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by bpchaps 8y ago
A little late to the comment party, but I was wondering the same. I'm working on a web scrape workflow that's currently using Tika. I'm very interested in to see how well this does in comparison.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
I've found it to be very hard. Very, very hard. It got to the point for me where my "creative projects" took over and started to become what I spent most of my mental energy on, so a fulltime job became extremely difficult. T
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by bpchaps 8y ago
On a modded Minecraft server, I wanted to use an opencomputers 3d printer to print out pngs from the internet. It had a pallette system that let you choose colors at specified dimensions, but I wanted to constrain myself to only use colors
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by bpchaps 8y ago
The first time I opend the start menu on Windows 10 after mostly using linux, it included news about Kim Kardashian. Since then, my thoughts have been sealed about Windows.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Have you ever used wikidata? It's kind of a shitshow.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
What sort of useful information would that even provide? It would just show that the system crashed because of a text. You'd still have to send some sort of contextual information about the text, which itself would carry non-metadata i
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by bpchaps 8y ago
That's kinda small compared to Banqiao Dam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province, approximately 26,000 people died in the province from flooding and an
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Heh. And yet case.law has a 500 case download limit except those who have been approved by research agreements that are mandatory by lexis nexis. I've been waiting since release night to get a research license approved. Granted, it&#x2
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by bpchaps 8y ago
No kidding. After looking at this project for a bit longer, I'm much less optimistic about this project. Frankly, it really depresses me that they require research agreements to download all information. Developers of this project:
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Gotcha! I've been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks for making it!
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by bpchaps 8y ago
If the creators are listening in - do you have any plans to include the text of the court docs as well?
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Pot kettle black, I guess.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Ah! Thanks!
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by bpchaps 8y ago
My phone was dead at the time, so I was using my desktop with google hangouts for the call. I was not booted from the call. My internet died. End of story. I work from home, so my internet going down is a big deal for my livelihood and all
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Who knows. It was strange for me, too.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Er, why the doubt? My internet completely died. My room mates were also affected.. Not sure how I can give proof.
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Fair. Though, in my defense, the last time I tried to report a similarly large leak (completely different circumstances), it wasn't until I was very explicit in what I found that the report was taken seriously and sent to the appropria
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by bpchaps 8y ago
I probably only spent 30 minutes looking at it and used a few regular expressions to look for anything interesting. The point there was to understand the extent of the leak so that I could raise it in the intent of being taken seriously. A
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Probably both. Or maybe just a story about a thing that happened.
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The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40(mchap.io)
516 points by bpchaps 8y ago|233 comments
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Woah there, calm down. I never said that you shouldn't or can't socialize or put on a pile of TV shows, etc. That'd be ridiculous and unhealthy. Hell, before writing this post, I was playing XCOM 2 :). I'm merely suggest
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Heh. You'd be surprised, so long as you're willing to apply your skills outside of employment and with the knowledge that you might not get paid for it. There are SO MANY fields of applied programming that are currently complete
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Unrelated to the article: the 'x' on the newsletter popup doesn't work on mobile. Makes the article very difficult to read. If the author is reading this, you should fix that!
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Yep :) The sad part is... yeah, you're right. It's the best ticketing tool I've used, too. I'm not sure what the solution is. My naive thought has always been that good management can mitigate most of the need for JIRA
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by bpchaps 8y ago
How long has your company been using JIRA for? JIRA has a tendency to.... decay. New ticket types are created with custom fields that aren't ever kept up to date. Everyone starts to choose random entries because they have no choice, an
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by bpchaps 8y ago
It's because many of us have worked at companies that use JIRA extensively. It's a tool that marks the sign that a company cares more about the management of staff as units, instead of caring about employees as breathing and creat
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by bpchaps 8y ago
From that repo: http://postgrest.org/en/stable/api.html
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by bpchaps 8y ago
A really neat project (written in haskell) for turning a postgres database into a restful API: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest
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by bpchaps 8y ago
My naive (and likely wrong) understanding is that cosmological inflation was caused by a "false vacuum" of the higgs field. Think of it as if the energy pressure of a system is higher than a vacuum, but has similar pressure proper
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by bpchaps 8y ago
Yeah, probably. My career started in a job that could have easily been automated, but never was (intentionally). So in a lot of ways, I feel indebted to it and the idea of entry level tech jobs, because it allowed me to build a career witho

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