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Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

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How to compress PDF using ghostscript

As a developer, it bothers me when someone sends me a large pdf file compared to the number of pages. Recently, I recieved a 12MB scanned document for just one letter-sized page... so I got to googlin, like I usually do, and found ghostscript!

to learn more abot ghostscript (gs): https://www.ghostscript.com/

What we are interested in, is the gs command line tool, which provides many options for manipulating PDF, but we are interested in compressign those large PDF's into small yet legible documents.

credit goes to this answer on askubuntu forum: https://askubuntu.com/questions/3382/reduce-filesize-of-a-scanned-pdf/3387#3387?newreg=bceddef8bc334e5b88bbfd17a6e7c4f9

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
	Version 2, December 2004

	Copyright (C) 2011 Jed Schmidt <http://jed.is>

	Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
	copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
	as the name is changed.

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	DO WTF YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
	Version 2, December 2004

	Copyright (C) 2011 Alexey Silin <[email protected]>

	Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
	copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
	as the name is changed.

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	put card.xml in your drawables directory, put colors.xml in your values directory or add the colors to your colors.xml file.


	set the background of a view to card,
	as you can see in card.xml the drawable handles the card margin, so you don't have to add a margin to your view


	``` xml
	<View
	android:layout_width="fill_parent"

	#!/bin/bash

	sum_pages=0
	for file in *.pdf ; do
	cur_pages=$(pdfinfo $file \| awk '/Pages/{print $2}')
	echo "pdf: $file has $cur_pages pages."
	sum_pages=$(( sum_pages + cur_pages))
	done

	echo "All pdf files in this directory have $sum_pages pages."

	'use strict';

	const authentication = require('feathers-authentication');
	const jwt = require('feathers-authentication-jwt');
	const local = require('feathers-authentication-local');
	const oauth2 = require('feathers-authentication-oauth2');
	const GithubStrategy = require('passport-github');
	// Bring in the oauth-handler
	const makeHandler = require('./oauth-handler');

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048