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Protonk

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About Protonk

Wikipedian, economist.

Twitter/reddit: @therealprotonk

Everywhere else: protonk

Recent public activity

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    Comment #4592096

    I love Mou. I could use textwrangler for markdown work, but Mou's simple interface and live previews make it a snap. It's a great middle point between a general text editor and a m…

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    Comment #3934134

    A designated asshole is nearly mandatory, especially for mixed technical audiences and issues where someone can have an [opinion on the bike shed]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par…

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    Comment #3668911

    If you're not listening to Hypercritical, then I probably don't have too many suggestions. [StackExchange]( http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/ ) podcasts are nice, bu…

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    Comment #3663136

    >I fear what will happen is once Marco's child is born, half of every Build & Analyze episode will be about Dan and Marco's children and how they manage their time. Yeah. That'll b…

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    Comment #3662623

    Sure but the biggest claim I could make from listening to BnA is that marco is kind of a dick. I'm sure that a good 30% of the software I used is written by someone who is kind of …

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    Comment #3662620

    I was also frustrated by the sort of arrogant response to all the complaints about non-development topics. It's not like we can't have interesting shows about technical topics! Hyp…

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    Comment #3152018

    WP article is now updated. The techcrunch piece cited HN but the author also contacted Stanford faculty. Gamasutra also ran a short piece. The article is no longer protected if you…

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    Comment #3151843

    I reverted it again. I feel terrible doing that but the alternative is sourcing our article from personal communications or a tweet. Have yet to see a reference which is reliable (…

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    Comment #3151457

    That was me. I saw the laughing squid link, followed it here, then discovered that their ultimate reference was the wikipedia article. I'm keeping tabs on the news so if an article…