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In your video you mention not being able to use tab, enter etc for system dialogs on Mac, if you enable 'Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls' in the Keyboard settings (under Shortcuts), you can cycle the focus with tab (and shift+tab), and select them with space. It's one of the first things I enable on a new install :-)
This is a great idea! I have been using Vimium [1] for years now in both Chrome and FF which provides similar functionality, it's a real productivity booster for me.
Vimium calls their flavor the "vomnibar", and you can search in open tabs, history and bookmarks. The bar is my most used feature next to navigating on pages, opening links and managing tabs (Go to previous tab, pinning, muting, closing, duplicating). It might be a nice extension to take a look at for even more inspiration!
For people wanting tab switching like this on Chrome or FF, I'd say give Vimium a shot. Even if you're not into Vim-like key bindings, knowing Vim is definitely not a requirement to getting value out of it. It allows me to be completely keyboard driven.
Vimium provides go-to-previous-tab via `^`.
The article mentions the nuisance caused by darkstores, but does not go in depth. I've recently came across a small instagram [0] that details some of these. I want to mention some of the nuisances.
Especially in Amsterdam the infrastructure in neighbourhoods is not suitable, the stores need to re-up their supply many times a day (10-15 times), leading to (bike) traffic build up in the often narrow streets [1][2].
They also supply in the weekend, which goes against local ruling on when business can load/offload (generally not in the weekend).
Their scooters and bikes take up a lot of space on sidewalks as well, which normally was used by residents only.
[0] https://www.instagram.com/stopdarkstoreswoonwijk/ [1]: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZhHWrHo61n/ [2]: https://www.instagram.com/p/CW_BFtdDHIz/
You might be remembering pftp, which had a few modded versions (mew6, "shit").
Amsterdam:
test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average
cloudflare 28 ms 37 ms 25 ms 28 ms 28 ms 24 ms 25 ms 24 ms 26 ms 26 ms 27.10
cloudflare2nd 24 ms 25 ms 29 ms 28 ms 34 ms 31 ms 21 ms 27 ms 33 ms 34 ms 28.60
google 29 ms 35 ms 37 ms 33 ms 18 ms 34 ms 39 ms 50 ms 84 ms 15 ms 37.40
google2nd 15 ms 27 ms 25 ms 30 ms 42 ms 28 ms 22 ms 28 ms 27 ms 28 ms 27.20
quad9 61 ms 55 ms 32 ms 37 ms 28 ms 30 ms 24 ms 20 ms 20 ms 21 ms 32.80
opendns 48 ms 50 ms 46 ms 68 ms 61 ms 186 ms 43 ms 56 ms 50 ms 43 ms 65.10
norton 35 ms 167 ms 32 ms 36 ms 32 ms 36 ms 33 ms 48 ms 47 ms 38 ms 50.40
cleanbrowsing 31 ms 34 ms 35 ms 33 ms 34 ms 30 ms 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms 27 ms 29.50
yandex 48 ms 53 ms 54 ms 47 ms 59 ms 67 ms 47 ms 52 ms 52 ms 91 ms 57.00
adguard 17 ms 20 ms 23 ms 17 ms 19 ms 25 ms 139 ms 22 ms 25 ms 21 ms 32.80
neustar 26 ms 34 ms 31 ms 28 ms 26 ms 29 ms 33 ms 24 ms 25 ms 34 ms 29.00
comodo 38 ms 38 ms 46 ms 41 ms 37 ms 34 ms 28 ms 33 ms 37 ms 38 ms 37.00Springest | Amsterdam, ONSITE | Full-time | VISA
Springest is a rapidly growing international marketplace for learning. From online trainings to university courseware,
Springest helps you find, compare, and book whatever you need to reach your personal and professional learning goals. We are looking for a senior developer to join our product team. We use Holacracy which in short means we have no managers and you are in control of what you do. You help build and shape the product.
Stack: our main app is built on Rails with Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Redis and more. Next to this we have a lot of smaller services and internal tools where we use whatever tool is best for the job but we have Golang and Elixir/Phoenix in production.
