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Great achievement, congratulations!

This reminds me of flying saucer, a CSS render written in pure Java. Successfully used it in multiple projects for rendering PDFs in the past. It has some great features to handle paged media. For example, it can repeat table headers on a new page, if there is a page-break within the table.

Unfortunately, it seems that it doesn't get much active development anymore.

https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer

Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:39AM (#25516014)
I highly recommend the map material and renderthemes from openandromaps.(https://www.openandromaps.org/en)

They are great for cycling and hiking. Setup is a bit more involved compared to maps.me, because you need a separate maps viewer app. Overall nothing too complicated for a somewhat tech savvy audience though.

My mapping app of choice is locus maps. There are alternatives such as OruxMaps available too.

That's a very good point. However I think we need a replacement for some core components in play services at least.

For example it just makes a lot of sense from a technical point of view that multiple apps share the same connection for push notifications.

Ask HN: What does an alternative to Play Store/Services need to be successful?

In the light of recent EU rulings and Google announcing that it would charge up to 40 € for the Google apps including Play Store for devices sold to Europe I was wondering what an alternative to Play Store / play services would need to be successful.The ultimate goal is an alternative system that device makers would pre-install on devices sold to Europe.Some random points on my mind to get...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with seasonal affective disorder? on Saturday October 20, 2018 @07:29AM (#18262768)
Moving for one or two month to a warmer / more sunny location helps a lot. Doesn't have to be the whole winter to have a very positive effect for me.

Usually living in Austria, spending some time in Winter on the Canary Islands.

Re:Ask HN: My school needs a data storage solution on Sunday September 13, 2015 @04:20AM (#10210694)
I asume you are managing classical adminstrative data like student records and so on. For this case I advise a relational database like postgres.
Re:PostgreSQL Magic on Friday September 11, 2015 @07:09AM (#10203021)
If you ever manage to have multiple transactions in one statement please email me.