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Post by beambot »

irae wrote: post #179
forinti wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not hard at all to open a business in Brazil, unless you work with things that require safety inspections (food, health, chemicals, etc). Closing a business is a bit of a bother, but it is mostly a question of waiting.

No it is not. You might find it simple, if you don't compare to places that are easier. First you need to file all the paperwork. Then you wait. Once you get approvals, you can't do anything without a bank account, and opening the bank account is a lot of trouble too, because they want to triple check everything. From zero to operational is a long way, and with lots of legal liability along the way. I have a company…

Stripe's Atlas program seems to be available in Brazil?

https://stripe.com/atlas

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Post by zoom6628 »

tmjdev wrote: post #120

Ben Stokes is an inspiration to me. I get excited reading any of the TinyProjects posts. It's so refreshing to see a solo dev building and shipping so much. Hoping I'm tracking for that kind of ability as a full stack dev.

Second that. His thinking and what he does is astounding. I am envious of his ability to string things together but most so of his thinking of new ideas.

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Post by AussieWog93 »

Retric wrote: post #209
Super_Jambo wrote: post #208

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Humans must be using a language model for image recognition when reading though. Otherwise things like failing to spot the the is a duplicate word wouldn't happen so often.

I think people use font models rather than just language models. The post office is perhaps the best example where despite a known list of addresses and intended format they still backup OCR with people.

> The post office is perhaps the best example where despite a known list of addresses and intended format they still backup OCR with people.

To be fair, the amount of people who write their own address incorrectly is staggering.

I'm in eCommerce and easily 70%+ of addresses have some sort of minor error in them. Around 5-10% are just plain bizarre, with things like two suburbs being included or the street name not including the Rd/Av/Dr etc.

I'd suspect this is one of those problems that seems easy in the lab but quickly degenerates when you consider the human aspect of it.

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Post by codazoda »

aerovistae wrote: post #204

A lot of this seems manageable to me - like I could imagine myself being able to build it - but I have no idea how the author handled the domain names part and hosting all these websites. How did you just "throw together" a registrar and a hosting service? Seems like they built heroku and namecheap as side facets to their "tiny project." I must be missing something.

Startup Founders often say, “do things that don’t scale”. If I were trying this, I might just register the domains in my account, list myself as the admin, and list them for everything else. No building necessary until you prove the idea.

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Post by esjeon »

This idea carries some decent vibes. Pretty cool, seriously.

But I think I can't use this service:

(1) It requires "editing" for web publication, and I know I'm too lazy to keep up with that.

(2) I find myself mostly scribble with pencil and paper, and write on computer. This is partially because my handwriting is in another dimension in terms of recognizability.

(3) I sweat a lot, and that ruins paper notebooks pretty quickly, normally within 2~3 months of daily use. (So I use legal pads.)

So, personally, I've always thought about the reverse: write pages with computer, and make a book out of it for archival, like, yearly.

Still, I'm yet to carry out this idea, because:

(1) I'm unsatisfied with currently available text-based document formats - either too limited (markdown), too biased (ReST), or too verbose(HTML/XML). I'm hoping to build something like Notion(block-driven) out of plain-text document format.

(2) I fiercely hate proprietary note-taking services and apps. I've already had enough headaches: pages lost, broken import/export features, backup restoration failures, etc. Never gonna spend a single penny on them.

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Post by Retric »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #213
Retric wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think people use font models rather than just language models. The post office is perhaps the best example where despite a known list of addresses and intended format they still backup OCR with people.

> The post office is perhaps the best example where despite a known list of addresses and intended format they still backup OCR with people. To be fair, the amount of people who write their own address incorrectly is staggering. I'm in eCommerce and easily 70%+ of addresses have some sort of minor error in them. Around 5-10% are just plain bizarre, with things like two suburbs being included or the street name not in…

Modern postal OCR is generally good enough to detect bad addresses, but my point was people still beat it when the domain is so constrained.
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