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by patrickg 12y ago
Not really an alternative to classic LaTeX (scientific articles, homework and college / university work) but for database publishing (XML -> PDF): https://github.com/speedata/publisher manual: http:/&#x2F
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by patrickg 12y ago
Actually LaTeX was invented to be a typesetting DSL. As someone who has taught TeX and LaTeX and written my own software on top of TeX, I have come across this question very often. Basic TeX is not meant to be high level at all. LaTeX hides
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by patrickg 12y ago
And I wonder what the author means with "more flexible than TeX". I have never seen (except for emacs) a more flexible software than TeX. Fully programmable (although the programming language is somewhat different than the commonl
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Very limited audience? No marketing effort?
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by patrickg 12y ago
isn't itext released under the terms of the AGPL? While one may like or dislike the license, it should be considered OpenSource!?!
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by patrickg 12y ago
QPDF is great! I use it heavily to analyze PDFs generated from other applications (PDFTeX, InDesign) to incorporate new features (such as spot colors) in my software ( http://speedata.github.io/publisher/index.html ) The
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by patrickg 12y ago
It's not really what I think would be appropriate, it's just a comparison of the length of sentences, which is totally different across legislatures. I've seen a TV report about Indonesia, where possessing drugs (if I underst
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by patrickg 12y ago
About fairness: I think the discussion is way out of scope of HN, and I think it's about what you expect from a law system in a country. I don't understand your second question. You mean, what kind of sentences are life long sente
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by patrickg 12y ago
I am always astonished (not in the positive meaning) by the length of theses sentences. The maximum sentence in Germany is 15 years (except for a life long sentence for murder, which could be longer). (disclaimer: I am a volunteer/part
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by patrickg 12y ago
I travel a lot by train, which means a broken internet connection most of the time. Or when I stay in hotels or on a customer's site without wifi (3G doesn't always work well enough).
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by patrickg 12y ago
Licenses are to my knowledge always part of copying, not of executing. That is: you may download a game to your computer, if you've got the permission. But Steam cannot tell you that you are only allowed to run the game on wednesdays.
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by patrickg 12y ago
"...but if you want to execute a compiled result of that source code I can still ask you to pay me for it." morally: yes. Legally? I don't think that there is a law (German law is the one that I know a bit) that all
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by patrickg 12y ago
No, it's a regular compiler (not jit). But anyway, you'd need to install Go, which, I'd guess, not everybody wants to do.
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Crossing Streams: a Love Letter to io.Reader(jmoiron.net)
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by patrickg 12y ago
I really wish I had a good business model for my open source product (a database publishing software). I am doing my living from it - quite ok - (selling support), but I think I could do much more. If there is someone from Berlin, Germany w
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by patrickg 12y ago
Yes, this is XPath 2.0. I don't bother with 1.0 if I can, because it is soooo far behind 2.0. data: <data attr="1" /> xsl: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:styleshe
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by patrickg 12y ago
It was the page you've linked to ( https://sourcegraph.com/code.google.com/p/go/.GoPackage/net/... ) just now about 7 seconds (repeatable), on a faster machine it went down to 3 seconds (also rep
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by patrickg 12y ago
There are some things in XPath that I really like. For example `x = ( a, b, c )' means: `(x == a or x == b or x == c)' which is quite handy sometimes. Also `(a,default)[1]' makes it easy to provide a default if a is null.
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by patrickg 12y ago
I really begin to like sourcegraph, nice job! I don't know how to ask the question without sounding too negative: any chance it might get faster? I took about 10 seconds (just a feeling, didn't measure it) to load the page.
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by patrickg 12y ago
(Germany only, don't know about other states) 1) The national constition is the highest part of the German law, not EU law. The courts cooperate in many ways and co-exist, but EU law is not above the Constition / Grundgesetz. (See
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by patrickg 12y ago
But we have a current set of valid laws in Germany. That can be a starting point.
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by patrickg 12y ago
Yes, I am serious. As a judge I hear a lot of people complaining about the laws (in Germany, that's the point). But when I ask them to give examples, they get always quiet.
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by patrickg 12y ago
I considered my initial post on topic :) This is a very dificult and highly subjective topic. Free speech always ends where you start to hurt other people. So there is always 'censorship' in some way or another. The group of &#x27
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by patrickg 12y ago
Please show me how this first post makes any point in the discussion.
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by patrickg 12y ago
Please quote some of the 'many' unjust, unfair and oppresive laws.
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We can take the law as a starting point.
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I am fine with the term 'censorship', but we should discuss: where does it start, where does it end? What kind of censorship is allowed, and what is not allowed?
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No, I don't think I am missing the point. My question was basically: is censorship always a bad idea? If yes, how can we enforce the law otherwise (forbidden pictures)? Or should we make our laws towards "showing everything is all
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by patrickg 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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by patrickg 12y ago
To make it clear: these sites are not blocked, you can still acess them. They just don't turn up when you search 'sick forbidden sex with animals' on search engines. How far does censorship go? Where does 'protecting our

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