abhinai

1) Read an image from file
2) Display an image that you read from file
3) Capture Video using your webcam and display the feed
4) Display back and white live stream from your webcam.
5) Have a slider to change brightness of the webcam live stream. Display.
6) Have a slider to change contrast of the webcam live stream. Display.
7) Capture a snapshot from your webcam. Then display difference between live video stream and this snapshot. (Background subtraction)
8) Display Canny edge image from your live webcam stream
9) Have a slider to change smoothness / sharpness of image from live webcam stream.
10) Display histogram of colors (RGB) from your live webcam stream

aparrish

yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

garybernhardt

This document has moved!

It's now here, in The Programmer's Compendium. The content is the same as before, but being part of the compendium means that it's actively maintained.

vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

joepie91

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

• A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
• A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
• There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

max-mapper

JavaScript function hoisting by example

Below are many examples of function hoisting behavior in JavaScript. Ones marked as works successfuly print 'hi!' without errors.

To play around with these examples (recommended) clone them with git and execute them with e.g. node a.js

Notes on hoisting

(I may be using incorrect terms below, please forgive me)

reggi

Raspberry Pi and the USB to TTL Serial Cable on Mac (unfinished)

I took it to heart when @kassandra_perch said to document everything durring her talk at EmpireJS. So I documented my whole process, what went right and what went wrong.

This document is unfinished and is not a complete tutorial

The primary way to interact with a Raspberry Pi is to use WiFi and SSH. The problem with this is that the WiFi on the Pi needs to be configured and in order to do that you'll need a monitor. I've tried to edit the wpa_supplicant.conf by using the SD card's file system. I achieved this with minimal success the problem with this is that you still need to get the IP address of the Pi, even if it's connected.

Alas, there's another way! Using a wire referred to as the "USB to TTL Serial Cable - Debug / Console Cable for Raspberry Pi".

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

cookrn

Couldn't find the text of this for a while...

• Original (404'ed) -- https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts/Di6RwCNKCrf
• Fakeout -- http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/ryan_dahl_i_hate_almost_all_software.html
• Repost -- https://plus.google.com/116904230181415286707/posts/DnAMAN5sUR8