Karthik Kamalakannan imkarthikk

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');

Using Python 3 + Google Cloud Vision API's OCR to extract text from photos and scanned documents

Just a quickie test in Python 3 (using Requests) to see if Google Cloud Vision can be used to effectively OCR a scanned data table and preserve its structure, in the way that products such as ABBYY FineReader can OCR an image and provide Excel-ready output.

The short answer: No. While Cloud Vision provides bounding polygon coordinates in its output, it doesn't provide it at the word or region level, which would be needed to then calculate the data delimiters.

On the other hand, the OCR quality is pretty good, if you just need to identify text anywhere in an image, without regards to its physical coordinates. I've included two examples:

####### 1. A low-resolution photo of road signs

	javascript: Promise.all([import('https://unpkg.com/[email protected]?module'), import('https://unpkg.com/@tehshrike/[email protected]'), ]).then(async ([{
	default: Turndown
	}, {
	default: Readability
	}]) => {

	/* Optional vault name */
	const vault = "";

	/* Optional folder name such as "Clippings/" */


	# Add RVM to PATH for scripting. Make sure this is the last PATH variable change.
	export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin"

	# Load Nerd Fonts with Powerlevel9k theme for Zsh
	POWERLEVEL9K_MODE='nerdfont-complete'
	source ~/powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k.zsh-theme
	# Customise the Powerlevel9k prompts
	POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(ssh dir vcs newline status)
	POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=()

	#! /bin/bash
	if [[ $1 == 'me' ]]; then
	cat "$(which show)"
	elif [[ $1 == 'loc' ]]; then
	echo `which show`
	elif [[ $1 == 'install' ]]; then
	echo "Ensure to place this file in `usr/local/bin` and read instructions on https://gist.github.com/swaathi/8c18be3a437e498034a5a3ede54d0ce9/."
	brew install fortune
	brew install cowsay
	brew install lolcat

	Backup:
	docker exec -t -u postgres your-db-container pg_dumpall -c > dump_`date +%d-%m-%Y"_"%H_%M_%S`.sql

	Restore:
	cat your_dump.sql \| docker exec -i your-db-container psql -Upostgres

	server {
	listen 80 default_server;
	server_name 192.168.10.69;
	location /monit/ {
	allow 127.0.0.1;
	allow 192.0.0.0/8;
	deny all;

	proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2812;
	proxy_set_header Host $host;

	'use strict'

	var gulp, sass, babelify, browserify, watchify, source, util;

	gulp = require('gulp');
	sass = require('gulp-sass');
	babelify = require('babelify')
	browserify = require('browserify');
	watchify = require('watchify');
	source = require('vinyl-source-stream');

	#!/bin/bash

	SCRIPT='cd /web/vcms/; bundle exec sidekiq'
	RUNAS=dimon
	NAME=vcms-sidekiq

	PIDFILE=/web/vcms/tmp/pids/sidekiq.pid
	LOGFILE=/web/vcms/log/sidekiq.log

	start() {