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bluecat22

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    Comment #18152998

    So there is no technical limitation of HTML itself compared to XML (doc format)? That HTML would be a just as good replacement for XML (.doc format) if someone tried to make a word…

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    Comment #18152761

    I meant if someone were to create a word processor in 2018, with the least amount of work, shouldn't they use HTML as the format of the document? Assuming no need to backwards comp…

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    Comment #18152661

    Is it technically superior/inferior to HTML as a document format for a word processor?

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    Ask HN: Why did Microsoft not use HTML instead of .doc as Word doc format?

    If one were to write a word processor in 2018 from scratch, should they use HTML as the document format over .doc or anything else? Considering each browser is a free document view…

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    Comment #17792034

    I think the issue will be that either your Mac will be unsupported for OSX Mojave or at most in an year or so while your machine physically will still be in good working condition.…

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    Comment #16918364

    Because in the space of open source operating systems, we realistically only have Linux Kernel. With each new release of Linux kernel, the internal kernel interfaces that device dr…

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    Comment #16918314

    I think the idea of dumber phone introduces with it another notion, since the phone is seen more as a utilitarian tool(not for entertainment), then it should not have to be replace…

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    Comment #16721472

    See that's why I see CentOS as not necessarily a very good thing. It dents into the idea of making money with open source product.

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    Comment #16721409

    Most people won't but somebody else will make the builds and then offer those builds. Example: CentOS

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    Comment #16675075

    Can you elaborate why setting up a simple search engine based on common crawl was not useful?

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    Comment #16673541

    Look into commoncrawl.org which provides a free web index which you can query against. Now that cloud is available, you could in theory download the index and load it into Google's…

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    Comment #16357080

    This looks like a problem to be solved with something like a google search engine for all internal pages and wiki. Perhaps we should start machine learning to start auto tagging di…