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by crux 18y ago
While Apple's app approval process has been well-established as opaque and cruelly arbitrary, no one can be surprised that this app, of all apps, should have taken a long time to review. Almost by definition it steps on an awful lot of toes
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by crux 18y ago
The—what is it that Merlin Mann calls him, the Webcock?—is quickly mutating on our internet. No longer is he simply knocking on the doors of the internet, asking for 30 seconds of your time. Now he does this. He writes a long, mildly contro
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by crux 18y ago
Look at shovebox. It's too simple for me to use exclusively -- it lacks many of the archive/organization/retrieval features that my app of choice, EagleFiler, boasts - but it's got the quickest input I know.
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by crux 18y ago
It ssems a little mad to use the New Yorker font, or a font that is so strongly reminiscent of the New Yorker.
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by crux 18y ago
Yeah, as I had mentioned above that's my best lead right now. It's true that if you make a new one, you can just drop your text in and lock it up after the fact. unfortunately if you want to use it more than once you're back to the problem
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by crux 18y ago
That's certainly an option. That renders it roughly equivalent to grabbing a jottit.com subdomain, keeping it open. Quite convenient---but of course being totally open in both directions is its own restriction.
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Ask HN: An instant personalized info dump for the web.
3 points by crux 18y ago|5 comments
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by crux 18y ago
I won't address the rest of your post, but you're misreading his quote about neo-Epicurianism. He's not arguing that there's no empirical basis for evolution, but rather that there's no empirical basis for the _ethical_ component, neo-Epicu
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by crux 18y ago
I kind of get rubbed the wrong way when a site is little more than a wordpress install with a custom theme, but one which includes no 'built with Wordpress' (or Chyrp, or whatever…) tag. Not that it's not legit to build a site with Wordpres
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by crux 18y ago
He's definitely not an experienced user, at least not with Linux or the command-line. He just has a lot of experience with computers. My point was that this isn't a grandma situation: 'Ok, so this is called a FILE. Your website is made up o
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Ask HN: UNIX / Command Line tutorial for non-dummies
14 points by crux 18y ago|15 comments
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by crux 18y ago
I did; I drew inspiration from a very wide variety of historical scripts. I am actually documenting the whole thing, but it grows too fast for me to get it all into the computer. Some day I'll publish it, though. I recommend you should chec
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by crux 18y ago
My handwriting was always pretty bad and erratic; no doubt because I spent most of my time at a keyboard. But a couple years ago I decided to basically engineer myself a style of handwriting, first designing an alphabet, then training mysel
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Ask HN: What do the enlightened use when the rest of us use Excel?
4 points by crux 18y ago|6 comments
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by crux 18y ago
Incidentally, there's another huge vote for Markdown from this corner---for me it kind of takes posterous from the toy column to the essential column. Which is not meant as a slight to posterous; I think it's the most elegant blogging syste
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by crux 18y ago
At text size it looks more like BADGER TRIUMPHANT.
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by crux 18y ago
limechat. ruby, gratis. not bad.
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by crux 18y ago
vimperator means that as much as i love webkit, i'll never leave firefox's insane quasi-native interface.