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by erjiang 6y ago
Your question is hard to answer if you don't give some examples of what you consider "expensive". Drawing tablets are now cheaper and higher quality than they have ever been. A quick of Amazon shows an "Amazon's cho
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by erjiang 6y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but does anyone know how Inkscape is doing? I remember 10+ years ago it was really promising as a vector companion to GIMP (the "Illustrator" to GIMP's "Photoshop"), but using it again recently i
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by erjiang 6y ago
Curious to know what issues you have with deploying Python codebases. Out of all of the minor and major gripes I have with Python, deployment is not one of them.
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by erjiang 6y ago
It was fun to read this because I happened to study at Indiana University where most of the work on *Kanren happened. If anyone is interested in practical applications, Will Byrd (mentioned in the story) went on to work with Matt Might (HN&
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by erjiang 6y ago
Awesome! I've been wanting to add a proper parser to my Scheme interpreter for a long time now, and this might lower the barrier enough to motivate me to actually do it.
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by erjiang 6y ago
It turns out that's because ICU uses a combined Chinese/Japanese dictionary instead of separate dictionaries for each language. Which probably is a little more robust if you misdetect some Chinese text as Japanese and vice-versa.
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by erjiang 6y ago
The library that Chrome uses seems to use a dictionary[0], since you can't determine word boundaries in Japanese just by looking at two characters. Your first link also says: > To handle certain situations, some line breaking implem
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by erjiang 6y ago
According to your first link, BreakIterator uses a dictionary for several languages, including Japanese. So I guess the full answer is something like: Chrome uses v8's Intl.v8BreakIterator which uses icu::BreakIterator, which, for Japa
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100% Unbreakable Encryption Is Achievable(notes.ericjiang.com)
1 points by erjiang 6y ago|0 comments
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by erjiang 6y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER / Remote / US/Pacific time preferred Looking for a front-end developer who's a React expert and is good at figuring out tricky browser interactions. Fabrica is building a no-code web-based visual edito
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by erjiang 6y ago
Wow, the state of the art in 3D rendering has changed dramatically. The state of the art in open source 3D rendering has changed even more dramatically. Compare these screenshots from 2013 (although I think POV-Ray was looking pretty date
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by erjiang 6y ago
Thanks for the good idea! I'll stick that in the pricing chart.
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by erjiang 6y ago
Hi HN! Excited to show what I've been working on to everyone, and happy to answer any questions here. This started as a way to scratch my itch for something that would let me skip a lot of the yak-shaving for my various ideas and proje
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Show HN: Fabrica – Create data-driven web apps without writing code(fabrica.dev)
11 points by erjiang 6y ago|3 comments
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Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not copyrightable [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
304 points by erjiang 6y ago|202 comments
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by erjiang 6y ago
License scanning is a big deal for enterprise, especially the ones deeply afraid of any "GPL infection". Black Duck is one such vendor of license scanning software.[0] [0] https://www.blackducksoftware.com/
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by erjiang 6y ago
The biggest problem IME is that VR headsets are not very high resolution, since the screen needs to cover a wide FOV but your eyes look for sharp detail in the center of what you're looking at. So you'll see a slight screen-door e
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by erjiang 7y ago
This is true for many new waves of popular technologies. 1) A new technology or method becomes popular. 2) Developers find new advantages in using the technology. 3) Understanding of tech and original advantage is somewhat lost. For example
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by erjiang 7y ago
Let's say that AA didn't do any buybacks - instead they saved up all of the money that they would have spent on buy backs in the last few years. Would that have been enough to survive this pandemic?
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by erjiang 7y ago
I'm working on a tool to make web apps without writing any code, so basically a WYSIWYG that's like Airtable + Squarespace in one. If you have a need for any internal apps for your company I'd love to hear about it! https:&#
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by erjiang 7y ago
I went into college able to write software in multiple languages across multiple platforms. I also skipped a bunch of prereqs and got the other mandatory courses out of the way quickly. But I learned a ton in my 4 years of CS classes, and w
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Things Japanese people say about English(notes.ericjiang.com)
10 points by erjiang 7y ago|1 comments
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Things even veteran developers do(notes.ericjiang.com)
3 points by erjiang 7y ago|0 comments
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by erjiang 8y ago
I am guilty of writing my own Scheme (R5RS) interpreter as well, and a key takeaway from the experience was that many things calling themselves Scheme interpreters are missing core parts of Scheme. Implementing a language that resembles Sch
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by erjiang 9y ago
Pgloader can be very powerful. Despite never having using Common Lisp, I found it easy to add in a custom column conversion functions without modifying pgloader itself. You can write additional lisp files with custom procedures and load the
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by erjiang 10y ago
DoubleMap | http://www.doublemap.com/ | REMOTE | FULL-TIME Python web application developer Are you fascinated by the logistics behind Uber and Lyft? Join us as we bring on-demand transit to public transit agencies across t
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by erjiang 10y ago
Chrome maintains a GPU blacklist of drivers and GPUs that it will not run WebGL on. According to [0], even hybrid Nvidia/Intel setups are excluded. So I wouldn't be surprised if there are many people with GPUs that "support&q
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1850s Maps of San Francisco vs. Today(notes.ericjiang.com)
2 points by erjiang 11y ago|0 comments
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by erjiang 11y ago
DoubleMap [ http://www.doublemap.com/ ] | Indianapolis, IN DoubleMap creates software for public transit, including GPS tracking, reporting, and ADA features. We're a small team working on two primary products (DoubleMap
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by erjiang 11y ago
Mountain View and most of the other SV cities want to maintain their quiet suburban image, nevermind that they are home to some of the biggest tech companies in the world. Until residents start voting the other way, housing will continue to

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