gluejar

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NaNoGenMo 2014: A procedurally generated mysterious codex(blog.safaribooksonline.com)
11 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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Hypothes.is Launches(hypothes.is)
3 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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Open letter to Stephen Colbert on citing blogs in amicus briefs [pdf](librarycopyrightalliance.org)
1 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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Eric Betzig and Harald Hess: Developing PALM Microscopy (2011)(youtube.com)
3 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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Adobe Responds to Reports of Their Spying, Offers Half Truths(the-digital-reader.com)
1 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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Online Bookstores to Face Stringent Privacy Law in New Jersey(go-to-hellman.blogspot.com)
1 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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Comcast Wi-Fi serving self-promotional ads via JavaScript injection(arstechnica.com)
14 points by gluejar 12y ago|1 comments
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by gluejar 12y ago
Based on the "publicatations" on your web site, you should spend less time on covers and more on spell checking. (Sorry, I hope that's not too mean.)
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The Textbook Manifesto (2010)(greenteapress.com)
2 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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Generative eBook Covers(nypl.org)
160 points by gluejar 12y ago|29 comments
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by gluejar 12y ago
here's the story of that: http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-dmca-takedown-...
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by gluejar 12y ago
Funny thing was, about a year behind Seth, I thought up "Project Gitenhub" made a few repos, found GITenberg, and decided to direct my meager efforts in that direction. For sure the pun was a huge motivator!
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by gluejar 12y ago
I discussed this with one of the Git maintainers; it seems that the main work needed is a modification of the way text is chunked (into lines), and this chunking is already suitable factored.
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by gluejar 12y ago
One obvious need is for a build system that makes ebook files out of the git-managed source. And what should our source be, anyway?
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by gluejar 12y ago
Gitenberg and DP are quite different in their objectives. DP was created primarily to clean up OCR- text only. Modern ebooks have a whole 'nother dimension to presentation. fonts, graphics, reflowable layout, footnotes, links, indices,
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by gluejar 12y ago
When the concept of "subtleism" (note the spelling) was explained to me by one of the Hacker School founders, I thought it was brilliant. Precisely because it transformed a "shaming ritual" into an olive branch. The idea
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One Human Brain = 8 Global Internets (Total Data Rate)(go-to-hellman.blogspot.com)
2 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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Spending the Stephen King Money(stephenkingmoney.tumblr.com)
2 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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The Future of the Book is Unfinished(go-to-hellman.blogspot.com)
31 points by gluejar 12y ago|5 comments
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Storage Will Be Much Less Free Than It Used To Be(blog.dshr.org)
2 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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Commander Hadfield's Cover Of Space Oddity Disappears Today, Thanks To Copyright(techdirt.com)
14 points by gluejar 12y ago|2 comments
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Aspen doesn't want you to own your own casebooks(laboratorium.net)
3 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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Beer and Startups: The Alcohol Culture of the Tech World(thisisgoingtobebig.com)
5 points by gluejar 12y ago|0 comments
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On the right to link(dp.la)
1 points by gluejar 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you prove you're Not someone?
2 points by gluejar 13y ago|0 comments
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DMCA Being Used To Make Feynman Lectures On Physics Less Accessible(techdirt.com)
6 points by gluejar 13y ago|0 comments
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DMCA Takedown of a Feynman Lectures eBook Converter(go-to-hellman.blogspot.com)
2 points by gluejar 13y ago|0 comments
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Free Books, Why Not? (2005)(greenteapress.com)
1 points by gluejar 13y ago|0 comments
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Crowd-Frauding: Why the Internet is Fake(go-to-hellman.blogspot.com)
2 points by gluejar 13y ago|0 comments
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by gluejar 13y ago
Clearly, we need a "Hacker News is Down" Gist so we can chat about Hacker News being down when it goes down.

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