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Hi guys, I'm needing a tool that allows me to convert PDF to html files. Since I work with public documents, sometimes the layout from the pdf can be pretty nasty (i've attached so…

Everytime some financial institution tries to promote fear by freezing accounts, they show why bitcoin is so superior.

If the US government (or a pool or governments) tried to implode Bitcoin by controlling 51% of the mining? How much would it cost? It would be enough to kill btc?

Im a beginner um programming, and did machine learning course right after a introdutory course (CS50 and 6.00x at Edx). I've been able to do the whole course, but only because i ha…

Hi everybody! I work as a product manager, and decided that the best thing for me to learn is to code, so i can understand what the devs are talking, and can weight tradeoffs bette…

1) Yes. I'm 28 and began coding 6 months ago. I guess that the biggest challenge for people like us was how to get education. I couldnt spare 4 years of my life in a university. Bu…

You may be forgetting Bill Gates, the biggest philanthrop of all times, who are changing Africa with HIS OWN MONEY. But that isn`t necessary. The good thing in capitalism is that e…

I am a law major, who did 1 year of engineering a long time ago. I always been a math geek, but 0 in CS. In my last year of college, i created a startup with some friends. It was a…

But it`s much easier to create new words in english. Like transform a verb in a noum, or adjective, etc I`m a native portuguese speaker, and think that romantic languages can be mo…

Create a non-English based programming language is very different from translating a english programming language. Different languages have different ways to express time, state, e…

Agreed. I'm also a native portuguese speaker. Another point is that you get used to English, and begins to "think" in it. Guess that, besides the whole globalized world thing, i wo…

The article is wrong. The official exchange rate is a phony rate. The real price is the street price, and it's relatively the same as in other countries. If we take the official ex…

Hello everybody, I have to scrape ~1k news sources (among other types of content) on the web, and extract data like title, author, date, news body, etc. Right now we use a horrible…

Hello averybody! I've just finished Harvard's CS50 and MIT's 6.00x courses on edx. They are introdutory courses on Computer Science (the first one in C and the second one in Python…

Should a us citizes fell threatened?

This is not what is happening right now. Fact. BUT, if the project becomes mainstream as the dollar is today, the people of the earth will have a monetary system that doesnt allow …