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by dflock 10y ago
The core team all use Macs, maybe? Anyway - there's an automated, maintained APT mirror/repo here: https://github.com/alanfranz/atom-text-editor-repository/blo...
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by dflock 10y ago
Of course - that's the most obvious thing in the world. Getting traction against an entrenched workflow component - a people problem - is, almost universally, very very hard. The technical problem - writing your new tool - is trivial b
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by dflock 10y ago
It's a tool for everyone in the writing-editing-publishing pipeline. They could all use the same tool, working on the same document & document format, throughout the process. This will remove a huge amount of reformatting/conv
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by dflock 10y ago
In a world with "designer babies", the rich don't just get richer, they get smarter, stronger, more attractive and start to live longer. The poor can't afford this, so fall further and further behind, perhaps eventually
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by dflock 10y ago
I don't see anything about Documentation in there? I would really like something better than Confluence woven throughout. Is there something that I'm missing?
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by dflock 10y ago
Sure, causing your expensive crispr yeast to die out, while having no effect on wild yeast?
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by dflock 10y ago
http://beta.nhs.uk - not rolled out yet.
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by dflock 10y ago
> At the time, the jailbreak opened up every Kindle with a 5.6.5 firmware release.
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by dflock 10y ago
You are failing to consider the costs of switching from one service to another - people will put up with quite a lot to avoid inconvenience - as well as network effects: there's no point switching messaging platforms if all your contac
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by dflock 10y ago
Different pollen, which your immune system had never seen before.
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by dflock 10y ago
Markdown has nothing to do with typography. What the output looks like is, deliberately, a completely separate concern. In the case of using markdown for generating web based presentations, your CSS would be responsible for the styling - ju
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by dflock 10y ago
Because a summary is very useful. Imagine you are reading about 5 years of day-in-day-out work by a team of 1500 physicists (eg. CERN, LHC, etc...). Would you rather read the entire as-it-happened stream of research, going back 7500 person-
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by dflock 10y ago
For exactly the same reasons it is everywhere in the world: because there isn't enough funding to go around - and the grant application process is explicitly designed to be competitive.
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by dflock 10y ago
You can generally solve this by just sharing folders between the host & the vagrant box for the code and the dependencies - point your IDE at those.
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by dflock 10y ago
Hi Alan, You've said here a few times here that maybe "data" (in quotes), is a bad idea. Clearly data itself isn't a bad idea, it's just data. What do you mean by the quotes? That the way we think about data in prog
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by dflock 10y ago
There's a chrome extension called 'the great suspender' that does exactly that.
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by dflock 10y ago
Here you go: http://commonmark.org/
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by dflock 10y ago
Could you guys stop doing new features and write some unit tests for core modules please? So many regressions.
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by dflock 10y ago
> The idea of creating a company that makes executive decisions by direct democracy is untested and may simply be nonviable. This isn't true - it been tested and runs successfully at scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by dflock 10y ago
I think this project would get a lot more love if it was presented as a modular "tricorder", rather than a modular phone. I imagine that there's a pretty interesting collection of niche markets for a capable, connected mobile
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by dflock 10y ago
This was done deliberately after lots of user uproar - it used to auto select the contents of the URL bar AND set the primary selection. This meant that anytime you did anything with the URL bar, it would wipe your primary selection, wh
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by dflock 10y ago
Unfortunately, this ideological salami slicing doesn't magically stop when only the parts you care about are left.
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by dflock 11y ago
It's mongodb and nodejs, so yes.
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by dflock 11y ago
Inside a brown paper package or envelope, unlike a postcard.
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by dflock 11y ago
If you'd like to know what you can do about this personally, here's some solid ideas from Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
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by dflock 11y ago
Do you have $7.50 per month? Just do a thousand a month.
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by dflock 11y ago
Hopefully, poliomyelitis.
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by dflock 11y ago
The gitskarios app is a good alternative.
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by dflock 11y ago
And if they could hamper the CIA/NSA, even a little bit, they wouldn't bother?
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by dflock 11y ago
I don't know their motivation, but if I wanted to effect real change to the surveillance state in the USA, I would want the Israeli political lobby on my side in Washington.

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