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by crux 16y ago
Well, as a blog reader, I rather like the absence of bloggers' visual glory when I read my feeds. I'm interested in articles, not in someone else's design skills. Especially since, in most readers, I can set my own CSS preferences and thus
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by crux 16y ago
I'm afraid I don't get it :(.
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by crux 16y ago
I think this is a very worthwhile video to watch. Dawkins and Pinker (Dawkins in particular, of course) are part of a demimonde with something of a reputation for being uncompromising hardliners—no doubt because in their handling of theolog
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Pushnote - Comments for the web(pushnote.com)
2 points by crux 16y ago|3 comments
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by crux 16y ago
The spook that was given as an example in that text, James R. Lilley, sounded familiar to me. I looked him up and saw that his career continued well after the time of that article, being made ambassador by Reagan in '86. http://en.wikipedi
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by crux 16y ago
karjaluoto: I will happily read the rest of the chapters you've got up there, as I quite like your writing style. Though, as I said above, I do think that some of the overall conclusions you've drawn might end up finding lessons and princip
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by crux 16y ago
I agree. Marketing anecdotes are always fun to read, but it seems like nearly every marketing expert that comes through these pages is suffering from a serious case of post hoc, ergo propter hoc with a side effect of confirmation bias. The
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by crux 16y ago
The author of this critique, more than once, refers to specific Tolkien passages and mentions which specific historical styles or texts these are pastiche of. Why do you think he doesn't understand Tolkien's field of study?
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by crux 16y ago
I think the article somewhat belies some of the assumptions underpinning your comment. It's pretty clear that Tolkien was not being terribly _original_ in creating his universe; his style was quite directly a pastiche of historical styles n
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by crux 16y ago
And yet anybody who has spent any time learning about or working with Linux understands how fundamentally important the GNU tools are. If, a long time ago, he had been more gracious and not essentially made a joke out of the fact that the O
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Rouse - A new OSS browser for OS X based on Omniweb(waffle.wootest.net)
9 points by crux 16y ago|0 comments
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Notapipe.net: a realtime, collaborative text editor(notapipe.net)
2 points by crux 17y ago|0 comments
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by crux 17y ago
What's with this constant invoking of the 'faithful'? I work at a place that sells the iPad and I've had a lot of people ask me about it. The people who are buying the iPad aren't exactly fanboys, who have been slavering over anything that
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by crux 17y ago
2) Yes, definitely. 3) I'll start keeping track of what does and doesn't work.
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by crux 17y ago
I have been using DDG as my primary search engine at home for several months and I've been happy with it. The !commands are of little utility to me, since my browser supports search keywords and I use them extensively. There's a couple area
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by crux 17y ago
Yes. The entire appeal of the iPad isn't, 'This can do a great many of the things that my computer can already do!' it's, 'This makes it so much more pleasant to do [X] than it is on a computer!' So every new feature that we see demonstrate
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by crux 17y ago
Why would Fox think that Beck was more trouble than he was worth if they didn't lose any money on the deal? By your suggestion he'd actually be no trouble at all.
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by crux 17y ago
This sounds awfully interesting but the wikipedia article itself is a mixture of poorly written, obscurely written, and unwritten. Is there an article that lays it out a little more humanely?
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by crux 17y ago
I had actually assumed they were doing it with their children. And wondered how long until they were investigated for child abuse.
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Eddie, a programmer's editor for MacOSX and Gnome Linux(el34.com)
1 points by crux 17y ago|0 comments
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by crux 17y ago
Any testimonials from anyone who's played around with it?
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by crux 17y ago
It also bears mentioning that both Scrivener and Ulysses have their own pretty powerful LaTeX export functions, though I haven't thoroughly used either one.
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by crux 17y ago
Well, Markdown is a script for converting into HTML, which is far beyond the abilities of Ulysses. But Ulysses does have both inline and paragraph styling, so it would be trivial to replicate Markdown's functionality like italics, strong, h
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by crux 17y ago
I don't know of any such vim mode but I'd be very interested to hear about it. The closest I have is a script that turns on things like wrap-by-word and scroll-by-visual-line (given that in prose, what vim thinks of as lines, we think of as
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by crux 17y ago
I'm not sure I fully understand, but if by 'not a data silo' you mean you're ok with having an application to view these things, but prefer that they be stored as real files, rather than a flat database, I strongly recommend EagleFiler. No
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by crux 17y ago
I don't know what a composition editor is. But an information manager is, generally, one of the wide range of applications that take unstructured, file-like data and provide an application interface to them. What that entails varies, but th
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by crux 17y ago
I can tell you why I like it. There's an app that's been repped for here called Scrivener, and like Scrivener (it predates Scr., actually), Ulysses is an application that is supposed to make writing large amounts of text more sane than stan
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Ulysses: a structured/semantic document editor for OS X(the-soulmen.com)
36 points by crux 17y ago|26 comments
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by crux 17y ago
Simply, because the right to speak freely is far more precious than the right not to hear untruth.
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by crux 17y ago
According to many who worked on that movie, the story told here about Stone's refusal of huge sums for _Rocky_ and insistence that he be the star is a "near-total fabrication": http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2006/12/20/rocky-story-reveale..

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