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Right. But a ticketing system doesn't solve this problem either. A pre-paid ticketing system could make this problem worse because there is no "cue" as it were. At least a bill bei…

The question is whether or not to ban lobbying is not a reasonable one, if only because lobbying would not be able to be banned just on a principle of free speech alone. People hav…

You can't paint all lobbying with the same brush. There are beneficial lobbying groups out there helping to bring a voice to issues in an arena where they would otherwise normally …

A few things come to mind. Each use case—typesetting and word-processing—have enough standardized tools to fill an entire application's interface. I think making the compromises ne…

So, essentially, this is a rewrite for TeX. But the reality is that creating complex layouts really, truly requires GUI layout tools. No matter how good the output is for this appl…

I foresee mashing a robust typesetting application and a robust word processing application as being an extremely difficult thing to do well. Both are very different use cases and …

You can type directly into layouts in InDesign and see your line and page breaks in realtime. I think where the problem lies in InDesign is that it is, at its core, a typesetting a…

The Cocoa/Objective-C links are for building apps, not higher-level automation.

Yes, I know because I script for them all the time, but at least Adobe's API's try to be more robust than Apple's. My point was really more towards there being more to scripting th…

Apple has its issues with scripting in its apps but other companies like Microsoft and Adobe have robust scripting support in their applications. Developers like me have created si…

Taking the entire migration process you describe changes the "price" to be paid for similar phone, so my claim of false equivalence still stands. There's no "lesson" when I have ma…

True unless someone has made years of investments in iTunes-sourced content, then moving over to a cheaper phone with the same feature set is no longer an apples-to-apples comparis…

How can anyone argue they don't have biases? From a 2013 article they ran explaining their politics: "We like free enterprise and tend to favour deregulation and privatisation. But…

How would you define deliberate practice, then? I would agree that deliberate practice may be hard to define across all skills, but it could be defined for a specific skill. For ex…

A document that large must have some kind of a structure that you and your team can use to break it apart into smaller, more manageable chunks. One thing to consider is to place th…

Any publisher that produces books with heavy math will know what to do with LaTeX, and if not then call a vendor that will know what to do with LaTeX.