Springeteers are a happy bunch, and learning is very important here. Next to internal workshops, we regularly host meetups in the Ruby and DevOps spaces, most recently we hosted Elixir Amsterdam. We also organise monthly in-company hackdays where we work on creative ideas and new technologies that are not on our regular roadmap. Some hackday projects have grown out to become part of our core business. If you come up with a great idea you're excited about, you can run with it and see how far it can go. Read more about that here: https://medium.com/@springestdev/how-to-run-an-all-company-h...
VISA: We can and have hired from outside the EU so we can help you get set up here in Amsterdam. Every employee gets a 1000 Euro budget per year which you can use to go to conferences, buy books etc to develop yourself. We are an English speaking company but some of us have also used it to learn Dutch.
Interview process: When hiring we like to talk in person or on the phone to get to know you, after which we do a 1-2 day trial to get a feel for your working style. This also helps you get a better impression of our team, our working environment, and the Holacratic process.
* Learn more about Springest: http://about.springest.com/ and http://over.springest.nl/werken-bij-springest/ (Dutch) * About Holacracy: http://about.springest.com/holacracy/ * What it's like to work at Springest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNBgkhkPK14 * More about the vacancy: http://devblog.springest.com/vacancy-senior-ruby-on-rails-de...
If you have any questions or want to apply, contact mark@springest.com
Springest | Amsterdam, ONSITE | Full-time | VISA
Springest is a rapidly growing international marketplace for learning. From online trainings to university courseware, Springest helps you find, compare, and book whatever you need to reach your personal and professional learning goals.
We are looking for a senior developer to join our product team. We use Holacracy which in short means we have no managers and you are in control of what you do. You help build and shape the product.
Stack: our main app is built on Rails with Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Redis and more. Next to this we have a lot of smaller services and internal tools where we use whatever tool is best for the job but we have Golang and Elixir/Phoenix in production.
Springeteers are a happy bunch, and learning is very important here. Next to internal workshops, we regularly host meetups in the Ruby and DevOps spaces. We also organise monthly in-company hackdays where we work on creative ideas and new technologies that are not on our regular roadmap. Some hackday projects have grown out to become part of our core business. If you come up with a great idea you're excited about, you can run with it and see how far it can go.
VISA: We can and have hired from outside the EU so we can help you get set up here in Amsterdam.
Every employee gets a 1000 Euro budget per year which you can use to go to conferences, buy books etc to develop yourself. We are an English speaking company but some of us have also used it to learn Dutch.
Interview process: When hiring we like to talk in person or on the phone to get to know you, after which we do a 1-2 day trial to get a feel for your working style. This also helps you get a better impression of our team, our working environment, and the Holacratic process.
* Learn more about Springest: http://about.springest.com/ and http://over.springest.nl/werken-bij-springest/ (Dutch)
* About Holacracy: http://about.springest.com/holacracy/
* What it's like to work at Springest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNBgkhkPK14
* More about the vacancy: http://devblog.springest.com/vacancy-senior-ruby-on-rails-de...
If you have any questions or want to apply, contact mark@springest.com
I love this! I started doing this years ago as well via a simple notes dir in my dotfiles (example [1]), and actually wrote a small tool to help me with it [2]. This way I can list all the note files I have (cli, zsh, vim etc) and pretty print them a bit and have search if I can't remember the exact thing :)
[1] https://github.com/bittersweet/dotfiles/blob/master/notes/gi...
People have mentioned the Garmin Virb being able to do this, and I have to mention that their software [1] is great and easily useable with any video file. I've used it to sync up my bike rides recorded with a Go Pro to my .gpx file and show speed, map etc. You just have to manually sync the start of the file with a start point in the video, which is easy enough.
The GoPro software is horrendous in comparison as I could not even import my video files (one of 4,5 gb and another one of around 1,5) with over 25gb free space. Maybe it needed to convert before importing? In any case I just joined up the files with ffmpeg and imported in Virb and off I went, very recommended!
I've been using SSE with Go for personal projects, so just one browser, could you expand on the issues you mentioned? I'm curious if it is indeed as bad as you say.
Seconded, I have not thought about this before or come across this idea at all and certainly sounds interesting!
