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Re: Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

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> for fun or for profit? It occurred to me that not only there are many other reasons to write code, but also that the two reasons you mention are of the weakest sort.

That's because you're not an entrepreneur - fair enough. A person who wants to build a sustainable business however, has to solve urgent problems and generate profits for stakeholders (not relevant if you're a socialist). Did you watch the PG vid?

Poe's Law is strong with your two comments here.

Re: Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

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A nice feature would be to be able to swap the planes so that you have the option to write on the right and have the formatted output on the left.

Mou, the great markdown editor on OS X, is also set up as this web app, with the formatted output on the right and the input area on the left, without an option to switch it.

Am I weird for wanting to type on the right? Is this some odd "handedness" issue? (I'm right handed)

Re: Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

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Are there any open source markdown editors like these I can use on my own sites?

Yes. Dillinger [http://dillinger.io - https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger] and Escrito [http://escrito.herokuapp.com/ - https://github.com/dmfrancisco/escrito]

Re: Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

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It would be really nice, if Socrates had syntax highlighting for Markdown. I'd suggest using Ace, if it was not too much for that simple task. Maybe write your own? Also, I'd love if somebody made a simple Wordpress plugin for this type of writing. Relaxing and easy.

Re: Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

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A friend and I built Tou (a web clone of Mou) a few months ago. It supports dropbox and HTML5 local storage :-) http://tou.whiskeydrivendevelopment.com

It appears in need of a little maintenance (broken tables) but I like this. Nice work.

ah yes, it's been awhile and it looks like some of the JS is broken.

thanks

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