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oscargodson

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    Comment #7369858

    This might be a good place to ask this. I'm the creator of EpicEditor. EpicEditor hasn't been updated in quite awhile due to a lot of big life events including the death of a famil…

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    Comment #7369790

    It doesn't require jQuery at all. Where are you getting that? Also, it's one of the smallest markdown editors out there even including all the included themes. We did that on purpo…

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    Comment #6245932

    find: blah -printf: unknown primary or operator Any idea why this is happening? I'm on OS X.

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    Comment #5174607

    Sounds like its time to start using Yammer.

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    Comment #4241044

    Code blocks with syntax highlighting is super easy to implement. Styling images should be done with CSS, no? Also, you can add HTML in Markdown so you could easily just do:

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    Comment #4240307

    Honestly, it was a random name I made for the directory it was in while I was experimenting. I put my very-super alpha on github and it got picked up by thechangelog and started tr…

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    Comment #3593452

    How is it misinformed? Syntax is the only reason people use CS. CS is used by people who don't like writing JS. Proof is that no CS people are talking about Traceur are they? It's …

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    Comment #2934700

    +1 - I hate getting linked to GitHub repos where the "demo" is download, install, and then copy and paste this demo code.

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    Comment #2934215

    Hah, looks almost exactly like mine: jKey ( http://oscargodson.com/labs/jkey/ ) && ( https://github.com/OscarGodson/jKey ). Nice having a micro library tho I guess to throw into yo…

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    Comment #2494438

    You've clearly never been on the internet before. That image is already linked on thousands of sites. I'm assuming you'd say this exact same thing if I posted tubgirl or detroit ha…

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    Comment #2440301

    See grammar and spelling nazis are EXACTLY whom my grandmother and people like Stephen Fry despise: http://vimeo.com/15412319 He can illustrate her exact point, and mine also bette…

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    Comment #2430263

    And, how would one learn how to make their own tools, languages, and operating systems? You have to build them to learn how. So how does one build them without ever having built th…

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    Comment #2428463

    I agree :) and yes, but apparently because I spelled itself like it's self they were too stupid to read the article. Funny how many of these people can read code, but can't figure …

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    Comment #2428454

    Are you kidding me? You use IMHO and correct me on grammar?

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    Comment #2428449

    Thanks! I don't read Hacker News often and when I heard the article was here and 2 of the top comments were about my grammar I thought "and that's why I never read Hacker News". I …

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    Comment #2428447

    100% agree and a point I was trying to make. This whole thing was a response to a reply to a comment I made. I had made a comment that the library they were doing a tutorial on was…

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    Comment #2428434

    This is the 2nd time I read someone mention it and I just cringed "extra-hard". Especially when you made a grammar error yourself: http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/hyphens.as…

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    Comment #2428423

    Exactly, exactly, exactly. :)

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    Comment #2428422

    I said, and mean "Reinventing the wheel is what makes good developers legends, not the other way around. Remember that." And i never said i hate what it means, ever. I said I hate …

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    Comment #2428419

    1. This was a response to a reply from a comment I made on a blog. 2. My grandmother has a Ph.D in linguistics and knows probably a dozen languages. Boy would it be hilarious for y…