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by cben 11y ago
There are some sweet extensions for Atom + pandoc, notably https://atom.io/packages/preview-inline and https://atom.io/packages/markdown-preview-plus (convert with pandoc, fast & smooth previe
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by cben 11y ago
I'm also a believer in in-place formatting rather than 2-pane. Ever since i saw it in [Qute][] (no longer developed), and emacs auctex preview-mode (TiddlyWiki also deserves some credit). Editorially did this well and was well-recieve
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by cben 11y ago
Have you seen http://zim-wiki.org/ ?
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http://hallojs.org/demo/markdown/ http://sofish.github.io/pen/ https://github.com/bevacqua/woofmark http://prosemirror.net/demo_markdown.html Haven&#x27
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Exactly. There are lots of situations where it's worth trading up some polish for simpler tools and formats. Especially simpler formats. There is lots of prior art extracting diagrams from textual drawing but AFAIK all required globa
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by cben 11y ago
Reported the clear bugs (#63, #64). not sure if the list content model is bug or intentional, though allowing the first line of an item to be a single quote or code block + the freedom inside a quote does make it questionable IMHO... (cf
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by cben 11y ago
My litmus test for WYSIWYG lists — which Trix fails — is 1. start a numbered list 2. put several paragraphs... > including some nested block element e.g. quote ... inside one list item 3. Then continue the numbered
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by cben 11y ago
I've worked on the autocomplete team. It was always primarily a way to shave off some measurable time for users, making searches easier and faster — obviously a direct interest of Google. (There is also a serendipity aspiration — occa
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by cben 11y ago
I don't think that was a reason for scientists to use windows. It maybe allowed those used to windows to keep using it. Or maybe you only mean it was reason to choose Windows over Mac? Because on Linux, installing python with lib
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Node.js is also single thread and has been doing fine on servers. Do you really need to share mutable state between threads in your server? If yes, what's your story when you'll need to scale to multiple servers? If not because y
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by cben 11y ago
I've been thinking about a much simpler setup for a bash notebook — create a docker layer after every command. Works for a shell since there are no active processes between commands. (Get's complicated if you want to run backgrou
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by cben 11y ago
Do you mean for review, or even when they've accepted and ask for a camera-ready version? I always assumed all publishers need the source so they can do the small tweaks they do. [OTOH, I've seen claims many publishers already ha
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by cben 11y ago
What about non-broken CSV? Is there an easy way to tell awk to skip escaped or quoted delimeters?
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by cben 11y ago
I find it hard to look at their windows UI and think "native". I'm wrong, as it was explicitly designed in windows 8's "Metro" style in mind [ https://github.com/blog/1151-designing-github-f
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by cben 11y ago
My immediate thought was "here is the real Doc Brown (from BTTF)". Well, the hair is obvious, but it's really the enthusiasm and "come Marty, let me show you this robot I built to make breakfast!" vibe. It's
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by cben 11y ago
Edit: forgot to say I'm also willing to pay for it.
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There already kinda is TLS on github.io but it's only user<->CDN, CDN<->Github is unencrypted. [ https://konklone.com/post/github-pages-now-sorta-supports-ht... ] And it doesn't work on custom domai
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by cben 11y ago
Whoa, that was a good read! Thanks, going to buy some books by Stross :-) [when I said "reminds me of Traveling Salesman (2012)" I just meant examining the consequences if P=NP; that was before I followed your link and was remind
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by cben 11y ago
Reminds me of Traveling Salesman (2012) [1], also set in P = NP and discussing the ethics of selling the algorithm to the government. (Literally discussing, it's a low-budget 4-men-in-a-room movie). I can't say the whole film is
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by cben 11y ago
Hmm, that doens't sound bad. I don't remember (nor fully understood) why it was that complicated at google. At a wild guess it's ultimately connected to google's choice to keep all company code in a single humongous rep
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by cben 12y ago
REM We'll need a loop. 10 FOR i = 1 TO 64 90 NEXT REM What should we do inside? 50 PRINT "Hello", i, "worlds." REM nah, too many iterations. 10 FOR i = 1 TO 16
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by cben 12y ago
When I worked in Google a couple years ago, they were using Perforce and branching was extremely hard (it was P4 with extensive internal tooling around/underneath it, no idea how representative it was of normal P4). It took me about
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by cben 12y ago
Does it matter much given HTTP compression?
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by cben 12y ago
Of the serious ones "Fiasco" made a deep impression on me. The alien contact mystery is not bad, but the main theme is certainly human behavior and decision making.
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by cben 12y ago
https://waytools.com/products/textblade/2/numbers-symbols It has Cmd (which I presume doubles as Ctrl for non-Apple?). It has physical Tab and ⌂ in the CapsLock position; the latter suspiciously is marked onl
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by cben 12y ago
I've worked on the google Suggest team, and "facebook login" is way up in the most popular searches. I _think_ it was even above "facebook" but I'm not sure. (There is a self-boosting effect: seeing both as s
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by cben 12y ago
In Chrome, bookmarking a site boosts it nicely in the suggestions (that's almost the exclusive reason I bookmark nowdays, without caring to categorize). I've bookmarked HN so "ha"+down+enter is sufficient. But for most s
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by cben 12y ago
I'm considering a cookie instead of an X- header, to at least mimic the "U = turn it around" aspect by the browser sending it back next time...
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by cben 12y ago
Can you give any pointers? It's plausible to claim patents do little harm because they can be worked around but saying they bring net benefit because the must be worked around feels bizarre.
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by cben 12y ago
fish does make scripting so much saner. - $array just does the right thing, which bash can only approximate as "${array[@]}". This alone is worth everything. - (command) splits the output on newlines. - Block syntax is simpler, w

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