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by pfarrell 5y ago
I have not used Adobe’s offering. Running on my local machine or being able to deploy tabula as a service behind a vpc was a very nice thing. The recognition has been good enough. Sometimes I’ve had to scan things multiple times to deal w
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by pfarrell 5y ago
“There aren’t any new problems; only new engineers.” - Quote I read online a long time ago Agree with all your points, but there is a third way: apprenticeship with older engineers. I advise new engineers to find their balance be
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Tabula, OCR for PDFs(tabula.technology)
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Commenting on the MS Paint IDE thread, I remembered how Tabula has helped me extract data on numerous occasions. I thought I should give the project a shout out for no good reason.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
Not totally related, but enough that I’ll give a shout out to tabula. It can ocr tabular data from a pdf. I’m not affiliated but I really need to get my company to contribute $$$ to the project. For now I’ll namecheck them. https:/&#
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I did not. That social aspect makes sense. It’s a pretty popular endeavor, from what I’ve gathered. I remember reading a book on how to do it (recipes, packing, prep). I recall that book saying that many hikers do it before starting their c
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by pfarrell 5y ago
True. I got it in my head to try to walk the Appalachian Trail after college (decided to wait until later in life). One of the things recommended to me in training was to camp in isolation for 4 or 5 days. By the last day, I was a little
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I came to same conclusion. The last paragraph switched the blame from the country’s action to the generalized individual. An apology would be appropriate.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I work with Ukrainians. They reported more than superficial lockdowns (e.g. public transport shut down), multiple times, in Kiev. Also, death count numbers from an event like this are not likely to be stable for several years. That being s
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I always liked the quip: Wikipedia works well in practice, just not in theory.
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by pfarrell 5y ago
citation needed
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by pfarrell 5y ago
For example, the Postgres interactive client, psql: -?, —-help -> help info -h -> set the host you are connecting
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by pfarrell 5y ago
I guess to be more precise, it was Asimov’s favorite story among those that he had written. https://www.openculture.com/2015/06/isaac-asimovs-favorite-s...
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by pfarrell 5y ago
This discussion reminds me of Isaac Asimov's favorite story, The Last Question https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I know we typically don’t upvote humor here, but that was really good.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Hah. Posted that I remember it from Larry Nivens before I read your comment :D
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I recall a very similar quote from Larry Niven’s “Lucifer’s Hammer”. Something about no society being more than a few missed meals from a revolution. (Paraphrasing)
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Sinatra. The Ruby framework was a game changer for me to quickly prototype API concepts, experience what the client developer experience would be like, and learn best practices.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
100% agree about water and about setting smaller goals that you can celebrate. This thought clicked for me. If you can lose 10 lbs (4.5 kg), that’s like setting down a bowling ball you are carrying all the time. You will definitely experi
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Very nice, krapp. Despite the downvotes, you've given me some things to think about this weekend. I will concede I was hyperbolic in equating Google with a nation. I've picked that up from sci fi and futurist stuff, but I'll
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Totally agree those actions would be an abuse of power, but Google is not the internet. Google is among the most powerful entities on the internet. I worry that it wields the power of a nation state without the checks and obligations that c
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by pfarrell 6y ago
There should be. That’s a great idea
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Totally. That’s exactly what I think when I see people on reality shows get their fame.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
This essay [0] from Tim Ferriss really crystalized for me a lot about why fame is a drag. During my college years, one of my dorm mate’s dads was a famous Hollywood producer. He once said to me, “You want everyone to know your name and
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by pfarrell 6y ago
When I looked into implementing GraphQL, it didn’t seem to require the data I was serving be a graph. I found the big difference with REST was that GQL allows the consumer to define the properties returned rather than having backend engine
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by pfarrell 6y ago
As someone who has sat on the interviewer side for some entry-level positions, I would recommend you do not present a bootcamp project as an example of your work unless you have greatly extended it. I have sat on many interviews where I ha
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. I’m not a Microsoft apologist, but that “Dear Valued Customer” is a clever, corporatey middle finger. I’d have been so pissed :)
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by pfarrell 6y ago
You’re right. When I wrote that, I was thinking higher up the chain in an orm layer. Sending “select *” to the db can’t be “optimized away” at that layer, it will have to return all the columns. Unless, like you said, the scope of the “sel
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Very true. Also, along those lines, if you have fewer than 10k rows, it’s likely the dB will keep the whole table in memory after the first access, anyway.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
The correct answer to almost every db question is: “it depends”. For instance. “Select *” can be good for ad-hoc exploration (as long as you include a limit to the rows returned). It’s bad practice for shipped code because it can lead to bi

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