flying-sheep

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by flying-sheep 4y ago
It’s a magazine. Many magazines have a readers’ letter section, an opinion column, a short story, … and in case of science magazines, the short stories are traditionally science fiction.
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by flying-sheep 4y ago
You say that as if the people running KF didn’t know what the site was for. And a publicly known reason for that website’s existence is because bullies need a place to coordinate harassment. Having the power to shut that place and therefore
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by flying-sheep 12y ago
is this 2004? D-Bus has been around for 9 years. it’s not an OS primitive (yet: kdbus), but why does it need to?
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by flying-sheep 12y ago
i’m usually reading usernames after reading the posts and voting, and i caught myself upvoting every single post of you and nothing else. you seem to do it right: most level-headed, most informative. thanks.
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by flying-sheep 13y ago
funny that you mention rST. i also talked about it here, and i said that its only syntactical flaw is inline link syntax, and how that’s only a problem if you don’t write a lengthy document with it, because in that case, you don’t want to
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by flying-sheep 13y ago
markdown is perfect for forum comments, but idiotic to extend too far. if you’re a programmer wanting to write a book in markdown, you’ll find yourself thinking of markdown syntax extensions more than thinking about the book. if you want ex
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by flying-sheep 13y ago
LuaTeX is exactly what you’re talking about. LuaLaTeX is a reimplementation of PDFLaTeX on that base. ConTeXt is a new syntax/concept based on LuaLaTeX (that doesn’t want to be compatible with LaTeX and its errors) --- That shell is un
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by flying-sheep 13y ago
Basically it boils down to what you want to do. If you know you’re replacing many parts of your page with data you have to load, use a framework like angular, backbone, ember, … If you visualize data, use d3. If you need to animate some UI