jazzido

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.

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.

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 :)

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

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.

IIRC, the first incarnation of this was proposed and implemented around 2002 by Six Apart. It was called "trackback".

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

Author here.

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

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".

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

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

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'

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

    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

    Laid back work atmosphere
    Potential for international travel

It can be done through Mondrian OLAP. See mondrian-rest [0] for an example implementation.

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

Also see Walnut.io: https://thewalnut.io/app/release/34

"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", an amazing 3-part documentary about computers, society, the shortcomings of systems-thinking. Also by Adam Curtis.

Postgres users might find Teodor Sigaev's smlar [1] extension useful for this kind of thing. It implements cosine and other similarity metrics.

[1] http://sigaev.ru/git/gitweb.cgi?p=smlar.git;a=summary

Can you elaborate on what scaling issues you've run into with Neo? I'm using it for my thesis project so I don't have very strict scalability requirements, but would love to know.

I tried really hard to use Titan for my project, but the tooling and the query language is —in my view— just atrocious. Setting up a running instance, trying to import my moderately complex property graph data into it, and navigating Tinkerpop's "funny" documentation was a real pain.

Then I decided to switch to Neo4j, and I was up and running in literally an afternoon. Also, its Java API is very well designed, which allowed me to fork and extend an integration plugin with Elastic in a couple days (https://github.com/jazzido/neo4j-elasticsearch/)