"Paragraph justification is based primarily on shrinking or stretching the interword blanks. While the blanks on a line are all scaled by the same amout, the amount in question varies from line to line. The quality of a paragraph's typographic color largely depends on the aforementioned variation being as small as possible. Yet, TEX'S paragraph justification algorithm addresses this problem in a rather coarse fashion. In this paper, we propose a refinement to the algorithm allowing to improve the situation without disturbing the general behavior of the algorithm too much, and without the need for manual intervention. We analyze the impact of our refinement on a large number of experiments through several statistical estimators. We also exhibit a number of typographical traits relatedto whitespace distribution that we believe may contribute to our perception of homogeneousness."
Exactly. This is the exact stack I envision to be the future in that space. The work of Scott Logic is awesome (and the company looks really nice as well! People and values)
Unpopular opinion given all the craze around Elixir these days. I find the syntax extremely verbose and hard to read compared to e.g. Python. I was told great things about it by engineers I really respect. But each time I start reading Elixir code bases to get a good look at what an actual Elixir project looks like, I find the code hard to read and understand. Is it just me?
i'm the same. i don't understand why some fellow programmers need multiple monitors: one is already plenty enough for me. (i'm using a tiling window manager, switching back and forth between different workspaces, having another monitor would require moving my head while i can instantly switch to another workspace from my fingertips)
i live in Paris (born there) and travel almost exclusively by bike, sometimes 15km to cross the entire town. i can testify that this headline is utterly exaggerated: the situation is really fine here. yeah there are many cyclists but we're doing good.
in my experience, technical details have been figured out on a whiteboard before, and then it can happen that a PR is just going to be LGTM and merge. not all conversations happen on a PR system. people talk IRL too
interested to hear what other hners think about this. anybody did this for interviewing before? i myself had a beer with my phd supervisor as our first meeting, not sure this really help knowing whether we'd get along because turns out we didn't
"Paragraph justification is based primarily on shrinking or stretching the interword blanks. While the blanks on a line are all scaled by the same amout, the amount in question varies from line to line. The quality of a paragraph's typographic color largely depends on the aforementioned variation being as small as possible. Yet, TEX'S paragraph justification algorithm addresses this problem in a rather coarse fashion. In this paper, we propose a refinement to the algorithm allowing to improve the situation without disturbing the general behavior of the algorithm too much, and without the need for manual intervention. We analyze the impact of our refinement on a large number of experiments through several statistical estimators. We also exhibit a number of typographical traits relatedto whitespace distribution that we believe may contribute to our perception of homogeneousness."