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Re: Turns websites into Markdown

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Post by BillyParadise »

Brendinooo wrote: post #3
lsiunsuex wrote: post #2

I'm all for cursing in private conversation with friends and such when it's appropriate - but why do people continue to think it's acceptable in public examples of work? Will this go on someone's resume like this? What will an employer think? I'm not questioning freedom of speech or self expression or anything like that. I'm simply saying, if you build a tool / live example / whatever and intend to show it to people…

The author is free to do as he/she wishes, but when I see profanity in the title I'm much less inclined to click on it. I wonder if I'm an anomaly and no one else cares, if other people feel the same way as I do, or if for every person like me, there's someone who is more inclined to click because they saw a swear word?

Sure, I'll use it myself, but the name makes it inherently less shareable. To me, at least.

Re: Turns websites into Markdown

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Post by nine_k »

guessmyname wrote: post #18
lsiunsuex wrote: post #2

I'm all for cursing in private conversation with friends and such when it's appropriate - but why do people continue to think it's acceptable in public examples of work? Will this go on someone's resume like this? What will an employer think? I'm not questioning freedom of speech or self expression or anything like that. I'm simply saying, if you build a tool / live example / whatever and intend to show it to people…

As a non-native English speaker, those are just semi-random words to me unless I give them a context. I guess if you are a native English speaker you will feel more likely to disapprove the words, same if someone decides to buy a domain with bad words in Chinese, French, Spanish, etc if you are Chinese, French, or Spanish speaker respectively. Also, as I understand, "fuck" seems to have different meanings depending o…

None of the context-dependent meanings are particularly polite.

Re: Turns websites into Markdown

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Post by lj3 »

I tried this years ago (it's been around for quite some time) and found better results with his Marker[0] bookmarklet. It only converts whatever is selected on the page. It eliminates 1 out of the 2 issues I had with markdownifier, which is it's inability to figure out what to keep and what not to keep on the page.

The second issue I have affects both. Neither locally downloads linked content. Not having the images come down with the article means if the article were to go away, your local copy would be worthless unless you manually saved those pictures and altered the links pointing to them.

[0]: http://brettterpstra.com/2013/12/22/marker-web-selections-to...

Re: Turns websites into Markdown

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Post by justindocanto »

lsiunsuex wrote: post #2

I'm all for cursing in private conversation with friends and such when it's appropriate - but why do people continue to think it's acceptable in public examples of work? Will this go on someone's resume like this? What will an employer think? I'm not questioning freedom of speech or self expression or anything like that. I'm simply saying, if you build a tool / live example / whatever and intend to show it to people…

Not everybody has to worry about future employers.

Not everybody builds things with mass appeal in mind.

Not everybody has to understand the reason for something.

Some things are done for ourselves and how we like them, regardless if it has some sort of use case.

Re: Turns websites into Markdown

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Post by Veen »

lsiunsuex wrote: post #2

I'm all for cursing in private conversation with friends and such when it's appropriate - but why do people continue to think it's acceptable in public examples of work? Will this go on someone's resume like this? What will an employer think? I'm not questioning freedom of speech or self expression or anything like that. I'm simply saying, if you build a tool / live example / whatever and intend to show it to people…

I don't think Brett Terpstra really gives a fuck.

As for Markdown, I'm a technical and marketing content writer and I use Markdown all day. I use it because it's easy to mark simple document elements like headers and formatting, it can be scripted so, for example, I can grab the URL of my most recent safari tab and use it to create a properly formatted link using the text I have highlighted with a keyboard shortcut, because I can easily export it to HTML, docx, or PDF depending, and because word processors suck for serious writing.

Re: Turns websites into Markdown

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Post by tokensimian »

Brendinooo wrote: post #59
tokensimian wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) put another way, people against profanity are trying to control what other individuals say. People into the right to be profane are expressing their freedom to swear. 2) I cannot. I can be offended by things people say, but language itself is not offensive. 3) No, it's not my responsibility to censor myself to support archaic beliefs about other people's children.

