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flying-sheep

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    Comment #34493998

    It’s a magazine. Many magazines have a readers’ letter section, an opinion column, a short story, … and in case of science magazines, the short stories are traditionally science fi…

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    Comment #32749698

    You say that as if the people running KF didn’t know what the site was for. And a publicly known reason for that website’s existence is because bullies need a place to coordinate h…

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    Comment #8668289

    is this 2004? D-Bus has been around for 9 years. it’s not an OS primitive (yet: kdbus), but why does it need to?

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    Comment #8650481

    i’m usually reading usernames after reading the posts and voting, and i caught myself upvoting every single post of you and nothing else. you seem to do it right: most level-headed…

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    Comment #7281926

    funny that you mention rST. i also talked about it here, and i said that its only syntactical flaw is inline link syntax, and how that’s only a problem if you don’t write a lengthy…

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    Comment #7281905

    markdown is perfect for forum comments, but idiotic to extend too far. if you’re a programmer wanting to write a book in markdown, you’ll find yourself thinking of markdown syntax …

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    Comment #7281837

    LuaTeX is exactly what you’re talking about. LuaLaTeX is a reimplementation of PDFLaTeX on that base. ConTeXt is a new syntax/concept based on LuaLaTeX (that doesn’t want to be com…

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    Comment #7075183

    Basically it boils down to what you want to do. If you know you’re replacing many parts of your page with data you have to load, use a framework like angular, backbone, ember, … If…