BasHamer

30 ms·

1.
by BasHamer 8y ago
I should be able to get you some files, getting approval now; can you let me know how to contact you?
2.
by BasHamer 8y ago
handled the non-printed whitespace but butchered the multi- line table headers, so re-building the headers is rough as it is line by line and you need to know what words go together and you have lost the structure.
3.
by BasHamer 8y ago
https://pdftables.com failed the test file, pretty good but inconsistent interpretation across rows, sometimes it split the cell, sometimes it did not. Tabula failed to detect multi-line rows, after manually changing the table i
4.
by BasHamer 8y ago
If this can get me tables out of pdf's generated by crystal reports it would be a godsend for testing. This has been a nightmare to try and solve, the best option so far has been adobe cloud but they don't offer an API for that. I
5.
by BasHamer 8y ago
train it. Give it examples that we consider moral and examples of what we consider immoral and have it figure it out. The solutions that the algorithms create are less complex than the data that they base the solutions on; so it should be r
6.
by BasHamer 8y ago
Data-driven algorithms are discriminating based upon undesirable/illegal vectors; they are utterly amoral in optimizing their solutions. Even if the algorithm does not have access to the "Age" field, then there are plenty of
7.
by BasHamer 8y ago
I prefer to look at value and costs. To me LoC is an indicator of how much you'll spend on maintenance; less is better. I think that defects per unit of value have plummeted.
8.
by BasHamer 8y ago
Sort of, they actually do rolling updates so that a new version of the code does not affect the whole user base at once. So again, reducing the cost of incorrect software. But it does happen, the VW emission scandal was effectively incorrec
9.
by BasHamer 8y ago
It is worth noting that the cost of correcting inaccurate software has gone down. Looking at the decision to adopt some defect prevention strategy in software. Cost of strategy < ∑(perceived chance of a defect being prevented)*(cost of
10.
by BasHamer 8y ago
So what they are saying is that every car in the employee parking lot will have a cellphone in it? Wouldn't that cause a lot of break-ins?
11.
by BasHamer 8y ago
Pay late stage startup employees & new-hires to keep a time diary, and see where they spend time with coworkers. Then do the same w/ people not working at startups. I guess that startups have more "non-work" time spend to
12.
by BasHamer 8y ago
doesn't the answer boil down to marketing? It is talking about expressing shared values (trough open source and mentoring) value (personal accomplishment) and warm fuzzies (being a fan of the company, product, etc.) As to how to do tha
13.
by BasHamer 8y ago
A name mentioned twice might have warranted a paragraph. Robert Moses, the subject of "The Power Broker" a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography (worth an audiable credit). He ran the Triborough and build a lot of bridges, parks, parkw