sherril8

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by sherril8 12y ago
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 email a few days before the card prints/sends so
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by sherril8 13y ago
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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by sherril8 13y ago
Oops, looks like this happened after I went to sleep. Hopefully there werent too many issues for people.
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by sherril8 13y ago
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. Which in itself, takes around 1 minute over CURL (longer if
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by sherril8 13y ago
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 just because something is simple to us doesnt mean it is to
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by sherril8 13y ago
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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by sherril8 13y ago
I am definitely looking into adding a voting system. For now, I wanted to keep the site as simple as possible.
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Show HN: Type in a search to find the average of the first 50 image results(imgessence.com)
35 points by sherril8 13y ago|20 comments
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by sherril8 13y ago
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, then you could end up with undesirable results.
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by sherril8 13y ago
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 be able to just change a config file to let the ORM know whic
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by sherril8 13y ago
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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by sherril8 14y ago
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 felt the similar.
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by sherril8 14y ago
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, etc. It's not impossible to be interested in a conversation
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by sherril8 14y ago
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 it a try.