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by patrickg 10y ago
LuaTeX has a great abilitiy compared to regular TeX: you are able to access the internal data structures of TeX. See my article about TeX without \TeX at http://wiki.luatex.org/index.php/TeX_without_TeX . With this acce
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by patrickg 10y ago
LuaTeX _is_ very fast. What makes it slow is luaotfload and fontspec (with LaTeX). LuaJITTeX is improving much, but a lot needs to be done on the two mentioned packages.
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TeX's hyphenation algorithm in Go(github.com)
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Ask HN: How can I test binary packages automatically?
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Speedata Publisher examples(github.com)
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by patrickg 11y ago
I like the German word "Klapprechner" (something like "foldable computer").
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by patrickg 11y ago
Shameless plug: https://github.com/speedata/gogit (I use that one with a 300 Gig repository) Edit: this is the backend used in https://ctanmirror.speedata.de/ a "travel back in time" archive
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Bibtex Entries for IETF RFCs and Internet-Drafts(notesofaprogrammer.blogspot.com)
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Sublimetext new build(sublimetext.com)
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XML Prague conference(xmlprague.cz)
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Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools(dymaxion.org)
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by patrickg 11y ago
You did read that I was talking about an 8 year old kid who is learning the words "clothes" and "red" in school? Still a few years to go to ask for and look for programming help in English.
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by patrickg 11y ago
While I agree to the use case / tiny arguments, it doesn't seem to work in practice. I am now using Scratch ( https://scratch.mit.edu/ ) to teach programming. Much better.
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by patrickg 11y ago
Teaching programming to my 8 year old is a burden, because everything is in English. Teaching two things at a time is more difficult than it has to be.
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by patrickg 11y ago
My database publishing system's programming language is both English and German. While programmers usually prefer the English interface, a rather large percentage of my users prefer the German one. (en: https://speedata.gith
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by patrickg 12y ago
NV and nvALT were such a gereat push in note taking. My first note is now five years old. Before that, I have used a plain text file for everything. I really like the hyperlinks and full text search in nvALT.
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by patrickg 12y ago
I don't comment on the Kanzlerakte, it's obvious fake. US barracks are not extraterritoriality zones, please cite your claim. "US soldiers are not under German jurisdiction", this is only partly true. It's part of t
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by patrickg 12y ago
Please give a reliable source for your claims. We have peace now since more than a few decades. It doesn't need a signed peace treaty to have peace in a country. The 2+4 contract has explicitly stopped the allied control.
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by patrickg 12y ago
Linked lists and arrays / slices are two totally different data structures with different applications: Removing objects from (anything but the end of) arrays / slices is expensive. If this is a common operation, linked list might
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Codehouse is shutting down(codehaus.org)
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by patrickg 12y ago
Is the design of the playing cards open? I am always looking for nice demos for our open source database publishing software, which does handle cmyk + spotcolors etc. ( https://speedata.github.io/publisher/index.html )
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by patrickg 12y ago
I can't answer the question but anyway: None of my customers have ever asked for that. I have not seen a printing house that demands XPS. So I doubt that it plays any role in the market (Germany here).
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by patrickg 12y ago
Actually the XML part is the one that maps best to the problem space. I deal with structured documents (such as part/title/paragraph ... or product group/product/components). The database part (usually Excel sheets or SQ
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by patrickg 12y ago
I was a bit unclear. When I get database dumps, I get them as Excel files or as an XML document. Most of the times the documents I get are hierarchically structured. Yes, JSON could be fine as well. But it simply lacks a standard toolchain
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by patrickg 12y ago
I am working for many years in the publishing business (dealing with structured documents, product data etc.). I can tell you, that all of my customers are more open XML than any other document formats (there exist none as suitable for the
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by patrickg 12y ago
apples and oranges? There is no other way of encoding structured documents these days than XML. Like it or not, XML is the de facto standard for data exchange (export from databases, product information software,....) XML might be overengen
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by patrickg 12y ago
+1 - I have to deal with structured documents encoded in XML on a daily base, and most of the time there is no other tool for me than to write an XSLT stylesheet. I really like the computational model of XSLT (push vs. pull), it is so elega
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by patrickg 12y ago
I am glad that for Go there is `go fmt` which predefines some of the issues mentioned in the article. Thus there is "one global coding style for Go". It's another matter if one likes it or not.
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by patrickg 12y ago
Plus 100 for this. I've (after one year of business) open sourced my software and this was one of the better moves in my 5 years business history. This opened a lot of doors for me.
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by patrickg 12y ago
I know some of the latex3 people, and I know they are working on it. It is not a frontend code (for example such thing as \tableofcontents), but currently purely backend stuff. A lot of latex2e packages are using latex3 in the background (f

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