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I’ve been using a writing app lately that uses markdown, and that has an export feature to produce documents that interpret your markup in various ways. It’s rather nice to use but is missing a few things: I wish there was a markdown tag to indicate “title” or “author byline” so that # and ## weren’t inconsistently reserved by certain formatting styles. Altogether, it is a great system though Off topic: recommend a n…
I’ve been using a writing app lately that uses markdown, and that has an export feature to produce documents that interpret your markup in various ways. It’s rather nice to use but is missing a few things: I wish there was a markdown tag to indicate “title” or “author byline” so that # and ## weren’t inconsistently reserved by certain formatting styles. Altogether, it is a great system though Off topic: recommend a n…
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Markdown is "worse is better". AsciiDoc is more powerful, but has a steeper learning curve, therefore it lost. tale as old as tech. EDIT: i'm compiling a list of "Worse is Better" technology battles: - Mixed paradigm languages vs Functional languages - Typescript vs Flow - React+Redux beat Angular and Elm - VHS beat Betamax - AC beat DC - what else? please share more here https://hashnode.com/preview/636602dec7fec996…
what was the deal with Betamax though? was VHS actually easier or have any advantages, or did it just win due to marketing? (honest curiosity here, i don't know the technicalities)
Also, VHS was cheaper, and while Betamax was technically inferior, it wasn't inferior in a way that the average buyer would notice.
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In what way is DC better than AC? To my knowledge AC rightfully won - much easier to transport over long distances, whereas DC required a generator nearly on every city block (among other reasons).
And of course, AC didn't beat DC. DC is still widely used, for example in whatever device you're using to post this comment.
Wall outlet switchers are also the same. The incoming 120V AC is rectified and smoothed to 170V DC (240V AC goes to ~335V DC) before being chopped up back to AC to lower the voltage. After, it’s rectified and smoothed to the desired voltage. The USB outlet does that to 5V, your phone takes that down to 3.7V, then takes that battery voltage down even lower (1V or whatever)
Basically, AC is used everywhere DC is. People just don’t realize it. Everything runs on DC, but requires AC to change voltages.
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Out of curiosity I've looked up "asciidoc tutorial". 10% into the first page and I see this: A [.myrole]#custom role# must be fulfilled by the theme. Wait, is this in example 7 of 97? That's already... disturbing? But I scroll just a little down and I see examples 11 and 12: https://chat.asciidoc.org[Discuss AsciiDoc,role=external,window=_blank] CAUTION If the link text contains a comma and the text is followed by on…
These are features that don't exist in Markdown though, unless there's some implementation that adds these. Also, the context of the parent comment and this post is documentation. So, is it worse than HTML? Maybe, if you need those features often, but not for documentation where you'll rarely, if ever, use those.
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Markdown is "worse is better". AsciiDoc is more powerful, but has a steeper learning curve, therefore it lost. tale as old as tech. EDIT: i'm compiling a list of "Worse is Better" technology battles: - Mixed paradigm languages vs Functional languages - Typescript vs Flow - React+Redux beat Angular and Elm - VHS beat Betamax - AC beat DC - what else? please share more here https://hashnode.com/preview/636602dec7fec996…
I thought Linux vs BSD and C vs Lisp were traditional examples of this.
I wish there was a statically typed functional language on the right hand side, because `(defun take-action (thing) (format "ohgawd what type is thing?!"))` is for sure less powerful than `int take_action(struct foo *thing);`
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The word you're looking for is "pidgin" language, not "pigeon," but no, English is not a pidgin language. An example of a pidgin language is something like Tok Pisin. Pidgin languages essentially start out life as a not-quite-language, with such restricted vocabulary and grammar that there are concepts that can't be uttered, and such languages tend to grow back a grammar on top of that as they develop into a full, pr…
I'm curious, given the proximity of England to the Celtic world, why did English not borrow more from Gaelic? Hopefully it's not a stupid question, I realize that the language probably largely developed in Saxony, but I don't know much about how it made its way to the British isles.
Probably, I would say, the big reason for the lack of Celtic borrowings into English is the fact that, to whatever degree there was admixture between Celtic and Anglo-Saxon populations, English would have been the prestige language, and the prestige language tends to be little affected by borrowings compared to the non-prestige language. You see this with French borrowings: French was the prestige language of England for about 400 years or so, so English starts borrowing all sorts of things from French, but not vice versa. The existence of the Danelaw region--a part of England that was primarily Danish rather than English even when largely ruled by the English--provided a substantial contact region for Old English/Old Norse borrowing, which was helped by the very similar nature of the two languages.
It's too bad that AsciiDoc still hasn't really caught on like Markdown. It's a whole lot nicer for more-complicated documents. I understand their reasons for not using it here, but it still seems like a perfect fit for this task. Eclipse still seems to be working on a formal spec, but hopefully that will help implementations to grow and adoption to increase. In any case, avoiding raw HTML is a huge improvement. I lik…
Markdown is "worse is better". AsciiDoc is more powerful, but has a steeper learning curve, therefore it lost. tale as old as tech. EDIT: i'm compiling a list of "Worse is Better" technology battles: - Mixed paradigm languages vs Functional languages - Typescript vs Flow - React+Redux beat Angular and Elm - VHS beat Betamax - AC beat DC - what else? please share more here https://hashnode.com/preview/636602dec7fec996…
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Spanish spelling is better, pronunciation is easier (no th, only 5 vowels, etc.), native speakers almost as numerable, allows you to understand Portuguese, Italian, etc. It wasn't chosen, America just won
Spanish has its own obstacles. Like all the conjugations and the subjunctive. Or how verbose it is. Meanwhile compare it to English tense grammar like I did run, I do run, I will run. I don’t think technical language comparisons are all that enlightening about which one is “best”.
English has a large amount of tenses as well, and if I were you I wouldn't discount the English subjunctive either