jazzido
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Comment · 5 months ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
I built an extension for internal company use, using WXT. Fantastic dev experience, great docs, comprehensive examples. Exactly what a framework should do.
Comment · 3 years ago
Haven't thought of Kuro5hin for years. Man, the memories. What a great site.
Comment · 3 years ago
`def derridaean_similarity`
Instant classic.
Comment · 3 years ago
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...
Comment · 4 years ago
Reads exactly like an Onion article.
Comment · 4 years ago
I would add "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael Hiltzik.
Comment · 5 years ago
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 :)
Comment · 5 years ago
I love Camo. Any ETA for the Android version?
Comment · 5 years ago
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.
Comment · 5 years ago
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".
Comment · 5 years ago
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.
Comment · 5 years ago
IIRC, the first incarnation of this was proposed and implemented around 2002 by Six Apart. It was called "trackback".
Comment · 5 years ago
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-...
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