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by jeff18 17y ago
Dude, if I were you, I'd drop everything I'm doing and try to push out a feature complete EtherPad replacement within the next few days. There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who used to use EtherPad and are now strande
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by jeff18 17y ago
That's awesome that you've found a niche for you product, but it seems to me that with a weeks worth of tweaking, you could be the next EtherPad.
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by jeff18 17y ago
Given that most text editors are free, $45 is relatively expensive. Especially when, until this afternoon, an arguably superior product was available at no cost in your web browser.
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by jeff18 17y ago
Well, I am the op, so let me elaborate. By default, Wave creates new "boxes" for everything, or lets you reply to other boxes. These boxes cannot be rearranged, only deleted, or have the contents changed. I don't give a crap about these bo
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by jeff18 17y ago
Wave is slightly similar in the technology depeartment but fundamentally different from EtherPad. :(
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by jeff18 17y ago
This is pretty epic -- the only problems are that it doesn't have an API to retrieve text from it or create a new pad. Also, it is not suitable for embedding. However, as a standalone editor this is the best alternative I've seen. UPDATE:
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by jeff18 17y ago
This looks like the most promising successor. Unfortunately it does not look like you can embed a collaborative pad or share it via a link. You need to register an account, go through Mozilla's website, and actually use the command line t
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by jeff18 17y ago
SubEthaEdit is awesome, and I bought a copy for ~$45 back in the day. However, because it is expensive and a Mac OS X only desktop application, I have only had opportunity to use it maybe once or twice. :(
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by jeff18 17y ago
I actually did a ton of research on this a few weeks ago to figure out which collaborative editor to embed in my blog, and I'm sorry to say, EtherPad is 100x better than the nearest competitor, which is probably Google Wave or Google Docs.
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Ask HN: alternatives to EtherPad?
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by jeff18 17y ago
"It's no different" Actually, it is. Google's DNS has no ads. Yours, by default, does. Also, FYI, Chrome and the Google toolbar have no ads. It sounds like you have your head in the sand, or are deliberately spreading FUD. I hope it's t
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by jeff18 17y ago
Sadly, it's just FUD, and it appears to be spreading.
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by jeff18 17y ago
Really? I could have sworn that Google was all about local content distribution, to the point of creating new fundamental internet infrastructure to reduce latency. Learn something new every day.
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by jeff18 17y ago
Comments like this are pretty common for every new product Google releases, but the fact remains that Google doesn't actually do this. http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html In other words, your comment is anti-Google FUD.
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by jeff18 17y ago
My comment on your blog is being moderated, but here's what I said: I think it’s a little naive to think it is a good thing for you. How are you going to compete with Google’s infrastructure and get your response times down to Google DNS’?
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Introducing Google Public DNS(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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With: The World's Most Misunderstood Statement(webreflection.blogspot.com)
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Google Analytics Blog: Google Analytics launches asynchronous tracking(analytics.blogspot.com)
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by jeff18 17y ago
Hearing about distant acquaintances deaths on Twitter or Facebook won't be a big deal when I'm driving my flying car or plugging my iPhone into my brainstem in 40 years time.
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by jeff18 17y ago
Please post the original article ( http://www.viget.com/advance/password-fields-are-annoying/ ) instead of a blog post that does nothing but link to it.
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by jeff18 17y ago
That's what I thought, but on my site, I'd say about 5% of people make a typo on their email address. Now I am probably going to join the "confirm email" club.
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Triangle mesh voxelization(blog.wolfire.com)
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by jeff18 17y ago
If you subscribe to his philosophy, it's pretty clear that it's to get people to spread his message, although I don't think he explicitly says so.
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Volumetric heat diffusion skinning(blog.wolfire.com)
22 points by jeff18 17y ago|3 comments
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YouTube Blog: Automated caption timing via speech recognition(youtube-global.blogspot.com)
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by jeff18 17y ago
Nice rant, however, I submitted this using the YC bookmarklet. :) No subtle manipulation of Hacker News intended. Hopefully democracy will still be intact after this serious infraction.
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Bram Cohen: Comments on Go(bramcohen.livejournal.com)
65 points by jeff18 17y ago|31 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
It would have to determine that arr.length doesn't change during the loop. Pretty difficult problem. :)
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FatELF is no more. Linux developer community owned Ryan Gordon.(icculus.org)
59 points by jeff18 17y ago|60 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
I used to use Firebug exclusively, but since developing a WebKit oriented web app, I had to use the web inspector. At first I hated it, but after I got used to it, I never go back to Firebug.

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