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Callmenorm

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Callmenorm··on Ask HN: What is the best open source OCR software supporting multiple languages?
I just tried two pictures with VINs in them. Both of them were successfully parsed by Google Vision, but OCR.space just errored out. It was not an encouraging result.
Callmenorm··on Disrupting Uber
Uber is trying to keep prices low by removing the driver in the medium term. Any driver-owned service is going to have a hard time competing with that. There are less than 10 years of human driven transportation in urban settings. Still time to make a living, but not a career.
Callmenorm··on EU Referendum Results
Or maybe people are using the betting markets to hedge. Is that a dumb thing to do?
Callmenorm··on Apple Safari users suffer crashes
The problem I have with FF dev tools is that json responses are hideous, just one long string. Where Chrome's look like json with expandable fields.
Callmenorm··on SpaceX Falcon rocket explodes on landing after delivering satellite to space
That's because Musk created a company without peer.
Callmenorm··on React v0.14
I think he's talking about css modules. Postcss or something like that. Webpack can generate unique names for you when you use that loader. I think it's more about webpack for #3 than react.
Callmenorm··on React Native for Android
I think its because there are tradeoffs for managing the complexity yourself. Using this same argument most abstractions which have performance overhead should be unacceptable. There are tradeoffs everywhere and I guess this is one that a lot of people have accepted.
Callmenorm··on What would happen if a massive solar storm hit the earth?
How would home installation solar panels be affected by this? Would they be ruined as well?
Callmenorm··on Let Snowden Come Home
Can we start a white house petition? Is that a thing that make a difference?
Callmenorm··on Ask HN: should I reboot my career at the age 30?
Do it if you're stoked on development and you're cool with being the ignorant one for a while. I dropped out of Econ PhD program at Duke after third year cause I thought software development was my dream and its been great.
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