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by teuobk 14y ago
Fog Creek's services are hosted at Internap's LGA11 (75 Broad St) data center.
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by teuobk 14y ago
This is surprising, given that Microsoft is the provider of ads on Yahoo Search (and perhaps other properties).
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by teuobk 14y ago
There seems to be some confusion about the difference between SmartDeblur and Blurity. In short, SmartDeblur is a parameterized non-blind deconvolution tool. It handles only a narrow set of blur kernels: focus errors or camera movements in
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by teuobk 14y ago
Good point. The payment processor for Blurity is Stripe, but that's not apparent unless you inspect the page's source. I suppose that might explain why some people bail to the PayPal option. Regardless, I'll look into adding something to
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by teuobk 14y ago
In hindsight, it was a blunder. Fortunately, we were able to port Snaposit to OS X fairly quickly due to our having built it with Python and wxPython.
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by teuobk 14y ago
Even I was amazed by how much better the audio became. The camera still recorded audio for sync purposes, and it was remarkable how much more "present" the audio from the Zoom H4n was versus the camera audio. I highly recommend getting so
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How we got a Y Combinator interview but blew it(keacher.com)
97 points by teuobk 14y ago|58 comments
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by teuobk 14y ago
Good questions. My thoughts: - Are you asking about recovery of information that was intentionally blurred? If so, there have been some exciting results in this area in recent years. For example, it turns out that given reasonable priors
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by teuobk 14y ago
This tool appears to be an open-source (and faster) replacement for Focus Magic, in that it allows the user to perform parameterized deconvolution. By that I mean: if the blur kernel can be approximated by either a line or a filled circle,
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by teuobk 14y ago
Blurity author here. I'm happy to say that Blurity does exactly what you're requesting in your second paragraph: it can "automatically determine a non-linear motion path" using true blind deconvolution. Although Blurity is a commercial pr
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Well that sucks, what else you got?(tghw.com)
16 points by teuobk 14y ago|2 comments
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by teuobk 14y ago
For many countries and potential customers, both Stripe and PayPal are viable options, so if one becomes unavailable for some reason, we at least have a fallback that will cover the vast majority of customers. A gentleman with whom were wer
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by teuobk 14y ago
I'm... kind of confused, to be honest. However, I do like the general idea: it can be great fun to let the mind wander while doing something like browsing Wikipedia.
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How we learned that Stripe alone was costing us customers(blurity.com)
2 points by teuobk 14y ago|2 comments
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by teuobk 14y ago
In my experience, it's not that Bing has bad results. Rather, the results aren't so much better that they justify switching from Google. On the other hand, I've found that the Bing search ads I've run for my software product convert better
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by teuobk 14y ago
Slightly more information at The Atlantic Wire, but they seem to be approaching the story cautiously: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/someones-cla...
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by teuobk 14y ago
Upon further investigation, it appears to be from September 2003. (Unfortunately, I can no longer change the article title to reflect the old date.) EDIT: I looked into the two companies mentioned in the article, and as of now, nine years
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The New Diamond Age: Next up, the computing industry(wired.com)
2 points by teuobk 14y ago|2 comments
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Gatekeeper: Using FUD to get Developers to Pony Up(tghw.com)
1 points by teuobk 14y ago|0 comments
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The Physics of Olympic Bodies(npr.org)
6 points by teuobk 14y ago|0 comments
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by teuobk 14y ago
We have a winner! After I discovered people were doing that, I was rather surprised that they thought that the trademark serial number would be a valid registration key. I guess people don't read. Edit: Thanks for the heads-up about the ty
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by teuobk 14y ago
That's an interesting question, so I gave it a try just now. On Windows 7 with IE 9, there were no warnings presented when downloading the zip file containing the unsigned installer executable. When the installer was extracted from the arc
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by teuobk 14y ago
Yeah, fixblurryphotos.com was an experiment to see if people would be satisfied with very simple photo improvements rather than the full deblurring power of Blurity. When I was experimenting with the SaaS version of Blurity, I found that ma
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by teuobk 14y ago
I've done some A/B testing with various download button labels, but I should probably go back and do it again now that I've switched from a 30-day trial model to a watermarked-demo model. As for preserving EXIF data, I think that should be
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by teuobk 14y ago
This is true. Their prices are good but their web interface is horrible. I felt like I was driving something built in 1999. That said, their customer service has been very good and very prompt.
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by teuobk 14y ago
Interesting. I had some initial problems with installing the certificate for blurity.com when I got the intermediate cert chaining backwards, but this is the first I've heard about problems since I fixed that a few months ago. Could you dr
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by teuobk 14y ago
Pretty much spot on. Deblurring is extremely CPU intensive, so it would take a lot of hardware on the server side. Or, I could do something like a CUDA port, but then that would mean owning and grooming my own servers, since decent GPUs a
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by teuobk 14y ago
True. Part of the problem was simply not knowing that signing was a thing that needed to be done. It's obvious in hindsight, but since I hadn't released many Windows applications in the past, I didn't realize what I didn't know.
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by teuobk 14y ago
If you have Matlab, you might try the tools here: http://www.ece.lsu.edu/ipl/Software.html
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by teuobk 14y ago
Nice write-up. How did your users perceive the downtime? Mostly understanding, or was there a lot of anger?

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