Although just one among many requirements, the capability of a software to remember user input and reuse that information upon recurring operations is a criterion of quality which directly influences user experience.
Probabalistic Scraping of Plain Text TablesRecently I have been banging my head trying to import a ton of OCR acquired data expressed in tabular form. I think I have come up with a neat approach using probabilistic reasoning combined with mixed integer programming. The method is pretty robust to all sorts of real world issues.
frausto llcSuch accusations, and likewise similar sentiments, are being heard around offices with increasing frequency. And the saddest part is, the code is usually not particularly shit.
What We've Learned About Interviewing EngineersAt HubSpot, we have grown from one to 75 developers in a few short years. This is what we've learned. Deciding if someone should spend 40+ hours a week with you for the next several years is a very hard question to answer based on a couple hours of contact.
IanG on TapJeff Atwood recently posted about natural sorting. This is all about making sure that strings that contain numbers sort numerically. I’m slightly surprised to see that he wants to call it alphabetical sorting. Surely by definition, alphabetical sorting is defined by, well, the alphabet.
ASP.NET MVC Routing - Intercepting file requests like Index.html, and what it teaches about how Routing worksI got an interesting question recently on routing, which lead to an even more interesting question on how to do the opposite. This turns out to offer a pretty good look at some important details of how routing works under the hood.
10 More Common Mistakes Java Developers Make when Writing SQLI was positively surprised to see how popular my recent listing about 10 Common Mistakes Java Developers Make when Writing SQL was, both on my own blog and on my syndication partner DZone. The popularity shows a couple of things: How important SQL is to the professional Java world.
10 Common Mistakes Java Developers Make when Writing SQLJava developers mix object-oriented thinking with imperative thinking, depending on their levels of: Skill (anyone can code imperatively) Dogma (some use the “Pattern-Pattern”, i.e.
10 Easy Steps to a Complete Understanding of SQLToo many programmers think SQL is a bit of a beast. It is one of the few declarative languages out there, and as such, behaves in an entirely different way from imperative, object-oriented, or even functional languages (although, some say that SQL is also somewhat functional).
Think Functional: Definition of IdempotenceIn the most basic of terms, idempotence pertains to the property of certain functions to be applied more than once and always returning the same result. While originally a mathematical term, it has since been added into the vocabulary of the computer science world.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.