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So only they can give direct legal and medical advice, which is still illegal in most countries. It's not a promoted service yet, but everyone is using it to ask such questions.

Those images look exactly like what you get from every OCR tool out there if you use the XY information.

Rendering fails after first start and trying to resize the window on Mac. Hardly release quality.

Because PDF is a minefield and PDFtk does not solve all problems on all platforms. You'll learn that if you try to process millions of PDFs in the wild that may or may not comply with any of the numerous specs.

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Because we can ;-)

Old guy here: funny how manipulating bits is worth a HN post nowadays :-D

Unrelated: is VARCHAR(255) still a thing?

There also seems to be a scam industry forming to take advantage of those quick moves plus remote work. If one such scam employee makes it to the first salary, it already more than paid for the few hours spent on interviews and communicating excuses why he doesn't get anything done. Also interviews and pretending to work can be spread out to specialists within a team.

Now do the math for multiple interviews per working day for someone who is decent in interviewing...

We had the same guy show up to scam interviews under different names twice! LOL

Awesome hardware and I will get one. But interesting that with the slight price increase there has been zero progress in performance per $ since 2 years. Shows how far ahead the M1 was.

Awesome, time to build!

You are asking the wrong questions. Care about your product and customers, not about founder beauty contests!

Surprise of 2022: you get to the top of HN by telling the world about HTTP Basic Auth

...I am getting old ;-)

If you can, choose a big black hole. The smaller ones spagettify you faster.

I think it was within the last 2 years when I searched for domains on Namecheap. They were shown as registered and I was offered to buy them for a premium price. When I searched on another other provider, it was shown as available and I bought it there. Will never use Namecheap again.

Also love those Chinese e-commerce websites that use automated translations based on location for every text on their website, even on product names...

Those are the simple things to worry about, it can even get more complicated in the real world. So complicated that writing our own parser was the only way to go.

So what are some of the more advanced challenges:

* Banking systems that treat CSV export just as some kind of line based dump file with no regard of consistent formatting. If the banking backend was updated, the format might change within a file from one line to the next

* Some misconfigured data dumping pipeline parses CSV the wrong way from another system and emits it in escaped form again in a different format. For instance putting a complete line escaped into a single field. Your parser has to detect that there is a CSV embedded within a CSV.

* Dumping Pipeline treats \r\n as all kinds of silly lines and re-embedding those lines with quotes around them to look like real data

* Inventing completely new specs of what CSV could mean

* Use mainframe character-sets from the last millennium

Ever, like ever ever? Or ever since we measured?

I wanted a little bit more from FS department, so I rolled my own: https://github.com/ungerik/go-fs

This is why Google developed Go. Python like productivity with C++ like performance...

Horrible read. Still don't know what the problem is.

You can't be that smart, if you don't figure out how to bridge the "communication range". Showing that IQ is a much too narrow measurement of puzzle solving ability, not related to being smart in real world situations.

True, but when have you heard a test pilot criticising his employer while still having an active career?

Why worry about the long term, when you can get rich in the short term? After you are rich, long term is someone else’s problem.

Perfect example of big companies blocking innovation from small inventors by patenting every imaginable idea and combination of ideas :-(

Helis are a maintenance, relyability and cost nightmare. You only use them when you have to.

Resigned, or rather has been fired by his investors?

A lightweight Go OS would be nice for virtualization environments. Deploy your Go server/service with the minimal needed OS into the cloud...

You send out 100 applications to get a job, the company gets 100 applications per job. Where is the asymmetry?

There is a fine line between physically impossible and SpaceX'ish impossible. Don't confuse them.