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Quotes I like

  • We can do better. We have to do better. - Teemu Selänne

  • Real artists ship. -Steve Jobs

  • Done is better than perfect. -Scott Allen

  • Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. -Paul Rand

  • "Self-motivation often springs from a desire to show that doubters are wrong."

  • An overflow of good converts to Awesome. ~William Shakespeare

  • I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. ~Gretzky

  • In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. ~Cantor

  • Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast. ~Tom Peters

  • "Our willingness to fail gives us the ability and opportunity to succeed where others may fear to tread."

  • I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. —Michael Jordan

  • To keep pace with the growth of mathematics, one would have to read about fifteen papers a day, source.

  • The best protagonists rarely say anything. Source.

  • Don't give advices and don't listen advices.

  • The less you say the stronger the strength of your words is.

Palchinsky's Three Principles of Success (Tim Harford's book)

  1. Seek out and try new things.

  2. When trying something new, do it on a scale where failure is survivable.

  3. Seek out feedback (to determine your level of success) and learn from your mistakes as you go along.

Misc

P.s. You can contact me with forename@surname.com.


Mar
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awarded  Altruist
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10
answered Make existing PDF searchable ( OCR ) via command line / script
Mar
9
revised OS X: Any PDF to Kindle format converter to read technical material on Amazon Kindle?
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Mar
9
answered OS X: Any PDF to Kindle format converter to read technical material on Amazon Kindle?
Mar
8
revised OS X: Any PDF to Kindle format converter to read technical material on Amazon Kindle?
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Mar
8
comment OS X: Any PDF to Kindle format converter to read technical material on Amazon Kindle?
Amazon's own "Send to Kindle" has the conversion in options but it is extremely poor with technical writing, it does some sort of HTML conversion making the text totally unreadable. This is the same thing as Calibre so not good...
Mar
8
revised OS X: Any PDF to Kindle format converter to read technical material on Amazon Kindle?
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Mar
8
asked OS X: Any PDF to Kindle format converter to read technical material on Amazon Kindle?
Mar
8
comment Make existing PDF searchable ( OCR ) via command line / script
What kind of export features does the DEVONThink Pro Office have? Can you export PDFs and other material easily?
Mar
8
awarded  Notable Question
Mar
8
comment Reasons to prefer Little Snitch over the built-in firewall
Which one do you prefer: HandsOff or Little Snitch? HandsOff can be got in this bundle here.
Mar
8
comment How to view Root directory and subdirectories in Finder?
For people after upgrade, the license from Matworks website and then just $ cat license.dat >> /Applications/MATLAB_R2012a_Student.app/licenses/license.dat -- where this path is the default path, hope this help.
Mar
7
comment How do I remove GarageBand?
If you bought it from AppStore, then just LaunchPad, ALT and Click.
Mar
6
comment Make existing PDF searchable ( OCR ) via command line / script
In a way, it sounds like EverNote where EverNote adds the OCR but not allowing its exporting like that. Is it possible to export your projects from this software with the OCR? If not, some very simple OCR lib and then some linguistic analysis lib may work the best. Perhaps the other is ABBY, I don't know yet.
Mar
6
comment Make existing PDF searchable ( OCR ) via command line / script
Suppose I take pictures with iPhone or screenshots with OS X and put them to a folder ProjectA, does the DEVONThink add the OCR layer automatically to them even without specifying the language? Suppose you put them to a DropBox and then make DEVONThink in OSX to check the folder automatically, you could work with it over OS X and iOS then? It is a fascinating concept if done well... +1
Mar
5
comment Search over different types of documents such as DjVU sometimes without OCR?
Downvoting without a comment is bad, again -- poor people.
Mar
5
comment Make existing PDF searchable ( OCR ) via command line / script
OCR is pretty broad: big differences in quality of softwares. When you add the linguistic support such as different language support, you can get better quality detection. If you are a student, Adobe Acrobat Pro from Creative Suite costs about 300EUR otherwise alone about 200EUR. I wish there was some preview comparing OCR detection with different types of document: mathematical document, different language etc -- there may be large differences in quality. It may help to specify the language. Also I would rewrite the question, now too extended -- try to make it simpler.
Mar
5
comment Make existing PDF searchable ( OCR ) via command line / script
Although the DEVONThink Pro Office in OS X is an overkill, it is interesting. If the developers designed it over OS X and iOS, it may though work (keeping the UI more simple) -- do you know anything like that? Cool idea though -- so the Pro version automatically adds the OCR layer to all kind of things such as screenshots and PDFs? And user can somehow "script" it?
Mar
5
comment Is AirDrop possible between iPad, iPhone and Macbook?
We have two mods who disagree on this?! Ridiculous to make users to jump to-and-fro...
Mar
5
comment Is AirDrop possible between iPad, iPhone and Macbook?
...third-party services: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/84323/… and my edit.