marbletiles

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by marbletiles 4y ago
> turned on by that marvellous column in Quantum which column?
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by marbletiles 4y ago
PowerPoint has been iterated over the years to be more or less a document publishing app that happens to go full-screen. It has support for lots of embeddings (like Excel), and can help turn especially heavy chunks of text into something
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by marbletiles 4y ago
The principle of charity is to make the strongest possible version you can imagine of the opposing argument, and I also struggle with constructing yours. It appears to be “no electric car buyer with $140k to spend could ever rationally choo
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by marbletiles 4y ago
“Lying” is a bit emotive, suggests you might be a bit too invested here to get the argument the GP was making. Look, Tesla got early success in EVs by being considerably better where everyone else was weak (drivetrain, battery, software, ch
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by marbletiles 4y ago
“Range” is likely the only one of those metrics Jane will care about. This sounds like one of those rants we used to hear about “why would anyone buy a Mac when PCs have higher specs??” Mercedes does cabin UX like Apple does software (and B
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by marbletiles 4y ago
I adore this but wish it could catch cmd-W because i'm closing the entire browser window far too much and can't untrain my fingers
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by marbletiles 5y ago
Message interop is the bit that leaps out at me. How can that work? (Because I’d really like it to)
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by marbletiles 5y ago
This makes me more nostalgic for the old Interface Builder than it does Aqua. So much more straightforward to create actions/outlets and create the files than the current mess.
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by marbletiles 5y ago
Just use Seamonkey if you want it to look like Netscape, surely.
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by marbletiles 5y ago
> I suspect not likely to return. Phone pics have so quickly become the “default” look that full-frame wide-aperture shots are now becoming almost an affectation; one that can cause comment in itself - like choosing Polaroids or b&w
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by marbletiles 5y ago
No app at all. Because that leaves a gap in the market for a native alternative. That means a potential reward for the patient/smart/etc developer who knows native code, which means a better class of developer, which in turn means
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by marbletiles 5y ago
This is quite tricky to do, because it’s almost a sleight of hand and expressing it in English is like watching the trick from behind the magician - you can obviously see the wrongness. But: if you skip a pair of horses (which is how the tr
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by marbletiles 5y ago
Those doors are often on corridors. You don’t want them unexpectedly opening at speed into passing non-bathroom traffic. Conversely, people approaching the door from the inside will be further away as they have their hand out in readiness t
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by marbletiles 5y ago
Is InterMedia available anywhere? It looks fascinating, but isn't in any of the usual retro-software places.
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by marbletiles 5y ago
1. Right, but unless you want a circular argument, the “better” you are missing is the ability to separate the two. You should be able to type a note featuring all the characters on the keyboard without unexpected side-effects, this doesn’t
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by marbletiles 5y ago
Why not try FrameMaker or something actually built for the job, instead of forcing your poor team into a “still-actually-techie” format written to get around the limitations of MovableType for formatting weblogs? You’ll get DocBook support
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by marbletiles 5y ago
Markdown mixes formatting and content (in a lossy way - did the author mean that asterisk as a format character or as part of their text? Who knows). It doesn’t support spans or ranges for mixing languages. It has hard-to-remember syntax, e
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by marbletiles 5y ago
(Again, rich text doesn’t need a binary file format but you ignored that) Word’s Track Changes literally does this - you can compare/merge/etc. Quark also had extensions in the 90s that allowed it. It’s entirely feasible for any b
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by marbletiles 5y ago
You are begging the question. Git works well with plaintext because it is a product of the 1970s thinking that OP is bemoaning. If we built tools to do Git-like things on rich text file formats, they’d work just as well. (And Track Changes