patrickg

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   by patrickg 14y ago

   There has been a lot of noise about the working conditions at groupon (Germany). I am not sure if this is good news or not.
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   by patrickg 14y ago

   dead cheap is getting more and more to "starting to get expensive". Prices are rising so much the last years, especially in Kreuzberg and other cool places. Offices are also getting more expensive and harder to get. Currently looking for a
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   by patrickg 14y ago

   That would have been much quicker with Time Machine (been there, done that).
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   by patrickg 14y ago

   Easy to say and hard to do. TeX distributions are getting more complex and much bigger, while at the same time providing a _much_ better user experience than a few years ago. TeX live for example has the "full" distribution scheme as defaul
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   by patrickg 14y ago

   See the discussion here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/20036/243
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   by patrickg 14y ago

   Glad to see that the top three browsers use different rendering engines. Long live diversity. Edit: in the hope of good css/html5 conformance / no browser specific programming like in the old days
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   by patrickg 14y ago

   If there are only two options that add up to 100% it must be perfectly symmetric.
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   by patrickg 14y ago

   OK, so I guess I need to plan significant amount of time documenting. Not just "the last day".
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   by patrickg 14y ago

   I try. I guess this is the hardest part.
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    by patrickg 14y ago

    I use github extensively - very good suggestion! Thanks
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    by patrickg 14y ago

    Awesome. Not much more to say. Thanks
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    Ask HN: How to write code that can be taken over by others?

    4 points by patrickg 14y ago|8 comments
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    by patrickg 14y ago

    Not really what you're after, I guess, but a link anyway: http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/wiki/PageDown "PageDown is the JavaScript Markdown previewer used on Stack Overflow and the rest of the Stack Exchange network. It includes a Mark
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    by patrickg 14y ago

    I do have a degree in computer science so I know about state machines. Yet I don't use them at all in my code. Am I missing a great opportunity? I know it is close to impossible to answer that question without knowing the problem space, but
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    by patrickg 14y ago

    As it seems that here is a/the dash developer: how much will it be in the future? It's free now, but (AFAIUI) it will be a paid software once it leaves beta!? Can someone explain?
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    by patrickg 14y ago

    I am a tex.stackexchange.com regular and I really like the community. It is a small community but/therefore quite some people meet on a regular basis, the (local) TUG conferences. I agree very much with the "thank you sx" note.
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    Visual debugging in LaTeX(tex.stackexchange.com)

    4 points by patrickg 15y ago|0 comments
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    There is this really great (German language) podcast about node.js from a well known podcaster here Tim Pritlove: http://cre.fm/cre167 - I listened to it and I know I had to try out node.js (which I did).
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    That reminds me of a story of a relative, who was working in a local German bank (Sparkasse). They were screening the text on money transfers (Überweisung) for words like "anthrax". I couldn't believe that they had such an order.
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    A free (non-copyleft) TeX distribution (kerTeX)(tex.stackexchange.com)

    1 points by patrickg 15y ago|0 comments
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    See http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/graphics.html "The road to wisdom? Well its plain and simple to express - err and err and err again. But less and less and less" (Piet Hein)
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    No, there isn't. I am working on a book, but it will take a while when this is translated to english.
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    The stability comes from the core, but the problems arise from the extensions. I have pushed LuaTeX to some limits and seen lots of segfaults and other errors.
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    I am working on it. Thanks for pointing it out once more!
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    Only someone not related to typesetting can say that LaTeX is dead. Exactly the opposite is true. Even though there are good alternatives these days such as InDesign and (I hate to say that:) MS Word (which now has a much better formula edi
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    Nobody uses (Knuth's) TeX anymore. They use PDFTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX. None of these are as stable as TeX, but in practice a whole lot better than most other software I use.
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    Metafont is hardly used these days. All TeX distributions use either a Type1 font of Computer Modern or Latin Modern. And the equation typesetting has nothing(!) to do with Metafont. Everything is set into the TeX binary (and its formats).
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    I am running a TeX distribution with only one binary. And with bibliography and index: these could be done with the Lua part of LuaTeX. True about the others.
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    * First of all, the OP mixes up LaTeX and TeX. TeX is written in a very portable language and has been ported to more platforms than most other software, including PDP-10 and others. * LaTeX is working on the iPad, see for example: http:/
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    by patrickg 15y ago

    Several people here mention Sublime Text 2. I can't see code folding (which I really like in TM).