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by speedplane 7y ago
> A business that invests in building a machine that reads data, produced by a 3rd party machine, using format intended for lay humans to read, is not investing in the right tech IMO. Building machines that understand formats that are un
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by speedplane 7y ago
> So, in order to extract data from them, one needs not only good PDF parser but an OCR engine too. You can go further. Invoices often contain block sections of text with important terms of the invoice, such as shipping time information,
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by speedplane 7y ago
> this doesn't seem like a strong argument because this is just basic market competition. Even though a law firm being more efficient would lose hourly billing they would quickly grow more clients by providing a cheaper service. The
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by speedplane 7y ago
> In the micro, aging is a disease just like any other. The difference is that the word "disease" is something that at least theoretically can be cured. Aging does not have that implication. It follows then that if you say &quo
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by speedplane 7y ago
We just need more unions. They are historically the only thing that actually worked to level the playing field between employee and employer.
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I think Facebook is known to have more interesting jobs. If influencing democratic elections is your idea of interesting, sure.
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by speedplane 7y ago
Python 2 Community: We are in hell, we have to stop working on everything to upgrade to Python 3, there is no straightforward way to upgrade, many of our python 2 libraries haven't been updated, and there are tons of little bugs that a
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by speedplane 7y ago
> This suggests an interesting tactic to build public support for mass surveillance. I'm not entirely convinced that mass surveillance by government is worse than mass surveillance by huge private corporations. In democratic societi
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by speedplane 7y ago
> junior developers ... objective is to learn as much as possible in the shortest period of time, so they can grow and get higher paying jobs. This is a perfectly legitimate, indeed desirable objective, for any individual. However, this
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by speedplane 7y ago
> “Moving from”? That happened decades ago, before e-commerce became significant. Yes, absolutely, since the invention of brands, at least some brands were the product rather than a signifier of quality. However, in the last 10-20 years,
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by speedplane 7y ago
>>Who is your target audience (programmers, analysts, accountants)? What industries can benefit most from it? > I'm trying to find that out. You can start with why you use it.
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I'd be curious how you built the step from regex to ElasticSearch. My guess would be an n-gram (3-gram) index in ElasticSearch and then translating the regexes to that, but just curious if you built that custom or used something o
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by speedplane 7y ago
> No, marketing as driver will cause massive feature creep. Marketing is about exposing your product to your target customers. It's relatively orthogonal to product features.
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by speedplane 7y ago
> the visit to download ratio is low compared to my other 2 commercial products. Not sure why. I'm pretty sure the traffic is targeted, I am solving a real problem and the website explains what it does. Any feedback would be welcome
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by speedplane 7y ago
> What is an example where you missed mathematical knowledge to do your job? Honestly curious, I never needed any math during programming for my job. Basic arithmetic comes up all the time: pro-rating a monthly plan, figuring out how muc
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by speedplane 7y ago
> For heaps of this size you can use Shenandoah GC and you get pauses well below 100ms. Your post is a perfect example of the type of 'historical reasons' (or historic FUD) the GP talks about. This GC is relatively new, and Ela
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I think brand matters more than ever. I'd go further and say that branding is now often the product itself. Nike can sell a hat for 20X more than a generic hat when it has their swoosh on it. Perfume is basically a generic chemica
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Why kubertetes vs docker? Docker is for building a computer program to run on a single computer. Kubernetes is for building a cluster, often across many computers with many programs. They work together.
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I don't know what the actual market shares are, but when looking at open positions around the US from coast to coast, it seems to have won. React is currently in it's honey-moon phase, but many of its warts are starting to sh
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Kubernetes is the thing everyone will be moving away from in the next 5 years because it was too complicated for their purposes. Kubernetes solves a huge variety of problems with a single platform. In five years, Kubernetes will still
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by speedplane 7y ago
> 99% of the time you'll want to use query parameters, but rejecting queries which don't use them isn't a solution either, as you do need to avoid them sometimes, unfortunately This is one of the problems that I have with
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I certainly feel like the bourgeoisie when I use Rust or Haskell. I feel like a peasant sharecropper when I use Java.
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Is there any notes on the business model, what worked, what didn’t, etc? I'm skeptical of most of these post-mortems. They are generally written by the founders themselves, and therefore have a built-in bias to shift blame to exte
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by speedplane 7y ago
> This is why hiring in software is broken. A bunch of people that don't actually want to be stewards of the craft. I've hired a few developers and have found you can turn a inexperienced but relatively bright developer into a
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by speedplane 7y ago
> The serious point is: why all the software engineering effort for just another e-commerce website, instead of focusing on sales since day 1? And as for their decision to open source it, why focus solely on the code that they're op
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by speedplane 7y ago
> People often make a point that writing tests takes time, but I'm pretty sure it slows you down in the beginning of work and speeds you up quite a bit when you amount some volume, and further you go, more you benefit from having a
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by speedplane 7y ago
> For ES and solr gurus here what is the recommended max size for documents if you want to index lot of office documents? I run a large ES index covering 80TB of data, and regularly index documents as large as 20MB. At that size, the bot
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Communities can better organize and work towards becoming self sufficient and independent of governments. Grow food. Create new sources of water. Help the poor. A well organized community that provides basic resources is essentially a
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Does [Docker] make some things more difficult as this author says? At first, yes. As time moves forward you'll end up with many nock on effects that you can't get any other way. I agree that docker provides many efficiency im
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Docker gets developers and production machines on the same page. ... I would never go back to bare metal development Instead of reading this article as "docker containers are bad" (wrong), try reading it as "there are pr

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