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elliottwilliams

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    Comment #23727700

    I've used emacs in a dev environment and about 5 years ago i carted my 3000 or so text files from vim/markdown to emacs/org-mode. I agree, it is an amazing procrastination tool. My…

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    Comment #23727647

    I've used both. The problem I had with ZD is that it uses a non-standard "ligature" (not sure what the non-coding term is) to identify zettels. This means lock in not just to emacs…

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    Comment #18848439

    I've known Steve for a long time in the pgh tech scene, and not knowing the exact reasons for this transition, I will say money has never been top of mind for him.

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    Comment #17593133

    What would be more interesting to me would be a list of places/social media that my customers frequently visit, and then grab my company name on those sites. Plenty of times I've a…

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    Comment #15547180

    people on https://yc.metachat.com/ are saying 25-30 percent of interview slots are already filled. about 200 still open. seems like a lot of invites have been sent.

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    Comment #9147647

    looks a lot like what I built with NLP months ago: https://freelancers.legalsifter.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/07/legalsifter-helps-designers...

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    Comment #8207349

    I think either way, satire or real, I'd toss a few fucks for entertainment value.

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    Comment #6917270

    Sorry about not using the reply. I was wondering why my comment was on top. Right now I've got some off the shelf NLP stuff that does Org and Name recognition to remove those thing…

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    Comment #6916875

    Right now I'm banking on the fact that lawyers copy and paste. This is a fair assumption as they have "clause libraries" at all major firms. In the future I'd hope to tie in the NL…

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    Comment #6916549

    People comment on their own documents. If your doc has the same text as someone else's, we share their comments with you.

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    Comment #6336222

    It sounds like junior devs are applying an attribution error: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error