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   by omaranto 11y ago

   Is there any written discussion of advantages that Pollen has over racket Scribble? It sounds extremely similar.
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   by omaranto 11y ago

   I agree that "recent tabs from other devices" is very handy. IE11 does have that, so I guess Edge will too (at least eventually). This doesn't help you since you probably don't want to trade your Android phone/table
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   by omaranto 11y ago

   It's never crashed on me. I'm not the person who claimed it crashed.
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   by omaranto 11y ago

   I've never heard of Ctrl-S causing a crash, though. So your explanation at most accounts for the hangs.
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   by omaranto 11y ago

   I think you probably meant "I don't enjoy reading authors who throw random insults into their writing". Or do you really mean that containing no random insults is enough for you to enjoy a piece of writing?
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   by omaranto 11y ago

   Did you mean that as "racist sexist" or "racists exist"?
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   Career Transitions: Crafting Your Medium Humble-Brag(medium.com)

   2 points by omaranto 11y ago|0 comments
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   Microsoft apps no longer support Facebook Connect due to API change(support.office.com)

   3 points by omaranto 11y ago|0 comments
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   by omaranto 11y ago

   Apple is its own third worst enemy (after Google and Microsoft).
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    If the author is claiming that once it's compressed it won't be as good next time, then that's insane - helmets aren't supposed to be re-used after accidents Why is it insane to think it won't be as good next time
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    I really liked the talk idiom where you first typed something rude, then slowly erased it one letter at a time, and finally typed a euphemism. Like what people use strikethrough for now, but it was funnier in talk somehow.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    1000 blogs or blog posts? If you meant blog posts, on roughly how many blogs did they appear?
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    ed + cat seems like an odd combination: why not use just ed (it has a print command, p)?
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    The axiom of foundation forbids cycles in the membership relation, you are of course allowed to talk about other relations that do have cycles. For example, R={(1,2),(2,3),(3,1)} is a relation defined in ZFC that relates 1 to 2, 2 to 3 an
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    > For example, ZFC is fine for calculus (most of engineering), but completely inadequate for computer science. For CS you have to allow self-reference and that is expressly verboten in ZFC. I assume you are referring to the axiom of foun
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    > I think the equivalence between prefix form (f /@ x, f @ x, f @@ x), and FullForm (Map[x, y], f[x], Apply[f, x]), and postfix form (x // f) is a nice degree of freedom when beatifying code. I've never heard the phra
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    I'm guessing you've never taught math to undergraduates. Unless they are math majors, for the most part they really don't like being given harder-than-average questions, let alone open problems.
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    by omaranto 11y ago

    Could you explain what you mean by "maybe too much"?
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    Yes, his reaction will probably be something like: "Mmh, well it is plain text, which is nice, but it (1) tempts me to waste time adjusting the typesetting, and (2) TeX or LaTeX source code is much uglier to look at than Markdown"
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    > Really, the idea of writing journal articles in Word brings shivers down my spine! I think it is completely normal for several fields, probably more common than using LaTeX.
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    Here's an actually self-referential variant that does include its magic number: http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/math-self-reference/index.html
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    Someone did that too! http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/math-self-reference/index.html
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    I'm curious: what reasons for hating LaTeX do you have that don't also apply to HTML & CSS?
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    I wouldn't call marking the bug as WONTFIX a " lack of reply".
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    It seems that the author did file a bug report and it almost immediately got marked WONTFIX: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9326370
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    factorial(n) is an odd choice of name for the nth Fibonacci number. You should at the very least provide a doc string! :)
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    You mean Hermosillo.
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    I'd be more interested in a "Why Pollen over Scribble?"...
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    I hoped that was the answer, but feared it was more like 24.3 or 25.
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    by omaranto 12y ago

    Emacs's package manager does come with Emacs, starting with some recent version (I don't know which version, though).