I was actually looking in to Tesseract yesterday, so this post coincides nicely.
I have a hobby project where I scrape instagram photos, and I actually only want to end up with photos with actual people in them. There are a lot of images being posted with motivational texts etc that I want to automatically filter out.
So far I've already built a binary that scans images and spits out the dominant color percentage, if 1 color is over a certain percentage (so black background white text for example), I can be pretty sure it's not something I want to keep.
I've also tried OpenCV with facial recognition but I had a lot of false positives with faces being recognized in text and random looking objects, and I've tried out 4 of the haarcascades, all with different, but not 'perfect' end results.
OCR was my next step to check out, maybe I can combine all the steps to get something nice. I was getting weird texts back from images with no text, so the pre-processing hints in this thread are gold and I can't wait to check those out.
This thread is giving me so much ideas and actual names of algorithms to check out, I love it. But I would really appreciate it if anyone else has more thoughts about how to filter out images that do not contain people :-)
Qrush, one of the guys behind Rubygems tweeted that the credentials of every yml file ended up on pastie: https://twitter.com/qrush/status/296638346283868160
> Someone posted http://rubygems.org 's config/*.yml to pastie. Didn't include the S3 bucket secret key, but going to reset everything anyway.
The author notes that there is no meta key anymore [1], however you can often setup your terminal emulator to use another key as the meta key.
In iTerm [2] I have the left alt/option key setup as meta, so things like meta-b are much easier to type then Esc-b.
[1] "You'll often see Meta+b but there is no such key on the keyboards anymore." [2] Profiles -> Keys "Left option acts as meta"
This article seemed very familiar, and I found the original article where a lot of the quotes/text came from, 'The Making of Goldeneye' from may 2011 [1]
[1] http://www.nowgamer.com/features/921602/the_making_of_golden...
And are you poling the noti server? I'm wondering how realtime it is :-)
Interesting, could you shed some light on the tech behind this? For example, does this use a custom solution to display notifications or Growl / ML notifications?
It does have some problems with decoding DTS content (I don't have a receiver) though. I've tried a couple of things already like overclocks and re encoding the audio but I'm still trying to find the sweet spot. This is all on RC5 raspbmc, still have to try openelec.
This is N.W.A. - 100 miles and running
Tim Pope has written about the model commit message [1] and why you should use a short first line, I'm a big believer in this setup and it's done wonders for the readability of my commit messages.
Github itself even uses these rules [2] so I think it's slightly annoying people don't follow them as it looks worse if you use long first lines on the website.
[1] http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa... [2] https://github.com/blog/926-shiny-new-commit-styles
I've recently gotten a 500/500 fiber connection (I'm located in the Netherlands) and it's been fun, but I haven't found a way/service to saturate it yet. It's fast enough that I don't think about the speed but 100/100 would probably be able to provide that as well.
An internal network with just fiber subscribers would be cool though, I seem to remember old DirectConnect networks that would only allow university connections with big links.
Not completely what you are looking for, but I found a Chris Granger inspired vim theme: https://github.com/chmllr/vim-colorscheme-elrodeo
Are you guys using anything in particular to power the webhooks?
I'll be integrating webhooks in my own app soon so I'm quite interested how others have 'solved' that so to speak.
Seems you can set up webhooks to do just that! [1]
These are the events: send, hard_bounce, soft_bounce, open, click, spam, unsub, reject
[1] http://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/webhooks.html#method=add
You could take a look at face.com for a face recognition API. Have only used it for some demo apps and it worked alright.
The fun thing is, because you named it git-sweep, you can use it like a regular git command instead of needing to use git-sweep, for example: git sweep preview
This looks great but after browsing their twitter feed [1] I can see that they have troubles getting updates approved in the app store because of the sandboxing.
I did this as well, it seems very obvious but it's a great insight in human behaviour.
Just like the author of this blog post I was inspired by the MVC mini profiler and started a Ruby gem that has some very very basic functionality at the moment, you can find it here: http://github.com/bittersweet/stopwatch
It just shows the page load duration and amount of queries so far but I plan to have the same functionality as the original and GAE one :-)