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joss82on Show HN: Parseur – Each email becomes a row in Excel

Sorry, I though people wanted to try the app straight away.

I was wrong.

joss82on Why Chinatown Produce Is Cheap (2016)

Or, god forbid, a pizza!

joss82on HTML to Excel data extraction

Parseur is doing the same for emails. It's a bit more manual at first but it works better IMHO.

https://app.parseur.com

joss82on World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117

Nope, there is yet another one: https://www.ratsit.se/18990601-Saro_Dursun_Vasteras/qEQWdEbn...

Not many left I guess...

EDIT: Stolen from some uncle comment which I have also plussed.

joss82on Scunthorpe Problem

This problem could be solved by defining a logical rule (most probably through a regular expression) that would only filter the bad word when present as a single word.

I'm amazed how rarely this simple system is used. Instead you end up with monstrosities such as the power stars chat that mangles most words into unreadable mess of .

Could be a fun game though. Guess the words!

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joss82 on A Kickstarter to improve spacex video retransmission

Otherwise a super good tele-lens with tracking capabilities?

joss82 on A Kickstarter to improve spacex video retransmission

Any other idea, then? Maybe a powerful propeller drone with a good climbing speed?

joss82 on SES-10 Mission

Awesome answer.
It made me smile.

joss82 on Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?

Sure, most large codebases need at least a year to get to know your way around them.
But keep in mind that the majority of job switching happen unilaterally from the employee side. So that could also be a sign that the employee is not afraid to quit because she knows her value on the market.
edit: grammar

joss82 on Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?

I don't really know how things are in the US, but here in Europe, the employer's need for a developer will often overcome his fear of hiring a "job hopper".
Be ready to answer questions about the reason why you quit your jobs, though. Just telling the truth is usually enough. "The commute was too much", "I was not growing/learning any more"...

joss82 on Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?

The impact on your career should not be much.
As an employer, I would not turn down any ex-Uber, as long as he or she did not trigger warning lights during the interviews.
Just focus on the technichal side and the money. If you feel good every morning when you wake up to go working for them, then stay.
If not, then that would make a great explanation to your next employer for him/her not to consider you a job hopper. Along the lines of "I quit at Uber because, as you very well know, the culture there was toxic and yours looks much more interesting, blah blah...".
Good luck!

joss82 on Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

I'm creating a Timeful clone and collecting feedback for it. Here is the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13861545 Hope it helps.

joss82 on Collecting advice for a Timeful clone

Here is the clickable link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13855577

joss82 on Show HN: Globtrottr.com – travel maps about the journey, not the destination

Well, it looks really nice indeed!
Do you have any plan to make data entry less tedious?
An automatic email importer maybe?
Since I'm an avid traveler for 15 years or so, I have a lot of emails from my different plane and train bookings.
I would love to get all these travel bookings imported into a map of all my travels without having to type all of them by hand.

joss82 on Help - How can we simplify our overcomplicated SAAS product?

It's done.
We are not native English speakers so we tend to write convoluted sentences that are difficult to parse.
Thanks again.

joss82 on Tesla Says Model 3 on Track as Quarterly Loss Beats Estimates

Not so sure about it. Look at Concorde.
Musk actually said that technology does not move forward if there is nobody (or no company or no government) to push it forward.

joss82 on Help - How can we simplify our overcomplicated SAAS product?

Thanks! Will change that ASAP.

joss82 on SpaceX Dragon Rendezvous and Docking Waved Off for Today

I was saying that the processes used to be more brittle, at least from a outsider's point of view.
I always found the shuttle "single attempt" landing as not cautious at all. What if anything go wrong? Do you just crash and kill all crew on board?
Well, I'm comparing apples to oranges actually. See Spacex booster landing is quite hit and miss also, actually.
Sorry, forget what I was saying, it's just the wrong things to compare :)

joss82 on SpaceX Dragon Rendezvous and Docking Waved Off for Today

I feel like space is becoming less of a "let's cross our fingers and hope it works on the first try" culture. See space shuttle landing for a typical example.

joss82 on Show HN: Parseur - Automated email parser with some machine learning inside

And, as discussed here [1] it's not the deep neural network kind of machine learning.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13599074

joss82 on Node-noop – Implements a noop function

PHP lacked the namespacing in the first place, which made the API messy and flat.
Look at python (or ruby)'s standard library, it's awesome, and of high quality (most of the time, see urllib/requests for a counterexample).

joss82 on Node-noop – Implements a noop function

No kidding? This is impressive!
Did you write about it somewhere?

joss82 on Node-noop – Implements a noop function

In practice though, even the smallest toy project will pull out hundred tiny dependencies.
This is why funny stories like leftpadgate can happen.
Relying on an external dependency is a net win if and only if the time gain overcomes the loss of control.
Maybe regrouping all these tiny libraries under an umbrella project (lets call it node-utils or js-tinytools or whatever) will mitigate the problem?
This project will not have any external dependency though will be used by most of the projects and ergo might be watched with much more attention.

joss82 on Spin wants to bring dock-less bike sharing to the US

> - Quite common for an Ofo bike to be locked to something using a private chain (i.e. someone has stolen it), and you don't know until you walk up to it
How about always carrying a metal saw with you?

joss82 on George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon

Is lying about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq a crime?
Is lying about WMDs and then destroying the lives of millions of human beings (also known as iraqis) a crime?

joss82 on Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

I've worked in the industry as a developer for 12 years and I can't remember any.
I do remember a competitor dying of not releasing their big refactored next version soon enough, and running out of cash.
Spolski tells it better than me:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

joss82 on A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France

Free. They are the best. They even offer free roaming in most of Europe!
http://www.free.fr

joss82 on Ask HN: Laid off today for the first time, anything to be wary of? Advice?

I would recommend this article which is exactly about the situation you're in:
http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2008/05/laid-off-one-t...
It was written by a fellow HNer a few years ago, but still relevant today, IMHO.
Edit: shortened overlong sentence.

joss82 on Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

That's what I and most of us did, I guess.
But isn't the professional stuff totally different from that initial first glimpse?

joss82 on Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

It's not a matter of rigor, but rather a matter of doing it for fun on your spare time vs doing it 40 hours a week.
It might very well kill the fun out of it.
Disclaimer: I've never done educational park activities.