accordionclown

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by accordionclown 10y ago
i'm not outraged. i'm not even affected by it, except in the most tangential way. i would describe myself as "perplexed". by the change itself (although maybe it's to protect themselves against black-hat hackers, fo
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by accordionclown 10y ago
and not only did it used to be free, but when they took it away, they refused to give people an option to pay for it. they really botched an opportunity to get people to upgrade. further, they hurt their integrity in the process, and their
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by accordionclown 10y ago
is there a javascript version of kramdown? by the way, i don't know how they compare with each other, but the speed of commonmark.js is blazing fast these days.
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by accordionclown 10y ago
rich people aren't stupid. they see a revolution coming too. that's why they're installing fascist governments worldwide. so i think a violent revolution would be a very bad idea. i think a non-violent evolution (no-r) is sma
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by accordionclown 10y ago
i'm deeply offended by an attitude that leads to word-choices such as "useless" and "bums" and "superfluous" in regard to human beings who simply do not have jobs. are people really "useless" if
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by accordionclown 10y ago
mac -- 10.9.5 -- safari -- 9.1.3
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by accordionclown 10y ago
example doesn't work. needs to be: https://matteobrusa.github.io/md-styler/?url=http://matteobr...
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by accordionclown 10y ago
neocities does seem particularly good for your use-case. your students could keep their site after the class.
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by accordionclown 10y ago
updog.co publishes files from both google drive and dropbox. and htmldrop.com publishes files from dropbox.
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by accordionclown 10y ago
i had a glitch when i tried it (it was my mistake) and they helped me sort it out. very worthwhile and friendly.
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by accordionclown 10y ago
except gruber didn't "invent" it. he took the idea from dean allen, who developed "textile" in 2002 as "a humane web text generator". textile was used in movable type, the blogging software that gruber sta
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by accordionclown 10y ago
compared to all the other things your cpu is doing, and all the time your cpu sits there doing nothing, the "waste" in this case pales to total unimportance. you've got a supercomputer; you might as well use it.
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by accordionclown 10y ago
i think a fairly good benchmark is that those entities which _require_ ms-word will be the ones that tend to disappear over the course of the next 5-10 years.
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by accordionclown 10y ago
nvalt will not be updated, no, but continues to work fine. meanwhile, its authors are coding a new commercial version. > http://brettterpstra.com/2015/09/14/an-nvalt-and-more-status...
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by accordionclown 10y ago
i have an entry: zen markup language (z.m.l.) > https://medium.com/the-bower/beyond-markdown-part-1-23006656... built specifically to handle the features of books, as identified by using the project gutenberg corp
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Great barrier reef could be beyond repair within 5 years(abc.net.au)
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Bee loss worsens as 44 percent of colonies disappear last year(theverge.com)
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by accordionclown 10y ago
thanks. i _was_ taking my own advice when i wrote my comment. (in a nutshell, act positively, interpret generously, and phrase ambiguously, to see how your colleagues react to it.) i appreciate your constructive comment.
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by accordionclown 10y ago
i appreciate that you realized the comment was constructive, even if it was phrased (intentionally) in an ambiguous way, because it was still a bug-report, nevertheless. in an age when people far too often leap to the wrong interpretation,
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by accordionclown 10y ago
if i wrote an article on web-based editors, and my footnotes didn't work (because they were tagged with "name" instead of "id"), i'd be embarrassed. but maybe that's just me.
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by accordionclown 11y ago
this is an important article for everyone to read.
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by accordionclown 11y ago
i don't think atlas is available to the public any more.
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by accordionclown 11y ago
actually, i have in mind "chunking" like this: a chapter-header should not appear in the middle, or at the bottom, of the viewport. initial text after a chapter-header should appear in the same viewport as tha
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by accordionclown 11y ago
> There should be no need to click a button to advance it's not as if a user doesn't need to do any manipulation of any kind in order to scroll. with that being the case, i don't see how clicking a button to "turn
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by accordionclown 11y ago
markdown can indeed work "good enough" for books. assuming you're using one of the extended flavors. but once it comes to the repurposing of your text, switching to another flavor (for many good reasons) will cause _many_ und
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by accordionclown 11y ago
this is an astute comment. (because marssaxman.) but the problems arise because different markdown flavors recognize different types of "common understanding of the patterns people like to use", so misunderstanding happens.
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by accordionclown 11y ago
related: > https://medium.com/the-bower/lets-please-use-hashtag-terms-t...
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by accordionclown 11y ago
awesome. i often shoot pictures of the sky, a forest canopy, or other natural phenomenon, to get this kind of gradient. but this is even better, in many ways. one suggestion is to feather the edges into each other, a la the "seamless&