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Ask HN: How far are we from in-browser typesetting
3 points by mgualt 14y ago|16 comments
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by mgualt 14y ago
I agree with the advice, and I offer some in return about Habari: hire someone to make your demo video non-awful. The "muzak" and slow pacing alone were enough to send me running away from the whole project. A production that aestheticall
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by mgualt 14y ago
Given the topic of the post, OP should also watch Brazil.
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Ask HN: outline for the development of a simple piece of software
3 points by mgualt 14y ago|1 comments
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by mgualt 14y ago
There seem to be comments on gists already -- I am trying to figure out how they are dealt with in github.
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by mgualt 14y ago
Very interesting - I also noticed that gists have comments -- I'm not sure how those are handled. Doesn't this mean that gists are the ultimate blog? Can you even create them locally and push?
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by mgualt 14y ago
What is a gist, really? Is it a versioned, modifiable and referencable publication? Can I store it in my github repo? Should we be using gist as a model for info packet? is there an "API"? If someone could explain their understanding of a
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by mgualt 14y ago
Thanks for the reply: I don't know about HTML5, so I will look into that. But my concern is more about how to design the system. Let me explain. LaTeX is quite a formidable system nowadays, with a well-developed markup language optimized f
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Ask HN: How to develop/plan a document format
2 points by mgualt 14y ago|2 comments
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by mgualt 15y ago
Padgett's drawings, viewable from the link below, are not fractals. The fact that they resemble mathematical diagrams in Euclidean geometry does not make them fractals. I would be curious to find out who first christened his work 'fractal'
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by mgualt 15y ago
The fact that you don't allow comments because of "dogshit" and "spam" means that your comments system is broken. That's like saying "I don't do email because of dogshit and spam". Spam is manageable in email, so the fact that it's out of
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by mgualt 15y ago
I claim that comments are integral to the activity of blogging. In fact, most bloggers are chomping at the bit to get more comments, often they will do anything to get more comments, and not necessarily because there's a financial incentive
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by mgualt 15y ago
There are many stackexchange clones. OSQA, shapado, coordino, and several others. The only one that can actually be installed without an infinite regress of dependencies which are no longer available (typical crappy developers who don
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by mgualt 15y ago
re: comments, I strongly disagree that they are handled "superbly". For many important blogs, the comments are central to the whole endeavour. Why on earth would you cede control of your comments to disqus? Why do you keep your content a
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by mgualt 15y ago
What is a blogging "platform"? For that matter, what exactly does "blogging" consist of? Many answers below don't provide what I would call a platform - many aspects of what one might call "bloggin" have not been thought through (e.g. arc
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by mgualt 15y ago
The developer should explain the concept behind the document/view. Is there a fixed document and then a view path/graph? I would be interested to know what the conceptual model is.
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by mgualt 15y ago
Is there a high-level markup language that I can use to output to this? E.g. LaTeX style document structure but for this kind of presentation output?
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by mgualt 15y ago
Many of the comments focus on increasing the friendliness of emacs for new users, and how open-minded the maintainers are to this effort, though they realize in their wisdom that this is not necessarily a valuable goal in and of itself. The
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by mgualt 15y ago
I agree but there is no reason the text box couldn't achieve the same result -- sending an email. External client would nit be necessary. I have wondered why comments and google plus don't already work this way.
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by mgualt 15y ago
What about Still providing a simple text box, but the action upon submit is sending an email. It needn't be from the commenter's email address, it could be from a separate email address "comments" or perhaps a separate adress for the indiv
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by mgualt 15y ago
Can we use this as a comments system? For example, a blog would have an email address and leaving a comment would basically send an email to the address, and then it would be displayed as a comment beneath the blog entry. The benefit would
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Ask HN: Events Calendar similar to the amazing one at UC Berkeley?
1 points by mgualt 15y ago|0 comments
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by mgualt 15y ago
Hear, hear! This post provides a perfect example of the utter failure of software engineering in the real world. I am reminded of it every time I try to install software, with all the ridiculous dependencies and multiple versions. Instead
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by mgualt 15y ago
How can it be justifiable that one has to regenerate the entire blog every time a post is made? Do you have any idea how much time this wastes? Conceptually, I see no justification for this.
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by mgualt 15y ago
What they got out of it was a) gaining a greater knowledge about the way our world functions, b) training a new generation of scientists at a level of advanced research which goes beyond what was previously achieved. c) developed an advance
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by mgualt 15y ago
These periodically recurring organization threads always motivate me to take another stab at adopting some kind of coherent approach to organizing my ideas. Then I get depressed at how poorly thought out almost all the options are. I then