adamretter

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   Can someone help me make my fish better?(pets.stackexchange.com)

   1 points by adamretter 5y ago|1 comments
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   by adamretter 5y ago

   I love this idea - I am so totally uninterested when yet another forum/IM solution is suggested to me. email works and (most) everyone has it. The last thing I want to do is install yet another client app or sign-up to some online webs
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   Reusing Standard RDF Vocabularies – Part 2(medium.com)

   1 points by adamretter 6y ago|0 comments
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   Reusing Standard RDF Vocabularies – Part 1(medium.com)

   8 points by adamretter 6y ago|0 comments
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   Ask HN: Migrating Accounts from FreeAgent to Xero?

   2 points by adamretter 6y ago|0 comments
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   by adamretter 6y ago

   Absolutely brilliant. Thank you
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   by adamretter 6y ago

   I have helped backport RocksDB Java API changes for Kafka in the past. The main issue in the integration seems to be organisational rather than technical. Kafka has a more conservative release approach, whereas RocksDB has lots of releases
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   by adamretter 6y ago

   We have in the past taken on Trainee Engineers where we provide a salaried position for someone who wants to become a developer and provide training. We are not currently taking on any more Trainee Engineers at this time, but for reference
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   by adamretter 6y ago

   If it's open source you can approach Open Source Lab at OSU for CI on Z Series.
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    I feel exactly the same way. My 2019 MBP is probably the last Mac I will buy, it's my 3rd MBP since 2008. Each time, I have upgraded, it's felt like a worse experience.
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    I downloaded and took this for a spin. I haven't been a serious user of FreeBSD since the 4.x and 6.x days. Your "Hello" distro is an absolute pleasure to use, and reminded me why I used to exclusively use FreeBSD. I am now t
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    Show HN: Apache mime.types for Java's Activation framework(github.com)

    1 points by adamretter 6y ago|0 comments
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    So, they say that the system is evolving, but from these parts of the article I would argue that the ease of contributing (which is the important part) is taking a massive hit: > "you will no longer be able to click Edit on a page,
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    Many years ago I worked for a BlueChip company in the UK where they had an XML processing application which provided a nation-wide service. When I started, I looked at the code and saw that all XML production was done through concat and sub
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    There is a 30-day evaluation license for Saxon-EE which can be used for non-production work, https://www.saxonica.com/download/download.xml There is also Exselt http://exselt.net (appears to be down at the
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    This sounds interesting. I haven't heard of "tree-folds" on XML before - do you have any links to further reading and/or examples?
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    > It would have left us with exactly 1 format for data transfer and configuration that had XMLs advantages without its verbosity and enterprisyness Hmm.. that works for data centric applications, but what about document centric applicati
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    The author is obviously technically capable, but makes some ridiculous/ignorant claims about XML and Character Encoding. Anyone who works with texts today as a programmer who doesn't understand the basics of character encoding is
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    Compiling XQuery to Native Machine Code(youtube.com)

    2 points by adamretter 6y ago|0 comments
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    Show HN: Petal – An In-Browser Editor for LwDITA(youtube.com)

    1 points by adamretter 6y ago|0 comments
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    WhatWG: Proposal – Update XPath to at least v2.0(github.com)

    54 points by adamretter 6y ago|71 comments
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    As the old saying goes - Use the right tool for the right the job!
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    JNI Benchmarks(github.com)

    2 points by adamretter 6y ago|0 comments
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    I hope the it's better than their ext2 drivers for macOS. I have had nothing but problems and data loss and their support is the worst.
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    I would be interested to know if it might be possible to eventually install XCode Command Line Tools or similar, and then use it to sign DMG packages? At the moment having to keep a Mac solely for the purposes of signing software packages i
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    Extreme Identifiers (For Use in URIs)(medium.com)

    1 points by adamretter 6y ago|0 comments
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    Thanks cpach. I have posted my replies here. Is it normal to post something to HN, then have someone else repost the same just a few minutes later?
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    > preserving information like file source, location, and metadata Sorry about that. It's definitely something we have been working on. Without going into too much detail here, we have the 1. The physical Digital File itself (i.e. th
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    Thanks for your link to your article, I am a bit short of time this week, but I have had a quick skim and then bookmarked it for reading next week :-)
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    by adamretter 6y ago

    I think SWHID are very interesting and pretty well thought out. Whilst they can be used for individual digital files, they look like they are designed for hierarchical file-systems. We are actually trying to move away from the concept of a