usage -- e.g. what is the expected billing per use
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Rollover Tweets(arnab.org)
2 points by arnabdotorg 16y ago|0 comments
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by arnabdotorg 16y ago
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 network: "Amy, Jon and you have all the Star Wars movies among
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by arnabdotorg 16y ago
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://arnab.org/blog/quick-and-easy-multicore-sort
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Friend-based throttling in Facebook News Feeds(arnab.org)
1 points by arnabdotorg 16y ago|0 comments
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Deceiving Users with the Facebook Like Button(arnab.org)
92 points by arnabdotorg 16y ago|18 comments
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by arnabdotorg 17y ago
+1 on Drupal. It also implements sequences, etc.