1) Interesting. So you unequivocally support people's rights to say anything they want in the public square? Racial or homophobic slurs are okay, anti-climate change rhetoric, all of it? You may very well be consistent in this way, but I think that most people have something they're uncomfortable with other people saying, and while they wouldn't legislate against it, they'd certainly vote with their wallet or attenti…

1) I believe free speech has it's limits, like shouting "fire" in a theater. I was rejecting your statement that "telling people not to swear" is morally equivalent to "swearing". One is restricting another person's right to expression. The other is using the right to self-expression.

2) take the word "fuck" for example. I don't find it offensive in the least. It's a fascinatingly versatile word. If someone stubs their toe, and shouts "fuck", I am not offended. If someone looks me in the eye, points their finger, and says, "fuck you", I am offended. The word is the same, the context is different. The offense seems therefore to be derived from the context, not from the word.

3) No, again back to point #1. The presence of someone's offspring, in no way can or should obligate me to follow their moral values. Asking me to refrain from swearing because of delicate children's ears is someone imposing their moral code to determine my behavior.

I 100% agree with your last 2 paragraphs. I alter my language depending on context, anyone with a modicum of social skills does that. I was just responding to your original individual bullet points.

To add a little levity, I recommend everyone watch the YouTube video about the versatility of "fuck"[1]. Of course, please use headphones in order to not offend anyone around you. (sorry, had to be slightly tongue in cheek there -- hope you don't mind me poking a little fun)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LZSUYoNPMs

Re: Turns websites into Markdown

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Post by jordanlev »

sandGorgon wrote: post #19

this is potentially a big idea. there are hundreds of jobs on upwork "convert my old wordpress site to markdown/jekyll" or "convert my old drupal site to markdown/jekyll". even if you manage to convert a wordpress site to jekyll (with all images, formatting,etc)... you are onto something big. I would pay 20-30$ for a one time conversion of a few dozen pages.

Or how about just a "static site" (html files):

  wget -m -k -K -E -p http://example.com

Re: Turns websites into Markdown

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Post by sandGorgon »

pmlnr wrote: post #34
sandGorgon wrote: post #19

this is potentially a big idea. there are hundreds of jobs on upwork "convert my old wordpress site to markdown/jekyll" or "convert my old drupal site to markdown/jekyll". even if you manage to convert a wordpress site to jekyll (with all images, formatting,etc)... you are onto something big. I would pay 20-30$ for a one time conversion of a few dozen pages.

for p in *.html; do pandoc -p -f html -t markdown-raw_html-native_divs-native_spans -o"${p/.html/.md}" "${p}"; done

none of these (including the importrb one) is seamless. you have to install ruby, you have to install pandoc..etc

what you want is a way where you point to a github account and wordpress site... and 5 minutes later, your github pages are filled with your blog pages . All nicely formatted and with all images.

Re: Turns websites into Markdown

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Post by [deleted] »

lsiunsuex wrote: post #2

I'm all for cursing in private conversation with friends and such when it's appropriate - but why do people continue to think it's acceptable in public examples of work? Will this go on someone's resume like this? What will an employer think? I'm not questioning freedom of speech or self expression or anything like that. I'm simply saying, if you build a tool / live example / whatever and intend to show it to people…

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Re: Turns websites into Markdown

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Post by justinator »

Jaruzel wrote: post #28
lsiunsuex wrote: post #2

I'm all for cursing in private conversation with friends and such when it's appropriate - but why do people continue to think it's acceptable in public examples of work? Will this go on someone's resume like this? What will an employer think? I'm not questioning freedom of speech or self expression or anything like that. I'm simply saying, if you build a tool / live example / whatever and intend to show it to people…

'FuckYeah' is very common on tumblr for site names i.e. fuckyeahcarebears or fuckyeahlawnmowers. Whenever I see fuckyeah anywhere, I immediately think it's a tumblr user or thing. My bias of course, but I can't be the only one... Also, had I paid more attention to the URL before clicking there's no way I'd have clicked on it whilst at work. I am now waiting for the Office Internet Police to come and have word with me…

Tease. There's no fuckyeahlawnmowers.tumblr.com
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