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by jmfayard 7y ago
Yes I have! I am gradually switching to Asciidoctor because it solved all the pain points I cited (and more) > Table of contents That's simply :toc: > Images Doing better is easy, plain HTML is better than Markdown. For exampl
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by jmfayard 7y ago
Asciidoctor has no problem rendering files to PDF. You can convert your source markdown files with https://github.com/asciidoctor/kramdown-asciidoc
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by jmfayard 7y ago
This looks really nice... ... except like every other apps around there it only supports Markdown Feature request: Please add an option to convert the resulting file to a better format like Asciidoc and other better markup formats Maybe usi
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by jmfayard 7y ago
It's trivially true that no system is purely capitalistic it socialist. The delusion is to not see that going more "socialist" is both hugely popular and supported by the evidence from other countries. Going more capitalist i
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by jmfayard 7y ago
The conservative movement keeps insisting than making decent healthcare and education affordable is socialism. That almost never convince anyone that those are bad ideas, but it does a lot to make socialism looks good again!
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by jmfayard 7y ago
My conclusions were not what you quote. I agree with your final point. My conclusions were that both my reluctance to talk about money and US fascination for material success had a religious background.
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by jmfayard 7y ago
I love everything about this: The accent, the humor, the content, the man, his life and his books. I never quite understood why so much Americans are out there just "to make a lot of money". Lot of money, but realistically probabl
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by jmfayard 7y ago
iOS developers are pretty lucky if that's the biggest problem they have with the official documentation. Story time: I started my career in programming with Android development in the years 2012-2014. And it was quite painful. In 2012,
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by jmfayard 7y ago
It's not Apple vs Google. Google has a second operating system, Chrome OS, and that team does a very nice job at keeping all the Chromebook up-to-date. It's one of those old early Android mistakes that were never really fixed.
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On Android, Billion Dollar MistakeS, and the Virtue of Admitting Them(dev.to)
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by jmfayard 8y ago
Does Grin do something concrete and useful? I ask this question because someone on HN reminded me of this great 2001 article from Joel "Nostramdamus" Spolsky on Blockchain Astronauts: > Don't let Architecture Astronauts Sc
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by jmfayard 8y ago
> "Blockchain proponents have a vision of _society_ in which centralized entities are weakened/eliminated. But blockchain tech is a way to build _software_ without centralized servers. Why would the latter enable the former? I
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by jmfayard 8y ago
Progress, it's now a solved problem in modern languages like Rust, Swift or Kotlin See for example: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html
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by jmfayard 8y ago
If is a centuries old anti-Semitic trope to see powerful, evil but smart Jews behind everything. If you forget it (but what would you), it's still fallacious > Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person"[1]), short for argumentu
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by jmfayard 8y ago
I'm simple enough to think it's better to be in a compassionate place than in a toxic one. True, Twitter and Facebook are not the first places when discussion tends to be angry and ugly. Old internet had plenty of that too. But it
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by jmfayard 8y ago
This article is both funny and tragical. Is there something you don't like in an Apple product? Be sure to write 5000 words praising all the good things Apple did since the beginning of time and explain all the possible reasons why the
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by jmfayard 8y ago
It is! It's called Android beam. Not super discoverable though
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by jmfayard 8y ago
Can you add a settings to display notes in their true poetic name (do re mi fa sol la so do) instead of the boring Anglo Saxon variant (abcdecg)?
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by jmfayard 8y ago
Well obviously there are a lot of smart people using iPhones and even more smart people using Android phones. Anyway in my opinion the biggest problem of smartphones by far is that we use them too much and mindlessly. The brand of the smart
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by jmfayard 8y ago
Hypothesis: Apple's best product is now privacy. Testing the hypothesis: if that was true that all those new iPhone do not matter that much, Wall Street analysts would take a hard look at what is the gross margin of the Apple's ne
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by jmfayard 9y ago
Look, everywhere there is power, there is abuse of power, it does not matter what source of power it comes from. The only thing that helps is having another power that checks it.
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by jmfayard 9y ago
Fully decentralized internet lol. The internet economy is much more centralized that the old world ever was There is no problem at all identifying the big players that have too much power
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by jmfayard 9y ago
The parent comment was not about Twitter Reddit Facebook coexisting or not peacefully, but about the logic of all of them competing against our public health. IMHO we should regulate the hell out of them each time a significant harm on soci
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by jmfayard 9y ago
I see paywalls as win-win deal. The abundance cliché tells us that more news outlets reaching more readers is always a good thing. In reality though for the news producers, what's the point of reaching many millions if you become a sla
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by jmfayard 9y ago
That's full text search, not having directly the argument definition. If you search "-l" in "man ls", it will be only your 8th occurence.
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by jmfayard 9y ago
Man is like javadocs: useless unless you already know what you are doing, and then usually a wordy paraphrase of the method signature :( Even as a reference manual, man is bad though. If I'm looking for option "-e" of the tes
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by jmfayard 9y ago
That would be a very good point if this was documenting javascript frameworks, but I doubt the usages of "tar" and "find" change too often.
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by jmfayard 9y ago
A lot of us are "newbies" of "tar", "find", "[" and many others after years and years using *nix. According to the anti-usability mindset, this means that the users are wrong and ought to be changed,
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by jmfayard 9y ago
When the Android SDK wrapped it into an horrible api
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by jmfayard 9y ago
There are better ways than a broken tax system to help less attractive regions, for example less deflationary pressure from countries like Germany. A deal better than the status quo is possible

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