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by patrickg 16y ago
Who is patrickb? Why should I change my name? [edit: ok, I get it! :) ]
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by patrickg 16y ago
I know several people that are productive with that language without a psychiatrist. Take for example XSLT. You are saying that all XSLT programmers are mad?
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by patrickg 16y ago
I have created a programming language that is written in XML. With a decent editor (I use oxygen xml) and a good schema (I use Relax NG) there is almost no way to make syntax errors and typing is a breeze (auto completion). With schematron
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by patrickg 16y ago
I like seeing more and more software extensible by Lua, which is a very decent language. My very favorite is LuaTeX (luatex.org), where you can access all ugly TeX internals from Lua and even create a complete typesetting system without usi
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by patrickg 16y ago
I accidentally closed a tab in chrome one day and all my text I've entered in a form was lost - so I thought. But chrome offered me to restore the tab - including the text in the form! I was very surprised and happy with this behavior. Now
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by patrickg 16y ago
We am using LuaTeX (99.5% Lua, rest TeX) on our sole product.
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by patrickg 16y ago
See also the metafun addition, which works well with ConTeXt, a TeX macro package. metafun: http://mirror.contextgarden.net/general/manuals/metafun-p.pd... ConTeXt: http://wiki.contextgarden.net
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by patrickg 16y ago
It was one of the best things that happened to Intel. After some reluctance, they proved as a company users can trust in, as they allowed to return their CPUs in exchange for a non-broken one. This trust into Intel was worth much, much more
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by patrickg 16y ago
That's what I use the feature-xyz branch for. I make "incomplete" commits, by logic only (refactor this, add new function...) and then at the merge into the develop branch, the commit must be in a working state. That way my development bran
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by patrickg 16y ago
You have to take into account that in the earlier days more people lived in an appartment then nowadays.
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by patrickg 16y ago
Move to a place you are familiar with. It would take too much time learning the language, learning the culture, getting used to the local way of doing things, building your network, having support from friends/family. I don't think that the
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by patrickg 16y ago
Depending which part of the city you want to live, it is far from being cheap. But there are a lot of places where it quite affordable, but I am not sure if this suits everybody (travelling distance, "neighborhood"). I am partly living in B
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by patrickg 16y ago
I wonder why almost nobody mentioned "ethics". Besides the arguments in the blog post, is it morally OK to start a business in a dictatorship? I am not so sure about it.
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by patrickg 16y ago
"These rules are also very difficult to discover and very difficult to implement correctly. From the situation with healthcare for your employees through to filing your taxes correctly, the amount of paperwork is insane and complex." Sorry,
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by patrickg 16y ago
Sorry, only computer/work related: 1) I am so used to a mac that makes me save lots of time compared to other systems I am not used to. That doesn't mean a mac is better or whatever, I just want to point out that using the same system for a
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by patrickg 17y ago
Actually, I like it! It looks so much of a 90's homepage (remember the marquee tag?). Of course this is as much distracting as possible and as unreadable as hell, but it is a nice html-collage. Perhaps I am alone with my opinion?
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by patrickg 17y ago
This person mixed up design and style. This bottle is of course designed and I bet it is designed like this on purpose. But to the author's eyes, it doesn't have style. He (as I) lives in a different culture than the manufacturer, so this i
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by patrickg 17y ago
I love LPEG for Lua. It usually takes me some time to write a decent grammar, but once it works it is rather straightforward to read it. ( http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html ) Now seeing this for javascript makes me think if
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by patrickg 17y ago
Just this site: http://contextgarden.net
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by patrickg 17y ago
I suggest having a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuaTeX It is still in beta, but once the power of LuaTeX is unleashed, it will be the only used TeX engine (in two or three years). This is because it combines the quality of TeX's t
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by patrickg 17y ago
LuaTeX + ConTeXt (also called MKIV), see the page on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV . With this combo, you can use the typesetting power of TeX and the programming power of LuaTeX combined.
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by patrickg 17y ago
Yes, I think that is the reason. Or perhaps: the users don't raise their voices to have something better?
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by patrickg 17y ago
What about a menu (ribbon) item called "apply very nice typography to your document" which recalculates/reformats the paragraphs? Would this be a solution?
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by patrickg 17y ago
I agree with you now :-) I would like to have two browsers of the same type, one with high(er) quality typography and one as it is now. And then compare the speed. That would be interesting.
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by patrickg 17y ago
Nobody denied that it is slower in theory, but I still claim that you won't be able to measure the difference on an average web page. So time is not an excuse for not implementing this (and this was the original question).
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by patrickg 17y ago
If you don't know the constant, how can you say that it is non-negligible? I doubt that one can measure the difference in speed rendering an average webpage with either algorithm. And your remark about real time: Even the old (and slow!) Te
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by patrickg 17y ago
(b) is not correct. The time complexity of the total fit algorithm (as described in Knuth&Plass' paper) is almost the same as the simple (first-/best-fit) method. They use a technique called dynamic programming to divide the problem int
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by patrickg 17y ago
Because a) first fit, best fit or something else is trivial to implement, having a good total fit implementation that works in a lot of circumstances is not trivial (I have re-implemented a simpler version of the algorithm in Ruby including
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by patrickg 17y ago
This is great news. However, having a Knuth & Plass line breaking algorithm without hyphenation is like sex without a partner. Pretty much useless. The good points you get from using a total fit algorithm is much less then you lose from
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by patrickg 17y ago
As you said: the Knuth/Plass algorithmn does not reduce or even detect rivers. Detecting rivers can be done in linear time, but reducing is very likely to put the algorithm in a higher time complexity class (which is almost linear with inpu

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