MrBuddyCasino

Thanks, I use Tesseract in a product I'm developing, I'll try using SWT then.

I'm from Europe, and let me say we had very little money in our family. Software devs in the US are apparently well paid and in high demand - are people that racist they they wouldn't hire b…

I have to agree that this is a different situation. Still, I'm not convinced that all those guys selling crack on the corner are trying to help their poor mother - its the draw of easy money.

I have, from start to finish. Everyone wants respect, that doesn't mean its ok be a gangster. What about the loan shark victims that could never repay their debt? What about the little store owne…

This is a slap in the face to everyone who tries to get ahead in life by, you know, learning stuff (like programming) and improving their skills. The gangster route is for people who don't like t…

Tl;dr: GE exposes the internal microcontrollers of certain appliances (washing machine etc.) Imho, that is a pretty smart move - that way they can see and learn what people will build, and integrate t…

Is it still possible to generate pixel correct hOCR when using SWT? Also, what is the main advantage of SWT - improving speed or accuracy?

Thats the big question. Tesseract is pretty good, though quite slow I must say.

German copycat portals for whatever usually suck, so I was pretty psyched to hear Netflix was launching, only to then find out that their selection in Germany is mediocre at best. Here is a comparison…

Heh, if anybody does, please make a spot market website, to see what it costs to buy at which level and in which political camp.

Fully agree (german here), except for jobs and meetup types of posts. Those are the minority here, but I for one would welcome a geo-filterable subsection of HN for those.

Sweet! I'd really like to know how big the resulting binary for that blinking leds example is.

Not on 64 bit Windows, but for 32 bit, you'd probably be correct.

So that means that either JS just isn't that bad, or most other languages just aren't that good.

I agree. The best set of emoticons I've seen to date are those in Skype. The worst ones in Google Hangout.

I wasn't aware there were so many wifi enabled socs coming out recently. Compared to an Arduino, how difficult is it to program them?

Ah, I guess thats whats inside most Wifi routers. Are people using those for hobbyist projects though? I've never seen prototyping boards anywhere, and soldering those packages yourself requires …

I should have known. Still made my day.

Everyone I've seen has trouble with this in the beginning. I'm not an advanced vim user, would it really be impossible to make it modeless without losing too much power?

Not sure if they will fail, depends on how big a niche there is for this kind of powerful hardware. Might have been different if it had H.264 accel. and HDMI out though. You have to see that the ESP82…

Ah yes that would be the holy grail, most BLE or Wifi chips have an MCU that could be used if their dev. environment weren't the software equivalent of unobtainium, require 500$ dev boards and …

Its definitely a lot better than the Galileo - Intel was pretty liberal giving them away for free, yet still nobody used them since they sucked. Not sure what the strategy is though - are they afraid …

Is it? My impression was that the ESP8266 can do maybe 56k level throughput, suitable for sensors but not for streaming meaningful amounts of data. It is really really cheap though, which is great in …

Thats what I was implying, sorry if that came across differently.

Isn't Node.js concurrent, just not parallel? Can't be much slower than PHP or Ruby, so theres that. What is repelling to me is callback-hell and Javascript as a language in general. People w…

Agreed, they remind me of 70s psychology books: https://www.google.de/search?q=seventies+psychology&safe=off... I hereby coin the term "depressionism" - you heard it he…

Thanks for the details! > 4. A carb-restricted diet left me hungry, as in "I need to go out and hunt something now" hungry. Even after months of focused effort. Did you try to get your bo…

If one were to use such tactics to make money - would that be considered "hacking" and be illegal?

> We also regularly choose it for new projects. Ok I know this one will be tough to keep rational, but this is an honest question - we've got Python and (especially) Ruby now, whats the Perl U…

If you use humor or irony here without adding any substance to the discussion, one of two things will happen: - it will not be understood, you might get downvoted - it will be understood and you'…