ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
This solution is absolutely beautiful
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ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: Never Use Floats for Money (2016)
There is no source of errors in doing:
bigint_value = float_value * 10^E if E else float_value
float_value = bigint_value / 10^E if E else bigint_value
Obviously only convert to real numbers if you are doing operations on numbers in your system, otherwise keep in client format like you said.
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: Advanced usage of Python requests: timeouts, retries, hooks
That sentry responses decorator is absolutely beautiful
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: Court says Melbourne dentist can seek user details from Google over bad review
What's the difference with other review platforms?
I feel like on Google you at least have the google identity of the reviewer which tend to represent a natural person better than other accounts on other review platforms.
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: Never Use Floats for Money (2016)
> Sometimes being compatible is more important than being correct.
It's a simple conversion for the sake of precision. If you are dealing with money transactions, you should strive for precise values wherever and whenever possible.
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: A Trip Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprawling, Embattled Compound in Hawaii
The article is not about what the property looks like.
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: I made a SFW porn viewer from Reddit subs
I will never understand people that make textual item list and don't sort them in some logical way (such as alphabetical).
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: Langton's Ant
If you're curious about implementations and some nice visuals, check out Challenge #173 of DailyProgrammer [1].
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/2c4ka3/730...
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: It's time to switch to a four-day working week, say two experts
I've never seen anything else less than 40hrs in the UK, UK had the longest working time for a while and I think it still is the highest (in Europe at least) on average.
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: It's time to switch to a four-day working week, say two experts
Yup, went contracting for this reason. Code is a passion of my and I love that it's also my trade but I have other personal ventures I need to focus my attention on and I have absolutely no juice left in a regular 5day/40hrs engineering week.
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: Thousands More Americans to Die in Heat Waves Unless We Meet Paris Climate Goals
What's the point of curing cancer if we're all dead?
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: Life of a Data Labeler
Betting on MTurk, I don't see how else otherwise.
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: Tokyo mechanical keyboard meetup photos
Thank you for sharing your work and the pictures, I love what you do (especially the Keycappies, if you know where I can get a huge switch for a Keycappie God, please let me know :))
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: The Future of Food Delivery [slides]
They already do - I wish it was more transparent in the app as it's currently ruining the experience.
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: Lsd: The next gen ls command
OP's point is that if you know how to use ls you don't need icons and extra granularity in color scheme to understand the output.
ddeokbokki | 6 years ago | on: Some of China’s '996' tech tribe quit, seek less stress
> heavyweights such as Sequoia Capital’s Mike Moritz highlighted it as a competitive advantage over the United States.
It's an issue when the so-called tech heavyweights don't understand the basics of worker productivity in the industry.
ddeokbokki | 7 years ago | on: So You Want to Be a Penetration Tester?
What an amazing writeup.
From personal experience, Root-Me is easily one of the best way to get into infosec for someone with no prior knowledge of infosec or even information technologies in general.
ddeokbokki | 7 years ago | on: Why aren't figs considered vegan?
Hen in the wild eat their unfertilised eggs to regain the nutrition they lost making the egg.
ddeokbokki | 7 years ago | on: Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates
The prophet Mohammed in Islam is seen with more reverence than Jesus in Christianity, invoking his name is also very delicate in Islam (you are supposed to say a blessing anytime you do and avoid invoking it lightly, there's a lot of rules around it).
With these religious/cultural differences I can understand how Muslim take greater offence to people making fun of their most prominent prophet as opposed to Christians, but also you have to take into account that because of that, people usually are more provocative with their humour when it comes to Mohammed.
I can't remember having seen any sexually depraved depiction of Jesus in mainstream media whereas I can clearly remember many that depicted Mohammed.
IMO it's not as easy to make fun of Islam/Mohammed because people tend to go for the extreme in term of dark humour but also it's not perceived the same way by the religious communities.
ddeokbokki | 7 years ago | on: Emoji are showing up as evidence in court more frequently
People will argue that you should be able to convey your message clearly in plain English but those people don't realise that:
- Not everyone masters English (even when it's your mother tongue, not everyone has access to the same education to be able to use it perfectly)
- Languages are complex, we don't talk with words only, we use facial expressions and gestures, emojis help mimic those when only words are available.
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