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OK, I was able to clean it up into plain text and post it to Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/vcEe9KWP http://pastebin.com/vcEe9KWP Used the $$ selector in Chrome

OK, I was able to clean it up into plain text and post it to Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/vcEe9KWP http://pastebin.com/vcEe9KWP Used the $$ selector in Chrome to find Scribd's .ff0 elements, copied them into SublimeText, did some regex work to clean out the tags (a span element for every line? with absolute positioning? Really Scribd?), and then exploited the fact that paragraphs got jammed together with no whitespace between the last punctuation and the beginning of the next paragraph to use a regex to auto-break the paragraphs. Not pretty, but should be readable.

suraj_sindhia 10y ago
Thank you very much.
TaylorAlexander 10y ago
I wish somebody had created some kind of universal markup language for text, that would let us easily share it...
- jasonsync 10y ago
  There must be a framework for that ...
  - aalbertson 10y ago
    Need a new standard...
wonkaWonka 10y ago
Oh, so much better. Thank you jesus! In other communities, to circumvent asinine ploys at lock-in, someone would just brute force the pdf file with a burner facebook login, and repost it. But then, you'd still be stuck with a pdf.
techmicrobiz 10y ago
Thanks for this. Plain text is so much easier!
kragen 10y ago
Your work is awesome. Thank you so much. Here, I pasted it into a gist so that it's not in a typewriter font. I thought it would also fix the lines being 25 words long but it didn't, but it's still an improvement: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3ea317a1f71bbfeca6df5d84693b2666 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3ea317a1f71bbfeca6df5d8469...
jbpetersen 10y ago
Some prettiness to go with what you already accomplished: https://cdn.rawgit.com/JeffreyBPetersen/5a3198c940ccca39ff6311f7d00918d6/raw/f73dd72926a8c123ad0682fa546fbcbcbb748e31/transcript.html https://cdn.rawgit.com/JeffreyBPetersen/5a3198c940ccca39ff63... Unfortunately the transcript is missing past a point. I haven't checked to see if that's the case in the original document. edit - Looks like I should've refreshed the thread first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12514873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12514873
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suraj_sindhia 10y ago

Thank you very much.

TaylorAlexander 10y ago

I wish somebody had created some kind of universal markup language for text, that would let us easily share it...

jasonsync 10y ago
There must be a framework for that ...
- aalbertson 10y ago
  Need a new standard...

wonkaWonka 10y ago

Oh, so much better. Thank you jesus! In other communities, to circumvent asinine ploys at lock-in, someone would just brute force the pdf file with a burner facebook login, and repost it. But then, you'd still be stuck with a pdf.

techmicrobiz 10y ago

Thanks for this. Plain text is so much easier!

kragen 10y ago

Your work is awesome. Thank you so much. Here, I pasted it into a gist so that it's not in a typewriter font. I thought it would also fix the lines being 25 words long but it didn't, but it's still an improvement: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3ea317a1f71bbfeca6df5d84693b2666 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3ea317a1f71bbfeca6df5d8469...

jbpetersen 10y ago

Some prettiness to go with what you already accomplished: https://cdn.rawgit.com/JeffreyBPetersen/5a3198c940ccca39ff6311f7d00918d6/raw/f73dd72926a8c123ad0682fa546fbcbcbb748e31/transcript.html https://cdn.rawgit.com/JeffreyBPetersen/5a3198c940ccca39ff63... Unfortunately the transcript is missing past a point. I haven't checked to see if that's the case in the original document. edit - Looks like I should've refreshed the thread first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12514873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12514873

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