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New comment by crazysmoove in "Sergey Brin has a secret disaster relief charity"

crazysmoove — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 01:28:14 +0000

There are other governments, though.

New comment by crazysmoove in "Show HN: A Code Generator in Eclipse"

crazysmoove — Tue, 26 May 2020 12:53:47 +0000

The project in question is a plugin for the Eclipse IDE. They went with an Eclipse license. If this project is not specifically "for people who inhabit that community," then who is it for?

New comment by crazysmoove in "Should you post your content on Medium? No."

crazysmoove — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 22:23:12 +0000

dev.to

New comment by crazysmoove in "Really Small Java Apps"

crazysmoove — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:39:05 +0000

Micronaut predates Quarkus by almost a year, but they both seem to be great frameworks.

New comment by crazysmoove in "We Can Do Better Than SQL"

crazysmoove — Thu, 09 May 2019 21:51:31 +0000

I think Oracle does. My impression is that PostgreSQL sort-of "invented" JSON support in the db, then Oracle (and probably others) added JSON support with a different syntax, and then Oracle got their version defined into the SQL standard. I'm half-guessing here, but it's based on what I've gleaned from Markus Winand's [0] excellent compatibility tables in his slides [1].

[0] https://modern-sql.com/

[1] https://modern-sql.com/slides/ModernSQL-2019-05-08.pdf, for example

(Edited for formatting.)

New comment by crazysmoove in "Show HN: Price comparison for attraction tickets, tours, and activties"

crazysmoove — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:19:23 +0000

As someone who is currently planning a trip to NYC and has been comparing CityPass to its competitors (and versus just buying individual tickets)... Thank you! I will be using this site this weekend to help me make my decisions.

New comment by crazysmoove in "Java Is Still Free"

crazysmoove — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:49:52 +0000

Or it could just be a problem with people over-complicating things. User bradleyjg does a great job of summarizing the scheme in the post just above yours -- it's amazing how much virtual ink has gone into discussing this when things really are that simple.

New comment by crazysmoove in "The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web (2005)"

crazysmoove — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:29:59 +0000

Also good: Practical Typography (https://practicaltypography.com/) by Matthew Butterick

New comment by crazysmoove in "Ask HN: What happened to the semantic web?"

crazysmoove — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:09:31 +0000

Sorry, that should be "RDF-A," not "RFD-A."

New comment by crazysmoove in "Ask HN: What happened to the semantic web?"

crazysmoove — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:25:29 +0000

One of the big things to come out of the semantic web was RFD-A (embedding semantics in unstructured web pages) and similar technologies (microformats, JSON-LD, schema.org). It's what lets Google show product reviews and rankings in search results, and lets shopping aggregator sites show things like price comparisons from other websites. While it's probably not as widespread as its boosters from a decade ago hoped it would be, it did lead to some helpful technologies that are in widespread use now.

I wonder if Facebook won't someday be forced to publish its social graph data in FOAF format the same way Microsoft was forced to publish its Office document specs as part of an anti-trust decision.

Speaking of Facebook, the OpenGraph tags are another example of widely-used semantic data on the web, maybe the most widely-used, since all kinds of sites pull in page summaries, images, and other data from those tags. So while Facebook doesn't make social network data available, it did popularize a format for sharing other types of data (about companies, articles, websites, etc.).

New comment by crazysmoove in "Improved Docker Container Integration with Java 10"

crazysmoove — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:53:00 +0000

No. Java's "write once, run anywhere" promise is that you would not have to re-compile your source code to target different architectures like you do with C or C++. Docker's promise is that you don't have to rely on external things like databases, filesystem details, and other things _outside your program_ being in place across environments. Same idea, different levels of abstraction.