jasoncabot
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Comment · 4 years ago
This reminds me of a great post about the typical software evolution going from hard coded values, through configuration and rules engines to a DSL, only to be back where you started.
I have seen it happen on multiple projects, it’s hard to spot it at the time as all the changes seem sensible but hindsight is a wonderful thing
http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complex...
Comment · 5 years ago
https://lowimpact.organicbasics.com/eur
Is an example website that I enjoyed that shows you how much carbon you’re effectively saving by viewing their low impact version for each request.
Comment · 6 years ago
(disclaimer MS employee but nothing to do with this product)
You could check out the Azure Forms Recognizer. It's designed to do exactly this and make even training a custom model pretty easy. It's also pretty cheap (free up to 500 pages) so you can always do a quick experiment and see if it does what you need it to
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/fo...
Comment · 6 years ago
What are LEST metrics? I couldn't seem to find anything from Google and now it feels like I'm missing some major concept
Comment · 8 years ago
That sounds like an awesome game - do you have any interesting links for how to structure TBS games? It's something I've always played around with but never feel I managed to get a decent design
Comment · 11 years ago
This is really great, got it all set up with Alamofire in a few minutes and already it's been helpful in identifying some slow network requests!
Comment · 11 years ago
http://imgur.com/a/VqNuw
I've tried to keep a simple and clean design and just use subtle animations for events