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mctx

112 karma · joined November 29, 2012

Engineer in Perth, Australia

alex@louden.com

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mctx··on Modern Front-end in Rails
Check out Django Rest Framework - it uses Django’s ORM and adds some really nice features for building a decent sized API
mctx··on Evaluating Perceptual Image Hashes at OkCupid
I wonder if the author has looked into using SURF/OTB etc?
mctx··on Evaluating Perceptual Image Hashes at OkCupid
Have you looked at https://github.com/dermotte/lire? This plugin for ElasticSearch uses it: https://github.com/kzwang/elasticsearch-image
mctx··on Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm
Unreadable on Chrome on iOS https://i.imgur.com/j13tqGn.png
mctx··on How Stripe teaches employees to code
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.
mctx··on Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
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 in 30 minutes.

They look like this: http://www.ranted.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/109890-b...

mctx··on Jupyter Notebook 5.0
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)

mctx··on NeverSSL
httpbin.org/status/204 works too
mctx··on Milking the iPhone
> 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 wheels.

Is the author suggesting autonomous smart caravans?

mctx··on What every coder should know about gamma
Also a couple of typos: "acceleation" and "sofware’s"
mctx··on Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes
What about NVIDIA-docker?

https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker

mctx··on The Clock
We used PSpice at uni: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSpice
mctx··on DNSimple DDOS Attack
This worked for us - moved the DNS to Cloudflare, kept the domain at DNSimple
mctx··on Detecting Barcodes in Images with Python and OpenCV
Does this technique only work if the barcode is either horizontal or vertical?
mctx··on Ask HN: Your recommendations for Windows PC backup software solutions?
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.
mctx··on Ask HN: My 56-year-old father is a developer having a tough time finding a job
There are a few conferences coming up in Barcelona, he could go to network? http://www.papis.io/ http://velocityconf.com/eu
mctx··on Show HN: A Google Calendar Door Sign
Are you looking for off the shelf systems or parts/info to build one with?
mctx··on Postgres full text search is good enough
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 anything more advanced than autocomplete/boost/spelling suggestions, but from what I've read it seems pretty powerful.

[0]: http://haystacksearch.org/

mctx··on Postgres full text search is good enough
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 next project that needs it.
mctx··on Heroku DX: The New Heroku Developer Experience
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 huge advocate for their products, which has led to my work and several other companies using and recommending Heroku. At work we now have a number of clients typically running 2-5 dynos and other services, hopefully easily covering my freeloading!
mctx··on Ask HN: What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?
What does your startup do?

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

mctx··on Django 1.7 Released
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.
mctx··on Game of Hacks
alex here. After getting a question correct, you can submit the same POST request with the same answer, and a very large negative number for the time. I imagine they're just adding your newly calculated score (30?-time) to your session's previous score. A lesson in sanitising inputs!
mctx··on Celery – Best Practices
What's the use case? Do you need to know exactly when the task is done? Does it vary in duration significantly? Can you split the call into two - one to start it, another to check the status given an ID?
mctx··on Show HN: Career Finder – A quiz that gives you career recommendations
I got practical thinker too, and I'm a Mechatronic Engineer (I like building things)
mctx··on Common Python Mistakes
Also crashes chrome on ios 7.1.1 on an iPhone 5S every time
mctx··on GoDaddy Prepares for IPO
They probably just can't figure out how to use the site's horrible UI to transfer out
mctx··on Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight
{1: ["A", "B"]}?
mctx··on Project Tango
This is called photogrammetry - check out Autodesk's 123D Catch iPhone and web app, it yields some pretty good results if you take enough evenly lit photos with decent overlap.
mctx··on Bootstrap 3.1 released
Or use css2sass.heroku.com for SASS
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