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csarva

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https://csarva.at.hn/

https://github.com/chetan

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https://chetanislazy.com/blog

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csarva··on New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email
http://www.pixelcop.org/~chetan/pics/snapclean/wb1.jpg (resized orig)

http://www.pixelcop.org/~chetan/pics/snapclean/wb2.jpg (snapclean)

csarva··on New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email
Tried it out. We actually have these funky glass "whiteboards" and it still came out pretty well. A slightly higher resolution output would be nice. Handwriting is hard to read without zooming in a couple of times.

Other than that, I agree with some of the suggestions below. Cleaning up the display is probably 90% of what I want, so this is great. One note- I entered some text in the subject line; it would be nice if this got preserved somewhere to make searching my email easier.

csarva··on DC Comics Launches Digital Publishing
Interesting. I thought only Apple could sell digital content in apps on their platform. That's why Amazon doesn't let you buy books directly from the Kindle app. Has it changed recently?
csarva··on Ask HN: Recommendation for (re)learning Math Skills
I've had a similar interest lately, to freshen up on some higher maths that I've studied in school and mostly forgotten due to lack of use. Calculus, linear algebra, statistics; I feel like it would be good to review some cliff notes, but not sure of a good source.
csarva··on Ask HN: Is Safari losing your sessions?
I haven't looked into it, but facebook seems to forget that I'm logged in all the time. It's been happening for a while and on both Safari 4 and 5. Haven't noticed it on other sites so far.
csarva··on A URL field pre-filled with a http:// which doesnt disappear on focus is bad UI
There are actually two different buffers in X and they are each used a bit differently. See here for an explanation:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

csarva··on Transmit 4 is Released
Very cool and about time! I've been using Transmit 3.x for what seems like ages now. I've mostly switched to using Cyberduck for the last couple years, as it's matured quite a bit since the time I purchased Transmit, and remote editing over SFTP seems to work a whole lot better. From the look of it, that should be fixed now and I might just switch back to Transmit full time.
csarva··on Bursts
This page describes what the "experiment" is all about -

http://barabasi.com/bursts/

You're basically revealing the actual book one word at a time as you adopt them.

csarva··on The day my brain forgot where my back was
my tl;dr summary - After seeing several doctors and chiropractors for her excruciating back pain, Lucy found that exercise and [re-]building core strength was the answer. The problem was her muscles, not her bones.
csarva··on Men Speak 20K Words Per Day and Females 7K - Fact Checking "The Female Brain"
Seems to be a play on the fact that the article basically goes on to explain that these numbers have no basis in reality.
csarva··on Wikipedia over DNS
Very cool hack. I especially love the inclusion of the Perl code to "use" it, as if leaving it out would leave people thinking "this is cool, but how can I use it in perl?!"
csarva··on Gmail rolls out OAuth over IMAP for the masses
Ah, you mean 3rd party access to gmail via IMAPOauth. I forgot about services like threadsy that do just that.
csarva··on Gmail rolls out OAuth over IMAP for the masses
What's the point? Isn't OAuth all about 3-legged authentication scenarios? Why would it be useful for IMAP, particularly when the provider, Google in this case, already has your credentials.
csarva··on Here's The Screen That Will Obliterate Microsoft's Browser Share In Europe
This is a very long time coming. I really thought it would happen much sooner than it has, though I wonder how long before it starts shipping.
csarva··on Adobe's response to Flash Crash
Too bad it still crashes with 10.1b2 for Mac..
csarva··on I'm starting to see Google search results based on my social circle
This is something I've wondered about for a long time and glad to see it being implemented. The current iteration seems to have lots of random people listed as first order connections though.
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