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Show HN: An IDE for poets

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Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

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Post by chuppo »

bilalq wrote: post #23
pyrotechnick wrote: post #10

Bilal, what you have created here is really quite wonderful. Please don't smother it with complexity in adding the endless myriad of features people will undoubtedly try to convince you are necessary. Playing with this has really inspired me to write something today. Thank you.

Thanks! That's sound advice. We don't plan on adding more features than necessary. A user system with sharing and persistence of poems should be sufficient.

Please dont use facebook/twitter/tumblr for "sharing", a simple link to the poem that can be shared anyway the user pleases should be enough.

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

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Post by veridies »

bilalq wrote: post #23
pyrotechnick wrote: post #10

Bilal, what you have created here is really quite wonderful. Please don't smother it with complexity in adding the endless myriad of features people will undoubtedly try to convince you are necessary. Playing with this has really inspired me to write something today. Thank you.

Thanks! That's sound advice. We don't plan on adding more features than necessary. A user system with sharing and persistence of poems should be sufficient.

Meter control would be useful too. And rhyme highlighting.

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

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Post by chuppo »

ghayes wrote: post #11
justhw wrote: post #5

How do I save what I wrote?

That really bothered me. I understand this is demonstrating a novel UI and user experience, but lack of "save" genuinely ruined my experience.

Yeah because copy/pasting into notepad/gedit/whatever and clicking save is too much work, you would rather want a save button that goes through thousands more hoops, but now someone else does it for you, to have it stored in a server you will never be able to access.

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

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Post by maguay »

Uhhrrr wrote: post #60

This is cool. I didn't see anyone else asking for spell check, so may I be the first? Also, some sort of completion would be nice - maybe have tab complete the top word?

Since most browsers have spell check built-in, I'd figure they wouldn't need to add that.

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

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Post by jay-pinkman »

nice! it even provoked me to spend some time writing this something instead of going to bed (sorry for the rant, i'm a bad bad sleep-deprived poet:)

  i think duck typing is retarded.
  although sometimes it is regarded
  as an elegant solution
  to your code base evolution
  don't let simplicity of use
  and the surrounding hype confuse
  your inner paranoid coder
  who wants to keep the code in order.
  don't let your laziness corrupt
  your bits and bytes and interrupt
  execution of your program.
  type annotations do no harm,
  but add perfection to the scene.
  without'em source code looks obscene.
  so don't be shy to add some strictness,
  let the compiler check the fitness
  of your fondly written code.
  and to conclude this episode
  i'd like to say it to the masses:
  let compilers save your asses!
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