smackfu

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by smackfu 12y ago
A private email "tirade" which is showing some restraint when you have as big a blog audience as Daring Fireball.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Reddit gets mentioned a lot, but I barely ever see Markdown there beyond the very basics. Link syntax is probably the only distinctive "Markdown" thing.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Gruber didn't agree to "Common" in any way.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Redirecting it means it will stay a thing forever. Not redirecting a day old domain means the name will be forgotten in a week.
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by smackfu 12y ago
He told them no, which is still involvement.
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by smackfu 12y ago
They worked on it for two years before going public.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Yeah, honestly, I think more verbose formatting is much easier to remember than a bunch of punctuation.
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by smackfu 12y ago
To be clear, "Standard Markdown" is only trying to address the ambiguity of the syntax. Sites are still going to implement Standard Markdown plus some ad hoc extensions, so it will still be the same practically in that regard.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Does the spec allow extensions?
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by smackfu 12y ago
"a language you can parse without feeling like you just walked through a sewer" Classy!
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by smackfu 12y ago
It seems like an obviously missing thing is a page that describes how users should write markdown, in a few sentences. Otherwise you are just going to get incorrect summaries of the spec. You certainly can't point users to the spec, w
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by smackfu 12y ago
From the podcast linked below, my rough summary of his position: Essentially, that while a spec that cleared up some ambiguity might be useful and is a task he might undertake someday, calling one thing "true markdown" and other f
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by smackfu 12y ago
It kind of sounds like you have disagreed over the same things for five years now, and finally got enough names on your side that you decided you didn't need to get agreement and could just take over the name. Not cool.
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by smackfu 12y ago
I remember listening, but wish I could find the episode again. Do you remember which one it was?
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by smackfu 12y ago
They still seem pretty close to the line there. I wonder if they were planning to stop sales at 150.
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by smackfu 12y ago
It seems like Tesla should still be able to give test drives and have a showroom without actually selling the car on-site.
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by smackfu 12y ago
>What happened to free market economy? New players like a free market economy. Existing players like laws that preserve the status quo.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Isn't this the big advantage of open source and Javascript in general? Even if the creator abandons it, you should have enough development resources to at least maintain status quo.
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by smackfu 12y ago
The reality is that 95% of the world can use the same generic car/road mapping tool, and Google Maps has that sewn up. A smart company would aim for the 5% of the world that Google Maps doesn't do a great job at.
950.
by smackfu 12y ago
Google did buy Waze, so they are open to maps acquisitions.
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by smackfu 12y ago
I would sure hope that a site that only works in seven cities would be better than a site that works worldwide. Otherwise what's the point?
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by smackfu 12y ago
Penn State has a college of engineering and a college of business. It seems like it would be pretty easy to tell which one you were in, and if you went to the business school, you wouldn't say "I studied engineering." Althou
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by smackfu 12y ago
>It is smart for whomever loaned that money out ... they get back free money paid consistently over the years. Now explain why the same logic doesn't apply to a landlord being the smart one, and a renter being the dumb one.
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by smackfu 12y ago
For us, it's $1500 for the first application, and $750 for subsequent ones. On issuance, you just get a plaque.
955.
by smackfu 12y ago
Yes, that's true. It helps avoid people setting nightly rates low but then charging $100 cleaning fee.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Nokia's higher end phones include optical image stabilization. It adds thickness which is probably why iPhones don't have it yet.
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by smackfu 12y ago
For instance: http://articles.courant.com/2010-11-11/business/hc-tim-horto...
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by smackfu 12y ago
>It's even more weird that the WIRED writer didn't mention this. It was major news all over the place two weeks ago. Good PR folks at Instagram / FB This article seems like an exclusive that Wired got, probably been in the
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by smackfu 12y ago
They tried to expand down into New England a few years ago in 2010, but closed all those shops after a short time. Could not compete with the ubiquitous Dunkin Donuts (which has also kept Starbucks to a minimal presence.)
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by smackfu 12y ago
Can't you just buy a phone with a removable battery?

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