derwildemomo

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by derwildemomo 11y ago
It's perfect from an OCR point of view: - Perfectly upright, no visible rotation - Sharp, not remotely blurry - No visible brightness/color gradient (as is often the case with pictures taken by mobile phones.) It contains umlaut
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
The title is wrong – it actually uses Tesseract to do the OCR. Call me negative, but I don't see the big leap here, it's just a simple demo to recognize text in an almost perfect input picture. It uses the Emgu CV, self descriptio
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
You are off topic.
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
Hey, no one is without powers. Ours are very limited in situations like that, but amnesty international usually provides a set of honoraries that can be addressed in situations like that, as well as in depth information about the case, in t
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
Haven't we like talked about this 3 hours ago ;)?
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
Thanks for the great job! Just recently I, by some means of evil hackery, embedded quill in an Xamarin-based iOS app. Quick, painless and gets the job done 100%. (Sidenote: I proxied the Controls to a native component to make it look .. &qu
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
Would be interesting to figure out whether the different methods "used for venting out" anger make any difference. I do agree that playing a game is different from punching a bag though, takes more intellectual skills and such, ye
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
There's some research that indicates that the "venting anger" theory leads to the opposite, i.e. more anger, not less. [1] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbushman/PSPB02.pdf (quick google, there are cert
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
"I don't know enough to form a valid opinion here.". Beautiful. This is pretty much the last thing I ever expected to read on the interweb.
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
If you are living in germany, https://www.dkms.de/en/become-a-donor has you covered. They'll send you a home kit so you don't even need to leave your house to register.
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
This post made me listen to erasure. Thank you. Also, sorry for the OT.
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
This. I'm currently working on my 3rd Android-BLE project and it's incredible how bad those APIs (and of course the vendor's implementations) are. An inconsistent pile of .. well, nothing nice. I don't get why they have
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
thanks for sharing this. Since i'm in a somewhat comparable situation, would you mind getting in touch? you can find my website, alas email, on my profile page and I think talking about some stuff that worked and didn't work might
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by derwildemomo 11y ago
yes, they do. I'm contracting (in germany, if that's important) and about a third of the companies that hire me have high or very high standards when it comes to avoiding technical debt, adherence to sane development cycles and cl
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Ask HN: Anyone up for meeting next week in SF/Bay area?
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
Sounds all to familiar. I discussed and still discuss this problem with my peers offline a lot, and thought about creating (haha, new project there) a platform where people with this exact problem can pair up and in a way play supervisor fo
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
gendered products.
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
That's great. Maybe someone here can enlighten me as to why the systems, specifically TCAS and GPWS in modern civilian planes are only ever used to issue warnings/recommendations, but never take control? it would have at least pre
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
To be fair, the concept behind diaspora. I was closely following the development at the time diaspore was "hot" and, honestly, the setup was too complicated for people who are used to setting up wordpress or something. I still thi
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
Yesterday, I tried uber in berlin for the first time. It was a professional limousine driver, with insurance and a permit to work as a driver. So, for uber black that's true, while it's not for uberpop. i guess uberpop is really t
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
depending on your field of expertise feel free to get in touch (I'm not a recruiter, but a freelancer with an extensive knowledge when it comes to good/bad employers here in germany. :)).
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
A while ago, a recruiter from one of the big players got in touch.. well, after 4 interviews they finally figured that I was too inexperienced (merge sort run time complexity is, in fact, way more important that most other things when devel
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
Hi, author here. No. Not using Bluetooth LE, since there is no support for acting as a "server" device that can be discovered by other peers. It's sure to come someday, but right now it's only possible using a rooted pho
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
Spot on. I'm working and living in germany, and this is one of the biggest problems, in my opinion, for the future of this country. You rarely find some startup here that is truly innovative – the fews that are usually don't get f
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
Well, you must have missed the discussion a few days ago about the evilness of the hamburger button. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7794505 The main argument against using a menu-button is that it hides the contents b
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
The original post makes a good point that, paraphrased, it's about improving a flawed information architecture instead of trying to fix symptoms, like the hamburger menu. And though it's tempting to use esoteric, hard-to-use/
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
Actually, the original article the tc-story summarizes is at http://lmjabreu.com/post/why-and-how-to-avoid-hamburger-menu... . And while I'm not a big fan of hamburgers as well, proposing a scrollable tab bar as a
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
> They do not allow medical devices. thank you, i was wrong there.
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
That's what market research really is good for. And frustrating potential users to minimize your business risks isn't acceptable, in my opinion. There's always risk involved. That's the nature of business.
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by derwildemomo 12y ago
I totally like cool products like the one on display here. But i'm so tired of those preordering-sites.. really, i want to order your stuff. now. Tell me when it's finished, put the site online. If you really need an indication wh

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