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by patrickg 15y ago
I have paid for TM1 before I got the feeling that it is unmaintained. But I still use TM 1 for 90% of my daily writing work (mostly source code and TeX documents) - I still love it.
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by patrickg 15y ago
I don't agree with "but it barely runs under Lion" - I use it daily for several hours and it almost never crashes.
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by patrickg 15y ago
I once bought a printed Shoes manual from Lulu.com and it is the absolute best manual (from a 'I love to read this book' point of view). Extremely impressive. Guess it is already worth a few bucks today ;-)
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Designing a Facilitator training(nilswloka.com)
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TeX scripting with Lua(wiki.luatex.org)
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by patrickg 15y ago
4) Legislative issues. For example Germany (I'd bet) would not accept bitcoins in one's tax form ("I have to pay 345.67 bit coins of taxes to the state"). And if you have income in a non approved currency, you get into some trouble.
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by patrickg 15y ago
Someone has made a comment on HN before like this: if the title of a submission is a question, the answer is most likely 'no'.
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by patrickg 15y ago
I experiment with this a lot, my fonts folder is full of fixed width fonts. But I somehow always go back to Monaco (11pt) white on black background. This is using TextMate, non anti-alias. (Example: http://tinypic.com/r/2hnayq8/7 ) Perhap
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by patrickg 15y ago
How is the "G8 internet" related to the internet governance forum? Why fighting on so many frontiers?
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by patrickg 15y ago
That retirement you mention is only partly true (unless there is a misunderstanding). It all depends how many years you have paid into the fund. For a women with lots of breaks due to kids or for self employed people who have not opted in p
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by patrickg 15y ago
Jesus, the 90° rotated "8" that should be an infinity sign is ugly as hell. Edit: wording
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by patrickg 15y ago
I'd love to find a nice overview of Berlin networking groups. Can you recommend one? I've just entered Berlin as a (not that young anymore) startup.
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by patrickg 15y ago
Just done a bit of research (google), it seems to be more complicated then an easy yes/no (in Germany). Something to do with if the source is obviously illegal, then the download is also illegal, otherwise it seems OK. But the copyright law
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by patrickg 15y ago
I am not so sure if that applies in all countries. IIRC in central europe (at least in some states) the "bad thing" is copying, not downloading. But I am not a layer and I hope someone with more knowledge can correct me.
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The BETA language (early OOP language)(daimi.au.dk)
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by patrickg 15y ago
If you have enough money for the first days/weeks/months/years.
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Swiss Open source portal goes live(osor.eu)
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What Tools Do Startups Use? List Yours, Find Others' on This Wiki(readwriteweb.com)
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by patrickg 16y ago
No, but earthquakes. And we are so clever to build nuclear plants on places where they are more likely to occur. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BClheim-K%C3%A4rlich_Nucle...
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by patrickg 16y ago
> About when I stopped paying attention to TeX and LaTeX many years ago (2002-ish?), there was some effort under way to rewrite all of TeX in Java. Did that go anywhere? I'd say no. See http://extex.org/
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by patrickg 16y ago
Do you have an example PDF for that? For the average use, TeX is overkill (sometimes OK), but if you need the finest possible typography, TeX yields its power. And then the XSL-FO formatters are pretty fast disappointing.
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by patrickg 16y ago
You can do Lua scripting a the user level (\directlua{...}). But you have to know the Lua interface. What purpose is having Lua inside your document? Do some calculations? Yes, that's easy. Do complex algorithms for placing floats? Then you
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by patrickg 16y ago
LuaTeX has the same macro language as the other TeX engines (pdftex and it's ilk). The true power of LuaTeX comes into play when you use Lua scripting. I am not sure if ConTeXt has more advanced figure placement algorithms due to LuaTeX. La
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by patrickg 16y ago
The problem is that you can change TeX's syntax during the run time. I am not sure if it is theoretically possible to create such a tool for TeX input. That is one of the reason why I use (except for approx 10 lines of TeX code) only Lua co
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by patrickg 16y ago
LuaTeX can be used as a PDF writing library that has a "perfect" line breaking algorithm inside along with many other nice features. We use it as a base for our database publishing tool. Its absolutely reliable, has modern features (unicode
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by patrickg 16y ago
Has anyone experience with this setup: install your software in a git repository. That way you can say something like "version=1.23" on top of the control file (such as a sourcecode file for a scripting language) and the software system che
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by patrickg 16y ago
We can find numerous examples where there are things (like the cameras you mention) that contradict the privacy regulations. But I hope that we don't get into a "well, it's all hopeless" mode. Thanks for the good pointer.
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by patrickg 16y ago
In 10,20 years people around the world may ask the europeans how they got such a rather high privacy standard. While I don't agree to all of the regulations, the tendency here is to make everything private by default and only disclose what
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by patrickg 16y ago
Usually I don't like the "mee too" posts, they always appear childish to me. But this time I'd also "sign this petition".
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by patrickg 16y ago
So everyone who is not mainstream is subject to not being sane? What a strange hacker attitude...

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