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  | import sys | |
| from PIL import Image, ImageDraw | |
| try: | |
| import cv | |
| except ImportError: | |
| print 'Could not import cv, trying opencv' | |
| import opencv.cv as cv | 
  
    
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  | /* Flatten das boostrap */ | |
| .well, .navbar-inner, .popover, .btn, .tooltip, input, select, textarea, pre, .progress, .modal, .add-on, .alert, .table-bordered, .nav>.active>a, .dropdown-menu, .tooltip-inner, .badge, .label, .img-polaroid { | |
| -moz-box-shadow: none !important; | |
| -webkit-box-shadow: none !important; | |
| box-shadow: none !important; | |
| -webkit-border-radius: 0px !important; | |
| -moz-border-radius: 0px !important; | |
| border-radius: 0px !important; | |
| border-collapse: collapse !important; | |
| background-image: none !important; | 
  
    
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  | # Copyright (c) 2011 Phil Plante <unhappyrobot AT gmail DOT com> | |
| # | |
| # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy | |
| # of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal | |
| # in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights | |
| # to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell | |
| # copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is | |
| # furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: | |
| # | |
| # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in | 
A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."
- Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
- Have we kept things as simple as possible?