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crazysmooveon Sergey Brin has a secret disaster relief charity

There are other governments, though.

crazysmooveon Show HN: A Code Generator in Eclipse

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?

crazysmooveon Should you post your content on Medium? No.

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crazysmooveon Really Small Java Apps

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

crazysmooveon We Can Do Better Than SQL

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

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crazysmooveon Show HN: Price comparison for attraction tickets, tours, and activties

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.

crazysmooveon Java Is Still Free

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.

crazysmooveon The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web (2005)

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

crazysmooveon Ask HN: What happened to the semantic web?

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

crazysmooveon Ask HN: What happened to the semantic web?

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.).

crazysmooveon Improved Docker Container Integration with Java 10

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.