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I should be able to get you some files, getting approval now; can you let me know how to contact you?

handled the non-printed whitespace but butchered the multi- line table headers, so re-building the headers is rough as it is line by line and you need to know what words go togethe…

https://pdftables.com failed the test file, pretty good but inconsistent interpretation across rows, sometimes it split the cell, sometimes it did not. Tabula failed to detect mult…

If this can get me tables out of pdf's generated by crystal reports it would be a godsend for testing. This has been a nightmare to try and solve, the best option so far has been a…

train it. Give it examples that we consider moral and examples of what we consider immoral and have it figure it out. The solutions that the algorithms create are less complex than…

Data-driven algorithms are discriminating based upon undesirable/illegal vectors; they are utterly amoral in optimizing their solutions. Even if the algorithm does not have access …

I prefer to look at value and costs. To me LoC is an indicator of how much you'll spend on maintenance; less is better. I think that defects per unit of value have plummeted.

Sort of, they actually do rolling updates so that a new version of the code does not affect the whole user base at once. So again, reducing the cost of incorrect software. But it d…

It is worth noting that the cost of correcting inaccurate software has gone down. Looking at the decision to adopt some defect prevention strategy in software. Cost of strategy 196…

So what they are saying is that every car in the employee parking lot will have a cellphone in it? Wouldn't that cause a lot of break-ins?

Pay late stage startup employees & new-hires to keep a time diary, and see where they spend time with coworkers. Then do the same w/ people not working at startups. I guess that st…

doesn't the answer boil down to marketing? It is talking about expressing shared values (trough open source and mentoring) value (personal accomplishment) and warm fuzzies (being a…

A name mentioned twice might have warranted a paragraph. Robert Moses, the subject of "The Power Broker" a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography (worth an audiable credit). He ran the T…