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   by redthrow 12y ago

   ReText has spell checker: Edit -> Spell check -> Enable
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   by redthrow 12y ago

   This is the first time I learned about WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM Both plain text editors (e.g. gedit) and word processors (e.g. LibreOffice Writer) frustrated me so
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   ReText – Markdown Editor with Live Preview(sourceforge.net)

   64 points by redthrow 12y ago|55 comments
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   by redthrow 12y ago

   Sal Khan actually has some predictions on how education will change in the future: Year 2060: Education Predictions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiKrFcgVSIU Even Sal Khan doesn't think lectures-in-digital-form is th
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   by redthrow 12y ago

   > More work for the audience to imagine what is happening? Sure But this kind of 'work' is meaningless though. Books that contain a lot of typos/errors give students a lot of 'work' to 'imagine' what&#x
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   by redthrow 12y ago

   Here's what Elon Musk said during his conversation with Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy (that he invested) about online courses by talented teachers: --- Elon Musk: The analogy I sometimes use is, you've seen like Batman –
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   by redthrow 12y ago

   > Google Hangouts will only show Google+ people as someone you can message. With Hangouts, you can message anyone with a Gmail address I think. Using Google+ is not a requirement now.
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   by redthrow 12y ago

   And in Canada, Fongo: http://www.fongo.com/
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   by redthrow 12y ago

   Geary's UI is a lot better than Thunderbird.
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    "Avoid News" by Rolf Dobelli http://dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Avoid_News_Par...
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    Elon Musk famously calls them "fool cells": http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-25/toyota-to-... “As people probably know, I’m not the biggest fan of fuel cells -- I usually call them ‘‘
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    Most developers can't create something new and original or improve upon what's best out there so they reinvent things with very limited functions with something that people think is cool today (in this case, golang).
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    Why not use.. Scientific Calculator (PowerCalc) for Android? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scaleasw.p...
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    Obsolete Software(livingstingy.blogspot.com)

    3 points by redthrow 12y ago|0 comments
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    I don't think you need to be convinced. When 99% of people look at the choice between (a) Thunderbird+Enigmail and (b) TextSecure, they know which one is easier to use (your Mom probably knows more than you do in this regard), not to m
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    gpg/pgp do work for those who can use it properly, which is a tiny minority. Can your parents or non-tech savvy friends use gpg/pgp? Probably not. And as Assange said, if you are e.g. a journalist in the government watchlist, it c
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    Ok, I guess you simply meant that there's no OTR implementation for email. So, again, what's wrong with telling people to ignore PGP/GnuPG altogether? -- Assange to Google's Schmidt: 'I don't use email' h
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    What do you mean by people can't use OTR for email in a meaningful way? Almost nobody can use PGP/GnuPG properly and OTR is reasonably easy to use for most people. Isn't this alone a good reason to just tell people to ignore
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    Is there anything bad about telling people to ignore PGP/GnuPG altogether and use OTR/TextSecure?
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    "He says he's made about $25,000 per year since 2001 — a fraction of what he could earn in private industry" The developer of git-annex assistant was happy when he received $20,000 on Kickstarter and he said with this money h
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    Hangouts is pretty good. Now it doesn't require you to have Google+ account, and (unlike Whatsapp) you don't _need_ to use a phone number that's tied to a telco, and it handles multiple accounts pretty well.
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    I'm not trying to be harsh on Asus or anything, but in the Amazon review I linked above, there are many people who were very dissatisfied with how Asus dealt with the defects. So while it's great that you got lucky in this regard,
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    Thanks, that particular Asus laptop seems to have a pretty high defect rate so for some people it may be a bit scary to drop $800 on it. http://tinyurl.com/asusultra I'm hoping more people/companies release Linux
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    Can you suggest a particular model that people can buy today? Do they work flawlessly out of the box without fiddling with configuration files?
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    You won't experience the GPU lock/hang problem if you use any of the distros from Hugh Greenberg in distroshare.com (the same guy who shows up in the bug report thread you linked). I wouldn't say the keyboard/screen of C
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    In addition to Thinkpads, I would recommend Acer C720 which costs around $200 and everything works out of the box because a dedicated developer created distros just for C720. https://www.distroshare.com/distros/get&#x2F
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    Mark Pilgrim wrote "Dive into HTML5" in HTML and he (his publisher) also published the paper edition. Maybe you don't need all the tools. http://diveintohtml5.info/
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    Is there any reason why you want to keep ChromeOS at all? https://www.distroshare.com/distros/get/14/
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    by redthrow 12y ago

    Yes, there's even a customized Ubuntu distro just for Acer C720: https://www.distroshare.com/distros/get/14/ It's a great Linux machine. Everything works out of the box.