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by bowerbird 13y ago
personally, i was quite offended by the campaign for the new d.v.d. coming out for "the fast and furious", which promises to donate "a portion of the proceeds", _if_ you buy it, to the charity founded by paul walker. tha
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by bowerbird 13y ago
i don't wanna have to check everything i use to see if it has any browser incompatibilities this week... and i certainly don't want to do the work of figuring how to sidestep incompatibilities that _are_ present. even if the dista
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by bowerbird 13y ago
> 37kb is way over 10% of my ideal page load i'd say 87% of the pages on the web have graphics whose importance is sketchy, and whose total size dwarfs 37k. and since i almost always do _something_ which has been found to show cro
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by bowerbird 13y ago
i still haven't recovered the power which the command-prompt gave me 3 decades ago. but i've become a very good button-pusher. -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 13y ago
"most versatile...", i mutter to myself... "when will these kids learn to avoid the superlative?" "oh shit, how did this kid get inside my head?" "oh, i see: this ain't a kid; it's a canadian.&qu
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by bowerbird 13y ago
by the time y'all realize how serious it is, it's definitely going to be _way_ too late... and when awareness hits like a ton of bricks? humans don't act or think too well in a panic. -bowerbird
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The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear(nytimes.com)
111 points by bowerbird 13y ago|61 comments
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by bowerbird 13y ago
here's some chilling evidence: > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the... we've only known about this migration spot since 1975, but even in that evolutionarily-brie
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by bowerbird 13y ago
if something really _does_ "look like a pile of shit", then it's not "criticism" to say it; it's just the honest truth. "looks like a pile of shit" implies "make it look better" as the &quot
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by bowerbird 13y ago
that's my prediction. 10-20 years. so yes, i'm saying that almost everyone, including even "experts in the field", has drastically underestimated both problem severity and shortness of the time-frame. and extinction is
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by bowerbird 13y ago
you have definitely asked the right question. all my thoughts boil the answer down around three problem areas: 1. violence -- the willingness to hurt (or even kill) other humans and animals, up to and including poisoning the planet 2. greed
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by bowerbird 13y ago
subtitle: (or perhaps just a loved but irritating old uncle) -bowerbird
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Markdown considered harmful(medium.com)
2 points by bowerbird 13y ago|1 comments
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by bowerbird 13y ago
some of my tests, including even stuff such as gruber's own pages about markdown, didn't work. so you'll need to make this thing more robust. but the example that did work looked very nice, so you are definitely on the right
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by bowerbird 13y ago
my earlier comment was for another post! but i had this open because it looks interesting. so i'd second the suggestion for a demo site. -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 13y ago
they knew someone who knew someone. -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 13y ago
thanks! it's been so long, i lost my excitement. ;+) here's my kickstarter, one jump-off point: > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bowerbird/jaguar-cub-a-s... got a working web-app there, as a
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by bowerbird 13y ago
it is possible to do it. without performance problems. markdown has several such solutions, online and off. the offline apps are typically mac, the leaders being "marked" (marked2.com) which works with any text-editor, and "m
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by bowerbird 13y ago
i have read literally hundreds of threads discussing this general issue over the years, and i can say that this comment right here has come as close to the heart of the problem as any other one i've read in that time. congratulations,
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by bowerbird 13y ago
good job. i'm guessing some people would appreciate having directions for how they could put this on a shared-hosting i.s.p. account, like hostmonster, dreamhost, etc. -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 13y ago
i left the appended message over at that stackexchange site, and it was _deleted_. seems they are actively hostile to people answering questions over there, which seems strange from a site for answering questions. -bowerbird ===============
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by bowerbird 13y ago
i can write that in 3 lines. time to refactor. -bowerbird
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Show hn: version-tracking the gettysburg address(zenmagiclove.com)
2 points by bowerbird 13y ago|0 comments
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by bowerbird 13y ago
i agree the word is over-used. at the same time, things _are_ getting more awesome lately, at least in my humble opinion. i had been waiting for a machine similar to an ipad for _decades_. and i mean that quite literally. (and i know what &
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by bowerbird 13y ago
the best advice anyone can give you is to do what gives _you_ the most enjoyment, because that's what's going to keep you plugging away, day after day after day… -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 13y ago
a good many authors are _artists_, damn it... please stop trying to make them businessmen! "it doesn't work, and it annoys the pig." -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 13y ago
ack! what are all these people doing in my margins! off with your heads! get out of here! shoo! ;+) hello henrik. congratulations. -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 13y ago
so after 100 hours of work, you think that your advice will be worth $100 an hour? whatever happened with that 10,000 hours thing? inflation? -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 13y ago
poets feel that way about things described as "poetic". we get no respect, yet everyone wants to be _like_us._ :+) -bowerbird
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Jaguar: light-markup system for long-form documents(zenmagiclove.com)
1 points by bowerbird 13y ago|0 comments

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