bruceboughton

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   by bruceboughton 17y ago

   This article makes a big assumption that the tablet will be closely related to the iPhone, sharing the same OS, for example, and being compatible with iPhone apps. This seems to go against prevailing opinion (see Gruber, for example).
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   by bruceboughton 17y ago

   I'm not sure why you think escaping is an obvious and suitable concept for a simple markup language like Markdown.
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   by bruceboughton 17y ago

   I think source control systems provide quite a good basis for writing a wiki. I once wrote one backed by Subversion (in C#), using properties for metadata and a lucene store for searching. It could really have done with a web-based editor a
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   by bruceboughton 17y ago

   1. The dead link problem is that Google, for example, can't control whether a bit.ly link will work but they can ensure maps.google.com links will always work if they want to. And they have a bigger incentive to ensure this than bit.ly do (