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by robinhowlett 2y ago
This looks excellent - i've been looking for a timeline-based, simple-entry tool like this. Well done.
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Accessible Comms with Twilio's Programmable Messaging API, JBang, and PicoCLI(robinhowlett.com)
1 points by robinhowlett 4y ago|0 comments
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by robinhowlett 7y ago
Thanks for the links - agree about the (x,y,text) callout but other metadata like font size can be useful too. Regexes have limitations but I was able them to leverage them sufficiently for PDFs from a single source. I parsed over 1 million
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Parsing structured data within PDF documents with Apache PDFBox(robinhowlett.com)
3 points by robinhowlett 7y ago|0 comments
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Google Cloud Data Fusion(cloud.google.com)
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by robinhowlett 8y ago
Disclaimer: written by CEO of my company
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How the tech industry can help fix our AI skills shortage(venturebeat.com)
1 points by robinhowlett 8y ago|1 comments
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by robinhowlett 8y ago
It's funny how this area seems to attract titles like this. I used the same for my blog post, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About SSL (but Were Afraid to Ask)" http://www.robinhowlett.com/blog/2016&
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by robinhowlett 8y ago
It's a question I've asked myself too. I've also wondered how often others are being aggressively pursued by former colleagues to join them at another company. I've seen team strongly believe they hire strong candidates
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RoboCap: An automated horse race handicapper(inpredictable.com)
2 points by robinhowlett 8y ago|0 comments
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by robinhowlett 8y ago
This comment resonates more than any other. I absolutely agree with it. A complete demarcation in my life's focus and goals before getting married and, especially, having children.
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by robinhowlett 8y ago
I got into a similar pickle recently and did some press about it: http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/getting-from-cease-and-... I'm also working on a Chrome Extension that modifies the functionality of a website, but
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Show HN: Visualizing a complex horse racing wager(robinhowlett.com)
1 points by robinhowlett 8y ago|0 comments
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Handycapper: the simplest way to learn and explore horse racing data(github.com)
1 points by robinhowlett 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Handycapper, the simplest way to learn and explore horse racing data(github.com)
2 points by robinhowlett 8y ago|0 comments
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by robinhowlett 8y ago
Nice looking client. I've been tipping away at a JavaFX application of late. I'm shipping with a JVM and bundling into .app/.exe distributions. Looking forward to seeing what you did to learn from it.
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IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple(developer.apple.com)
121 points by robinhowlett 9y ago|61 comments
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by robinhowlett 9y ago
Yes I encountered similar issues but many of them were able to be solved. With PDFBox I was able to deal with the content at a very low level (on a per-character basis), so that when for instance building a String, I would insert a pipe cha
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by robinhowlett 9y ago
Author here; well, PDFBox is good for simple text stripping. If I wanted to print all the text on the PDF, that would be very straightforward and not much code. However, the PDF chart here is in essence a representation of structured data.
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Show HN: Parsing horse racing charts with Apache PDFBox(github.com)
115 points by robinhowlett 9y ago|31 comments
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by robinhowlett 9y ago
A web endpoint. So think of an HTTP endpoint where the request body gets turned into the input data and the query parameters become available to be used/mapped anywhere in the pipeline. It makes the integrations pretty dynamic.
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by robinhowlett 9y ago
[0] Kind of. It's a filter, so "false" means "do not advance". We have different Snaps for If-Else (the Snap would have 2+ outputs and you would route to a respective "branch" of the pipeline) [1] They den
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by robinhowlett 9y ago
I work for SnapLogic (an enterprise visual integration product) - the "free canvas" works great for us with live preview of results/data; here's an example linking a third-party code review tool's webhooks with JIRA
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by robinhowlett 9y ago
Well done
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by robinhowlett 10y ago
I used to use UpShot, a OS X plugin that saved by screenshots to my Public Dropbox folder and copied the public link to the clipboard. It was super useful for referencing images in code reviews, wikis etc. Anyone recommend a better alternat
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by robinhowlett 10y ago
Nice. I recently got very familiar with PDFBox and parsing complex layouts - it is a great library.
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Riblets: the VIPER-based architecture behind Uber's new rider app(eng.uber.com)
6 points by robinhowlett 10y ago|0 comments
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Building a Google Chrome Extension (feat. keyboard shortcuts and notifications)(robinhowlett.com)
2 points by robinhowlett 10y ago|0 comments
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by robinhowlett 10y ago
Integration platform as a service (iPaas) that can work with streaming, batch, and Big Data using a drag-n-drop UI e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfEuG7Dg_O8 Check out my company, SnapLogic: https://www.sna
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Hollow: Netflix's next-generation in-memory data library(hollow.how)
26 points by robinhowlett 10y ago|0 comments

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