wallunit

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by wallunit 14y ago
Actually the english stemmer from libstemmer/snowball is already used. Additionally there is a wordforms list, that at the moment maps only whisky to whiskey. ;) Feel free to do a pull request, if you know other words that must be normalize
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by wallunit 14y ago
Actually the entire backend is on github. But let me explain it for you. There is as you have already discovered, a crawler implemented with scrapy. However I don't use the scrapy server and pipelines. Instead I have a script that lets scra
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by wallunit 14y ago
The primary reason why I am using the history API, is that you can bookmark and send links to a specific search. However I agree that when you are actually using the history, it becomes annoying to have any search that was executed while yo
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by wallunit 14y ago
Thank you very much for the feedback. However the problem is, that the ingredients as imported from the websites I crawl aren't in any structured format. I didn't found a reliable way to extract the amount and the actual name of each ingred
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Show HN: Cocktail search written in Python using scrapy and sphinx(cocktails.p24dev.de)
29 points by wallunit 14y ago|21 comments
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by wallunit 14y ago
Only if your server code process each request in a separate thread. But that's also true, when using web-sockets or when using the GIF approach. When implementing real-time applications, you always have to write non-blocking asynchronous se
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by wallunit 14y ago
Using SVG for favicons would be a much better approach. Otherwise we would just end up in a few years, where we are now. But SVGs are scalable and look as good when rendered as 16x16, as 64x64 as 1024x1024. Of course that won't work for pho
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by wallunit 14y ago
Chat rooms 10 years ago weren't using web standards like HTML, GIF and Javascript. They were writing either in Java or in Flash. However MSIE6 also supports XmlHttpRequest (though an Active-X Control), which you can also use for real-time c
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by wallunit 14y ago
Where are you right now? Lets meet. Just write me an email it is in my profile, now.
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Ask HN: Does anybody wants to show me what is going on in San Francisco?
12 points by wallunit 14y ago|4 comments
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Rage characters as XMPP custom smileys(github.com)
3 points by wallunit 15y ago|0 comments
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Internet Meme Playing Cards(kickstarter.com)
1 points by wallunit 15y ago|0 comments
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by wallunit 15y ago
Why is waking up two hours earlier in order to do stuff like coding on personal projects so much better than staying up for two more hours at night? It won't make the day longer. Each hour you wake up earlier you will also probably go to sl
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by wallunit 15y ago
The pirate easter egg [1] seems not to work [2]. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3351407 [2] http://google-turkey.appspot.com/thumb/295552a0
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Google's Thanksgiving doodle - Pirate Turkey(g.co)
1 points by wallunit 15y ago|0 comments
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Broken transaction management in MySQL(no-ack.org)
2 points by wallunit 15y ago|0 comments
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by wallunit 16y ago
There is basically no login area. Gitweb is the official web interface for the source tracker git. If you have permissions to push to the repository the gitweb page is showing, you could possibly add a file to the repository, when shown on
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Disable buttons of synaptics touchpad(no-ack.org)
1 points by wallunit 16y ago|0 comments
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Writing a git merge driver for PO files(no-ack.org)
1 points by wallunit 16y ago|0 comments
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Cross-side scripting vulnerability in gitweb(no-ack.org)
2 points by wallunit 16y ago|4 comments
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Cross-side scripting vulnerability in gitweb(no-ack.org)
1 points by wallunit 16y ago|1 comments
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Python bindings for libssh2(no-ack.org)
1 points by wallunit 16y ago|0 comments
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Plug and play for external sound cards on Linux(no-ack.org)
3 points by wallunit 16y ago|0 comments
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Tim's watch is broken(code.google.com)
3 points by wallunit 16y ago|1 comments
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Using KVM from the command line(no-ack.org)
1 points by wallunit 16y ago|0 comments
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PET: English Translation Issue 1 is Here(revista.python.org.ar)
3 points by wallunit 16y ago|0 comments
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Ballmer Peak(xkcd.com)
6 points by wallunit 16y ago|0 comments
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Running software for Windows under Linux(no-ack.org)
1 points by wallunit 16y ago|0 comments
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Complete guide to py2exe (for PyGTK applications)(no-ack.org)
2 points by wallunit 16y ago|0 comments