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The small local ISP that I use doesn't provide a Tizen OS app for their VOD service, so I built one mostly by pointing Codex at the .apk of their Android app.

https://github.com/jazzido/bvcplay-tizen

I built an extension for internal company use, using WXT. Fantastic dev experience, great docs, comprehensive examples. Exactly what a framework should do.
Re:A Coder in Courierland (2005) on Monday May 29, 2023 @11:38AM (#36114968)
Haven't thought of Kuro5hin for years. Man, the memories. What a great site.
`def derridaean_similarity`

Instant classic.

Scratch is part of the same lineage [0]. Seymour Papert (creator of Logo) was one of the doctoral advisors of Mitch Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that maintains Scratch.

[0] https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/histor...

Reads exactly like an Onion article.
I would add "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael Hiltzik.
Re:Running the 1G Analog Phone from 1997 on Monday July 05, 2021 @05:02PM (#27741791)
Listening to phone calls was trivial back then (early to mid 90s).

Pretty much only rich people owned cellphones where I lived, and my unlocked Kenwood TH-78E handheld transceiver gave me access to their world :)

Re:A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:02PM (#27581080)
I love Camo. Any ETA for the Android version?
tabula-java [0], a library for extracting tables from PDF files. It started as a monolithic webapp written in JRuby, and we later extracted the table detection and segmentation logic into a Java library.

[0] https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java

Re:RIP Google Reader on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:46PM (#26586591)
Paraphrasing from a tweet that I saw a while ago: "You don't miss Google Reader. You miss your life as it was when you used Google Reader. You miss being young".
Hey, Tabula maintainer here. tabula-java only works with "vector" PDFs. That is, tables drawn with vector lines, squiggles and glyphs.

Integrating an OCR library is something we always wanted to do.

Re:Webmention.io on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:04PM (#26404975)
IIRC, the first incarnation of this was proposed and implemented around 2002 by Six Apart. It was called "trackback".
Re:Quitting Twitter on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:44PM (#26269837)
I could've written your same comment. As a (current) smoker, my experience of having quit twitter is exactly the same.

I recently blogged about that [1]. It's in spanish, but Google translate does an acceptable job with it.

[1] https://blog.jazzido.com/uncategorized/2021/02/12/mejore-su-...

Reaper DAW comes bundled with Reamote, which has a similar scope
Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:58AM (#22483334)
Author here.

1) No. 2) No. 3) Zero.

Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:57PM (#22476953)
Not really. They import tabula_py, which is a Python wrapper around tabula-java (the library of which I'm a maintainer).

Still, I would have loved at least a heads up from the team that sells Tabula Pro. I know they're not required to do so, but hey, they're kinda piggybacking on Tabula's "reputation".

Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:40AM (#22476066)
Hi, author and maintainer of Tabula (https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula). We've been trying to contact you about the "Tabula Pro" version that you are offering.

Feel free to reachme at manuel at jazzido dot com

Re:Ask HN: What do you use tools like IFTTT or Zapier for? on Sunday February 16, 2020 @03:29PM (#22343567)
I use Zapier (free plan) to post to the Facebook page associated to my side project.

I tried to do that through FB's Graph API and failed miserably. Too much red tape

Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data on Sunday February 16, 2020 @03:20PM (#22343540)
There's also https://datachile.io, a sister site built by the same team
Hi there. We try to make a tool that's as simple to use as possible (given the constraints of a volunteer-run project such as Tabula). What technical background do you think is required to use it? (disclaimer: I'm the main author of Tabula)
Here's another take on the same question from a group at MIT Media Lab: http://macro.media.mit.edu/2017/
Lo' chiquiline'
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016) on Monday October 03, 2016 @05:48PM (#12631629)
Datawheel, LLC | Boston/Cambridge, MA | Onsite | Full Time

We are looking for someone with a keen eye for design and usability to help bring our current and future products from mockup to implementation.

Details Personal Qualities

    Self-starter, able to work independently
    Familiar with working on a small fast-paced team
    Willingness to learn and develop new technologies
Requirements

    3+ years experience with front-end web languages 
(e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript)
    Familiarity with Node.js environments
    Experience with rapid prototyping
    Experience in product design is a huge plus
Benefits

    Laid back work atmosphere
    Potential for international travel


To apply, visit http://www.datawheel.us/team/
Re:MonetDB – Column-store database on Monday June 13, 2016 @07:07PM (#11898504)
It can be done through Mondrian OLAP. See mondrian-rest [0] for an example implementation.

[0] https://github.com/jazzido/mondrian-rest-demo

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